Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-07-11
OUR THREE-TERM CANDIDATES

I
We have had, aside from ex-President
Hayes, anumber of third-term candidates
in Ohio, and perhaps review of the sub
ject will just now be oppOrtune and in
tereSting to every rejecting reader.
| Return j. Meigs, of Marietta, was three
times candidate-in 1907. 1910. and 1872
and was elected each time, though in
1907 he was not given the office because
not legal resident of Ohio.
Thomas Worthington, of ChillicOthe,
was four times candidate. Defeated in
/ 1893 and 1910 by Colonel Meigs, he in turn
defeated Othniel LOCKER i'll 1914 and Jas.
| Dunlap and Ethan \. Brown in 1876 He
was afterward member of our first Board
of Canal Commissioners, State office.
Ethan Allen Brown, of Cincinnati, was
three times candidate, viz: In 1916, 1918,
and 1920, and was elected in the latter
years, Senator Morrow and General Har-
riSOn being his opponents the last time he
run.
jeremiah Morrow, of Warren, was also
three times candidate. In 1920 defeat
ed, in 1922 and 1924 elected. There was
no popular prejudice against him on ac-
count of his long and honorable public
service, but rather increased respect. \
member of our Territorial Legislature, he
was our first Representative in Congress,
for five terms, six years L. ). Senator,
Canal Commissioner of Ohio, and late in
life twice elected to Congress as Thomas
Corwln'S successor.
Allen Trimble, of Highland, was four
times in succession a candidate for Gov
ernOr. Defeated in 1922 and 1924 by Nor
row, elected in 1926 and 1925 he was also
acting Governor in 1921 and 1922, on ac
count of Mr. Morrow's election to the L.
5. Senate Colonel Trimble was cOntinu-
OuSly in office from 1909 to 1880. as County
Clerk, as Representative and Senator, pre-
siding from 1919 to 1926, including his
time as acting Governor, and was Cover
nor by election from 1926 to 1880. Subse-
quently he was President of the first Ohio
State Board of Agriculture, from 1916 to
1913, and nobody has ever claimed up to
this time that he was the poorer Governor
on account of his extended experience.
Robert Lucas, of Pike and SciOtO, was
three times candidate for Governor of
Ohio, viz: In 1880, 1882, and 1894, defeat
ed by Duncan Macarthur the first, elected
the last two times. He was Jacksonian
Democrat, pure and unadulterated, and
President of the first Democratic Nation
al Convention, in 1892 when the fiery old
General was nominated to the Presidency
for the last time Mr.. Lucas was de-
scendant of William Penn. and no doubt
believed in the doctrines of brOtherly love
and the right to hold all the offices within
reach, as much as any man then or now.
His last office was Territorial Governor
of Iowa from 1898 to lS41-and there he
died, at Iowa City, February Z, 1853
m 1929 Wilson ShannOn of RplmOpt
beat Governor Vance, of Champaign, for
reelection, after hot fight, and i'll 1910
Tom Corwin, of Warren, took ShannOn's
scalp in true frontier style. But the big
brave of Belmont lived to fight another
day, and in 1912 Wilson Shannon defeat
ed Thomas COrwin by the close call of
1872 plurality. Thus Mr.. Shannon was
a third term Democrat, good man, sub
Sequently Minister to Mexico, Congress-
man, and Governor of Kansas until kick
ed out OF office by the slavery extremists
of his party. 1t did MT hurt him or the
people to be three times a candidate for
Governor
David Tod, of Mahoning, justly cele-
brated as one of our War Governors. was
elected as the Republican candidate in
1861. But he had been twice before de-
feated as the Democratic candidate, i'll
1874 and 1916 He desired renomina-
ton, too, in 1868, but was defeated by the
men he had declined to commission and
the ingratitude of those he had already
commissioned. He was so prominent and
devoted Democrat in 1860 as to be Chair
man of the Baltimore Convention and as
sist in the nomination of John c.. Breck
inridge for President. Yet he was never
suspected of any prejudice against third
terms.
In 1867 Rutherford B. Hayes defeated
Allen q. Thurman for Governor, by the
close margin of 1888 plurality. In 1869
Governor Hayes defeated George ii. Pen
dleton, another strong Democrat, by 7,5Ol
plurality. He then retired from the office,
and General Edward F. NOyes was elect
ed over General George w. McCook in
1871, but defeated because of his avOwed
and very imprudent Senatorial aspira-
tiOns, in 1873, by William Allen, who made
a good and popular Governor. In 1915
the party demanded that eX-GOv. Hayes
should again be the candidate, and he re-
luctantly consented, succeeding after
campaign in defeating Gov
ernOr Allen by some 4, 800 plurality. Thus
it was that our x-President had the honor
of beating the three strongest Ohio Dem
ocratS of his day, just as Governor Fora |
aker will defeat the strongest one that
can be named against him.
We admit that there are objections to
Foraker from a Democratic standpoint. |
He is Republican and fierce and furi-
Gus fighter, always daring them to knock
the chip off his shoulder. But to trump
up the old, worm eaten chestnut of third |
term" fury will not go down the intelli-
gent people of Ohio. If there is anything |
clearly established by the teachings of the
fathers, it is that they had no dread of the
continued service of capable men, but al
ways encouraged it, the two parties vieing |
with each other in repeatedly honoring |
their leaders throughout our history
There is nothing but prejudice i'll the cry |
of anti-Uhird- term, and It will fail-mis- |
erably fail-just as all dishonest and un-
worthy appeals always do.