The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-01-30
POLITICAL.

Mayor Hoffman speaks Of this fanatic
al Congress marching into the jaws of
death"
The New York World continue. to
give statistics Of the number of working
men out of employment. 1t recently sta
ted that 80 00o wanted work In New York
City, and 10000 in Brooklyn, and now
Says that the depression in New England
throws out of employment at least 100000
people-10, 900 in Maine. 10000 in New
Hampshire, 10000 in Connecticut and
Rhode Island, and l00, 900 in Massachu-
! sets.
THE RIGHT TO NAME Ir-The Spring
field Massachusetts,, RepuJtican, a radical
journal, den0mlnates the new COMPRESSION
al programme The Descen. to He'll"
We coDcede the right OF their partisans to
name their own offspring, but we fail tore
cognize the scope of the cosBomen given
to the policy of its party friends by the
Republican. We think it should lie quail
fed by inserting before it, .plans to expe-
dite." etc, as the radical party are destin-
ed at any rate for the bourne indicated by
the Repu6ttcuns Charcn has already en-
gagged a suitable number Of colored ferry
men with which to row them over the Styx.
The way the south has been thrown iuto
the hands Of the negroes, is shown by the
following from the Democrat published at
Rapides Parish, Louisiana:
I'm Rapides they rejected four hundred
and fifty whites who have right to regis
ter under the Military bill, aud permitted
as many negroes under twenty-ope years
of age to register and then vote. Such
infamy, such fraud, such bare faced rascal
ity, was never before heard Of in any coun-
try"
This was under the Sheridan rule.
There is probably not a state in the south
that has, by majority Of lis legal voters,
even under the military bill. decided in IA
vor OF a constitutional convention. 4
large proportion of the negro voting has
been in violation Of that infamy as well as
, Of al law or right.
We learn from our special Washington
, correspondence, published today. that the
politicians at the capital, both male aud
female, black and white, are 1t work earn
estly to make the next president. Mr..
e Chase is in the Gscendaucy Oh the radical
! side. The politicians of ali grades and
colors flock around him They gather at
his house, and his charming daughter is
the center of attraction. The fashionble
women are as busy at work as the men in
: improving the chief Justices chances for
5 the presidential race and in cisposlnS of
rival candidates. Grant is losing ground
fast, and the Chase party think .hey have
{ a splendid foundation TO begin upon in the
! africauized states in the south and the
universal negro vote being for their candi-
date. Reconstruction, the war upon the
! president, the Stanton-Grant affair in the
= war department, financial questions and
everything else, whatever is done or left
undonc. all turn upon the presidential
question. The conflict has commenced in
earnest, and desperate oDe it viii. be -
e At present Chase aud the negro is upper
= most; the white man is down. We shall
see whether this state of things will be
reversed next Novcmber.-N Y. Herald.
: The republicans of Montgomery county
g seem disposed to follow the example OF
their brethren in Marion county upon the
greenback question. or what Gov. Morton
regards as a reputation of the national
debt At convention held in that couI-
, ty the other day to appoint delegates to
the republican state convention, the fol-
: lowing resolutions were adopted:
6. That TIE republican party Is now,
2 and ever has been in favor of paying the
national debt in exac. accordance with
the laws by which it was created, with
gold, where 1t IS so stipulated, and lawful
currency of the countr, where the law SO
provides.
7. That the emergency requiring the
bonds and securities representing the debt
of the government TO be exempt from tax
, alton having passed, We arc in favor Of
changing the bonded debt into such
form as to compel the obligations ard Sc
curties of the government in the hands
of its creditor to bear their full aud equsl
proportion of taxation.
The Boston Post says Mr. Bingham is
eloquent in arostrophizinS liberty, and
free constitutional government. while at
tempting to strangle both by military des-
potism. Hi admiration of a republican
government is like the admiration ola lib
ertine for beauty and innocence. He
would use it 10 crafty political, selfish
: lust, foul and reeking with debasing pas
sion. lie talks of his love Of liberty while
sharpening the knife for its assassination,
and with crocodile tears, weeps for the
crime he releutlessly pepetrates- Rhetor-
zeal tropes and figures are poor remunera-
ton for the trcachery that turks beneath
fine phrases. He is like clergyman in
this vicinity who made uncommon preten-
sions to sanctity, and stole pocket hand
kerchief from a brother in the pulpit
while he was making the concluding pray
: err Ind. Herald.
\ southern lady, who is the wife OF
prominent old extreme radical. residing in
one of the northern states, while engaged
in pluckiug the gray hairs from her hus-
, bands moustache. was asked by him:
"What are you doing my dear p Only