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The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-04-23
X. X. X.

These magic initials are just now send.
ing thrills of terror through the whole
radical press. In the .trictest confidence
we will say to our readers that they are
the initials Of the most sanguinary, mrr-
dercus, and diabolically destructive secret
political society ever organized since the
world began,--Ku Klu1 Khan! The
membership is said to be composed of fe-
rocious southerners, and the meetings are
held in deserted graveyards at the dead
hour of night. The object is to scalp
Yankee schoolma ms and psalm-singers,
aud to remove the epidcrmis from stubborn
Philippians.
Some of the radical papers in this part
of the state affect to swallow the whole
story, and one Of them PAL ticuiarIy in
quires, Have We Ku klux Khan among
us and inparts the astounding intelli-
gence that citizen of the place at which
it is published had just received a letter
written in blood Is the editor sure that
red ink was not the fluid employed As
the almanac men say, "about these days "
We may expect all sorts of runors. 1t is
the presidential year. and the RAIDS propose
to raise an. excitement in some way, but
the Ku Klux Khan sell is somewhat too
large a dose to be taken at one " sulp."
The following delicious tit-blt VIC find float
ing around in the republican papers. The
utter Stiffness Of the whole thing should
be sufficient to condemn it as a hoax, but
the RAIDS have found mares nest" they
think, and are rejoiced accordingly:
" ELRoD's SEpULcHRE. BLOODY GRAVES,
Dark Moon, Times Up.
a." Special Order No. l.
" Shrouded brothers of Shiloh, division
No. SO; The Great Past commands you.
Awful times! Trying hours Bloody
scenes =. . PerisI. the oppressors and the
guilty. Mark we'll 4 silent tongue
A steady hand :. A true hearth. Note
well our friends, our enemies you know.
The kissing bullet-the halter-and all's
right. BE cautious. BE yigilant! BE
unsparing -!
By order of Great Grand Cyclops.
Huron, e. S."
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-04-23

citizen has been "down east" kept his
ears open and found the Yankees were all
for Schuyler ColEax for vice-president
Selah -. The new recorder entered on
the discharge Of his duties on Wednesday
OF last week.. Dr. Bartholomew Of the
Disciples church. has retired from his
charge. -. The criminal docket shows 222
cases Cor the April term of the circuit
court. 1863 are prosecutions for alleged vi
olations OF the liquor law. Thirty-two are
against J. w. Gakle, and Is each against
ii. Il. Hart and J. Neil. I he other in-
dictments are, for grand larceny, Q; MUIR
der, 5; petit larceny, 8; burglary, .; OBJ
tanning goods under false presanccs, 4 /;
assault. + assault with intent to kill, 3 /;
forgery, .; riot, 2; escaping from state
prison. ,; incest, l seduction, l mali
cious trespass, l bastardy, /; assault and
battery, with intent to commit rape, l.
Chauncey Page, the Valparaiso murderer,
is Interested in three indictments. The
civil docket shows 191 eases, whereof %
are actions on attachment, and ii on &C
count Of lack Of attachment--divorce
Very fair docket even for La Porte. i. l..
Total collections in the Baptist church for
all purposes, $3.50, IS. Thomas Blake
man, a drayman committed suicide by ia
king strychnine, on Friday evening. No
reason assigned The establishment of
a new democratic paper is indefn icly
postponed.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-04-23
TILE STU TE.

"a ~ - - ~.
They steal fiower-pots in New Albany.
Tough beef and growing at Terre
IIaute.
David Jerlon, Of Corydon, has dog
26 years old.
N. j. Lynch, Greencastle physician,
has gone crazy.
Man lost himself in Ligonier the 9TH
err evening! Level head.
On the 18th man in attempting to
get off train Of cars, near Union City,
was killed.
Democratic soldiers are organizing in
to clubs, under the title Of Union White
Boys in Blue"
The Whitley County Republican has
its inside printed at Chicago sign Of
delicate health.
The editor of the Mishawaka Enter.
prise has been skirmishing little lately
Licked his man.
w. G. DePauw, at New Albany, re-
ports an income of s64, 304, and W. S
Culbertson, s3S, 500.
-Gipsy fortune tellers are said to have
taken $4,000 from the foolish young wo
men Of Decatur county.
A boy named Adams, thirteen years
old, committed suicide, by hanging, few
days ago, 10 Porter county.
AT the union depot in indianapolis
on Tue sday, a man named McGregor was
run over and killed by the cars.
The high school quarrel still RACES
at Huntington. Last weeks Democrat
has three mortal" columns of the stuff.
Hamilton, Stewart and Windle, pris-
oners in the Morgan county Jail, sawed
their way into free air last Thursday night
The citizens of indianapolis have sub
scribcd $3.50 to secure the holding OF
the state fair at that city for the ensuing
year.
Michigan township, LaPorte county
gave the democratic candidate for trustee
246 votes, III. H. Roberts, rep, 2, JEFF.
Davis, l.
"A man in Gibson county has killed
thirty three foxes since the Goth of Sep
TENDER. Probably tied them together and
set fire to their tails
--"Chronicles" have disappeared from,
the columns Of the Elkhart Union The
readers of tho Jnon should present its ed
itor with a resolution of thanks.
An anxious inquirer in the Elkhart
Union wishes to know If ''25 cents can be
multiplied by rs cents" A mush poul-
tice would be good for that chap.
"A lady of South Bend went to Elk
hart after her husband, and found him
living with another woman. Scene. Hus
band and wife 60 holrc together.
-George Noble, son OF Thomas G.. No
bic, and acting clerk of the Wayne crimi
nal court, committed suicide at Centre
vile, Monday afternoon, by shooting him
self. No cause signed
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-04-23
THE BEAST.
onward

That lop-eyed mass of infamy, Beast
Butler, has again made himself the laugh
ing-stock Of the whole country. His bar.
angue last Thursday was moro like the
mad homiings Of dervish, OK TIE war
dance of Choctaw Indian, than an ar
gum.nt made TO convince sensible men OF
the correctness of his position. He charg-
cd Johnson With every murder that has
been e..1nlitted in the south with being
responsible for sundry treasury frauds, aud
tha. it was the intention of the president
counsel to pvo)ong the trial until the ex-
piration of his term of Office. Telegraph
10 dispatches sag that the like Of Buffers
speech was never heard before on any i'm
parchment or other trial " lie jumped
ABOUT the floor like frog in the pangs Of
vivisection" How long is the public pa
thence to be taxed By this "old man Ut the
peaD9
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-04-23

Only six men in Cincinnati are taxed
on an income over S50, 600.
"A San Francisco vitriol-thrower has
got IL years in the state prison.
The Union Pacific railroad will reach
Fort Sanders in May, and cross the North
Platte in July, and Green river in No
vcmber.
A. Trollope is to be sent by the Brit
ish postoffice department to the United
States to re-adjust the claims Of the postal
convention.
Work has been entirely suspended on
the great steam frigate Antetam, and she
will probably remain in the stocks for ma
ny years to come.
brigham Young has ordered sixteen
sets Of harness, gorgeously ornameuted,
from Philadelphia. He wants to give all
his wives simultaneous airing.
Two cocks, called by their jocose own-
ers, one Wendell Phillips and the other
Horace Greeley, had mill in Detroit the
OS"NA w "Ou
New England does not produce the
bread she eat, nor the raw material of the
fabrics she wears. 4 multitude of her
purely agricultural towns are undergoing,
more or less rapidly process of depopula-
ton.
1t is proposed to establish a printing
Of, "a, GIN, Sinos
of the convicts the printers trade. The
New York compositors protest against
such an innovation, and say it Is desc
Grafton Of the noble profession
Fast Canaan n. H., sent man to
Jail three years ago because he refused to
pay tax of So. After paying 800 for
his three years support in jail, they have
concluded not to undertake to collect the
claim, and have released the delinquent.
Two young ladies answered person
al advertisement in the New York daily
papers week since, and went to New
York, since which time every effort has
been made to find them, but these efforts
have been unsuccessful, though ski.lfu
detectives are busy in ferreting out the at:
fair.
W. G. Patten, Of liberty, O., placed a
quantity of cloverseed in an alright bin
last fall, and to protect it from cold wealth
err, covered it with straw, the bin sanding
in the field. On opening it this spring he
foand that melted snow had gone into The
seed, producing spontaneous combustion
az the seed was scorched to a crisp
"A correspondent al Long Glade, Au.
gusta, describes very singular bird which
has just appeared in that neighborhood
He says 1T appears very fond Of water
its size is between that of large duck and
goose,--bil round and sharp pointed
It's neck IS ike green velvet wi,h brill
iantly speckled ring around it, It's eye:
are perfectly red; il has white spots or
the back and wings. and rom tip to ZIP i
will measure about four feet Though il
appeared somewhat pucnacious when cap
tured it soon exhibited signs Of being q
pet. Il occasionally uriers mournfa
sound Ike thai Of lost child. Old Tn
Gle Ben (eclored, thinks It an emissary Of
odd Scratch and belongs TO the Au
Klux."
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-04-23
THE CUICiGO ELECTION.

TIE result Of the election in Chicago,
Oh Tuesday last, vas grand democratic
victory. Nothing to mar it, nor to de-
tract from its glory The organization OF
both parties vas most complete, aud the
s,ereciypeI republican excuse Of "indif-
ference" vii avail the defeated party
nothing Both parties ran representative
zen. Mr.. McAllister, he democratic
candidate, was gentlemen against whose
personal character his political opponents
could not breathe word Of reproach, and
his qualifications for the position were ac-
knowledgei by all! In short, he vas a
representative man Of the democratic par
~. Co. Deb Smith, the republican nom
ihee, WAS fourth-rate lawyer. TO Chicago
and to 4" fame unknown until about three
years AZ DlaCA Uaa " All ACt - 1uN
know-nothing who bFcatled cut threat
e.;rgs against foreign born citizens, like
the following:
1.-THE id Dutch Catholics ADD tie
Miekies are off the same piece"
+" do not think that any good Catholic
can be good American citizen"
II hope to be eternally Cd id if
ever vote for Catholic for any office.
Il riii kick any Irish or dutch Catholic
who votes for me"
These, together with other kindred sen
t;nents, and slight experience as an ex
tortioner, doubtless procured for him The
radical nomination. In short, Col Boil
Smith was q representative man Of tn
republicans party.
The welcome which Chicago extends t.
the convention which proposes to nominal
Daddy Grants son for the presidency i
not encouraging.
The great reaction is moving grand,
onward
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-04-23

The journeymen shoemakers OF Phil.
adelphia have resolved to strike.
Eighty per cent ofthe Atlantic cable
receipts comes from the American side.
There are 100000 Jews in the
world, one half of whom live in Europe.
Ministers with mustaches are 5ecum-
ing quite common even in Wesleyan Meth
cdist pulpits.
Near Talladega, Ala. a mail agent
opened all the registered letters, and made
)f with $1,000.
Ninety men in Concord, New Hamp-
shire, are getting out the stone for Edwin
Booths theatre.
--Ivanhoe. the horse which ran FROM
Boston to Worcester. on Washington s
birthday, is dead.
A prominent pork packer in st Louis
is reported to have made 81 ,00O. 900 this
season by packing and speculation.
The tax of one cent upon each box OF
matches produced last year throughout
the United States about 81 500, 900.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-04-23


IT is amusing to note the changes which
the republican leaders ring On the impor-
lance of local elections, in connection with
general elections. Before local election
they tell their party that everything de-
ponds on achieving victory, as the fall
elections will be controlled by the result
After the election is over. and they are
defeated, they coolly announce that it is q
matter Of DO consequence-that their pres
cnt defeat will prove the means of obtain
ing greater victory at the fall election
than if they had succeeded at the loca
election. They lie in either case, and in
so doing como about as lear the truth al
they usually do,
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-04-23
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.

For Governor.
r AOMAS A. HENDRICKS, Of Marion
Fen. Lieutsna7t- Gorernor,
Alfred r. Edsertou, on Allen.
For Secretary Of .ste'-,
RECPZE C. KLSk, Of Boom.
r6r .4ufitor Of STATE.
.NsErU r. BEHJ,SD4FFER, Of FreaSlio
For Treasurer Of state.
JAMES b. RYAN, Of .Harior.
ys- Clerk OF the Si,premS Court.
NOAH s. LaR0SE. Of Goss.
For Reporter Of me Supreme Co.;rt.
H. Il. 0. PACKARD, Of -Mrrshcu.
Ts- Superintendent Of Pt5iic Instruction.
J0Ey r. PHI LIPS. Of Dar;ess.
For Attorney Genera,
SOL CLAIPOOL. Of Puta1,n,.
For Electors at Large.
JOIN r COFFROTH. OF Huntington.
BAyLESS ~ HANNA, ofYigo.
Contingents.
JASON u BROWN. OF Jackson,
WILLIAM HFRANKLIN. OF Owen.
For District Electors.
First District-Thomas II Cobb. Of Knox.
Con:insen,-R Sproule, OF Vanderburg,
Second Dist-ict-CS Doboins OF -1artin,
Corsingent--Jouas G. Howard, of Clarke,
Third D;s.rict-James Gavin. of Decatur.
Contingent--Elhanan Drvore, OF Jennings,
Fourth Districr--John 5 Reid. of Fayette,
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Smith of Rush,
Fifth Dietric,-John ~ Lord. Of Earion.
Contingeut-Cass Byrield, Of johnson,
sixta Dstrict-AB Carleton. Of Lawrence.
Contiu gent--Samucl Hanlill. of Sullivan,
Seventh District-T Davidson. OF Fountain,
Coutin2en.-B Is Daily OF Carroll,
Eighth District-Jares r Mcdowell. OF Grant.
Contingent-N x Linsisy. OF Howard,
Ninth Dis:rici-John Co,erick. Of Allen,
Conringent--SanuelA Shoaff. Of Jay,
Tenth Di-trict-O III Vain. OF Elkhare,
Contingent-E Van Long. OF Noble,
Eleventh Dislrict-not appointed.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-04-23

The radical press, with singular unaC-
unity, are applying the whip to the south
for refusing to degrade themselves by the
adoption of negro constitutions. The
country is given to understand that the
men Of the south are blood-thirsty and
unrcgererate crew, whose delight it is to
murder northern men and to practice all
sorts of cruelties on the negro population.
These same papers, with still more singu-
lar unanimity, forget to say anything of
the military despotism which has been
grinding the south as between the upper
and the neither millstones, for the past
three years. They forget that human ma
ture is the same at the south as it is at the
north, and that oppression long continued
will beget its legitimate results, which are
ofenscs against ciyi! law aud the rights Of
property aud person. The radical papers
4 bowling about secret political organ
.Aation which they call the Ku Klux Khan.
We are no upholder or advocate of secret
political societies, but if ever people had
just cause to form themselves into associa-
tons for their own protection, the south
would be amply justified at this time. They
have been subject, for the past three
years, to sudden arrest and Imprisonment,
to prosecutions Of every description, and
to indignities which should mantle the
cheeks of every true American with
shame. All this the south is expected to
endure without murmur, and to kiss the
hand that suites them. 1t is to be won
dered at that the south has not sooner TIA
ken steps to protect their lives and proper
ty from the spoiler. If harm should come
from this Ku Klax Khan, radicalism will
be Responsible the blood will be upon its
own head.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-04-23

At about haltpast nine O'Clock yester-
day morning there might have been seen
number Of republicans with an excessive
development Of under lip. We noticed
several of cur radical friends whose lips
hung out far enough to hang COMMON
sized door-key upon them with ease and
ga fety
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-04-23
TIE, /" CASE"

Tie managers On the part Of the pros
ecution, and the counsel Tor the defence,
in the case of ALL the people of the Uni
ted States" against the president, have
closed the evidence on their respective
sides. SO far rs the law is concerned the
impcachcls have failed TO make single
point against the president. The question
OF inteut" has been proved against
them in every instance, and as the . in
tent" is the foundation Of nearly, If not
quite all the articles of impeachment, there
is but one verdict which the court can
render without perjuriug itself, and that is
one Of aequit;al. People who are not SO
blinded by prejudice and bound up by
party interests as to clamor for conviction
without law or reason, are anxiously wait
ING for the decision Of the senate. They
wish to know how far radical senators will
be Influenced by radical "rressure;" how
far party interests will affect their decis-
ion in case where law alone should gov
W8.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-04-23
TIE
GROVER & BAKER
SEWING MACHINE
ACKNOWLEDGED TO Be SUPERIOR!
Read the Following:
AN INVENTORS OPINION

consider tie Grover & Baker Sewing NJ.
chine the beat machine for general use IL l.
simple and Oh that account il comrneDds itseI :.
families particularly fhe esa1s MADE b. this
machine is more durable than the Shuttle Stitch
machine on account Of its elasticity. I make i,
point to recommend the Grover {. Baker ma
chine when my advice is requested shi sh is often
me case, as many people are acquainted With tbs
fact that invented and patented sewing rsscb;ps
improvements myself Testimony of Mr.. 4. II.
Hook, ofNew York, before the commissioner Of
patents
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-04-23
iuPEAHUMENT.

The evidence in the impeachment trial
has been concluded on both sides The
arguments were to have commenced yes
terday \ decision will probably not be
reached before the middle of next week.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-04-23
4 DEMOCRATIC GAIN OF F0URELDER-
MEN III TIE COMMON C0uNClLl!
DEN0CRATEC GAIN
A,343.
w g zsREs'S DADDY
GRANTS BOY?
OH ! WHERE?
GREETsEG TO THE
ssE7gEsz.ECAS NATION
AkCOYVENTKCV

The Chicago Times, of yesterday, says:
The republican national convention will
be compelled to hold its session in dem
ocratic city--unless it move away from
Chicago.
The chief city Of Grants own state has
pronounced against him.
Chicago as democratic.
At the election yesterday, the democra.
cy carried the city by nine hundred and
teh majority, -electing
The democratic candidate for judge Of
the recorders court; and
Gaining four aldermen.
This is a great glory.
Last year, at the mayoralty election. the
republican majority was 1898. Demo
cratic gain, 1913!
The democracy have covered themselves
with honor and triumph.
The republicans have covered them
selves with confusion and defeat.
1t is a magnificent victory.
The people have spoken in loud voice.
1t is a great premonitory symptom.
1t is the handwriting on the wall.
1t means greenbacks.
1t means Pendleion.
1t means revolution.
1t means the day of reckoning with the
destructionists and spoilers is at hand.
Ii means that civil liberty and the
rights of the states arc to be re-established
all over the land, and military despotism
crushed under the heel of the people.
Had there been perfectly free election
yesterday, the democratic majority would
have been three or four thousand. 1t was
not n free election, because, in the demo
cratic wards, the voting was INSTRUCTED by
republican partisan election-b boards in ev-
cry possible way.
But this scandaIous conduct of partisan
eection-boards makes our victory all the
greater The democracy succeeded
against every obstacle that could be thrown
against them.
We repeat, the republican national con-
venton will be compelled to hold its SEES
sion in a democratic city-unless 1T move
away from Chicago.
Chicago Is democratic.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-04-23

The North Indiana conference, which
has just closed its sttings at Warsaw, took
strong grounds in favor of loyal recon :
struction. The opinion of the conference
On all the subjects Of political significance
before the country was not fully expressed,
but the Inference is that the action of the
radicals was endorsed in spirit, if not in
deed. These Aminadab Sleeks doubtless
neglected to ordain the Rev. Aminadab
Butler and the Rev. Aminadab Wade, as
bishops in the conference; these worthless
are high priests in the radical synagogues,
and the mere fact that Buffers idea of
the rights of property is somethat indis-
tinct, or that Wade is one OF the most
profanc men in the country, should not
deter the North Indiana conference from
taking them into full fellowship.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-04-23

is worth pound OF cure. Fever ard ague {
be prevented in all imates AID in all corst
tons by the constant use Of Roback's Stons
Bitters, and ofttimes the very worst cases b.
been clred by their timel, use. Persons liz
in malsrlous Districts .hopld nerer be shi
them. Fer sale by Broxn Bre's.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-04-23
AN ENTHUSIASTIC ADVOCATE,

My wife, from 2 six years previous use O. a
Wheeler & Wilson machine. came to the use Of =
Grover & Baker with reluctance. But in few
weeks prejudice vanished, admiration succeeded,
and now the Grover and Baker has no more On.
thosiastic advocate than she The SIMPLICITY of
ITS con- ruction, the facility with which ts use i
acquired, the beauty, strength and elasticity o.
It's STITCH and its adaptability all kinds of work
are qualities whIsh do not all belong at once to
any other machine.-Letter from Prof. He.shsw
of Wiston Seminary
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-04-23
THE New York Tribune is of the opiu

THE New York Tribune is of the opiu-
ion that all who DO not admire the letter
Of Schuyler Colfax to the Indiana repub-
lican convention, are wanting, either In
patriotism or intelligence. This is but a
repetition of the oft repeated asser-
ton Of the radical leaders, that all the pat
riotism and intelligence are conferred in
their party. The increase IN the num-
Der and extent Of democratic victories, and
the unprecedented rush which the honest
masses IRE making to enrol, themselves
under democratic colors, indicate a great
falling off in intelligence and patriotism
assuming republican statements ca that
subject to be correct. 1t is to be hoped
that the day has passed. never to return,
when the fashy clap-trap of Colfax and
his confreres will have any influence on
the people, when making up their mind
how to vote. For party guilty of almost
every crime in the catalogue of infamy,-
from the petty thieving of the public off,
ces, to the hanging of inr ocent women,
and the robbing of millions Of People OF
their liberties,- to claim all the decency
intelligence and patriotism of the country
is arrogatipg to itself virtues which it
probably has less claim to than any politi-
cal party which every existed in America.