The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1868-09-22
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

ES~Vote the Democratic ticket and
reduce your taxes.
EyVotc for TOILET and the payment
Of the public debt in grcenbacks.
EE-Challenge every illegal voter on
Tuesday the 18th day Of October.
FuNsY.--The Radicals swallowing
their first hurrahs over the Maine cleo
ton. 4. - -, ..-.... ..-..
Eg-The Radicals in Maine spent
100000 to reduce their majority l.,
2S3 votes.
Eg"Thc poor men Of this District
pay the. taxes. on MooKE's exempted
gold bonds.
EgRally to Woodsfield on Thursday
the Sth day of October, and hear the
issues discussed,
arThc revolution the Radicals fear
is the one at the ballot-box, that will
GUST them from power,
GEyoters will be imported into this
District for MooEE's benefit. Watch
them on election day
GgColorado has elected n Demo
crat to Congress. Why don't Radical
editors yell "rebel.''
Gy-Go after all Democrats, who have
not voted, at O'Clock ON Tuesday the
18th day of October. -
.ESThe people are anxious to know
why ohe Radicals of Monroe County
don't make speeches.
EgDemocrats, go to the polls on
Tuesday, the 18th day of October, and
see that every vote is polled.
Es-f you want White men to enjoy
their rights and privileges in the South,
vote the Democratic ticket.
GgIf you want Negroes to rule and
govern White men in ten States Of the
Union, vote the Radical ticket
Es-Radicals have you heard from
Maine? The Democrats gained over
1900 votes on their vote of 1866.
EsGreat Radical victory in Maine,
wasn't'it? . A Radical loss on their ma
jority Of 1866 of 1888. Hurrah!
M-H you prefer paying the Bond
holders taxes, to compelling him to pay
them himself, vote the Radical ticket. .'
@"Rally to the election on Tuesday,
the 18th Of October, and vote the Bond
holders and Negro Advocates down.
EThe Radical majority in Vermont
has fallen off $4,000 since 1864. That's
what they call increasing their majority
HThe Athens Messenger says,
Democrats are cheap this fall" Re
member that on Tuesday the 18th day
of October.
ESWatch for bogus Democratic
tickets. The Radicals will resort to all
manner of trickcry to defeat FoLLErr,
Watch them!
GF-Arrast and send to jail every
scoundrel who attempts to deposit al
illegal ballot on Tuesday the 18th day
Of October. "a
EE""Senex," the Messenger cores
pondent should bear in mind that the
Democracy of Monroe are NEGRO mob
bing Democrats" s.... U
Make the meeting at Woodsfield,
on Thursday, the Sth day of October,
the monster meeting of the campaign in
Eastern Ohio.
EE The Radicals, aided by MooRE's
$4,000 gold interest, are working to
reduce the Democratic majority in Mon
roe. 1t can't be did.
GFThe taxpayers are bled, annually,
to the tune of Sl50,0O0,000 in gold in
t rest taxes from which MOORE and his
brother bondholders are exempted.
GgIn Maine the Democratic gains
at the election on the 18th were 1876.
The Radical gains were 1850. We can
stand all such victories as that.
RgThe editor of the Marietta Regis
ter has not yet informed us what Legis-
ture increased the pay of Members from
SO to S. per day. Will he do it?
Eg-The taxpayers of Monroe Coun-
ty are taxed from twenty to thirty mill
ions yearly for the support of worthless
Negroes. MOORE is their candidate for
Congress.
q EB-"A rose by any other name will
smell as sweet''-and a radical loss of
1888 in two years in the little State of
Maine suits us very well even when call
ed Radical victory.
EgWe answered the Messenger that
all its questions would receive answers,
when ours of the last six weeks had
been answered. Cong now, we want
you to back up your challenge.
re Remember, that MooREs gold is
paying the election bills in this county.
His organ, the Messenger, says, Dem
ocrats are cheap this fall. Repudiate
the whole crew at the ballot box.
EFIf the Democracy gain in Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois and 9th
er Northern and Western States, as they
did in Maine, the Radicals will be whip
ped out Of their plundering, reconstruc-
ton boots. n .gr ... r.t.
Gs~Democrats, the news from Maine
is excellent. The Negro Brigade is
losing ground. Push them and victory
will crown your efforts in October and
Work increasingly. You
have MooRE's gold interest to fight. Go
in and emulate the valiant Democrats of
the East. l.+ -sr.eaf
EE Democrats and Conservatives
Everything is in our favor -WoodsfeM
Spirit.
Such as rebels, draft-sneaks, traitor
Ku KluX-'every hing'-but not the
peoplc.-Marfetta Register.
There is gain of eleven Democrats
in the Vermont Legislature over 1866.
A gain of Democratic Congressman in
Colorado. An increase of $4,000 ma
jority in Kentucky. A Democratic gain in
Maine of over IA, 900 votes on the vote
of 1866. Had "the people" anything to
sd about these elections? Come, sir,
you permit your Jacobin partizanship to
run away with your common sense when