ANNALS OF CLEVELAND

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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1838
Abstracts 1427 • 1433
POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS & ELECTIONS· Cleveland & Cuyahoga (Cont'd)
The great importance of the coming political contest renders necessary
a full and vigorous attendance at the above preparatory meeting. By
order of Central Committee, W. B. Lloyd, Ch'm. (2)
1427 - H&G Aug. 8:2/5 • Whig County Convention. A Convention of the
Whigs of Cuyahoga County will be held at the Court House in Cleveland,
on Saturday, September 1st, at 11 o'clock A.M., for the purpose of nomi·
nating a ticket, and making other preparations for the coming election.
Wm. B. Lloyd, M. Barnett, R. Gale. D. Hersh, H. Foot, D. C. Valentine,
C. E. Clapp, Daniel Warren, County Central Committee. (2)
1428 • H&G Aug. 8:2/5 • Please announce the name of J. C. Fairchild as
a candidate for the office of Sheriff at the coming elections, subject
to the decision of the convention. A Whig (1)
1423 . H&G Aug. 16:2/5 • Whig County Convention Sept. 1st. Township
Meeting Aug. 25th. (verbatim) (1)
1430 • H&G Aug. 16: 2/5 • Messrs. Edi tors: . Please announce Luke R isely
as a candidate for Sheriff, subject to the decision of the Whig County
Convention, and oblige thorough going business men. Cuyahoga. (I)
1431 • H&G Aug. 18; ed: 2/3 • The first of September is at hand, when the
Whigs of Cuyahoga are to determine who shall be their candidates for the
important offices to be filled the ensuing autumn. Township meetings are
to be held on the 25th inst. for the appointment of delegates to the
Convention next month. and upon the Whigs of the townships, therefore,
will depend the character of those meetings, which must determine that of
the Convention itself. If they turn out in a body, an expression of their
wi 11, the wi 11 of the people is given. But if they stay at home and
suffer the delegates to be chosen by such as attend from interested motives,
the whole affair is turned into a farce.
"It is for our pol itical opponents to fabricate publ ic opinion through
the medium of packed conventions drummed up by office holders, and in
fact composed of them and their dependents; let the Conventions of Whigs
be (as we trust they ever will be) a full and perfect representation of
the people themselves." (6)
1432 - H&G Aug. 21:2/5 • In a letter to the editor, "A Whig" says: I
would suggest the propriety of waiting for our county convention to nominate
county officers as best calculated to keep the Whigs united on Whig
principles, which are, that 'tbe people rule.'" (1)
1433 • H&G Aug. 22: 2/4 . Tbe Whigs of Cuyahoga County are requested to
take into consideration in their Township meetings on Saturday next,
(Sept. 1) the expediency of sending delegates to the Young Men's State
Convention to be held at Mt. Vernon, Knox County, on the 10th day of
September next, and to instruct their delegates to the County Nominating