The state journal., 1884-10-18
HOWARD'S LETTER,
BOTH PARTIES JOLLY OVER
TUESDAYS ELECTION.
Colored Voters Indignant that
Mr.. Ridgeway Should Remain
on the City Ticket.

| utWS from Onlo continues to arrive
there is corresponding increase in
the enthusiasm of the republicans Of
this city. The democrats are also
very much enthused at their success 10
West Virginia, and as both parties
are happy there is large amount OF
jollification going on. There is still
the same amount of discomfort being
uttered against the local ticket and
the colored voters are indignant that
MIR. Ridgeway should continue to
his place on the ticket as they con-
slider that he is aspiring to high"
and all that can be done fairly aud
honestly 10 defeat him will be used
by those same colored voters. This
is not the vapid murmerings of few
political heelers, who have not re
ceived their pay for past tavors, but
is the expression of that terrible force
in politics, viz; the silent voter, or
the men who have their right to vote
in the fact that they know what they
are about, and neither threatening or
cabling will alter their decision when
the time comes to deposit their bal
lots and when that time comes Mr..
Ridgeway will find that he was mis-.
taken in his estimation of the colored
man, and that they are not disposed
to receive an insult and not resent it
They will remember that they are
aspiring too high and vote accord
ingly.
There is nothing new in the legis-
lative fight 10 the Seventh ward, al
though the report has been circulated
by some of Houseman Durham &
Co. 8 emissaries that Mr.. White has
Withdrawn from the fight. Such is
not the case, however, as Mr.. White
is in the field, to win or lose, and he
will only withdraw when, if by some
mlschance or political chicanery, be
is defeated on election day But the
idea of defeat never enters the
thoughts of the White and Osborn
faction, and if there is a fair count
and no interference, then, on the 4th
day of November, will see right pre-
vail over the so.called leaders aud
tricksters of the ward. Houseman
still tries to impress it On the mind
of the colored man that he is his pro
tector and friend, and out of gratitude
to him they should support his
ticket, which, although it is recog-
nized ss the regular ticket, still it is
not the one voted for by the majority
of the Republicans in the ward, Per
haps some of the readers of this let.
ter are not aware of the reason of
Mr.. Housemans enmity to Mr..
White and l will tell how it came
about. Last winter Mr.. White was
asked TO appoint poor man, with a
wife and FIVE children to support, to
a position just then vacant. The
man was appointed and soon after
the spring election came eff and this
same man def ated Mr.. Houseman in
his own division. When Mr.. II.
found that he was defeated, he waxed
wroth and going to Mr.. White de-
manded that this man should be dis
charged, and nephew of his, who
is pretty we'll fixed in this worlds
goods, to be appointed in bis place.
Mr.. White acting as any honorable
man would DO in such case, refused
to remove this man for mere spite
work, whereupon Houseman told him
that he, Mr.. White, should never go
to Harrisburg again, as he was the
owner of the ward, and he would de-
feat him, when he came out for re-
election, and this man Houseman has
the audacity to come before the pub
lie and demand the election of his
ticket, after such outrageous pro
ceediDgs against man who had the
misfortune to be poor but there is a
day of retribution at hand, and it is
and old saying that Though the
mills of God grind slowly they grind
eA ceedingIy fne,'' and when that time
comes let Mr. Houseman remember
bis past career, and think Of the giori-
Gus future that would bave availed
him if he had not made it business
10 club .unofendipg colored citizens,
and to GUST deserving man in pub
lie positions. When On the night Of
November the 4th he finds that bis
ticket is defeated he will have ample
time for reflection, and chance &c
study the facts, that justice in al
things is of the best policy.
Equity Lodge, No. 1874, G. U. o
| of o. F., celebrated their seventeenth