Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-09-11

General Ewing's candidacy in Ohio does
not represent any well considered policy
or purpose on the part of the Democracv
Though the candidate of the Demo-
cratic party, he is distrusted and even
hated by the members of that party to an
extraordinary extent.
The party, when the State Convention
assembled, was laboring under the most
complex embarrassments.
l. Resumption was manifestly a sue
cess.
2. The extra session was conspicuously
a failure.
3. Governor Bishop claimed second
term in the name of the usage of the
party, and had been faithful according to
his light and Knowledge.
4. Senator Thurman was candidate
for the Presidency under difficulties, and
had made his submission to the Rag Baby
at the wrong time.
5. General Rice was known to repre-
sent the Thurman Presidential interest,
and that aroused Bishop against both
Rice and Thurman.
The candidacy of Ewing was a part of
his restless, impatient and impertinent
am bitiOn. 1t was uncalled for, unreas-
enable and reckless, and was so recog-
nized by the old party leaders.
His strength was his reputation as an
inflationist, which it was thought would
capture the Nationals. and his weakness
was in the fact that it wouldn't do to run
against resumption as an accomplished
fact.
Bishops vanity was wounded by his
defeat, and he had just strength enough
to beat Rice by throwing it for Ewing,
who therefore owed his nomination to the
spitewOrk of Bishops friends.
1t is already apparent that the nomina-
tion of Ewing was his misfortune, and
that his inevitable defeat is but the pun
ishment that he deserves for thrusting
himself forward. He is already beaten.
The majority against him will be greater
than that against any candidate in Ohio
since Vallandigham.
jeff. Davis has recently stated in effect
that he is a candidate for the United
States Senate. He said he had been elect
ed to the Senate three times and never
had been candidate, and was no more
candidate now than he had been at other
times. This was characteristic circumlo-
cutlOn. He wants his old place as Sena-
tor and will get it. He will go to the
Senate, and then the majority insthat
body will recognize him as their natural
leader. There will not be a Northern
Democrat venture to oppose his will. He
will control the caucns that controls the
party. The Democrats in his State MUIR
der those who venture to oppose them
He has in retirement affected a sort of
resignation which has been tempered by
his peevish ambitions; and now he wants
to be elected to the Senate and forced
upon that body, in spite of his refusal to
petition for pardon, in spite of his disa-
bilities, that he may go on chattering the
old fashioned treason. Replaced in the
Senate, and commanding the Confeder-
ates in the caucus which controls the
Democratic party, if that party is placed
in power, JEFF. Davis will be the actual
ruler of the country. A vote for Ewing
would be vote to attach the State Of
Ohio as a tail-piece to Mississippi, and to
place the country in the hands of Davis,
who has no merit other than that of rep
resenting the so-called Lost Cause, for
he was fraud on the South i'm the war;
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