Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-04-23
POLITICAL.


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70 Thomas declares in his testimony
that his attempt to take the War Office
vas all miss take. Undoubtedly.
W A Democratic journal asserts that
"the ship of State is foundering.&The
Detroit Post says: 3" Never mind, we shsn
Wade through easy enough"
E A Georgia Conservative paper
heads its account Of the murder Of Hon.
g. w. Ashburn. at Columbus. One
Enemy Less" and virtually justlties the
act. >a f...fsA --tNs
ry August Belmont Chairman of the
Democratic National Committee, is said
to collect regularly more gold interest
yon bonds than any other man in III United
States. ESQ., sss-l-.fA - 49,.
rE An extremely Radical journal says
Johnson'will get his belly full before the
House Managers get through with him.
If he had waited for the House Managers
before getting his belly full they would
have had no casus belli, and hence no trial
8 Chicago Post. Il. s.is
w" johnson is now being weighed in
the balance. If found wanting, the new
President viii also be Wade" Query, by
correspondent in Chicago Journal:
/" What is the olject in re-weighing a
good man that's ben sotighed -(Ben.
iWade)?" e
To- A correspondent of one of the De.
troit papers. writing from an interior
county in Michieap, says that drunken
Democrat, as he dropped into the ballot
box negative vote against the new Con.
stitution, hiccoughed "a You may work at
me ten years ana you can't make me equal
TO a niger ~ 1911 rft. ...
~ Toe statement published few days
since that all The railroads centering in
Chicago would pass delegates to the Re-
publican National Convention free of all
charge, is incorrect, so far as the Chicago
Pittsburgh & Fort Wayne Road is con-
cerned. That company has for two years
declined to make any exceptions to the
usual rates in favor Of political conventions
or other public meetings. as--
B A specimen of the democratic
gains" of nowadays is shown in the
case of Lostant, III, which town was
claimed to have gone Copperhead by 1914
majority. The Police Magistrate of the
town requets the Chicago Times which
published the statement to say that out Of
2O5 votes there was majority of 157 fol
Mr.. Foster, who "votes the straight Re
publican ticket, ard is in favor Of impesch
ment and Grant election" The Copper
heads can't stand great many "victories
! of this sort
| tB Copperhead papers raised the cry
that New Hampshire was carried BY fraud
basing their charge upon the fact that the
votes cast were in unusual disproporiion tC
the number of inhabitants. The New
York Tribune prints a carefully compiled
table Of the vote and population, which
shows that the proportion of votes tC
population was greater in Democratic thar
in Republican towns, and therefore, if The
vote is beyond the total that such popula
ton should give, the Democracy have NOR,
than their share of the votes, and the re
spopsibiliiY therefor.
HA. Johnson may, after bis disgrace
full dismissal from the Presidency, hold
State offices. The Constitution of Ii.
United States (srticle 1, section 81 provides
that " Judgment in cases Of Impeachment
shall not extend beyop removal from of
fee and disqualification to hold and enjoy
any Office of honor, trust or profit undei
the United States" In case Of Andrew
Johnson's conviction in the pending i'm
parchment trial, he win be disqualified fo
holding any Office under the United State
Government. But he will not be deprived
of citizenship, and if any State, county
city or town wants him for local position
he will still be eligible TO an election. III
may even be an Alderman again, provided
he can obtain votes enough 10 elect him.