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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-09-24
Elder Garfield in Warren.

j. A. GARFIELD, misrepresentation
of the 10Th Congressional District,
spoke at Webb's Hall, on Saturday
night last, to crowded house, many
of the audience consisting of ladies and
children, who had braved the ele-
ments, to gets glimpse of this renown-
ed parsonage, who has filed the vari-
GUS stations, from canal driver up.
Many who attended with the expect
alton of hearing, at least an able
argument, in defence of the misdeeds
and wrongs committed by the radical
party, during the past few years,
were disappointed, and put off with
senseless trash, tissue of misrepre-
sentations from beginning to end,
calculated to blind and deceive the
people upon the real issues of the day.
In regard to the Democratic party
going down into oblivion, on the
strength of his assersion, we don't put
great deal of confidence it, as facts
and figures speak otherwise.
Mr.. Gs<leld in speaking of the
excessWe taxation, said: That he had
an official statement of the taxes paid
in his District, and that only one hun
dred and eighty persons in Trumbull
County paid any of the Internal Rev
enue Tax. This probably may be the
number who returned incomes of
Sl.OOOand over, and would come un-
der the head of income tax. But
manufacturers and dealers, profession
al man, and any one engaged in bus
iness of any kind have to pay licence
tax, which is included in the internal
revenue tax. Some of our business
men pay four different taxes on their
stores, all of which are for internal
revenue tax. If Mr.. Garfield expects
to make any capital by presuming that
the people of this vicinity, are too
ignorant to perceive this blind, he will
find himself mistaken. " 1.'|
In regard to the equality of taxation
the speaker asserted, that the poor
paid no taxes, the necessaries of life
were not taxed, nothing but the lux
uries, which could be abstained from,
and that which pertained to the vicious,
including :whiskey, cards, cigars and
tobacco. Now every intelligent child
in the Union knows, that 10000
various articles are taxed, including
every thing that is used, if not direct,
in some other way, and that it eventu-
ally comes out of the consumer, and
that the only free thing is, the air we
breathe and the water we drink.
Even package of matches, costing
in former times, but ten cents, now
has an internal revenue tax upon it of
twelve cents, which more than doubles
the cost of the article, and yet Mr..
Garfield would have the intelligent
voters of this 10Th District believe,
that there is no tax on the necessaries
of life, and that the poor are not tax
ed. Every pound of tea pays tax for
revenue of 25 cents, besides
an advalorem tax of so cents; Coffee
from Z to 13 Cents; and every thing
else in propotion, so that it is safe to
count at least 80 cents on every dollar
spent, as going towards the internal
revenue. II permitted by the Office 7
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-09-24
Judicial Convention.

In pursuance of previous notice, the
counties of Mahoning, Portage and
Trumbull, composing this Judicial
District, met in delegate Convention
at Warren on the 18th day of Septem-
Der, 1868 and organized by appointing
DIR. GEORGE EWING of Mahoning,
President; j. F. SMITH of Portage,
Vice President; and JEFFERSON PALM,
of Trumbull, Secretary.
The names of the following gentle
men were announced as candidates for
nomination.
II. II. Moses of Trumbull county,
and David N. Wilson of Mahoning
County.
A ballot was had which resulted as
follows:
H. H. Moses, Observation-Disclosures. %
D. NJ. Wilson, Observation-Disclosures. Is
d. NJ. Wilson having receiveds ma
jority of all the votes cast was declared
the nominee ofthis Convention, which
on motion was made unanimous.
The following named gentlemen
were appointed a District Judicial
Committe; S. w. ellison of Mahoning,
II. c. Ranney of Portage and Jefferson
Palm of Trumbull. ..-
Resolred, That the proceedings of
this Convention be published in the
Democratic papers of the District.
GEORGE EWING, Presidept.
J. T. SMITH, Vice President.
j. palm, Sec'y.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-09-24
Democratic Cheating.

This was the text taken by the Hon.
n. d. Tibbals, of Akron, in his speech
made in this place ON Monday night
of last week. He said, by way of
proof, that the Northern Democrats
were strenuously opposed to negro
suffrage, while the Democrats of the
South courted the favor of the blacks,
marched in professions, sat upon
stands, and sung patriotic songs to-
gether. Whether this be true or false
it matters not, Mr.. Tibbals shows by
the method of his argument that he
either does not understand the posi-
ton of the Democracy, or, that he will
fully misrepresents it. The question
between US and the Radicals lies deep
er, and is of vastly more importance
than whether this or that person shall
vote or not. We claim that the peo-
pie of each State have the right to set
tie that and all other questions relat-
ing to their own internal affairs for
themselves. But we of Ohio are not
guilty of the gross deception and
cheating that the Republicans are prac-
ticing, who say that the negroes shall
not vote in Ohio, but that they mast
vote in South Carolina and the South
ern States, without even asking their
consent. Sensible men who live in
glass houses never. throw sfones You
promised, the soldier thirteen dollars
per month in gold, and you compelled
him to take paper promises worth
from one-half to two-thirds that sum.
You promised the bondholder paper,
and now you want to pay him in gold,
thus doubly robbing and cheating the
poor soldier. But your party is new
er guilty of cheating! Oh, no!
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-09-24
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Inquisitiveness

Mr.. EDlToR:-I find the following
in the Banner Of Lsght, published in
Boston:
"Beware of .inquisitive persons; a
wonderful curiosity to know all is
generally accompanied with as great
an itching to tell it again"
Now, l would ask, why is it that
the Yankees are noted for their smart
ness and intelligence? Twill answer {:
Because of their i'equisttiveness. 1
will state an instance: More than fit
ty years ago, then quite young man,
l was teaching school in Stark Coun-
ty, then almost wilderness. / board
ed with a man who manufactured pot
ash asked him if the ley or potash
did not often eat his hands or skin
He said yes! What do you do for a
remedy? Iwash in strong vinegar.
Fifteen or more years after, had
boy about two years old that fell back
wards into a kettle of strong ley, (that
would bear up an egg7 which envel-
oped9 his whole body from neck to
knees. On removing his clothes the
skin had assumed the appearance of
blistering. The thought of the vine--
gar came to mind, and washing him
thoroughly with strong vinegar, and
annointing the skin with thick sweet
cream, not a, blister filled;-and in
half an hour the boy was well and his
life saved; thus we learn from others
experience, ascdt 10 GRO vqsg4"
..,-.-.r .f,..,,s ans, ,INOIIIGITIVE. /,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-09-24
whose Faults

The, Radical stumpers spend much
of their time in efforts to prove that
the Government Bonds cannot be
taxed, under the decision of the Su-
preme Court of the United States
But if the Radical Congress had de-
sired to place the Bondholder- on an
equality with other people, why did
they not provide in the law authorize
ing the issuing of bonds for taxing
them as all other property is taxed p
While the loan bill was under consid-
-eration,- Mr. Holman a Democratic
Representative from Indiana, moved
to add the following proviso: uaasa,r
CROWDED, That nothing in this
act shall impair the right of the States
to tax the bonds, notes, and other OBJ
legations issued under the authority
of this act" '.i Itaar f-.5---#''2.- Il tttt
So Which was, of course, rejected. Now
when the bonds are exempt from tax
alton under the decisions of the Courts
and by the action of Congress, the
Republicans take to themselves great
credit forthe discovery that the Courts
have decided against the taxation of
these Bonds. Will the people allow
the men who refused to do justice as
between them and the bondholders to
ounrebuked? a'f @-' 5~''fi'ffy
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-09-24
Hit Them Again.

A Radical ranter of our town, in a
speech in one of the townships of this
County recently, asserted that all the
skedaddlers from the draft are Demo-
Gratis. Unfortunately for his honor,
it happens that in the very township
in which this assertion was made,
there were four persons only who
evaded the draft by going to "parts
beyond the SEAS" and every one of
these was, and is Republican. a4
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-09-24

The Radicals have classified the
Union soldiers in the late War into
two divisions: Those who vote the
Radical, bondholding, Congressional
'usurpation ticket, they style Iotl Union
soldiers, and those who vote. for Sey-
mour and Blair, the Union and Con-
stitution Of Washington, and equal
rights and equal taxation, they denom-
mate dtsloyG1traitors. Isn't that lotl-
fy for you? Well, wbatfs ia . name E.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-09-24

In the New York Tribune of the
9th of November 1860, Greeley thus
advocates the right of secession and
pledges himself to resist coercion, in
case the Southern States should act
upon his advice: '..1.z s
: "If the cotton States shall become
satisfied that they can do better out of
the Union, than in it, aoe insist on let
ting them go in peace. The right to
secede may be revolutionary one, 6ut
1T EXISTS nereTtheleSs. *s1 -"
We must ever resist the right of any
State to remain in the Union and null
ify OF defy the laws thereof. To soith-
tr0aD from the Union Is quite. an
other Hstttter; and aoheaeee1- a coassid7
cradle section Of our Union shall delib-
erately resoice to go out WE SHALL RE-
sIsT ALL CoERsIvE MEASURES DESIGNED
TO KEEP IT IN. We hope neUer to HUe
en- a republic sohereof one section is pin
ned to the other By 6Gynnets," a'it
On the 18th of December 1860, soon
after the Inauguration of the secession
movement in the Southern States,
Greeley still advocates the right of Sc
cession, and defends it in the follow
ing style in his paper, the Tribune:
"If it (The Declaration of Indepen-
dence) justified the secession from the
British Empire of three million of col
onists in 1776, aoe cannotse ho,c ttren-
ty millions Of people can rightfstlly hold
ten, or euefa .JiUe, n, a detested Union
,oith them, by military force. .at
Dserea or eight contiguous States
shall present themselves euWtheaticdlly
at Washington, Saying: We hate the
Federal Union we have Withdrawn
from it; we give you the choice be-
tween acquiescing in our secession and
arranging amicably all incidental
questions on the one hand, and at
tempting to subdue us on the other
we could not stand up for coercion,
for subjugation, for we do not think
it would be just. We hold the right
of self-government sacred, even when
invoked in behalf of those who deny
it to others. a.a. .,la.f
Ifever seven or eight States" send
agents to Washington to say, "We
want to get out of the Union" we
shall feel constrained by our devotion
to human liberty to say, let them gol
And. we do not see how we could take
the other side without coming in di-
rect conflict with those rights of man,
which we hold paramount to all polit-
ical arrangements, however convenient
and advantageous"
Who, in view of these facts,Iwill de-
ny that the banner carried in the Dem
ocratic procession was most truthful
and appropriate? Who will say that
Horace Greeley and JEFF Davis are not
the t,cin relics-the one the open ad-
vocate and the other the champion in
the field of the lost ecausef 1t was
mete and proper that when the war
was over, and when the great leader
of the rebellion was in prison under
charge of treason to the Government,
that his twin brother who had en-
couraged him on to the commission
of the overt act, injustice for the part
he had acted in the great drama, should
become the bondsman for his brother
in the great crime of attempting the
destruction of that best Government
the world ever SAW
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-09-24
holders of the @God and Morality

holders of the 'God and Morality
party"
Is not this striking exhibition ofthe
corruptions of the Radical lea ders,
who by binding the people (the ma
jority of whom desire to be honesD
expect to gain their votes, by deceiv-
ing those who are ignorant, and thus
be enabled to hold the control of
affairs for four years longer, during
which time the wrongs and misdeeds,
of the party, committed since their ac-
cession to power, can be successfully
concealed.
We are glad to learn that honest
republicans condemn Garfield, and his
efforts, to cover up by misrepresenta-
ton, what he can not refute by argu-
ment pretty generally wherever he
gees.4 -y -'s
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-09-24

THE Ohio Statesman puts the i'm
mense character of the public debt in
the following familiar form: cat So
per bushel the public debt represents
1851, ,767, 900 bushels of wheat, or ST.
S53,0l7 tons. To transport this amount
in two-horse wagons, one ton to each,
would require S7,s5S,0l7 wagons and
Is, 706, ,024 horses. Give to each team
S5 feet space and you have cavalcade
which would encircle the globe nearly
nine tigpes.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-09-24
They Pay No Taxes" :"

So say the Radical stumpers at eV-
cry Republican meeting throughout
the country when referring to the far
mers, mechanics and laborers. Well,
since the close of the war there has
been collected by the United States
Government from all sources over
81, SOC, 100000. What generous set
of fellows the importers, the manufac-
turers, the jobbers, the distillers and
all others who advance taxes to the
Government are to have paid this vast
sum for the people, and thus relieve
them of such a heavy burthen! But
who does not know that these asser-
tions are utterly false, that the entire
taxes are ultimately paid ny the con-
sumers?
The following table from the Fiaasa-
cial Chronicle shows just how much
the consuming people pay under the
miserable policy established by the
Radical Rnmp.
Take the actual taxation imposed by
Custom House duties, to this (in our
present monitary condition) add 40 per
cent. for the gold premium, and upon
this aggregate is charged the import
er's profit, ten per cent; upon this
amount is charged the jobber's profit,
estimated at TX per cent; and upon
all the retailers at 121S per cent. as
follows:
Duties collected in 1857 ....... $176, All. .s14
Gold premium paid at 40 per cent -, 1855, i:
Cos. of duties il. currency ,..:... sa46, ,9s4. .gs4
Importers profits 10 per cent. 2f69S, ,49s
Jobbers. profits * per cent -. a0,S76,25I
IL sf,tf 19-s- lstiiiS-.f+tiif % Se9a Cl5e 6sl
Retailers profits, 1a,l per cent. ..s $500, ,46i
Total paid by consumers .......... .$32s 567. IA
Duties collected 176, All, ,S1C
Total ..-,.l.-, $152, 149s s334
equal to something more than 46
per cent. of the whole amount paid
by the consumers, or S6 per cent. upon
the amount received by the Govern
ment. ......t-.-., ...,f..,
The same calculations also apply to
the internal revenue, except that no
importers profits are to be charged.
AS American goods are generally of a
more staple character, than foreign,
they naturally pay smaller profit
besides, they pass through fewer
hands, and many of them for a COM
mission or only ~ per cent. :,
Whole internal revenue ........ &265, $40, ,474
OF this, cotton tax, income tax, AL -
licenses, etc, pay s14s, ,4s5, ,s7s ....
Upon these last articles, amounting to II, SOS
The wholesale dealers charge say tx ~ ~
pr cent. .................... 9,1S4 094
Sts1 ,6ss, ,6s9
Retailers profit 1sx per cent .. 1S,454, ,sss
Total sO93 5a5
Deduct tho original cost .......... 129, ,554 45gs
Paid in profits on taxes -. 5,6as, $50
Equal to an additional cost upon the
taxed commodities of 81 per cent, or
equivalent to about 911a per cent. upon
the whole internal revenue. Thus
with system of taxation which enor-
mously increases the cost of commod-
tiles to consumers, it is evident that
the effect Of taxation must be to Sc
yereiy suppress the trade and indus
try 0f tho onnntyr =.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-09-24
The Democratic Gains In Maine and Their

The Democratic Gains In Maine and Their
Significance.
The following table, published in
the World, shows the PERCENTAGE of
gain in the vote of Maine:
s Dem Rep.
Percentage gain over vote of '56 4s 6-f0 II 6-10
Percentage gain over vote of go, 46 20
Percentage gain over vote of '64, 10 16
Percentage gain over vote of sc, 80 $40 / 7-10
The Democrats of Maine have hand
somely reduced the Radical majority
which faced them SIS they entered
upon the campaign of 1868. just look
at the figures:
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-09-24

+ A like proportionate gain in the
vote of each party in the three great
States which hold their elections in
October, will give the following re-
suit, 4. e., taking asa basis for calcula-
ton, the gain in Maine, in the vote of
1868 over that of 1866: ' r.sa
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-09-24

. The Democrats Of the 18th Congress
sional District have nominated Hon
FRANKLIN, T. BAcKUs, of Cleveland,
as their candidate for Congress. He
is one of the ablest lawyers in the
State, and q high-minded, honorable
and patriotic citizen. A better nomi-
patton could not have been made.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-09-24

TIBBALs in his speech here wanted
to know why the # Ohio Legislature
don't tax the bonds? For the same
reason that the Union is not restored.
The Radical acts of the. Radical Rump
Congress prevent both. Give the DEM
ocrats the power to. say what is the
pleasure of the United States, and they
will soon relieve you of your imperti-
nent inquiries. afa eli .7rl
Tbbals also asserted that the De-.
mocracy proposed to issue $4,000, ,O00,-
0OO OF Greenbacksr He knew this to
be a gross and malicious misrepresen-
tation, for he knows that that is one
fourth moro than all the $40 bonds
put together. The Democracy have
never proposed to issue any more
greenbacks than enough to supply the
place of the National Bank issues,
which with the amount saved by an
economical administration of the Gov
ernment will redeem the 500 bonds
as fast as they mature. These men
know that the $40 bonds are not all
due. But still, with all this, they go
about the country wilfully misrepre-
senting the position of their oppo-
nents. a-t=-a--= zr..r ,...s-..,s-.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-09-24
Radical Economy.

The Radicals are great on economy.
It is one of the chief articles of
their faith, but consitites in no respect
any part of their practice.
The following table shows the ex-
penses of the House of Representa-
for the years named: 81. -,..st .-.--
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-09-24

The Ohio State Journal character
ICES the greenback as "The greasy,
rotten, ragged, filthy, odious, contain
mating, smallpox fractional currency,
debased, rotten, worthless money
The State Journal doubtless knows
who furnished the country with such
stuff, and regards it as good enough
for laboring men, but not altogether
fit for the bondholder. r. i--''.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-09-24

The Radicals are welcome to all the
comfort they can extract from these
figures.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-09-24
Truly yours,
Truly yours,
JOHN SHERMAN.
To Hon. A. MANN, JR.,
Brooklyn Heights.

To Hon. A. MANN, JR.,
Brooklyn Heights.
Mr.Sherman in his Hillsboro' speech
delivered a few weeks since, used the
following language:
81 have made and answered collat-
eral arguments in speeches and re-
ports, but my mind came back to the
conclusion, that, under the law, the
contract between the creditor and the
United States was that the creditor
should loan the United States lawful
money, or paper money-that the Uni
ted States should pay the interest at
six per cent. in coin, and the United
States might, at the end of five years,
return to that creditor his principal
sum in the same money loaned to the
Government"
Is not this remarkably plain case
of the force of Democratic truth? A
Senator ofthe United States, from the
great State of Ohio, takes solemn
oath that he will never give in to the
"demtgogical mean, dirty, nasty
scheme" ofpaying the bonds in green
backs, forced by the weight of argu-
ment and Justice to the people, with
in nine months takes that same mean,
dirty copperhead scheme, and hugs it
to his bosom as lovingly as any cop
perhead in the land. "Truth is mighty
and will prevail. Dealer
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-09-24

CONGRESS-, or rather the Radical
members thereof met at Washington
on M onday, and both Houses passed
. resolution to adjourn over to the 18th
of Qstober at ~ o'clock noon. t.,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-09-24

The Republicans are in favor of the
industrious laboring men paying all
taxes, and the lazy bondholding rich
men psyiug none. a"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-09-24
Tha T-o PIetNo-1,s

The Two Platforms.
De,socratie PLATFORM. Repuosea" Paasor~e-
Union ofail the Union only of
Sates-one and Radical States.
insepafabie.
All branches of All branches of
the Government the Government,
to be protected in not Radical, to be
their lust powers restricted in their
as derived from powers.
the Constitution. -
Ala political Gentraliza t 10 n
power shall be- ofpohtieai power.
long to the people. =
The voice of the The voice of a
people is the voice Radical Congress
of God. is the voice of God.
No standing ar Profuse expen-
mics in. times of diture of the pub
peace, no Freed lie funds to keep
mems Bureaus, no the Radical party
swindling Excise in power. r.
laws, no useless ~ L!E15 'sa
officers to eat up 80
the substance of
the people.
4 Each State to Negro suffrage
make its own laws to be enforced by
regarding the suf- Congress upon all
frage of its citi- States not Radi-
I.zens. cal.
One currency Gold for the
for oil. ,4 bondholder, Unit
ed States Treasu-
ry notes for the
r. ~ '.i'a1 .=n.. -H2 banks, natio ma
--a nr-. bank notes for the
tHH fi,a'r~p people,.
Pay the public Increase of the
debt and extin- public debt and
guish the interest. lower the interest.
Taxation shall Privileged class
be equalized, each es to be exempt
to bear their just from taxation.
proportion. 'a
Principles, not Available men.
men. ....-5 49,. .s..,.,.1. .,f-
Peace and pros War, conserip-
perity. b'sgr ton, confscation,
: and taxation.
Seymour our Grant our mas
servant. ter.
e.. sr.- .
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-09-24

POINTS OF D1FFERENcE.-The Dem
ocrats propose to let the people gov
ern themselves. a+'i. -' iss-
The Jacobins undertake to govern
them by martial law.
The Democrats are in favor of let
ting the majority govern: