Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-09-04
Let Us Vote solidly.

we nave not WOfu 10 say against any
me of the candidates on the Democratic c
ieket in the county. They are all, so far I
Is we know, gentlemen of high respeeta- |
Dility and fair business qualifications.
all this, we claim, at least, ]
have no claims in this respect |
upon the people of the county superior
to those of the candidates on the Repub-
lican ticket. AS Democrats, we expect
that Democrats will vote for the candi-
dates put in nomination by their party
convention, and it is but fair to suppose
that Republican voters will be equally as
loyal to the candidates on the Republican
ticket.
We now address ourselves to the Re
publican voters of the county. If you
have upon your ticket candidates for any
of the county offices whose honesty, faith
fitness and competency in the discharge |
of the duties of their official positions |
have been practically tested, what do you
expect to gain by changing them off for
candidates on the opposite side of the
political issues, and putting them in
position where they can WELD political
| influence against those great Republican
principles for which you have cOntended
perhaps for lifetime? 1t is true that
county officers may not, as such county
officers in the discharge of their official
duties, discharge them with view to the
advancement and special interests of their
own political party, but, by placing them
in these county offices, you give them po-
litical influence, and the whole patronage
of these offices is given to parties with
design to, and where it will do the most
good in the PRONUNCIATION and success, in
our county. of Democratic principles,
result which we are unwilling to believe
Republicans, when they properly reflect
upon the questions and results we have
presented, desire. What, then, is to
be gained in any respect by casting
! our votes for the candidates of the party
as a political party, that has, in about
every great emergency into which our
county has unfortunately been thrown,
} stood in opposition to Republican princi-
pies and Republican efforts to meet such
unfortunate emergencies? Do we get
more loyal, more honest, more faithful
or more competent men to serve us in OuI
county offices by a departure from d
policy that has so much to recommend il
r to the true believer in the principles and
c policy of the party that has saved this
. government from ruin by Southern rebel,
le and Northern allies, who advocate tn,
;, revolutionary doctrine of State sover
a eignty-a doctrine that admits The righ
70 of State at any time to step out of th
F. Union and put at defiance its nationa
as prerogative? For this is what moderl
1t Northern, as well as Southern, DemOc
Il raey has come to at last, and the sOone
n Republicans recognize that fact and adoE
the measures necessary to prevent sue
.,S II an emergency, the better. The power c
er the Democratic party to control the affair
r. and destinies of the government, it
11d,i not to be expected, can be obtained ;
'e, once; but if it is eyer done it will be b
to CONSTANT gains of our local official pos
liT me tions by system of adding yearly
!. their power and influence in our COUNT,
we in the manner to which we have alread
ne referred.
in IN Now, in conclusion, let ms impress
in upon our Republican friends of Il
T. e county that the way TO maintain our R
publican principles is not, by casting Oh
votes for Democratic candidates, but l
- going to the polls and casting our vot
at solidiy for the entire Republican tieke
ne THE London (Madison county, Dem
re crat of last week says:
III Chaneey Scutt, of Washington G. E
is was up here last week couple of day
visiting friends. He is what we call
I0orkiRg Democrat. He has been canvas
4 1N,r
- found sixty Democrats (?) in one tow
." ship who did not attend the election la
eW fall. In another 40, and in another
He All these, he says, must and Will cou
nd out for Ewing this fall. They are goir
10 to have wagons, etc., provided for brin
'"0 ing every Democrat out.
That makes I35 Democrats in the thr
non townships, according to Chancey's repC
tie to the Democrat, who did not attend t
4en elections last fall. Fhe story is prep,
rhe ferrous. The highest vote ever pOlled
fine this county was in 1876, for Preside
.tIv when Hayes got 2 ,436 votes, and rild
1874, making 4,3l0. In 1873 Qast ye,
Milton Barnes (Rep.), for Secretary
can State, got 2,330 votes, or 106 less Ch
dis Hayes got in 1876. In 1878 David
the Page (Dem.), for Secretary of State, g
ia in this county, l, 1886 votes, or 62 vo
ne, more than Filden got III 1876, while
axe aggregate vote in the county last y,
| of for these two candidates was 1866.
addition to this there were 63 votes Civ
>. in the county for Andrew Roy, the !
a. tional candidate for Secretary OF Sta
.,a The figures show that the Democrats {
,r,. 81 votes more in this county last year Il
they ever did before, and that ev,
~. Democrat who could be prevailed uI
~. went to the polls and voted, while
o1, Republican vote was lO6 short of
~ largest vote. So it was the Republic
eol voters who staid at home or voted
H. National ticket. And notwithstand
,rSo this losing on the part of the Republic
can ~ aSe'te cou'i'S' anu the increased
Or, of the Democratic party, they w
.ded beaten by a majority of 404 votes in
county. This result is shown by the
port of the Secretary of State for 1871
lear Chancey, it seems, is canVassing
by county. OF course Mr.. Tilden ha
L. & right to donate $50, 900 to the Democr
ays State Central Committee for the purr
con- of carrying on the election contest
1. d Ohio, and it is unreasonable to SUBJ
The that Chancey can furnish a horse
orce buggy and travel all over the county
On vassing for Democratic votes unless h
tore paid for his valuable services. But
'Oss- must repeat our caution to these De
gine cratic brethren who are so eager to h
stile up Democratic voters who did not
0ked last year, and who, Chaneey saws (acc
and ing TO the DemocraD, MUST and will C
) his out for Ewing this fall, against the ay
proYisions of that wicked Seitz cleo