ANNALS OF CLEVELAND

CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1838
Abstracts 1547 - 1548
POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS & ELECTIONS - Ohio (Cont'd)
By refusing to publ ish, we intend no disrespect to the Whigs of
Euclid, to any candidate or the friends of any particular man. "The
same rule of action we have adopted would have excluded from our columns
the name of any other gentleman whose nomination is urged to defeat the
regular ticket." (4)
1547 - H&G Sept. 7; ed: 2/2, 3 - A group of Whigs, dissatisfied with some
of the nominations made by the recent Convention here, joined in signing
an invitation to John Barr to permit use of his name as a candidate
for the Legislature. In reply, Barr took the position that since the
request was made by Whigs, who he felt were virtually drafting him, he
could not withold his name. The invitation and reply appeared in yesterday's
issue of the COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCER, a Locofoco organ, although
rejected by the Whig papers because the plan indicated party discord.
It further appears that James S. Clarke, a Locofoco landlord.
started the circulating of this invitation to Mr. Barr, by getting the
signatures of some of his tenants.
"We do not impugn motives. The simple facts, that the leading Loco­
Focos in the ci ty openly approve the movement - are publ icly chuckl ing
at the supposed division of the Whig party - promising their individual
and party support to the above nominee - and the strangest fact of all,
that James S. Clarke, Esq., circulated the above invitation for signatures
among a portion of the Whigs of this city - will be a sufficient
explanation and comment on this attempt to disorganize the Whig party,
and break down the nominations of the People of the WhoJe County, made
in solemn convention." (9)
15-18 - H&G Sept. 8; ed: 2/2. 3 - Whigs of Cuyaboga!!! - We request your
attention to the regular party nominations. The men who have signed the
slate are the very men who have. among the Whigs of Cleveland, been foremost
in former contests with Van Burenism. J. Wright, G. A. Benedict,
J. Hollingsworth, J. E. Lyon, J. O. Brown, H. Hopkins, W. F. Allen, Jr.,
A. Haydn, H. Ranney, S. Cook, J. Ross, T. H. Nichols, J. P. Bishop,
E. Kimball, R. Gale, J. A. Briggs, G. W. Wilson, G. Palmer, D. McCarthey,
E. M. Ross, H. Fleming, J. Stoddard, F. Randall, G. Williams, F. C. Ewers,
H. H. Lewis, M. L. Hewitt, E. St. John Bemis, J. Whitaker, D. Lowman,
J. A. Church, G. W. Higlee, H. N. Humiston, G. H. Merrill, J. Andrews,
R. Graham, J. B. Emmons, A. M'Beebe, S. Faber, S. Baldwin, C. Smith,
O. Eastman. H. E. Seldon, M. H. Sill, J. J. Davies, W. T. Smith, S. S. Roys,
I. Bailey, M. Blakeslee, J. M. Jones, E. Mayhew, Wm. Jones, E. Chamberlain,
E. N. Parks, J. Galt, N. C. Winslow, G. Fitch, C. S. Wallach, 1. Newton,
J. G. Mc'Curdy, D. F. Lawton, G. W. Benjamin, E. Lewis, C. Pease, I.
Taylor, R. Champion, H. Van Eps, P. M. Weddell, N. E. Crittenden,
T. P. May, Tom Lemen, Jos. Ross, Frederick Whittlesey, S. Belden, J. H.
Crittenden, Wm. Lemen, S. Pease, S. J. Andrews, C. 1. Camp, W. Milford,
M. Barnett, J. A. Foote, G. C. Davies, H. Seaman, H. D. Huntington,
C. S. Mackenzie, Jno. T. Kirkland, B. Dodge, A. H. Clarke, W. Bingham,
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