The daily gazette., 1879-10-21
FIRST EDITION.
Letter From samuel TOtCnse,.d
To the Editor of the Gdzette.-

To the Editor of the Gdzette -
Ii has been some time since | wro'e a
letter on politics. A few weeks ago the
Republicans thought their only saliva
tion would be to nominate Grant for u
third term. Not that tn y liked him,
but, because they thought he was fight
ing man, who could scare somebody.
They had better not again IT, that game.
Ii Democrat Is elected as Iiiden was,
the Democratic party has put up for the
la't time with foolish bargain made by
Democrat C0ngressnen. And in the
last few days the Republicans have be-
come wonderfully elated ov, r the cleo
tions in Ohio AMI Iowa, AID now talk of
John Sherman, Blaine aud others as
probable Presidential nominees. Any
Democrat of discei nment can see by the
Republican eidtiOn Ooer the Uact0ry in
Ohio and io,oa how bad they were scar
| ed and well they might be for IL those
81 ates hal gone Democratic, Wendell
Phillips might have safely taken out let
ters of administration OH the Republi-
can party, and he az d his negro horde
bur ed that pebald Republican party so
deep the sound of Gabriel's trumpet
would scarcely have reached 1t.
Now, sui pose the Democrats had car
ried the elections In Ohio and wa; IL
might la caused new departure and
split the party, for the fight there mad
would have been solely IL he Demo
cratic patty just as ii would be in the
Republican party were they to cary
Kentucky and Georgia. With all their
boastlng, the Republican S, froIl all the
returns have not majority of the pOpu-
lar vote of Ohio, al bougl they received
every negro vo e and, So far, committed
themselves to negro influence that they
had to take up one candidate for the
Lee islature from the negro wing OF their
party. This will, at the next election,
add 10000 or 10000 white votes in Ohio
TO the Democratic party. Ohio vas he
first YOU giant abolition State west of
the mountains.
Forty -one years ago this fall, or in
1888, | passed through the State of ONO
AT election tIme. Wilson Shannon, demo-
crat, was elected Governor by about
seven Thousand majority. Two years
afte' wards, IN 1910, General William
Henry Harrison was nomi mated as the
wing candidate tor President, and "A
committees of three appointed to con-
troll and see that Harrison answered no
questions unill frat submitted to them.
A man named Wright and Tom Ewing
che father Of this same General Ewing
whom the Democrats last week were
foolish enough to run for Governor)
we're two of the comDltte-, ami | forget
the name of the other. Cincinnati
has always been an abolition hole and
one of The great teTmtni OF the under
ground slave railroads in old slavery
times, aud Of late 1t has been heavily
settled wi h Germans, and Carl Schuiz
was Put in Hayes Cabinet, no doubt TO
appease anu secure the Cincinnati and
ONO German votes, for the Germans
of OF. Louis got disgusted with Schurz's
doube-iealings the.e and nominated
and elected "A far better German TO Con
gress. Thers is Also in Ohia burnt or
black district known as Odd Josh Gede-
hng's distinct, the Western Reserve
cuunties or New CONNECTICUT.
There of course have been some first
class democrats In Ohio, who have al
ways batled against Wings. Aboh-
tonsts, and Republicans, the late VIM
Allen, the second Thomas Jefferson,
A lien Thurman and many Others.
This John Sherman, now Secretary of
the Treasury, was raised democrat,
and elecr ed 10 Congress a democrat, but
beiLg ambiti~us he aspired to Speaker
ship of the House the same time John
W. Forn-y aspired to be Clerk. They are
both about the same age. Sherman was
defeated, turned Republican, and against
the Democratic party, and Forney did
the same thing. Judge Chase also,
think, was IA democrat, and Ben. Wade
also. There /, however left yet Thur
man, Pendletou, and many other noble
Democrats. Ewing's former proch vities
OF Wing, general. and greenoack, did
not quite come up to the rank and file of
the Democratic idea, and he was b. aten.
There IL no use in the Democratic party
taking up generals for either Governors
or President, for these men are so lately
out of the war that their old army brother
officers and associates would stand the
lar oetter chance of getting large ma
jority of the offices, that come under the
appointing power;and besides these gem
erals fought on one side to free and
ea ual 20 the negro with the white man.
and on the other side to split the country
aud set up a new government and nag.
Both classes of these men should by the
Democratic party, be made I" take
uack seat. SAMUEL loWNsEND.
Townsend, Oct. 20. 1879.