ANNALS OF CLEVELAND

246
CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. I TO DEC. 31, 1838
Abstracts 1540 - 1546
POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS & ELECTIONS - Ohio (Cont'd)
1540 - H&J Aug. 30: 2/4 - The Xenia FREE PRESS, in speaking of the withdrawal
of John E. Foot, Esq., of Cuyahoga county from the race for
Legislature, says that they doubt whether Cuyahoga will send as good a
Representative in his place. Mr. Foot was active, eloquent, and well
liked. (1)
1541 - H&G Aug. 31; ed: 2/4 - The Whigs of Ashtabula county held their
Convention on the 28th inst. and it was reported to have been the largest
ever convened, in the county.
"Ashtabula will again bear away the honor of giving the largest Whig
majority on the Reserve." (1)
1542 - H&G Aug. 31; ed:2/4 - The Whigs of Old Trumbull are wide awake.
Their convention was a large one and every township was represented. The
delegates were farmers, mechanics, and laboring men, the real democracy -
the bone and sinew of the land.
"Their proceedings were characterized by that order and deliberation
which ever attend the popular assemblages of enlightened freemen, and
we doubt not the ticket will meet with the approbation of all good Whigs.
It is a good ticket - a strong ticket, and we can elect every man on it."
(2)
1543 - H&G Sept. 3: 2/4, 5 - At a convention of the Whigs of Cuyahoga
county on the 1st of September in the Court House in the Ci ty of Cleveland,
Moses Jewett was chosen President, Melancthon Barnet, Vice President;
C. L. Russell, and Moses Kelley, Secretaries.
On motion of C. E. Clapp of Dover, the following resolution was
adopted: Resolved, That as members of this convention, we pledge ourselves
each to the other, to use all honorable means to elect men to office, who
are known to be thorough going Whigs, and none other, and we repudiate
each and every attempt to divide the Whig party. (27)
1544 - H&G Sept. 3; ed:2/5 - The Whig Young Men throughout the State are
aroused, and the gatherirg at Mount Vernon on the 20th will be without
a parallel in Convention line. Let the appointment he made immediately
and a list furnished for publication.
"There is no time to lose. Action is the word." (4)
1545 - H&G Sept. 4; ed:2/2 - "The Whigs of Knox are making extensive
prep'lCations for the accommodation of Delegates from abroad, and the
WATCHMAN publishes two columns of names of Delegates appointed in that
county." (2)
1546 - H&G Sept. 5; ed: 2/1 - We are called on today to insert the nomination
of John Barr, Esq., for Representative. To the nomination was
appended the names of a respectable number of the Whigs of Euclid township.
This we declined to do because we believe in the convention system,
and by recent action of the convention Barr was defeated in the balloting.