The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-07-16
Tie Greenfield Judicial Conventions
TPayette County Hersld,1


Whatever the Republicans OF this |
county may do in relation to the choice |
of Judge in this subdivision is ques-
tion we are not prepared to answer at
this writing. There is no use to deny
the fact that there is great dissatisfaction
among the Republicans of Fayette coun-
ty, on account OF the manner in which
the nomination of Mr.. Newly was made.
They could not help but see that his
nomination was set up job between
Ross and Highland counties, and that
this preconcerted arrangement complete
ly shut Fayette county out, and it was a
convention in which our delegates could
have no more influence than though
they had come over from Kentucky;
therefore they made no effort to partici-
pate in convention the result OF which
had been determined upon outside of
the District Convention months before
the day designated as the day for hold.
ing the convention, or choosing candi-
date for the judgeship. 1t may be said
that if Fayette county Republicans had
possessed the same power to secure a
judge by the same methods, they would
have entered into the arrangement as
readily as did Highland and Ross. How
this might have been we will not under
take to say. Possibly they might have
done the same thing under similar cir.
cumstances, but this mode of anticipat-
ing the choice of candidates is not right.
1t is altogether wrong, and two wrongs
never made one right.
[Chillicothe Leader.l
1t may possibly be worth while for the
Leader to explain to our Republican
friends in Fayette county that they are
liable to be strangely and sadly misled
in this judgeship business.
1t may interest them to know that
there is no provocation or excuse on
earth for the claim which has found
such ready and such general circulation
among their people, to the effect that
the nomination of Cyrus Newly was the
result of any combination or conspiracy
on the part OF Ross and Highland coun.
| ties.
1t may surprise them to know that
Cyrus Newly was never promised Ross
county's support when Judge Evans was
! nominated, or at any other time.
It may surprise them to know that the
delegates selected by the Ross county
mass convention were, in great part, not
at the convention; that they were gen.
tlemen living in distant portions OF the
county; that they were not conferred
with by anybody regarding their senti.
ments, much less influenced to act or
vote in a certain way, either before their
selection or afterwards; that they were,
in part; men whom tho writer, at least,
knowing their predictions and associa.
ations, would naturally not be expected
to do anything that the so called Ross
county "Ring" would ask them to do;
men who, had Fayette county beenpres-
ent with her delegation and prepared to
present her case in plain, truthful. un-
prejudiced, impressive, argumentative
way, would certainly been as apt to have
voted for Fayette county candidate as
Highland county candidate.
We don't know whether it is worth
while to allude to these facts as we go
along or not, but they are all plain
truths. OF course they are of mo con.
sequence" as Toots would say, when
gentlemen prefer to believe the contrary,
and have asserted it so much that they
really begin to believe it themselves
yet the Leader thought that possibly it
might be worth while to allude to them,
now that even the ordinarily fair-mind.
ed Herald seems disposed to fly off at a
tangent.
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