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T. A. Plants Record.

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Plants voted to give the Negro $500
bounty. saa
Plants voted against giving the white
soldier 500 bounty.
Plants voted for the Civil Rights Bill.
Plants voted for the Freedmen's Bu-
reau Bill.
Plants voted to give the right of suf-
frage to Negroes in the District of Column
bia.
Plants voted for Bureau Bill No..
Plants was afraid his Negro-equality
ideas would lose him votes in Monroe
County, therefore didn't speak.
Plants ideas, if successful, will give
every Negro in Monroe County the right
tovote. -
Plants ideas, if successful, give the
Negro the right to call upon the white
mans daughters. 9
Plants ideas, if successful. gives the
blacklist Negro in this State the right to
seat at the tableof any of our frst-class
hotels. s As
Plants ideas, if successful, will bring
about war, which, when the one just
past is compared with it, will appear like
child's play.
Defeat all of the above at the polls on
the 9th day of October.
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without regard to the consumers means
or his earnings, aud in these particulars
the laws call loudly for redress.
These inequalities and irregularities
would be greately lessened in the West
if Congress were duly composed of repre-
sentatiyes from all the States. In com
mon with the States of the West, the ex
cluded States are intereste in agricul-
ture, and in productions which the West
chiefly furnished. In this view alone we
have a. direct aud pccuniary interest in
the fulls representation Of all the States.
Bot higher than this, you must look
with ala'm upon the attempts of Congress
ADMINISTRATIONS to-the adoption Of
measures dictated to them by others.
sDerias a whele session Of Congress,
theSeuators aud Representatives Of eleven
Sta tes have been excluded from their
seats, when present and ready with evil
dence Of their election. This exclusion
is persi.te' n on the pretence that the
United States are bouad to guarantee to
every State republican form Of govern
ment. To This pretence it is enough to
say that when they have once acted on
the admission of State, their power over
it exhausted; and it is enough to answer
that the governments Of these States are
precisely the same they have been from
the beginning of the government, and
therefore must be held republican; and
that with just such constitutions, State
after State, have been admitted. It is
done under the further pretence, that each
House is to judge of the qualifications Of
its members. The word qualification is
used twice In the Constitution, once in
relation to those who may vote for repre-
sentatives in Congress, and again in rela,
tion to the persons who may be chosen
and in both cases it means the qualifca-
items defined by law. The Constitution
ITSELF defines the quali6cations-which
are, that the persons chosen must be Of
certain age, and be citizens of the Uni
ted States, and that they must live within
the States that elec. them. The word
has no''relation to their talents, their opin-
ions or their morals- these are questions
for their constituents only.I In a republi-
car. government the people choose their
own representatives, and they must be
left free to do it, or it is no republic
IF this exclusion of members and of
States be persisted in, itmust end in dis
aster to our common veal, and if it do
not end in strife and bloodshed, it viii be
because the people of these States have
forbearance beyond the example of those
whe freed the Colonies from a like op-
preston, and made us the government
under which we have hitherto lived and
prospered. The decision Of the momen-
tous issue lies with the people. Their
peaceful ballets may end the struggle,
with peaceful future, or leave US prey
to wild uncertainty and confusion.
In another letter l will address you
further about government expenses and
taxation Yours, respectfully,
JOHN H. JAMES.
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"Let No such Man be Trusted,

1t is not by mans professions but by
his votes that his political status must be
determined. A man may assume to be a
Conservative in order to avoid alterca
tion, or to gain patronage from his po-
litical opponents. IF such a man, not
withstanding his pretensions, votes with
the Radicals, he is not only Radical but
a political impostor.
Who can trust to the truthfulness of a
man who will say he is in favorof an un-
divided Union, and yet knowingly and
wilfully casts his vote to aid in keeping
the Union divided?
Who can rely upon the word of the
man who will say he is opposed to the in
famous laws passed by the last Congress,
and yet vote to endorse those who passed
those laws?
Who can have faith in the veracity Of
the man who says he is opposed to Ne
gro Suffrage, and yet labors and votes to
place those in power who he knows will
do their utmost to force that odiou;
measure upon the people?
Such a man practices deception upon
his neighbors-he pretends to be what he
is not-professes one thing and practices
another-in other words he is the politi
cal By-ends, the waterman, of Bunyan
who makes his living by looking one way
and rowing the other, and deserves the
same ignominious fate.
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RALLY FOR THE UNION,
THE CONsT TUITION
And our Whole Country.

Democratsl Once again you are called
to an arduous contest with the enemies of
the country, its unity, and its peace. You
have steadily upheld her cause against
those enemies when oyerpowering odds
left you little to hope for. You havo
now to uphold it in another struggle,per-
haps fnal, cheered with the hope of vic
tory.
The calamities which you foretold, if
the government of the country we're COM
mitted to our opponents, have come to
pass. The land groans with their bur-
dens. Quite unhindered as they were in
administering the government during
war, the boundless resources and over
powering numbers of the North were new
ertheless long neutralized by their match
l
less incompetency. At last every other
obstacle than that matehless incompetent
cy was removed; and now, for year and
"a half,the people of the South and North
have been, with equal ardor, laboring to
come together again in the bonds Of the
old Union, but still find themselves divi-
ded and kept apart by those at the North
who first helped to disunite them.
! These disunionists, our old and con-
slant foes, have been, since the war also.
quite unhindered in administering the
government. 1t has been upon theil
shoulders. Theirs the praise, theirs the
blame, wholly. Its machinery, till now
has been in their hands.
These, and these alone, are the enemies
of the Union. From Maine to Texas the
Union has no living enemies to-day say,
those Northern disunionists who possess
the National Legislature, and who, tt
keep possession of it, lock out fellow
representatives every whit as rightfu
members of it as themselves.
| Democrats You have long and man
/. fully contended with these enemies O.
their country. You have upheld its po
litical unity; you have repelled their as
saults upon the civil liberties of the peo
pie, and maintained freedom of speech
Of the press, and of the ballot, at tn
price often of lawless arrest, imprison
: meut, mobbings, and the penalties of yer
liable treason; you have resisted, too th
: plundering Of the people which thes
traitors in power have practiced by pro
tectiye legislation, by corrupt and extray
agant expenditures, by iniquitous an
unequal taxation. Your invincible spiri
e has risen from every defeat, to conten
again, with renewed and desperate ardol
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Another Jacobin Lie Nailed--A
state Agentin Dirty Business.

The Radical papers are reproducing
from the CleUelaad Herald communica-
tion from JAMES G. WETMoRE, who stays
in Washington City on big salary, which
the tax payers Of Ohio are called upon to
pay, while his chief duty seems to be to
electioneer for the Jacobin party. The
following is the communication:
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
STATE OF ONO MILITARY AGENCY,
WASHINGTON, Sept. II. 1866.
Geo. Laskey, Esq, Of N7. Com, Gilead,
Wood Co., Ohio:
DEAR SIR-Yours of the 9Th inst. is
received. You ask: Are the Paymas-
ter General and Second Auditor stopped
from paying under the bounty acts pass
ed by last Congress?
The former states that he is waiting
instructions from those higher in author
ity. The latter has been instructed by
the Secretary Of the Treasury not to pay
any bounty passed by the last Congress.
tits my opinion that the President
docs not intend dollar of additional
bounty shall be paid a Union soldier, or
his family, if he can help it. Yours
truly, JAMES G. WETMoRE.
When the foregoing letter appeared in
the Journal of this city, General GEIGEF
and JOHN G.. THOMPSON. Chairman of the
Democratic State Central Committee, tele
graphed it to the President of the United
States, in order that this FALsEHooD oftht
Ohio Agent at Washington might receive
its quietus; and Immediately received from
the Secretary of the Treasury the. follow
ing reply:
WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. %.
70 James G. Ketmore, Joseph FL. Geiger
John G.. Thompson, Chairman Dem
State Cent. Com, Columbus;
Reports that the President or Secreta
ny have delayed the payment of bountie
are untounded. Payments will be mad
under the rules which have just beel
completed by the War Department
The Paymaster General has beeninstruct
cd to commence payments at once. Their
will be no delay on the part Of this De
partment. Il. McCULLooH,
Sec'y of the Treasury.
This disposes of another Jacobln LIE
What DextP-Statesman.
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ga-Will the Republicans outside of
Woodsfeld, cast their votes for man
wlrom their leaders refused to let speak
for fear of increasing the Democratic ma
jority2 Mr.. Plants came here to make a
speech, but was told the party in this
county were not sound on his equality
ideas. He left without speaking one
word in public to the people. who were
waiting to hear him.
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II. A. plants

4. A. Plants
Voted for NEGRO SUFFRAGE in the
District of Columbia.
Il. A. Plants
voted for The infamous Freedmen's Blu.
reau Bill.
T. A. Plants
voted for tho Civil Rights Bill.
IA. Plants
voted against giving additional bounty to
soldiers.
Il. "A. Plants
said in his speech: call races and al
sexes will be enfranchised. Man in hi
strength and woman in her purity, step
ping side by side to the ballot-box, vii
redeem politics from the stigma of coarse
ness"
Il. A.Pianfs
voted frst, last, and all the time, to Grip
pie the efforts of the President to restore
the Union.
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wasting money enough to put line Of
greenbacks 56 times around the world
that it was to bring the South back into
the Union, but now they struggle to keep
them out and are violently
OPPOSED TO THE UNION,
but demand that the negro shall be equal
to the white man and that
NEGROES SHALL VOTE.
Thad. Stevens, their leader, says the
Union with his consent shall
NEVER BE RESTORED.
While they were sslaughtering the peo-
pie and stealing the money they declared
that it was TREASON TO OPPOSE
THE PRESIDENT But now setting
up negro equality and their Jacobin par
ty creed against the Union they call the
PRESIDENT A TRAIToRl 81,
because he and those who sustain him
are for the Union.
In 1860 these Jacobins claimed to be
the especial friends Of a free press, free
speech, and freedom, but as soon as they
were safely in power they sought to 2
CRUSH BY DESP0TISM,
every one who opposed their party creed
and mebbed or refused circulation through
the mails to OVER ITO NEWSPA-a
PERS and arrested and imprisoned large
numbers of editors and citizens from all
parts of the North. asl sue
The last act of the ssJacobin Disunion
plunderers Is an attempt, not only to de-
stroy the Union but to enforce taxation
and =.
DENY REPRESENTATION TO. THE PEOPLE;
to refuse them the right of petition to In 9
cite revolution to
OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT. sas
This is evident by their effort to take
arms from the government and send them
to Jacobin Governors, and by their recen
attempts at New Orleans and throughout
the South to incite INSURRECTIONS
and REVOLUTIONS to overthrow the
legal authority Estates.
Patriots, honest men, lovers Of peace,
what think you ofthis startling but truth,
full record?
Soldiers, men Of property, supporters
of free government, what think you. of
this Jacobin conspiracy to destroy the
Union and erect a
NEGRO DEsPoTIsM? 4
Will you, can you,i continue them in
power by supporting Radicalisn? Or
will you sustain peace, Union, economy
and honesty by the support Of Conserva-
tism? Work nog! Tell your neighbors
of these astounding expenditures Of your.
money; tell them of these Jacobin crimes
against the Union. and against society;
against the Union and against the Gov
efnmentl No matter what your former
politics may have been, patriotism and
duty calls on you to raise your voice
against this monster of iniquity which,
after having robbed and murdered the
people, seeks now the destruction Of the
Union, the overthrow Of the government
the establishment of negro suffrage, and
an aristocratic aud despo.ie government
by TREASON, usURPATIoN, fraud and
force! -
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TURN OFT! TURN OUTM
Every Democrat and C0nserva'
five Turn Out to the Polls.

Every voter who does not want Negro
Suffrage forced on an unwilling people,
Every voter who does not want millions
Of money extorted from white men tc
keep negroes in idleness,
Every voter who wants the present
high prices brought down to living
standard,
Every voter who wants the Union re-
stored,
Every voter who has the good of his
country at heart,
Turn Out and Vote Against T. A
Plants.
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r@- Republican Radicalism in thi

n@- Republican Radicalism in this
District consists in choking down speak.
ers who desire to advocate Negro Equal
ity to the people Of Monroe County
That is your doctrine, Messrs. Radicals
and why not let it be made public in this
county through your speakers? Your
speakers declare it in the other counties
of this District,and why notin this? But
it is working beautifully; many of those
who have voted with you in the past are
daily detecting the swindle and declaring
their adhesion to the Democratic nomi-
nees.
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Remember

That 7. A. Plants voted re-
peatedly for the Freedmen's
Bureau Bill, which piles mil
lions and millions of taxes on
the people, to furnish a cor
ruption fund for a horde Of
.swindlers, and to support a
drove of worthless Negroes in
idleness.
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RadicaIisrn.

United States to T. A. Plants, DR..
For serving one session, $4,000
Received payment.
United States to Sambo Gumbo, DR..
For extra bounty appropriated by
Mr.. Plants and others, $500
Received payment.
United States to White Soldier, Or.
For extra bounty, which T. A, Plants
voted against, 500
No appropriation made to pay this.
Plantsss6rst, Negro second and white
soldier third. Soldiers can you vote for
man who has the above record?
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49, - : , : = -. -
Il. A. Plants

4. A. Plants
Says the Negro is just as good as he is
No person doubts that.
T. A. Plants
Says the Negro is entitled to walk up to
the polls with him and vote.
Nobody doubts that.
r. A. Plants
Says the Negro is entitled to all the
rights he enjoys.
Nobody doubts that.
ia. Plants
|Says, if the soldiers object to his vote
giving Negroes $500, they can vote fol
Follett, as he can be elected without
them
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Remember

That the party Of 7. A,
Plants appropriated money te
pay the Negroes their $500
bounty for 2 years service, but
made no appropriation to pay
white soldiers their $l00 for 3
years service.
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The Astounding Record,
Read, Tax-Payers, Read!!


From the beginning Of Washington :
administration in 1889 up to the end of
Buchanan's administration, upwards of 70
years, we had accumulated national debt
of but $13, 900, 1892, and such thing as a
National Tdr was unknown.
The Jacobins and thieves of the Rad
ical faction came in power in 1861, and
have fastened national debt upon the
country of
s2,653, ,O99. .276,3Sl
But few men have conception of this
enormous sum. Itis Is, 600 miles around
the world. A greenback dollaris..78 inch.
es long, and to sew their ends together
this enormous debt would make string
of greeubacks
IL TIMES AROUND THE WORLD
and yet leave balance of
S55, 5,743,344.
1t scarcely seems credible but such is
the astounding fectl Such is the result
of Jacobin rule!
But this is not all! This is only the
present national debt, and does not in,
clude the money that has been forced b J
taxes from the people and expended.
For the four years, from 1860 to 1866
inclusive, Greeleys Almanac gives the
expenditures at
$3,54s,672, 2OS, SO,
enough to make another string Of one dol,
lar greenbacks
10 TIMES AROUND THE WORLD,
and leave balance of
S113, 1917, ,722.
Add now the actual expenditures of the
government aud the above debt which is
yet to be paid, together, and you have as
the cost Of keeping these Jacobins, Negro
lovers and Disunion thieves in power, tht
astonishing sum of
$6,2s2,77L,547,48,
enough in one dollar greenbacks with thcil
ends fastened together to go
% TIMES AROUND THE WORLD
and yet leave balance of
s26s, ,941, ,066
in only four years.
This calculation does not include tht
prodigal expenditure of the Rump Dis
union Congress Of this year. Nor doe
it include State and bounty taxes, result
ing from their rule, nor money paid fo
substitutes by the people! Nor waste o
property and thousand other ineiden
tails. These taxes would make a sun
equally as great Or enough in all te
put line of greenbacks
Sc TIMES AROUND THE WORLD!
Honest men, tax payers, voters, wha
do you think of the negro disunion re,
cord? You will remember that in 1866
when the Democrats said that this Dis
union party would create civil war il
placed in power, they Edeclared it Lo
coFoco LIE! and said their party woult
give peace, introduce economy and reform
and create national harmony and pros
perity.
And yet they refused the Crittendel
and other compromises, and made the wal
killing by battles and disease
500 600 MEN,
Enough to make string of dead bo dies
allowing each to be six feet, over
$50 MILES LoNGl s
They claimed when thus drafting an,
slaughtcring the people, and stealing ant
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n@White men of the North,
whenever YOU get tired Of toll
ing and sweating to support
hundreds of thousands Of va
grant Negroes in idleness, vote
for men who will repeal the
laws which rob you Of your
hard earnings for this purpose.
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Let an efficient challeng-
ing committee be appointed to
stand at the polls from 6 A. M.
until closed, to challenge eve
ry man offering to cast a bal
lot, not known to be a legal
voter, and when challenged, to
insist that he BE PUT TO ANSWER,
UNDER OATH, as to his qualifica-
tions, according to the statute.
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for the priceless possessions of free


people.
Once more to the charged and now fol-
victoryl Unlocked for allies have joined
your ranks. They are welcome as if they
had borne the heat and burden of the
long weary day. But upon you, the vet
Grams Of the war, comrades from the be-
ginning, hangs the issue Of the fight
Now you contend for peace, for unity,
against the only living disunionists and
the enemies of our peace. Now, toe, you
contend not only for the political unity,
but for the essential character of you.
Government. Self-government by con-
sent through representation is the only
Government known among US since Free
dom first enshrined her jewels in the ark
of the Federal Constitution. Let theil
chance custodians in Congress neither rot
US of the jewels nor shatter the ark.
Democrats Let no man falter now
Fill up the ranks, shoulder to shoulder
Captains of ffties and of tens, coun
your men; no s:ragglers. Veterans
Look not to your allies, but to yourselves
Up with the old banners; pass the ole
watchword; onefmore grand assault along
the whole line; and this time, victoryl
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s@ Voters of Monroe County, you are
called upon to decide between a candidate
in favor of Negro Suffrage, Freedmen
Bureau Bills, Civil Rights Bills, and
keeping ten States out of the Union, and
Conservative opposed to all such un-
just and oppressive measures.
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n@. The New York Tribune, talking of
the $4,000 swindle, says:
"We have no faith in the practicability
of getting money back that has been
paid out, but suggests that every candi-
date for Congress be asked, "Will you,if
elected, vote to put back the pay of MEM
bers to $4,000 per annum and straighten
the crooked mileageln and closes by say
ing: '.Let the people mark the answers,
and govern themselves accordingly :.
] The people have marked the answers
in this District They intend to send
Follett to Congress, who will vote to put
back the pay Of members to $1,000
Plants is in favor Of increased salaries.
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Look at This.

The Congress of which Mr.. Plants is a
member, and the party with which he uni
formly voted, has squandered on worth
less, lazy Negroes more than four times
as mach money per gear as 1t cost to defray
the entire erpenses Of gear of the admin
istration Of George Washington.
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When the polls are closed,
do not permit the ballot box to
be taken away before counting.
unless at least one trustworthy
Democrat be always present
with it.
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@ Every man who votes
for I. A. Plants votes as effec-
tually for disunion as did any
man who voted for the seces-
sion ordinances of the South.
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n@ Will you vote for man for Con-
gress who voted to give the Negro $500
bounty and against giving the white man
500 bounty?
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Every man who says he
is in favor of the speedy resto-
ration of the Union, but votes
for 7. A. Plants, speaks false
|ly.
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Make ample arrangements
to get the sick, the infirm, the
aged and the helpless to the
polls.
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Let Him Put ZIP His Sign.

Plants should paste on his hat $500
bounty to white soldiers who served three
years, or more,in the army" "s3Oo boun-
ty to Negroes who served in the army
"S5, 900 year to disunionists who serve
in Congress"
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Somebody doubts that.

Democrats, be at the polls
early, and, if possible remain
until the polls are closed in
the evening.
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Remember

That the party Of 7. A.
Plants gave Negroes $500 fol
two years. service, and white
soldiers but $1OO for three
years service.
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n@-At o'clock P. M. of election day,
make list of all the Democrats and
Conservatives who are absent, and at
once send out and rally to the polls all
absen ntees.
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We Can DO 1t.

IF every Democrat and Conservative
Republican in Monroe County will go to
the polls and vote, the Negro-equality
candidate, Mr.. Plants, will be overwhelm-
ingly defeated.