CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1846 Abstracts 1489 - 1497 POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS & ELECTIONS United States (Cont'd) "We have not received the official proceedings, but learn that the Hon. Joshua R. Giddings was nominated for re-election on the first ballot." (4) 1490 - H Aug. 25; ed: 3/1 - We were in error in stating that William Sawyer of sausage eating notoriety has been renominated for Congress in his district. "It seems even the Locos could not stomach him longer, and in their Congressional Convention he obtained but 20 out of the 98 votes cast.... Poor Sawyer, that vote of his against the Harbor bill after the veto, proved a harder snag to him than a dozen of the biggest Bolognas.' (2) 1491 H Aug. 27; ed: 2/1 - Gallagher, the notorious member of the legislature of last winter, tried hard to get the nomination for Congress, but Faran beat him badly. "That will do for the Hamilton progressives." (1) 1492 - H Aug. 31; ed: 3/1 - William Greene, Esq., is announced as an independent candidate for Congress in the Hamilton district. "Do not our Whig friends in 'Old Hamilton' purpose to nominate a ticket, organize, and give 'hard' Locofocoism a hard fight?" Depend upon it, Whig of Hamilton, that every Locofoco vote in the counties of Ashtabula, Lake, Geauga, and Cuyahoga will be thrown against Bebb, and remember, too, that a vote for him in Hamilton tells just as well in the aggregate as if counted in Cuyahoga. (3) 1493 H Sept. 1; ed: 3/1 - "Benton's State used to be looked upon as true to Locofocoism as New Hampshire, but now it is truer, as the Granite state has at last turned up another sort of boulder." Bowlin, Jamison, Green, Phelps, and Hall, elected to Congress in Missouri, are all Locos." (1) 1494 H Sept. 1; ed: 3/1 - After all the reports and counter reports in regard to the casting overboard of the noted William Sawyer by his constituents, it appears that he is really nominated for re-election to Congress. "Dealers in Bologna at Washington will rejoice." 1495 H Sept. 3; ed: 3/1 - The Whigs of the Huron, Lorain, and Medina district have nominated the Hon. J. M. Root for re-election to Congress. Mr. Root is a capital member, and we trust every county in the district will give him a handsome majority. 1496 H Sept. 21; ed: 2/1 "Friend Hazewell of the STATESMAN is a wag, a veritable Joe Miller." He said that the Democracy of the 20th district has nominated for Congress the Hon. Zenas Blish who will give Giddings a hard run. 1497 H Sept. 26; ed: 3/1 The Locofoco of the Wayne and Stark districts have nominated D. A. Starkweather for re-election to Congress. (2) (1) (1) CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1846 Abstracts 1498 - 1502 POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS & ELECTIONS - United States (Cont'd) (1) 1498 H Oct. 21; ed: 2/1 - "The contest in Ohio is over, and the noble Buckeye State has again declared in favor of Whig principles. The rule which gives to our opponents the Governor every other term, has been held inflexible; but this year we rejoice to say the Whigs were determined to break this charm, and we congratulate the country upon the happy issue." The Whigs have gained at least four new members to Congress, so that Ohio will have a majority of Whigs in her representation in the next Congress. The Whigs have been in power of late years and within a short period two measures have been perfected deeply affecting the interests of the State. They are the banking and the tax laws. As soon as they became the laws of the land the cry of "repeal" went up. A reckless war was waged against the currency furnished by Ohio banks, and even our State credit was not too sacred to escape the vile detractions of a party prepared for repudiation and bankruptcy. The tax law was misconstrued and misrepresented, and its pretended inequalities magnified or created. It, however, proved to be of no avail. The people read the tax law for themselves and they saw it was founded upon the only just basis, and preferring in case of needed amendments that its friends should make them, marched to the ballot box, and sanctioned the act. "In a word, Locofocoism learns that its destructive doctrines have no root in Buckeye soil. Ohio is Whig, and never need she for a moment serve under the mis-rule of bastard democracy." (18) 1499 - Oct. 22; ed: 2/2 - The OHIO STATESMAN says: The congressional elections make a worse show for the Democracy than any other feature of the contest. (HERALD) "The Administration of Mr. Polk was one of the heaviest weights that the 'democracy' had to carry in the recent contest in Ohio." (4) 1500 H Oct. 23; ed: 2/1 - The Washington UNION, in an article published the day of the election, anticipated a Locofoco gain of at least one or two members, and "with good luck," again "of several Congressmen in Pennsylvania." "'Luck' proved decidedly bad for Mr. Ritchie's calculations, for the returns show the election of 16 Whigs, 7 Locos, and 1 Native. 1501 H Oct. 23; ed: 2/1 - We regret to see that Mr. Wilmot, the only free trade member of Congress from Pennsylvania who voted for the tariff of 1846, has been re-elected even if by a very small majority. His district is composed entirely of Locofoco counties, and the U. S. GAZETTE says his success is probably due to his California resolutions. 1502 H Oct. 30; ed: 2/1 The anti-Locofoco legislature of New Hampshire has districted the State agreeably to the act of Congress, and the Whigs (1) (1) CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1846 POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS & ELECTIONS - United States (Cont'd) of the 31st district have nominated Gen. James Wilson for Congress. "We 1503 H Oct. 30; ed: 2/1 The UNION DEMOCRAT at Springfield, O., pre- 1504 H Nov. 9; ed: 2/2 The NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER having received 1505 - H Nov. 27; ed: 3/2 The Akron DEMOCRAT says: "We unfurl the standard of Cass and Victory." "'Victory,' we (HERALD) have heard of that candidate before in Ohio. He has been twice thrashed for governor on the ticket with Tod, and the 'result of the recent elections points with unerring finger to Gen. Cass as the man' to lead the aspiring varlet to defeat throughout the Union." See also Annexation & Expansion; Tariff (3) (1) POLITICAL CONVENTIONS. See Political Campaigns & Elections POLITICAL PARTIES 1506 H Jan. 15; ed: 2/1 The "harmonious" Democracy have now come to a crisis, a crisis which must separate the sheep from the goats, the wheat from the chaff, and compel the honest and order-loving portion of the party to open their eyes and see the destruction to which their party principles and measures inevitably tend. "Now then a few days will show who are men of easy political virtue who can change their principles as a garment who will shout for 'hard money' that but yesterday denounced it as the scheme of 'political demagogues and knaves.'" (19) I notice 1507 H June 24:3/2 In a letter to the editor, "Liberty" says: 1508 H Sept. 25; ed: 2/2 The next U. S. Senate will doubtless be strongly Locofoco. It may safely be assumed that the Whigs will have a majority in the legislature of Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Delaware; and the Locofocos in the legislatures of South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Michigan and Texas. (2) CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1846 Abstracts 1509 - 1513 POLITICAL PARTIES (Cont'd) "And the Senators to be elected from Georgia and Tennessee, and Mr. Hale of New Hampshire may be set down as 'doubtful."" (7) 1509 - H Oct. 23; ed: 2/1 - Pennsylvania Legislature. The overthrow of Locofocoism in the Legislature is complete. The Senate will stand 19 Whigs, 13 Locos, and 1 Native; a Whig gain of 5. The House consists of 100 members. Of the 98 members heard from, the Whigs have 59, the Locos 39; Whig gain 28, Loco gain 1. Should not wonder if the "official organ" at Washington is sadly out of tune these days. (verbatim) (1) 1510 H Oct. 27; ed: 3/1 The UNION expresses fear that the eclipse of the Democracy in Pennsylvania is nearly total. The eclipse is fast becoming general as well as total throughout the Union. The portentous shadow will soon pass from the Keystone and Buckeye to the Empire State. (verbatim) H Nov. 17; ed: 2/1 See Tariff (1) 1511 H Dec. 4; ed: 2/5 "A writer in the UNION is very severe upon those Locofocos in Washington who labored to defeat Silas Wright. He says their democracy is of the stamp of one of Bulwer's heroes, who always went for the 'greatest good of the greatest number,' but with whom the greatest number was number one! There are a great many such Democrats in the Loco party." See also Newspapers; Political Campaigns & Elections; Politics & Government POLITICS & GOVERNMENT Ohio 1512 - H Jan. 5:2/2 - In a letter to the editor, an unsigned person, Cincinnati, O., says: "I need not tell you of the sayings, and doings at Columbus, and yet I will say that the Honorable Legislature of Ohio, as a body, are a much better acting and appearing set of men than I had any idea of beholding.... Complimentary as it may appear, it is nevertheless true that the most prominent deformity which I discovered on the surface, had its origin in Hamilton county even in this, the Queen City. Shame, an everlasting shame! that such legislators should represent the mighty interest of this glorious valley - a burning shame that free and enlightened citizens will be so effectually wired into party as to acquiese in and support such nominations. To the glory of this noble city be it said, that it did not give its vote for them....' (1) (14) 1513 H Jan. 8; ed: 2/1 The Whigs having a majority in both houses intended to do their work and adjourn at an early day, well knowing that if the time was industriously improved, the legislature might at well terminate its labors by the middle of February as of April. It seems, however, CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1846 as if some of the minority are determined to embarrass in every possible way the action of the house, as well as to disgrace themselves, and in this last particular it will be conceded they have been eminently successful. "Every man at all acquainted with proceedings in the legislature, will see that every step was intended to delay action and waste time, not to defeat the bill against which it is presumable all arguments had been exhausted. Motions to adjourn to take recess to take recess - to be excused from voting... questions of order, and the demands for yeas and nays on each motion, indicate motives not to be mistaken.' 1514 H Feb. 10; ed: 3/1 "No time for adjournment, we are sorry to say, has yet been agreed upon, and the most important matter before the Legislature still remains undisposed of. The revenue bill, we are told, will probably fail, and some patched up system will have to be adopted to suit the shirking views of the 'hog and hominy' regions." 1515 H Mar. 4; ed: 2/1 - Last evening several of the Reserve members made their appearance among us fresh from the seat of legislation. The people of Ohio will greet the Whig members on their return with the plaudit, "well done, good and faithful servants." Contrast the great amount of business and the shortness of the time of the session with the LocoFoco legislatures of former years. (13) "If Ohio could now be relieved from oppressive doctrines of Mr. Polk and Secretary Walker she would tread the path of honor and prosperity with new vigor." H July 3; ed: 2/1 - See Insurance 1516 H Oct. 24:3/1 Madison Miller, Esq., of this city, has been appointed by the Governor one of the State Board of Equalization, in place of John W. Allen, who declined the appointment. · (verbatim) 1517 H Dec. 7; ed: 2/1 - The Ohio legislature meets today for a short session. The Whigs will have a decided majority in the house. The members are nearly all new. (1) (5) (1) "If the session is prolonged, let the Locos have the entire responsibility of it; for the people of all parties and all classes desire and expect a short session of their servants." (3) 1518 H Dec. 11; ed: 2/1 - We see in the STATE JOURNAL that in the election of the clerk of the house some three or four Whigs bolted from the caucus nominee and aided by Locos elected Squier on the second ballot. We would ten thousand times rather see Swift defeated, than Squier elected, under the circumstances. 1519 H Dec. 16; ed: 3/1 - "We much like the Inaugural of Governor Bebb. It is fresh, earnest, bold and plain spoken, characteristic of the man and worthy an American freeman." He said that Ohio presents to the world a "horn of plenty," better filled with God's rich provisions than any spot on earth. (2) (5) |