The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-07-23


4 Missouri paper calls the nominations
Of Frank u. Blair on the ticket with Sey.
mour letting 'thc tail SO with the hide"
TIE Upton Times, the most inaucn-
tial Democratic paper in tho With In
diana District, throws overheard Seymour
aud Blair.
~ won't pay for steaks as tough as
these" said an angry boarder; there's
no law to compel me-thcy're not legal
cndcr"
'lFront seats reserved for Freedmen"
was conspicuously displayed in bandbillI
calling Democratic meeting at Jsrhsos;r
Miss.
a Western paper says: "Mr Seymour
is said TO be strong with the Democratic
party; but, unluckly, the party is not
strong with him"
General Rosccrans is in Chicago, and
washes his hands Of the Democratic Con
vcntion. SO docs Gen. Sherman, and
every other fighting General.
Why is the Blair family like the small
pox? Because every administration must
have it once Cincinnati Gazette. Not
any for the Grant administration.
An exubcrant Democrat boasts that
his party has stifIencd up immensely of
late, in fact seems to have suddenly ac-
quircd backbone" Yes, Grecnback
bone.
Gov. Seymour says in his speech of ac-
ccptapcc hc has been caught up by the
tide" He has, sure cnough-the tide
that will take him up salt River.
Since the Democratic nominations we're
made, Gov. Wise Of Virginia holds up
his head, and dcGantly cxclaims, "Scces-
sion is not dead it is more alive than
ever :"
Whatever made you mary that old
woman % said Il mother to a son.
"You'vc always been telling me to
choose wife like my mother" was the
dutilul reply.
"Blair is popular in the South West"
shout all the Democratic papers, finding
him unpopular everywhere else. The
further down you so, the more popular is
Democracy.
Frank Blair says, ''the contest before
us is for the restoration of our race
Old Blair and "Gummy" view it in that
light precisely; it's "thc restoration of
or race" they all say.
Was itnot well, asks the Cincinnati
Chronicle, that Grayback Convention
should adopt Grccnback platform, and
nominate Iloldback candidate with q
Turnback associate
The fact that the soldiers in 1861 gave
l2l,0l votes for Abraham Lincoln, and
only 50, ,050 for Mcclellan, may give an
idea how some soldiers will be likely to
vote this year.
THE ZancsUWe (Ohio) Gcrmania, the
only German paper published there, and
which has hitherto been Democratic, in
last weeks issue rcpudiatcs Seymour and
Blair.
The Nc,o- Haven Register thinks it
question of some Importance to know who
u. S. Grant is. just so. Gen. Buckner,
on whom Democrats can implicitly rely,
can give the desired information.
The Hon. w. Gordon of indianapolis,
who-of late years had cast his lot with
the Democracy, is unable to swallow the
Seymour Blair prescription, and says that
he shall vote For Grant and Colrax.
Some one has recalled the pat verso
in the ''Ncw Gospel of Peace :" "And now
Of the Pahadces he was called Seymour,
because he could Seymour and maneless
than any other man liyin."
The Democrats in Washington and
Sunaowcr Counties, Miss, actually ran a
"nisgcrp for the State Senate. His namo
is Nm. Il. Cambash, aud he turns out to
be deserter from Co. X. SD US.
Colorcd Infantry.
1t is confidently stated that Gen. John
A. Dix, now American Minister at Paris,
is one of the thousands of War Democrats
who, in refusing to support Seymour and
Blair, will heartily sustain Grant aud
Colfax.
Congressman Blaine stopped day in
New York city during the Convention, and
said: "Thcre arc more Rebel than
Union soldiers, aud more mo@bcrs of the.
Rebel than the Union Congress among
these Democratic delegates"
The Hon. James lIasAes Of fnhana,
one Of the most eloquent of tho Democrat
ic orators now practicing law in Washing
ton, will return to his State as soon as
Congress adjourns, and take tho stump