Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1924-11-20
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ION participated, in IS48, the Dem
ocrats carried Morgan county by
iii majority. Your readers will nc
doubt be interested to know what
the majority was in each township
in 1848, SO it can be seen what
change rs years has made through
Tout the county in political senti-
ment. The Democrat majorities
were as follows: Bloom 81, Bristol
68, Brookfield A, Center 98, Jack
son 96, Manchester (twice its pres
ent size) "a, Meigsville IT, Noble
SO, Olive 98, Union 54 and York 73.
The Whig majorities were as fol-
lows: Deerfield 1, Morgan %, NAL
ia 153, Penn, 157, Windsor Is, Ho-
mer 80 and Marion 215. So you see
our great grandfathers voted just
as their great grandchildren are
/ voting today. Blood seems to "cut
more ice" than political issues.
Failing to change the politics of
the county by addition, the Whig
Legislature decided to try subtrac-
tion. On March IL, 1851, the Cen
eral Assembly erected Noble county
from portions of Morgan, Washing
ton, Guernsey and Monroe The
part of Noble taken from Morgan
are the present townships Olive,
Jackson, Sharon, Noble, Brookfield,
and two-fifths of Center. Amputa-
| tion is more certain of results than
grating. Beginning with 1852, the
Wings and Republicans have carried
Morgan county for president at ev-
cry election except in 1912, when
Roosevelt disrupted the Republican
party. Wilson's plurality was 1856,
the vote being Wilson 1888, Taft
1448, and Roosevelt 705.
! The pluralities for president In
Morgan, beginning in 1852, were as
follows: Scott 376, Fremont 456,
Lincoln 688, Lincoln SIT, Grant
l626, Grant 788, Hayes a268, Gar
field 419, Blaine 584, Harrison
557, Harrison 443, Mckinley ITS,
Mckinley 451, Roosevelt $50, Taft
| 513, Wilson 1856, Hughes 800, Hard
| ing 1870 and Coolidge 1881.
Abraham Lincoln, in both his
races for president, received very
large vote in Morgan. The vote in
1850 was Lincoln 2445, Douglas
1857, Breckenridge 65 and Bell 20.
The vote in 1854 was Lincoln 2601,
Mcclellan 1924.
The disgust of both parties with
their presidential candidates in
1872 was shown in the small vote
cast-Grant 1889 and Greeley
1851. In 1863 Grant received
2521 and Seymour 1896
Woman suffrage has not increas-
ed the vote in Morgan as many had
hoped. In 1916, when women did
not vote, the total vote for presi-
dent was 4074 and that was consid-
cred a light vote. The. total in
1920 was 6418. This year the to-
tai dropped to 1929.
The fight for governor in 1863
was probably the most exciting in
the states history. That great
contest brought out a larger vote in
Morgan than the presidential cleo
tions of 1860 and 1864, and up to
1920, the total vote of 1868 has re-
NAMED record in Morgan county
1t speaks well for Morgan county
citizens of Civil war times, that
they rejected Vallandigham by
1924 majority, the vote being
Brough 1922, Vallandigham 1898.
! The attempt of some Democrats of
that period to tie the Democrat par
ty to the dead body of slavery, is
only paralleied in recent years
when like move has been made by
some short-sighted, would-be lead
ers to cling to dead issue as to
prohibition.
Governor Donahey has always
| looked upon Governor Brough as
his patron saint. Brough was not
only Ohio's great Civil war COVER
nor, but was the best auditor of
state during the period from 1903
to 1860. A fine painting of Cover
nor John Brough has been placed by
Governor Donahey over his desk
| While Brough's plurality of 1924
was the high water mark up to 1920,
West in 1877 carried Morgan by
but "a plurality, the smallest plur-
ality ever given to Republican
candidate for governor since the
organization of the party.
! The largest plurality ever receiv-
ed in Morgan county by Republi-
can candidate for governor, was
1853 for Harry l.. Davis in 1920
the year of the greatest of all
| brain storms. This year that mis-
take has been rectified and Governor
| Donahey wishes me to express his
appreciation of the magnificent sup
port given him this year in Morgan
by so many good citizens of all
parties-J.W w. Tannehill, Columbus,
o., Nov. 10, 1924.