Year: 1861




On the 9Th Of October, the election in
Ohio for State md County officers. takes
/ place. 1t is the important biennial election
IN which the people select a Governor, n
Lieutenant Governor, n Secretary and
/ Treasurer Of State, a Comptroller of the
Treasury, Judge Of the Supreme Court
| and a member Of the Board Of Public
Works, making in all seven State Off
, GERS. Beside these, at the same time, tho
people are to decide, in the several coun-
ties and senatorial districts, who shall
represent them in both branches of the
Legislature for the ensuing two years.


Of our annual State elections, that
which occurs every two years, in which
the gubernetorial chair and nearly all the
State Offices are filled, and members of
the Legislature chosen for biennial term,
has strong claims upon the attention of
the people. But at this critical iuncture
Of affairs. when our National Union is
threatened with dismemberment, and our
own State with invasion by a domestic
Zoe; with the flower of our population Is
turned into an armed soldiery, and our
people are to be burdencd for many years
to come with heavy public debt and
onerous taxes; when our industry is par
alyzed and trade and business, except in
the manufacture and safe Of our war ma
fer,0t, are almost at stand still-at such
a time as this, every man in Ohio should
lie awake to what the public welfare and
his own interest alike demand, to see to it
that men are put in office, who will ad-
minister their several trusts faithfully.
economically, and with an eye single to
the best interests Of the State-men above
all. whose Influence, while potent for an
immediate and effectual crushing ont of
the rebellion, shall be as powerful in
bringing about reunion of all tn States
and Territories under the Constitution and
flag Of our Country.


There are two State tickets presented
to the people of Ohio. One is the ticket
OF the old conservative Democratic Union
party-a PARTY which has never faltered
in its devotion to the Union, but has hith-
erto been the chief instrument under prov
ldence in its maintenance-a party which
has never, in the hour of peril, abandoned
it's organization and deserted the Federal
Government, but has stood by it as SOL
id and impenetrable phalanx, and upheld
the Government when in danger of over
throw. This same old Democratic party
stands to-day in regard to the Union and
the Government, where it has stood for
more than three score years. Gifts can
didates on the State ticket, whose capac-
ity and integrity are unquestioned, it is
only necessary to say tha. they are deci-
dcd Union Democrats.


The other ticket is that of a party
which was just week old yesterday,
and can give no guarantee in its past
or its future conduct. 1t is party made
up in the main Of Republicans who for
sock their organization and thus deser-
ted the Administration they had places
in power, to rally to its support. Beside
Republicans, the ranks of this new party
are filed with Disunion Abolitionists
and few Democrats who left their par
ty at time when the united efforts of
all its members were needed for the sup
port of the Federal Government and the
Union. The ticket Of the new oganiza-
ton is a mongrel one, corresponding to
the character Of the party which put it in
nomination.


Such are the two parties and the two
tickets now presented in Ohio. The
honest Union loving mass of the people
will easily decide which they should sup
mort.