ANNALS OF CLEVELAND

CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1838
Abstracts 1493 - 1497
POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS & ELECTIONS - Municipal (Cont'd)
Reserve is redeemed! "Loco-Foco" Hubbard, the master spirit of the tin
pan, of experiments, Van Burenism, anti-banking and demagogueism, expunged.
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The whole ticket is undoubtedly carried with the exception of the
County Surveyor, the candidate nominated by the Van Buren party having,
in some towns, run on both tickets.
"Freemen of Lorain! You will breathe frt"e-er and easier as you wake
this morning to the consciousness that yesterday's resistance to a desperate
foe was not in vain." (9)
1493 - H&G Oct. 10; ed:2/2 - A gentleman direct from Hudson informs us
that the entire Whig ticket is elected in Portage County.
"Precise majority not known. Huzza for Portalle." (2)
1494 - H&G Oct. 20; ed:2/3 - The chop-fallen "Loco-Focos" of Lorain
attribute their defeat to imported votes from Cuyahoga County and the
REPUBLICAN reiterates the falsehood, backed by affidavits of what a
certain boy said in repeating "Loco-Foco" stories!
"As the REPUBLICAN seems ambitious of sustaining its former bad
character, the ridiculous statement is a perfect god-send to the editor."
Ohio
1495 - H&G Jan. 13; ed:2/5 - The "Loco-Foco" Convention of the 8th met
and nominated Wilson Shannon of Belmont county for Governor.
"And who is Wilson Shannon? is now the enquiry. He is represented
as a young man, a second rate lawyer, but little known, and just the
kind of candidate Gov. Vance will beat by 10 or 15,000 votes. No mistake
in that. The Reserve is good for her full share of that majority." (3)
1496 • H&G Jan. 29; ed:2/2,3 - In selecting their candidate, the locofocos
were probably influenced by the consideration, that the man least known
to the people, would stand the best chance of an election. Consequently
the "old u'ns" of the party were put by, and the claims of the Reserve
slighted.
"In answer to the enquiry 'who is Wilson Shannon, the nominee of the
late locofoco Convention?'" we subjoin his 'eventful history' as given
in the OHIO STATESMAN. It will be seen that he was born and bred much
like other boys - went to college and the law like other young men - ran
for Congress and was defeated, as others have done before him - and finally
makes a very popular and no doubt good Prosecuting Attorney for old
Belmont •• Such are Wilson Shannon's claims on the people of Ohio for the
place now so ably and honorably filled by Joseph Vance, when 'all cyphered
out! '" (6)
1497 - H&G Feb. I; ed:3/2 - The late Philip Doddridge of Western Virginia,
on being asked how so many great men were produced in the West, replied:
We set a young fellow of fair personal appearance upon the stump, and
blow him up to the requisite size for the occasion.
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