ANNALS OF CLEVELAND

240
CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. I TO DEC. 31, 1838
Abstracts 1508 - 1510
POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS & ELECTIONS - Ohio (Cont'd)
"Ohio sends her Commissioners into market, and her stock is sought
for eagerly at a round premium, as soon as offered. Our neighbors in
Michigan may be assured that we have no wish to interfere in her elections,
or sneer at her choice of rulers, but we cannot avoid alluding
to this difference in the standing of the two Sister states abroad, to
warn our own citizens of the blighting influence of Loco Focoism upon
the great interests of the country. Let them look at the doctrines put
forth by the pensioned press in Michigan as well as in their own State,
and judge of their withering influence upon the interest, currency, and
prosperity of a State by the simple announcement at the head of this
article, and when they see the result, let them place Ohio in the same
humi liating position, hy the election of Wilson Shannon as Governor of
this State. If they can be satisfied with such a result we had almost
said we would be satisfied also, but 'we will think of that, yes, we
will think of that. '" (5)
1508 - H&G July 5; ed: 2/2 - The young "Loco-Focos" will hold a State
Convention at Newark on the 17th of August, per order of Carter B.
Harlan, Esq., Secretary of State, a hard fisted Democrat of the first
water •.
"We predict a lean gathering. The young men of Ohio possess too much
intelligence to be gulled into the support of Benton's humbugs, or Van
Buren's corruptions. It takes the old hardened members of the party to
go them. Mr. Harlan's late mission to the Reserve may put money in his
purse, but will not put Lo(ofoco votes in the ballot boxes. The Auditor
failed in that game last year." (2)
1509 - H&G July 10; ed:2/3 - The Hon. Wilson Shannon, the "Loco-Foco"
candidate for Governor, in the course of his electioneering tour through
northern Ohio, arrived in this city yesterday and took lodgings at the
Franklin.
"He will no doubt be cordially received by Government office holders,
and the loafers quartered in the city, but we opine that the sun-burnt,
sweat-dropping farmers in the country will be too busy in their hayfields
to 1 isten to many locofoco speeches from the Leatherwood Lawyer.
Though the weather is quite too hot for a dish of locofoco politics, we
will endeavor to be present at the Court House 'to hear his say' this
evening, and note our 'first impressions' to-morrow." (3)
1510 - H&G July 11; ed:2/2 - "We attended, last evening, the gathering
of the office-holders, and their few Loco Foco adherents in this city,
to do honor to the Hon. Wilson Shannon, sat out his two hour speech, and
our first impressions are, that in order to advance his own election and
the interests of the Loco Foco party, Wilson Shannon, Esq., should forthwith
return to his Law Office on Leatherwood Creek. His special pleading
for office smacks too palpably of the pettifogging demagogue to go
down with the intelligent, close-observing, and discriminating voters of
northern Ohio. As the Clockmaker would say, his 'soft sawder' will never
secure their support." (3)