Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-10-02
To the Soldiers of Fayette COun-
ty, Both White and COIOreo-
was it Criminal?

To the Soldiers OF EayeIb0 COuu-
~. Both White and COlOred-
was it Criminal?
! The howl is kept up by a certain class
| of Democrats that Millikan. when mem
her of the House, voted for negro (as |
thev say, against a One-legged crippled |
soldier. [ told you how it was last week, |
and 1 here repeat what I said. 1 did vote
for John 5. Tyler, a colOred soldier. Did
| commit sin against the Commonwealth
BY so doing? He made an excellent clerk.
| l here repeat what l said last week. That
did vote for a colored man for engross-
ing clerk in the House, do not deny. 1
did vote for J. S. Tyler, a colored soldier,
against Silas CroweIl, a crippled soldier
brought from the Soldiers Home at Day
ton, by the Democrats, a man in no way
qualified to fill the duties of engrOssing
clerk, nor any other position where
good penman and a skilled clerk was re-
quired He was brought there and put up
as a candidate of the Democratic party in
p the Legislature not because he was a Grip
pied soldier, but with the vain hope that
n they would be able to make capital ont of
l his defeat. They had no power to elect any
body, and if they had Mr.. Crowell would
never have been brought out by them as
candidate for engrossing clerk nor fol
any other position, for they have no love
for soldiers, no difference how well they
may have been qualified or how well they
may have served their country or how
badly crippled in defending their country
against the rebels.
Now let us see how tenderIy thest
Democratic members of the 62d Genera
Assembly loved the soldier.
The House Republicans voted for AS
Jenkins, a wounded and crippled soldier
for first assistant clerk, So Republican
. votes to 80 Democrats for d. S. Crist
- Every Democrat voted against the soldier
For Sergeant-at-Arms, Capt. Harry X
Brown, Republican, a soldier, 63 votes
j. ). Hustin, Democrat, p, no DemOcra
voting for the soldier. First assistan
oimt sergean nt-at-arms, Col. Buck, Republican
nos received 90 votes and II. 5. Bishop, Dem
crat, 81 votes, no Democrat. voted for tn
Nm soldier. J. w. Thrall, a One-armed sol
dier, was chosen second assistant SCI
geant-at-arms, received 63 Republica
ord votes, and j. II. Martin, Democrat, re
ceived 80 votes, no Democrat voting fo
W the One-armed soldier.
On the 10Th of January the business {
Z c the House required three addition;
clerks, and John w. Daugherty, a so
ara dier, was elected enrolling clerk, recei'
f+b ing 50 Republican votes, and Isaac Moor
Democrat. received 45 votes, no Demo
nes crat voted for the soldier Daughertl
John r. MelOy was a pupil of the So
Ills, diers' and Sailors Orphan Home, Wa
elected recording clerk by vote of Z!
. six Democrats voted against him an
80, many did not vote at all. On the Sd
bis March Mr.. Flickenger, message clerk, T.
signed, and Mr.. Duncan, Republican
nominated Mr.. Charles c. Wheeler,
one-legged soldier; and Mr.. SifOrd Dem
crat, nominated Mr. Charles Rhode
nd Mr.. Wheeler was elected, receiving
votes. Mr.. Wheeler walked on tv
crutches and proved himself a ttrstra
NJ, clerk.
-1AD 1t will be seen from this, which l ia
from the journal of the House, that t
Democrats did not vote for crippled 81
20 diers, only, as in the case of CrOwell
and that was the only case-with t
faint hope of being able, at some time,
N its extracting some political capital out
aiTa aIEa their hypOcI Iitical pretense of being t
fnlly friends of the soldiers who, during t
ding whole of the war, they had denOunc
the as murdererS, robbers, Lincoln hirelin
num- and widow and orphan-makers.
to an In the last General Assembly the Den
inn nm Gratis had large majority in the Hot
the of Representatives, and could elect a
ear, crippled soldier they desired to. but
of as soldiers of Fayette county are not advis
cam that they elected Mr.. CrOwelI or a
next other crippled soldier to IL clerkship. I
oGGei only crippled soldier they had sYmpat
wen for was the notorious John O'Conn
RAJ | the Democratic member of the Le0is
'bers CuFe from Ihe ooIolefs nome, Cne
.2nd deserter from the Union army, the
other convict to the Michigan penitentiary.
HER' H4tne' present convict who is serving Il term
And u county Jail for perjury. This is
e and kind of soldier thew briOOr from the s
ance, 5iore, uor,c ,,,ho,, +l,,,r -, :, ,,.,;or
e. t'tOi9 11OlilO "hOI GIlCy h1VO q ul'tJOl
lily to in the Legislature and the power to el
'r the just who they wish. Why do not
'nelr Democratic orators ventilate in tn
raj to speeches the great and valuable servi
d we rendered the Immaculate DeinOcr,
n the 7 orieIor,,ro of I 90 -,I,,,,I,ar oc oh.
We in man of the Committee on Military
ne ne Of fairs and on the Committee on the
III ii5erl "a diers and Sailors Orphans Home? ;
J, re the valuable services that convict +
dered the Democratic party while
.rp. served his party as leader in the Hou
WILLIAM MILLIKAl