Smyrna times., 1868-10-28
POLITICAL ITEMS.

clear that determined effort is being made to
carry the State of New York for Seymour and
Blair by fraudulent votes, and that for this
purpose an immense number of fraudulent
naturalization papers have been issued. We
have reliable information that the number of
tickets furnished by the naturalization agents
of Tammany Hall, is at least sixteen thousand,
and that third lot of eight thousand more
were ordered to be printed, and are probably
in use before this time. But every man knows
that there cannot have been sixteen thousand
honest naturalizations in this City this year.
The course of procedure in the matter is of it
self open to the gravest suspicion. Judge
Barnard ordered out of his Courtroom the
other day all persons but applicants and their
witnesses, there being present at the time a
member of the Bar who was taking notes of
the proceedings. Why did he do so? What
right had he to do it, in the face of the law
that 'the sittings of every Court within this
State shall be public and every citizen may
freely attend the same?" What work was he
doing there which made such exclusion desir-
able ?-N y Times.
Fall in ! fall in !" says the World in one
of it's stirring paragraphs under the lead Of
Seymour, we are marching on to victory. =
Seymour does seem to be helping things good
deal. He is trying to convince the Democrats
that Blair is of no consequence anyhow, and
that the Democratic Party will be utterly pow
erless to do anything for the country, if it sue
ceeds. The Executive can only be check on
! Congress, at any rate-nothing more than a
break on the railroad train. That may be So,
but the Government train has tried to run by
breaks long enough. 1t needs locomotive
now. The Democratic Party seems to be fall
ing in pretty fast already. The World need
not hurry it.
! A Western weeper over the present prospect
burst into verse and tears:
What is the matter with Seymour and Blairt
! Who the friends of the sOrrowful psiri
| Boohoo Boohool
| Seymour is sick and cOnfoundedly blue,
! Blairs quite down with the mulhgrubs too.
| Boohoo BoohoO
| What can they do
| But cry BoOhOo!
| Boohoo BoohoO
Their boat has capsized and their chances slim.
| For such heavy weights cannot possibly swim.
| Boohoo Boohool
| While their heads the cormorsnts fly,
| The mourners stand dsmally bowling, and CRY,
BOohoo Boohoo!
i What they do, etc.
Why. take large dose of Helmbolds Buchu Boohoo
DEMOCRATIC FAILURE.-That party under
took the defence of slavery, and the result i.
the total extirpation of the institution. 1t un
dertook to defend State sovereignty, and there
is not vestige of it left. 1t undertook tc
weaken and paralyze the national govern
ment, and. that is stronger than it ever was
1t assumed the guardianship of free trade
and we have become thoroughly and entirely
protective and American. 1t undertook tC
crush the Republican party as an unhealthy
institution, by refusing the Republican Sena-
tors any place on the committees, and by break.
ing up Republican meetings and mobbing Re-
publican leaders, and as the result the Repub-
licans have welded the destinies of the nation
for eight years.
The Democrats make great profession of de.
votion to the national greenback currency, and
urge its substitution for that of the national
banks. By this means they hope to get rid of
the well secured national banking system es.
tablished by the Republicans, and as the coun.
try would still have banks of some kind, they
would of course all be under State laws, with
a local and unsecured currency. 1t would not
do to make the issue openly in favor of local.
lied currency, but they get around it in this
way.
SEYMOUR S PETITION. Gov. Seymour plead,
the baby act. He begs votes for President on
the assumption that he couldn' do much harm
In the White House if he tried. Congress- will
be against him so he couldn't carry out the
Blair Hampton programme if he were to at
tempt it.
The majority for the Republican State ticket
in Ohio is officially reported at 1882.