Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-09-10
Ths sIrns of the Times.


The signs Of the times, as the campaign ad.
vances becomes more aud more auspicious to
the Republican cause. Although we are told
that the democratic party is q unit, the popu-
larity Of the gubernatorial candidate is over.
shadOwing, no Irresistible evidences of the fact
ere made 10 appear. Those who felt degree
ef eistion at the announcement Of tho State
nomination. and the flourish Of trumpets that
went up, liquidation of that event, are settling
down, unconsciousiy into sober propriety, and
the calmness and tameness of the present feel
ing is as ominous to their mind as it is to that o.
Tho republicans that the game Of confidence is
played out, and the discovery is made that the
stock on the start was an extremely thin and
vapory affair. The stool-pgeons of the party,
who have told us Of one anotherleading repub-
Icans who were going to vote for RANNEY
now that we have had time to ascertain how
far these things are, are found to have either
greedy deceived themselves, or attempted q
shallow deception upon Others. That the party
Is es spritless as midsummer oyster, is evident
IN every aspect of the campaign In several of
the counties as is admitted by the democratic Or
gans are irreconcilable feuds, which cannot but
help the opposition In other counties, as in
this, the party arm is paIsied by the hostility
between the Douglas and Buchanan interests
About all the interest that is felt in the cleo
tiop, is shown by the Post Masters, and few
OF their respective docile, personal followers
Hardy an omnibus load Of the faithful could
be gathered at the Nominating Convention al
Jefferson the other day, and the Nominations
we're postponed. The whole thing, save few
spasmadic resolutions in sickning laudation of
tbs consistency, fidelity, and general political
virtues Of the master Of the crib, was as fiat
and heavy as cold dumplin. The efforts Of
Judge RASNEY upon the stump are disap-
poiDtment and modification. His bosted talent
and tact, do not appear. He becomes sick ply
sically and mentally, ignores State issues, foun-
ders on national questions, which have already
swamped the party, and hardly note of exul-
tation is heard from the nurseries of democra-
cy." To relieve all this dullness and monotony,
and to infuse little animation under the ribs of
the party, the "Ettle Giant" has been sent for,
We believe, by the State Central Committee--a
movement that the government organ at Cleve-
land does not exactly relish, as we judge from
the manner in which he draws on his courtesy
in allusion to this outside help "Inter Iopers'
that is the term-Mr. FLooD thinks are not
needed. How is it that the party is so harmon
iously united, while the State Central Com
mittse are inviting in "interlopers" to revive the
tagging energies Of the party? Is there Sc
dition on foot among the Committee
These things all 60 to show that the party is
conscious of defeat, and anything like an at
tempt at cbeerfulness is only fresh realization
Of the old maxim about the proximity of the
sublime, or gloomy, and the ridiculous.
Let no Republican fail to discern the signs
OF the times. and in view of the encouragements
that surround him, labor for the complete humi-
lation and defeat Of party, whose only hope
is in the blindness and submission of its rank
and hle.