Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-08-15
= For the Telegrap
A Word to Republicans.

In the coming contest which is being
waged for the several important offices to
be filled at the County Convention, next
Monday, Republicans ought not to lose
sight of one fact, which to me is very i'm
portant one. The mantle of our charity
ought not to be so wide as to include that
class of candidates who have been all along
in the past trying to hamper the Republican
party, and secure its downfall and ruin,
not only by voting against its nominees but
by .denouncing it in public and private,
and by sustaining and encouraging, by the
ballot and public speech, the enlargement
of certain fungus growth upon the Re-
publican party, known as the prohibition
Party" During the time when this Pro-
hibition Party was prosperous, and had
some money in the treasury Of Good Tenn
plars of Ohio, among its adherents was
one whose name is announced for Public
Prosecutor, and has been at least once in
two years for the past four years and al
ways Subject to Republican Convention. :"
In 1874 this candidate evidently thought
the Prohibition Party soon to become the
dominant party of the State and nation,
for in speech made at Delaware, in Sept.
1874, at the meeting of the Grand Lodge
of Good Templars, of which he was then
Grand Worthy Secretary, and had been,
and was for a series Of years, under large
salary annually, in speaking Of Prohibition
and of the action of the Grand Lodge in
regard to the same, he says upon page IL,
of his own reported speech, "Let it now or
ganize to accomplish that principle, not
Democratic or Republican prohibition, but
prohibition, prohibition"
''This work of prohibition is political
reform. and being political reform
is to be accomplished only by political par
ty. :. we have gone just far enough to
drive from, and keep from, our ranks tenn
perance men who are hanging onto the
skirts Of the two old rotten, corrupt par
ties, loving party and the prospect of a lit
tie political honor or gain for themselves
or friends better than living principles"
And no longer ago than 1876, in the
Presidential contest Of that year, the can
didate fer Presidential Elector for the 18th
Cong. Dist. of Ohio, upon the famous Pro
hibition ticket, was E. Jay Pinney of JEFF
ferson, Ohio, the same individual who in
1875 was a candidate for Prosecuting At
torney, subject to the action of the Repub-
lican Nominating Convention of Ashtabula
county.
During this political career we look in
vain for one word or action that was favor
able to the party from which he asks u
nomination at the coming convention.
Now, how stands the matter? Have we
no true and trusted men III our party that
are seeking this nomination, or must we by
force Of circumstances accept an alien?
The question is easily answered; and there
are good, able and true men asking for this
position from the party they have always
faithfully served and upheld. Men who
are temperate, honest and faithful from
principle, and without reward or hope
thereof. Men who have stood firmly by
the grand old party, rejoicing in its sue
eesses and upholding its principles. Men
who have mourned when its banner has
trailed in the dust of defeat, and have
again borne it aloft, and through the thick
est of the conflict, up to the front and to
certain victory.
The Republican party has been gracious
enough to its enemies, and at times has
gone out of the way to Oblige them, but
this is not an off year in politics, and there
is a glorious opportunity at hand to en-
courage the young men of our party by
saying to the one who shall be the most
fortunate at the coming convention: We
repose trust in you because you have kept
the faith; and to all "Hybrid Politicians"
let the Republican party say, we would re-
qnire little service at your hands before
presenting You the reins Of authority, and
when we are satisfied by your service that
you are not hanging on to the skirts of
the old rotten, corrupt Republican party
for political gain, your claims will be rec
ognized. STALwART.
Jefferson, Ohio, Aug, IS, 70.
Since General Ewing is running largely
upon his military record, it would not be
amiss for the number of bloody engage
ments in which he took part to be more
specified,