ANNALS OF CLEVELAND

CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER . DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1838
Abstracts 1448 - 1452
POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS & ELECTIONS - Cleveland & Cuyahoga (Cont'd)
1448 - H&G Aug. 31:2/4 - In a letter to the editor, L. L. Rice says:
The story in the COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCER concerning a report abroad
that Mr. Williamson is not a candidate for Auditor is a sheer fabrication;
got up by the editor to enable him to vent his spite at me.
Mr. Williamson told me some two or three months since that he should
not bea candidate.
"I called on him one day last week, and enquired if that was sti 11
his determination; and he informed me that he had concluded that if nominated
he should not decline." (2)
1449 - H&G Sept. 1; ed:2/3 - The County Convention now in session at the
Court House is one of the most respectable assemblages of freemen.we
ever looked upon; every township in the county, we believe, having delegates
present.
The following ticket has been nominated: Representatives, Leverett
Johnson, William B. Lloyd; Sheriff, S. S. Handerson; Auditor, S.
Williamson; Commissioner, Diodatus Clark; Coroner, G. L. Chapman. (4)
1450 • H&G Sept. 3; ed: 2/3 • The Convention on Sept. 1 was emphatically
the People's Convention and the nominations of that large and respectable
assemblage will be triumphantly ratified by the free voters of Cuyahoga
on the 9th of October.
"The question of selection being fairly settled, our duty as Whigs
is plain and not to be mistaken. In the spirit of one of the resolutions,
it is to support the ticket, - the whole ticket - and Nothing but the
Ticket. Let us do so heart and soul, and the result will be a Whig
majority of at 1east One Thousand votes in Old Cuyahoga. Shall it be so?
Cuyahoga 'Can if she Will! '" (4)
1451 • H&G Sept. 3; ed: 2/3 • The fathers of the County met in Convention
Saturday, (Sept. 1). The old pioneers, the men who felled the forest,
reared the cabins and made our glorious country what it is. met to deliberate
and select men to fill the offices of the county.
"Their deliberations and selections are before the public .• Will they
not meet with a hearty approval?" (2)
1452 - H&G Sept. 5; ed :2/1 . The ADVERTISER says: The HERALD AND
GAZETTE is preaching up party discipline - Whipping the dissatisfied
into the traces.
"The HERALD AND GAZETTE does go for the 'ticket, and nothing but
the ticket,' whether a Whig Convention of the people nominate the man
of our choice, or not.
"We look upon the Convention on Saturday (Sept. 1) as emphatically
the people's Convention, and had that Convention nominated John Barr,
the HERALD and GAZETTE would have supported the nomination with the
same pertinacity it does the ticket selected." (3)
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