Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-07-23
Democratic Congressional
n Nomination and Mr.. Reeve.

For fifteen years past. our towns
man, c. II. Reeve. has labored assidu
ously and unremittingly for the sue
cess of what is Familiarity known as
the Democratic party, through evil
as well rs good report, as few men in
IN that party have labored. When
in 40 his party put burnt cork on its
face at indianapolis, he was a Dem
Ocrat in the days of Knownoth-
ingism, lie was Democrat; in
81, when the Kansas and Ne
braska trouble dimmed the lustre
of the party, he continued Demo
crat in 60. Mr.. r. refused to follow
after Breckenridge as the Mikado
and his Danias did, but remained a
Democrat; at the outbreak and du-
ring the rebellion he was still SO
much of n Democrat that he Was
stigmatized as a Knight Of the
Golden Circle, Son of Liberty
and he gloried in the blessed title of
copperhcad After the rebellion had
been suppressed, he was not ashamed
ofhis Democracy, and to prove that
it had net changed during all the try
ing times of the war, when that wo'd
be rebel alder and abcttor. L p. MI
ligan, who had been sentenced to be
hanged for crime against his govern
ment, was released from prison. Mr..
Reeve welcomed home the great I'M
hung, in tearfi,! gushing speech
Mr. Reeve has uttered himself polit-
ically to nearly every man, woman
and child in this county. Rochester
Laporte. South Bend, Valparaiso,
Warsaw, Indianapolis, Chicago, New
York, and before the war, Alabama,
have learned Democracy from his
lips. He has been faithful first, last
and all the time, faithful when he
thought all others were faithless. He
headed the peace Democracy of the
county when they drilled to fight for
peace
AT the New York Convention, he
made little speech in behalf of Pen
dleton's claims for the nomination,
that brought down the house. A large
portion Of the Indiana delegation had
deserted Pendleton and gone over to
Hcmlricks, but r.. obeyed instruc
tons and stuck TO Pendleton. He
couldn't be scared, bought nor driv-
en-.
In '5S. Mr.. Reeve was given the
Democratic nomination for Repre-
sentative to the Legislature. He was
the most active and energetic man in
the campaign ana would have been
elected but for the majority of about
two hundred votes, which his oppo-
nent. Mr. Parks, received, and The
opposition ofmembers Of his party
he has since helped to elect. Since
this defeat he has labored incessantly
for bis party as stated, and all he
asked orhopeslfor, was the empty hon
or efa Democratic nomination for
Congress Ia Colfax's district. The
Democratic masses thought Reeve
entitled TO denomination, and tho't
he woulslget it, All knew him to be
the most eloquent and energetic can
vasser who desired the nomination,
and he. was able and willing to
spend as much money as any other
man.. 80 ri-T' -, s.ro e-a,
The power behind the Democratic
people 8 throEe was greater than the
throne itself. This power-the same
that aided in his former defeat-de-
creed that he should not receive the
coveted honor-the nomination We
knew of the Ukase before its pro-
mitigation. bus it served our purpose
best to tell it net in Cath. A man,
weaker In ora.ory, in moral charac