ANNALS OF CLEVELAND

250
CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1838
Abstracts 1556 - 1560
POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS & ELECTIONS - Ohio (Cont'd)
1556 - H&G Sept. 10; ed: 2/1 - We understand the INTELLIGENCER has a list
of names from Mayfield, favorable to Mr. Barr. "Were they procured by that
excellent Whig, James S. Clarke, Esq., of the 1st ward, or did he only prepare
the list for the press?" (I)
1557 - H&G Sept. 10; ed:2/1 - Mr. Lloyd requests us to say that he cannot
reply to such covert insinuations and unfounded imputations as those
cast upon him and upon the other nominee of the Convention for the Legislature,
in an editorial article in the COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCER,
(conducted by B. Andrews) of Saturday last.
Whenever Mr. Andrews will put his questions and insinuations in the
form of a direct charge, or whenever he will find any responsible man
to assume them, then and not until then will Mr. Lloyd notice them.
As to the members of the Convention, they are the Ii:eepers of their
own honor .and best know how to protect it. (2)
1558 - H&G Sept. 10; ed:2/1,2 - Stump. - In order to give the people
of Cuyahoga an opportunity to judge for themselves as to the truth or
falsehood of certain reports circulated throughout the county by Mr.
Lloyd's enemies, and intended to operate to his prejudice, we would
recommend to the Central Committee the calling of meetings in every
township, and further, that they give an invitation to all candidates
to be present and spealt for themselves. (l)
1559 - H&G Sept. 10:2/3 - In a letter to the editor, "Consistency" says:
I regret to see in the COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCER an open and avowed
intention of sowing the seeds of discord in that great party - which now,
for the first time in years, has been able to show a firm, unbroken front
to their enemies - by conniving at and openly nominating John Barr, Esq.,
as a candidate for Representative.
"In the outset, the Editor has assumed false premises, by asserting
that Mr. Barr is the first choice of the Whig party - is it so?
"The honest and unbought Whigs of Cuyahoga: will meet in a.nswers with
a louder and a stronger voice, than their faithful Representatives did
on the 1st inst. "We Wi 11 Support Our Conventions." (12)
1560 - H&G Sept. 1 I; ed: 2/2 - Why are the Sub-Treasury men of the First
ward so much interested in the election of Mr. Barr if he be, as they
would persuade us, an undoubted Whig? Is it common for Messrs. Clarke
and Willey to electioneer for Whigs? Is it common for an uncompromising
Whig to find favor in that quarter? No one pretends that those men are
less Van Buren men, or less zealous for the Sub-Treasury than they have
been. What then is the meaning of their support of Mr. Barr? Willey and
Clarke expect political advantage to their party from the election of
John Barr.
"We bel ieve the Whigs of this county wi 11 hardly appeal from the decision
of their own convention, to Messrs. Willey and Clarke to select a
candidate for Whig support." (6)