CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1874 Abstracts 3029 - 3035 POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS & ELECTIONS United States (Cont'd) 3029 L Sept. 26; ed: 4/2 - "The 'Payne boys' propose to expend a fabulous amount of money to get their father elected to Congress. Being worth several millions they have the means to do it that is to furnish the money not to elect.... We would advise Nathan, Oliver and Harry not to throw away their money, for their respected father never can be elected." (4) 3030 L Sept. 27:4/1 - "Mr. Payne, who is worth $5,000,000 or more, expects every Democrat to vote for him. If a Democratic laboring man should ask Mr. Payne to sell him a lot from his unoccupied farm, in the heart of the city, to build a home, he would be told he could have the lot if he will build a $10,000 house on it. "If any Democrat doubts this let him try and buy a lot." 3031 L Sept. 27; ed: 4/1 - "The Cincinnati ENQUIRER, Democratic, denounces the nomination of Mr. Payne and says he is not sound on the financial question. Why don't the PLAIN DEALER copy the ENQUIRER'S article on Payne." 3032 L Sept. 28; ed: 4/1 The Columbus DISPATCH, daily Democratic organ of the state capital, states that Payne, on being nominated by the Cleveland Democrats for Congress, "differed somewhat from the platform of his party on finance, in his acceptance speech." (LEADER) "Differed somewhat? This is probably the most remarkable case of 'putting it mildly' in the political record of the year." 3033 L Sept. 28; ed: 4/1 Some of Payne's supporters are planning on getting appointed to federal office if he is elected. "These poor demented fellows are evidently not aware that Mr. Payne would have just as much influence, as far as getting appointments is concerned, as Mr. Armstrong, General Fitch, William Heisley or any other Democratic leader. The reason is that General Grant is a Republican." 3034 - L Sept. 28; ed: 4/2 - In 1848 Lewis Cass, running as Democratic candidate for president, was so opposed to river and harbor improvements that he made bis celebrated "noise and confusion" speech, which signified his opposition to that policy. Payne voted for Cass, knowing his view on the question. "Yet the PLAIN DEALER has the assurance to say that Mr. Payne, if elected, would favor the Breakwater project and get the appropriation for building it." (2) (1) (2) (2) (3) 3035 L Sept. 28; ed: 4/4 "The PLAIN DEALER is endeavoring to pursuade its readers that Mr. Payne, if elected, would take and maintain a leading position in Congress. This recalls the remark of a leading Congressman, that in all the records of Congress he knew of but one man elected to the lower House for the first time after his sixtieth year, who ever CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1874 Abstracts 3036 3040 POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS & ELECTIONS United States (Cont'd) made a successful Congressional career.... Besides his age there is the still more important fact that he would be a member of the minority." 3036 L Sept. 29; ed: 4/1 - "The Democratic Pow Wow pain wave in the Park last evening will take rank as one of the drearest fizzles on record. Instead of the nineteen speakers advertised in big type by the PLAIN DEALER, there was a dreary dearth of orators, and Chairman Heisley had to have Bob Paine hauled out of bed and then was forced to put in a blast himself and call on the other old war horses to fill up the time...." 3037 L Sept. 29; ed: 4/1 - "John A. Foote Esq. is a Republican of the old school, not a bitter and unreasoning partisan, but a man of sound, practical sense, who has seen Cleveland grow from a village to its present proportions and who is familiar with the political history of the city during the entire lives of most of its inhabitants. Mr. Foot understands perfectly the record of Democracy, in respect to harbor improvements, and his words of warning to those few Republicans who are contemplating the abandonment of their party, are timely and eloquent. "Read and consider well the meaning of his letter." 3038 L Sept. 29; ed: 4/2 In answer to our statement that Payne was too old for office, the PLAIN DEALER asks whether John A. Dix, 82, is too old to make a good governor of New York. To be a governor is not the same as being a congressman. The duties of one are purely executive, while the duties of the other are legislative and require the hardest working ability. To answer to the PLAIN DEALER'S question we ask: Is William Allen, 68, too old to be an executive officer? "He is decidedly too old, so much so, that he had to send his private secretary to act for him to suppress a quasi rebellion, the old man being too nervous and excited to go himself." 3039 L Sept. 29; ed: 4/2 Republicans about the city were happy yesterdav. The tide has turned in favor of Parsons in a manner so unmistakable as to leave the result no longer a matter of doubt.... This was just the result desired; a full vote in Cuyahoga county is a Republican victory. (8) (4) (3) (5) (6) 3040 L Sept. 29; ed: 4/2,3 The PLAIN DEALER says: "So far as ability is concerned Mr. Payne has sufficient of it to make him eminent in Congress and put him at its head in sixty days." It (LEADER) "How much reason is there in the above?.. We can judge the future only by the past. Mr. Payne's public life is a record. has been a series of disappointments. He was elected to the Ohio Senate in 1849, and we ask any citizen of the State who remembers those days whether Mr. Payne's record at Columbus was such as to justify the PLAIN DEALER'S infantile confidence...." (9) CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1874 Abstracts 3041 - 3044 POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS & ELECTIONS 3041 L Sept. 29; ed: 4/3 - Mr. Payne, in his very brief speech at the dismal ratification meeting made a remarkably weak point, namely: that Mr. Parsons will be in Congress ninety days ending March 4th next, and all he needs to do is to move the consideration of the question and he can get the breakwater appropriation through in an hour's time. Mr. Payne very adroitly avoids the fact that the election now is whether to endorse Mr. Parsons' action in favor of the breakwater by sending him back to Congress, or not. In this event General Garfield will improve the opportunity to get a breakwater for Fairport. "The fact that Mr. Payne invested $50,000 in the narrow guage railroad terminating where his land lies at Fairport, and only about one-tenth that amount in the Valley railroad, shows most unmistakably where his sympathy lies." 3042 L Sept. 29:5/1,3 It was expected by the managers of the Democratic show, advertised to come off on the Public Square last evening, that there would be such a gathering of the clans as would make all previous meetings pale by comparison. At no time during the meeting were there over 600 people present. The PLAIN DEALER had announced the names of 19 speakers. Only seven spoke. At the conclusion of Payne's speech it was found expedient to hunt up material or else close the meeting. "As a political mass meeting the affair was a fizzle from beginning to end." 3043 L Sept. 29:7/1 - Govenor Noyes has accepted the invitation extended by the Republican committee, saying he will attend a meeting at the Circle on the west side. (9) (54) (1) 3044 L Sept. 29:8/1,2 - In a letter to the Republican electors John A. Foot of Cuyahoga county, says: "A Republican vote is a vote for peace, while a Democratic vote is a vote for turbulence and disorder, if not for a new rebellion in the South. In confirmation of these views I need scarcely allude to the late wholesale butcheries in so many of the Southern States and to the late violent revolution in Louisiana consequent, as it seems to me, upon the successes of Democracy in some of the Northern States.... With such convictions I have looked upon the attempt now being made to divide the Republican party in this District with fear and apprehension.... Neither of the candidates need eulogy. They stand in the front rank of our citizens, they have both been, not only fairly but unanimously nominated by the respective convention of the Republican and Democratic parties.... As to the ability of these gentlemen to advance the interests of this city, I am decidedly of the opinion that it lies with the Republican nominee, not only because he has experience and probably will have the majority with him, but especially as the Democracy - if they have the power must oppose all river and harbor improvements, or they must renounce the theory upon which they have acted for the last 30 years. (18) ་་ CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1874 Abstracts 3045 - 3051 POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS & ELECTIONS - United States (Cont'd) 3045 L Sept. 30; ed: 4/1 - The PLAIN DEALER says: "There was an interesting session held in West Cleveland in the interest of Parsons, last Sunday." (LEADER) "This is a PLAIN DEALER statement, which means it is not true. There was no meeting of the kind in West Cleveland. The PLAIN DEALER omits to state that John Huntington and other Democratic leaders were running around all day Sunday in the various saloons drumming up recruits to vote for Mr. Payne." 3046 L Sept. 30; ed: 4/1 - "The PLAIN DEALER makes no attempt to tell how many people were present at the ratification Monday night. It was too open, palpable a fizzle to be dignified by an ordinary misstatement." 3047 L Sept. 30; ed: 4/1 "If we can't get up a better meeting than this, Parsons will be elected, sure," said a disgusted Democrat. "Level headed man, there." · 3048 - L Sept. 30:4/2 "The gratuitous insult of the PLAIN DEALER to 3049 L Sept. 30; ed: 4/3,4 - The fall campaign throughout Ohio has been very quiet on the part of the Republicans, which has aroused the Democrats to unwonted activity. They are bringing every resource into energetic action that new victories may be gained. (2) (2) (1) (4) "It therefore behooves every Republican to cast his vote this fall for his party candidates and to exert himself to induce others to do so." (20) 3050 L Sept. 30; ed: 4/3,4 The Democratic ratification meeting of Sept. 28 was the prevailing topic of discussion throughout the city yesterday. The Republicans wore broad grins over it; the Democrats looked grim and disappointed. "Not an argument, not an issue of national proportions, not a point to which an earnest man could cling was brought forward....' ་་ 3051 L Sept. 30:7/1 A Republican meeting is to be held at the Ken- (10) (1) CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1874 Abstracts 3052 - 3057 POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS & ELECTIONS - United States (Cont'd) 3052 L Oct. 1; ed: 4/1 - "Friends of Mr. Payne have started stories to the effect that a number of prominent Republicans... were intending to vote for Payne.... The object of this lying tactic is to induce lukewarm Republicans to vote for Payne." 3053 L Oct. 1; ed: 4/2 The PLAIN DEALER, speaking of Parsons and Payne, says: "The question is not, what are the politics of the two men" The ques "This is where the PLAIN DEALER is egregiously mistaken. tion is in a very large degree that of politics.... The question is, 'What are the politics of these two men?'" 3054 L Oct. 1; ed: 4/2 - The Democratic meeting held last night was a repetition on a smaller scale of the last meeting. Tom Purcell, who passes half of his time drunk in the police station, was the hero of the evening although Payne was fairly well received. 3055 L Oct. 1:4/3 - The Atlanta, Ga., NEWS states: "Our only hope is in stern, resolute resistance a resistance to the death if necessary, with arms in our hands. Let there be White Leagues formed in every town, village, and hamlet of the South and organize for the great struggle which seems inevitable.... Against the Republican party our hate must be unquenchable." (LEADER) "Do Cleveland Republicans realize that the representatives whom we shall elect here in Cleveland a week from next Tuesday may in all probability have to stand up in Congress to back the President and the army in the suppression of another rebellion...?" 3056 - L Oct. 1; ed: 4/3,4 - Parsons' speech, delivered last night at the Republican meeting in the tenth ward, was a clear, manly, ringing reply to the slanders which have been heaped upon him by his enemies. during the last two years. (2) (5) (3) (6) We have published every speech of Payne's since his nomination. The PLAIN DEALER has made no report of Parsons' speeches except to copy his gentlemanly allusion to the Democratic candidate. "Will it dare publish the speech? Come to the front and take a back seat among the blackguards." 3057 L Oct. 1:5/1-3 The Republican meeting at Kentucky st. school yesterday was called to order by Captain Kennedy, who nominated Councilman Bayne as chairman, who in turn introduced H. L. Clark, Esq., as the first speaker of the evening. Clark delivered a vigorous and slashing speech in which he set forth the plain and unequivocal duty of all good Republicans toward the party and its nominee, the Hon. R. C. Parsons. R. D. Updegraff was the next speaker. His speech was a resume of the financial principles of the Republicans, together with a defense of the tariff and a keen, lucid explanation of the fallacies and pet (11) |