ANNALS OF CLEVELAND

CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1838
Abstracts 1589 - 1595
POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS & ELECTION - Ohio (Cont'd)
1589 - H&G Sept. 27:2/4 - In a letter to the editor, "A Whig" says:
Reports have been circulated by some honest and high-minded persons that
Wm. B. Lloyd has been withdrawn as a candidate, and that Johnson and John
Barr will be the only Whig on the course. "The whigs must look out for
all kinds of false reports betw£en this time and election. The enemy
are busy, and they are as unprincipled as they are active." (1)
1590 - H&G Sept. 27: 2/4 - In a letter to the edi tor, "A Lover of Honesty"
says: "As no reply is made to the question propounded in your paper of
Monday, (Sept. 24) relative to John Barr's conduct at Willoughby, I now
make the charge implied in that query directly." Barr did attend a
caucus of Van Buren men in the town of Willoughby, where he has always
been civilly treated by the citizens; and most impudently got up - or
participated in the getting up - an application to the powers at Washington_
for the removal of Dr. Henderson, a worthy man and good Whig, from the
Post Office in that town; and to procure the appointment of Cranston,
a Locofoco, in his place. (2)
1591 - H&G Sept. 28; ed:2/1 - B. Andrews has just found out that the
friendly indications in another quarter - for the "independent candidate" _
came from Eucl id and not from the 1st ward.
" Who believes it? What friendly loco foco in this city circulated
the call on Mr. Barr to be 'used? '" (1)
1592 - H&G Sept. 28:2/1 - In a letter to the editor, John Barr says:
A writer in yesterday's paper charges me with attending a caucus of
Van Buren men at Willoughby, and getting up an application for the removal
of Dr. Henderson from the Post office in that town.
"the charge is untrue, I attended no such caucus, nor have I seen or
signed any application to remove Dr. Henderson, or had any agency, in
getting up one." (3)
1593 - H&G Sept. 28; ed: 2/1 - The handful of "Locofocos" in Ashtabula
county have held their Convention and nominated a full ticket.
"We admire their spunk. John S. Rogers and Rufus P. Rannev, their
candidates for Representatives, will have the honor of being defeated by
the largest majority given in the State!" (2)
1594 - H&G Sept. 28:2/1 - In a letter to the editor, "An Enquirer" says:
"I would ask some of the most prominent men in the Van Buren party in
this county if John Barr has not been presented to them for two years past
as a candidate to be put in nomination by them for Representative to the
State Legislature?" (1)
1595 - H&G Sept. 28; ed:2/1 - Candidates for office on the Reserve have
to "stand up to the rack this fall, fodder or no fodder." Abolition
Societies propound queries in every quarter; and in Trumbull, the Temperance
Society has become quite inquisitive.
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