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To the Monroe County Con-
SerVatiVcs.

The corruptions and bogus legislation
of the Radical party, to which you have
heretofore given partial adherence, are
daily becoming worse.
Honestypf principle or purpose is Lot
pretended or practiccd by that party any
longer.
You have, for several years, secretly,
and many of you have openly, declared
that should PENDLEToN be nominated by
the Democrats you would cut loose from
Radicalism forever.
Now is your time The GATES ARE
WIDE OPEN. The Platform is sound. We
invite you to aid us in redeeming Ohio
and our whole country from Radical
Misrule and Oppression.
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The 18TH Negro Amendment.

The people ought to keep the Negro
bantling of the Rump Congress CON
stantly in view:
SEC. |. The right of the citizens of
the United States to vote shall not be de
MED or abridged by the United States, or
any State, on account of race, color, or
previous condition of servitudc.
SEC 2. The Congress shall have power
to enforce this article by appropriate
legislation.
Negro U. S. Senators, Congressmen,
State Senators, Legislators, Judges,
County Officers, Jurors and all the other
offices now filled by WHITE MEN, are
to be filled by IGNORANT NEGROES.
This is the doctrine of Radicalism,
and they ask white men to support it at
the ballot, box
White Men, tramplc this Negro bant-
ling beneath your feet on the 18th day
of October, along with the corrupt party
now expressing YOU and your families.
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tennessee.

The results Of the Tennessee election
have. taught the Jacobins another les
son.
Virginia elected a Conservative Gov.
crnor and Legislature, notwithstanding
Grant gave WELLS and his carpet-bag
gers to understand that the Administra-
lion favored their prescription.
,CREsswELL aud Boutwell,, Postmaster
General and Secretary of the Treasury,
assured Strokes, the candidate of the
carpet3baggers in Tennessee, that Gen.
GRANTS synpathies were with them,
The people of Tennessee defeated
STOKES, GRANTS candidate, by 10000
majority and elected a Conservative
Legislature.
Verify, 81 viii have no policy" that
the people will pause tonotice the latter
is the sequel.
.sI.et us have peace
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A SpeCk.

The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial, Radical warns
GRANT that he must stand out Radically
Radical IN December or ''the bale fires
of evil"-Congress-will ego for him"
and "shake him of, as lion dew-drop
from his NAME" Further on the cor
respondent says, truthfully: "So far tile
pettiness of his administration have been
the most Objectionable, and now,playing
President reminds you Of the boy acho
Dished to be a King, $50 chat he might
ride on the gate post all day" If he
will stop buying bagatellcs in New York,
and parading' his Presidency along the
porches Of the Stetson, and keep to exc
cutive business here, he will look more
like a successor of Washington-his am
bition, we are told'
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The following dispatch was receive

The following dispatch was received
i'll Columbus on the Sth inst:
SAN Francisco, CAL, Aug. I.
To Hon A. G. Thurman:
After the war | resigned very desi-
rabie position in the army and left my
State to secure at least possibility of
fulfilling duties deemed sacred to my
creditors and family. These duties now
forbid me the honor of leading the Dc
mocracy of Ohio in the pending can
vass. | send letter to Committee by
mail. w. S. RosECRANs.
While the declination of Gen. ROSE
GRAMS is regretted, it in no way or man
ner Injuries the principles for which the
Democracy are battling. Gen. RosEcRANs
would have made valiant leader; but
another will be placed at the head of our
ticket who will lead us where RosEY
would, to victory, which means the re-
lease of the laboring masses from the
clutches of the Bondholders and Manu-
flcturers.
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EEOn, Ennher, aAc ship-ksuiid5ng
~ fsatprEaI

GLSGSEissf.
To the Editors Of the Evening Post:
The following authentic extract from
the Times Of London, Of the 26th June,
will show our suicidal policy in proper
light, While by means ofclass legislation
wc have pampered the iron masters,
lumber owners, copper manufacturers,
and numerous other monopolists, our riy.
ais in ship building and tDc carrying trade
have been able to build merchants navy
Of the most gigantic proportions Let
the figures speak for themselves:
''RRITiSH SuFPNG.-In the year 1868
the registered shipping Of the United
Kingdom (eXclusiye Of river steamcrs)
employed in our home and foreign trade
comprised the unprecedented number of
., 250 vessels, OF ., ,5lG,434 tons, employ
ing 1880 men, exclusive Of masters :;
viz, 20, ,525 sailing vessels, Of 5,69l ,820
tons, employing 1873, $40 men and l,725
steam vessels, of S24, GA tons employing
1862 men. AT the end of the year
there stood registered as belonging to
the United Kingdom 28,444 vessels, of 5,
7S0, $50 tons; viz, 2j,500 sailing vessels
Of 4, 87S 233 tons, and 2,94i steam YES
seIs 902, ,297 tons. This is the highest
tonnage ever recorded There were
built and registered in the United King
dom, in 1868, $40 sailing vessels, of
300,477 tons. and 232 steam vessels of
1906 tons"
The whole foreign steam tonnage
Of the United States is only 175,520
tons.
This immense foreign feet. brings our
coffee, sugar, rope. bagging, salt, iron, Ii
quids in fact, it brought last year to our
shores tonnage amounting to 4,Sl2,
451 tons, and carried from our shores
cotton, grain, petroleum, bacon, cheese
lard, and other commodities to the amout
Of 5,007,5 ,52l tons Perhaps citizens of
the West, South and North may under
stand this better when explain that the
aboYd 9,Sl9,972 tonnage represents an
average Of So, gold per ton freight
hence we have to pay to foreigners near
Fly fifty million dollars, gold. q year
for freights. because five hundred fat mon
opolists will not allow us to build and
equip iron or wooden vessels, unless we
pay them sixty per cent more than the
worth for the materials wereof ships are
built, for which privilege they hold
4 supreme patent called Il United States
tariff.
Before this outrageous tariff, when
American ships had the largest share OF
the foreign carrying trade, viz, in 1861,
the sea going tonnage fthe United State
was 5,539,S13 tons while that of Great
Britain was 1896, ,S26 tons we exceeded
her in 49,, ,9S7 tons We collected freight
from all foreign countries in the world
amounting to between forty and fifty
million dollars annually. We carried
seventy percent Of the immigrants that
came to our shores. But now we have
to send fifty millions Of our gold to Eng
land to pay our freights Outrageous
monopoly does, indeed, sap the national
life, and American shipping may truly be
said to be IN e1tremis. No MONOPOLY
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Who are 10 be Grants Secretaries!


from the commercial, ICadical.
"Grant came, believing in himself, and
imposing on lis. His oracular silence at
the beginning made us expect Cabinet
of giants When the roll of these awaited
Mollossues was finally called i'll the Sen
ate, the half Of them were too feeble to
answer to their names. Then some of
them came and drifted away again. The
Cabinet went to pieces, and formed again
like decimated battalion. The minis
ters hang to it unsteadily still ; and who
are to be Grants Secretaries ? is an open
question yet, just as if you asked what
grains Of floating sand would go into Il
petrifaction."
The war has commenced Radicalism
howls at the great (?) man they elected
President.
The truth is leaking out. They are
disguised with their Presidential hum
bug, who has brains for nothing but fast
horses and bull pups.
These arc Radical qualifications for
the Presidency of the United States, and
growing ours who made GRANT Presi-
dent out of nothing, will be snuhjed if
they interfere with his cdniRe sport
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HON.. GEORGE IL. PENDEETON
The Next Goyerner OF Ohio.

The STATE Democratic Central Com
mittec, which assembled at Columbus,on
the l1th inst, performed wise act by
nominating the Hon. GEoKaE Ii. Pen
pLvroS as the Democratic candidate for
Governor. s't3.
In the Convention OF July I, Mr. PIX
pLEroS would have been nominated by
acclamation, had he not refused the use
of his name. But the representatives of
the party second time requested that
he lead the Democratic hosts TO victory,
and, sacrificing all personal feelings for
thc welfare of the people, lie acceptcd,t to
the great joy of The Democracy and
thousands of the opposing party, who
will support him and the Democratic
ticket.
No nomination within our recollection
SO electrified and pleased the people
us the nomination of Mr.. PENDLEToN--
His views on the bond, tariff aud negro
questions arc perfectly understood
among the people.
They knnw him TO be the greatest
statesman in the United States and will
elect him the next Governor or Ohio, in
October, by 10000 majority
Three cheers for PENpL EToN, Taxation
Of the Bondholders and Greenbacks
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ID emOCratiC Doctrine,

Tax tie Bonds.
Pay the Bonds with Greenbacks.
Abolish the 1,600 National Banks, now
engaged in robbing The tax-payers.
Admit every Southern State to repre-
sentation in Congress.
Abolish all Jacobin test and iron clad
oaths. ..-
Withdraw the army from every South
ern State. ......
Leave the Southern people to regulate
their State, County and Municipal affairs,
as the Northern people regulate theirs.
Abolish the Negro Reconstruction
Acts.
Repeal the present odious tariff. -~.
Tax the Bondhollers as other men are
faxed
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The Governor goes on to say
"Preten;fous HncOnSeguenCe.o


From the Commercial, Radical.
There is kind of pretentious incon-
sequence about the Administration that
is ridiculous, waving of signals, a pa
rading of Secretaries, running to and
fro of blue breeched, .shoulder-strap
lackeys, a buzz of bass drums in tic
back ground, as if there were being
spread the net of some complicate, far
sighted, tremendous policy, simmer
and show OF pondtrousness that exists
only in the expectation of the people
Altogether il suggests council of red
chiefs gruntins profoundly and swapping
wampum, or Il Puritan picnic with Te
Deum sung around the borders, and q
Popping of ginger beer and wringing
of chickens necks in the frontspiece-
Tae doubt, once in a while, grows thick,
whether Grant is not more at home in
gig behind his Havana than in the White
House, fronting the people. Looking
him steadily in the face, it occurs to you
that the Republican party, powerful as
it was, might have taken from his box
the first intelligent hackman nthe street,
and done as we'll Grants face has no
clearness or illumination in it, moro than
had his military policy for breaking
down the rebellion. The Atlantic
Monthly lately contained an article upon
his intellectual character" 1t is in
doubt whether it exists Not man, wo-
man, Or halfgrown child in the country
but has constantly put the riddle these
two years: Glow is It that Grant, with
this face like a stoga boot, is great
man ?"
shoulder strap lackeys" is the sum
total of GRANTS administration Car
pei baggers and Niggers are to fill in
with.
ssRio Injun. mo-" savs GRANT.
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Ashamed of Their Nigger Fiat
60yIss.

Heretofore the editors of Radical pa
pers have kept their party platform
standing, and published the same regu-
larly every week during the campaign.-
But this campaign we can not find their
platform.
The Marietta Register is afraid to
publish 1t.
The Pomeroy Telegraph don't want
the people to read the Niggerism in it.
The Athens Messenger fails to publish
lit.
The Noble County Republican is
ashamed Of it.
The Morgan County Herald knows
that defeat awaits The Negro party in
Ohio, therefore we can't find the Radical
platform in its columns.
The Guernsey Times shouts for the
Niger and his rights, but is afraid to
publish the platform.
Come, advocates of Negro equality,
the people want to read the Negro Plat
form of Ohio Radicalism. They want
to read and then curse it.
Up with it. You say the Negroes
must vote and rule White Men; then
why not publish your platform
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Down with the Aristocrats!

Es"The following ticket was nomina,
ted by the Democracy Of Belmont Coun,
ty last week:
Represcntative-John A. Weyer.
York TIP.
Probate Judge-A. W. Anderson,
Pultney.
Treasurer-James Irwin, Mead,
Pros. Atty. ". Shannon, Rich
land
Commissioner-Wi William Armstrong,
Washington.
Surveyor-Jesse Thomas, Union
Inf. Dircctor-N. Taylor, Wheeling,
Coroner-Geo. Criswell, Pultney..
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engagement, and by = regard for my
health, and that Of my family will be
back among You in time to do my full
share of the labors Of the campaign.
Fellow citizens, your State Committee
have, in my Judgment, done not merely
L good, but Il great work to day.
They have nominated as the head Of
your ticket statesman, u Scholar,a man
of large experience, Of unsullicd honor,
and one who is every inch gentleman.
They have nominated him not because
he sought the Office, but because the of
flee sought him. And here let me say
what You all know, that the name Of
George II. PendIcton will excite, not only
in Ohio, but throughout this whole Re-
public, an enthusiasm equal to what any
name in the land could excite, and mos.
sincerely do believe lie will be elected.
You would have succeeded at the elec-
ton two years ago, had you believed
success was possible. 1t was your want
Of faith that defeated You then, but no
such incredulity will defcatyou now
You feel that if success is L possibility.
your patriotic efforts will make it a real
ity. All the signs are auspicious, |
think. can be mistaken in saying that
the country is not satisfied with its Rad
ical rulers that even those who placed
them in power are disappointed in the
Administration; that it is not what we
expected it to be, and what the welfare
Of the country requires it to be. Look
at the late elections, whether the results
in Virginia and Tennessee can properly
be called Democratic triumphs or not
| think it can not be truthfully denied
that they and the Kentucky elections are
the handwriting on the wall, that says to
the Radical leaders: You have been
weighed in the balance and found want
ing. Your rule in this land is at an
eld." Go to work, then, my friends,
with hopeful hearts and industrious zeal.
and success will be your reward. What
a spectacle is presented here tonight
Our opponents expected us to be wholly
demoralized by Gen. Rosecrans' declina-
ton. Let this days work, let this great
meeting, assembled upon an hours no
tice, be our answer We would { l am
sure that | could) have supported Rose
Grams with my whole heart, for knew
him to be an honest and able man, and |
believe him to be good Democrat. But
for reasons entirely sufficient; reasons
honorable to him, and honorable to the
Democrat party he has declined the nom.
ination, and already his place is filled by
the potent name Of Pendleton, and the
party is on its march to victory. But ii
is time for me to stop, and once more
bidding You to be of good cheer, | bid
you good night.
Mr.. j. L. MCKINNEY, Col. JoHN NJ.
CoNNELL and Hon. j. D. CALLEN ad.
dressed the meeting at considerable
length
There is general satisfaction through,
out the State, and leading men are con,
fident that PENDLEToN will be elected by
10000 majority.
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Gov. Morton, Of Indiana, on Negro
Snssg:,po


This apostle of Radical Negroism, who
is to stump Ohio for the Radical ticket
and the Negro Amendment, has very
chcckered record on the Negro question.
Governor NoRroN is officially on the
record against Negro Suffrage, In his
message TO special session of the Indi-
ana Legislature, in 1855, we find the fol
lowing paragraphs:
The question of suffrage is by the
National Constitution expressly etcyred
to the determination Of the eScrcrnl States
dAa 1t cannot be taken from them ,cifheut
a rSo'otion Of The letter and spirit IF that
instrument But without stopping to
discuss theories or questions of consti-
tutional law, and leaving them out of
view, it would in my opinion be unwise
to make the work Of reconstruction de
pend upon a condition Of such doubUNl
utility as negro sg6rage.'
The Governor. goes on to say;
1t is fact so manifest that it should
not be called in question by any, that a
people who are just emerging from the
barbarism Of slavery, are not qualified to
become 4 part of our political system,
and take part,not only in the government
Of themselves and their neighbors, but
Of the whole United States SO far
from believing that negro suffrage is a
remedy for all our national ills, l doubt
whether it is a remedy for any" &c, &c.
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The Peoples Ticket of Morgan
County, Ohio.

Representative, Luther Timbcrlakc !;
Probate Judge, +, n. r. Hanna; Sheriff,
A. d. Havener; Recorder,Jno W. Knox ;
Commissioner, VIM. .Niccswanger; In
Urinary Director, John Neeley Coroner,
Cornelius Head; Land Aappraissrs-lst
District-James A. Gillespie; 2d-Sam-
uel NJ. ,Gilliland; 3d-Theodoro Coburn !;
4th-Wm. Beswick; 5th-L, G Curf
man; 6th-Thomas Vicllroy; 7th-Eli
Eveland.
This ticket was nominated for the pur
pose of ousting the Radicals who have
become very corrupt. II is composed Of
both parties. The Ring in Morgan is
doomed.
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EErOn Friday evening when the news
came that l'ENDLEToN had been nomina
ted for Governor, the Democrats about
town were wonderfully pleased
How do yoa like the nomination 2"
"What do you think of the nomina-
tion!" First rate "All right" +"
''The right man in the right place" and
other words of glad assent.
The Radicals holed up early in the
evening.
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FARMER.

ooh, God. how my back aches to-
night | work harder now than before
the war and am worth less"
BONDHoLDER.
"Never mind your back, farmer; my
bonds must be paid IN gold. If your
work puts more gold in my pockets, it
makes very little difference whether you
are ever worth anything.
T. the bondholder ride in my carriage!
am one OF the privileged few,
Who handle with pride my Government bonds,
But the d'Wd9ery is left for YoU.."
Taxpayers, how do you relish Radical
slavery, which bcggars your wife and
children?
Doyn with thn AriStocrats
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EgPENDLEroN, Abolish the Tariff,
Tax the Bonds, Pay the Bonds with
Grcenbacks, Down with Negro Suffrage
and the Negro Amendment.
The election of our candidate upon
this platform is certain PENpLEroN
and victory
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Radical Rule--Radicai Honesty.

Eight hundred thousand dollars, raised
from the people of Ohio, by taxation,
to support the widows and orphans Of
deceased soldiers, and for the support of
those crippled in the war, was seized by
the last Radical Legislature, and used for
other and different purposes. When
money is thus raised by taxation. the
Constitution says that it shall be used for
no other purpose whatever. In defiance
of this provision of the Constitution,
this eight hundred thousand dollars was
deliberately stolen--for it is stealing to
dishonesty take--from the widows and
orphans of deceased soldiers. The rea-
son assignedfor this theft was thatthcre
were but few, if any, left in indignent
circumstances to need this money for
their support
Years after this great outrage was
committed, the Journal of this city, states
thatat this time there are from one
hundred and fifty to two hundred thou
sand orphan soldiers children" in the
County infirmaries, or supported by the
poor laws, as paupers, in Ohio
How terrible is the guilt Of those who
while protesting to be the soldiers
friends, and who stood pledged to pro-
tect the soldier and his family,to thus rob
them Of the money as justly their own as
if 1t had been deposited in an honest
bank to their credit. Their crime is
seen in the fact that the children ofmen
who died for their country, are now sup
ported as paupers. And yet the party
leaders that did this stealing claim TO be
the soldiers friends. II is the friend
ship OF the vulture for the lamb-the
hawk Cor the chicken States
man.
Rg"A dangerous lumatic, who calls
himself Professor" Andrew jenkins, pro-
poses to cross the chasm of Niagera
River below the falls. about the Goth
August, by means ofa velocipede ridden
over a tight-rope. The place of cross
ing will be short distance below the
old suspension bridge, where the length
Of the spanning cable will be about one
thousand feet. The vehicle to be used
is of peculiar construction The
wheels are grooved, and it is propelled
by the hands, a halance-pole being car
ried on the feet.
. Ina race between locomotives on the
Chicago and Alton and Terre Haute
road, Monday, the machines, each draw
ing passenger tram, made seventy miles
an hour.
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The PUBLIC Credit.

A correspondent of the n. l. PoSt,
writing or this subject, says:
"The enormous productive power of
our soil hides the evil nature of our tariff
and our currency. The unskilled la6orsr,
,cith his family, and the large class Of
persons who haze small fred mcomesor
salorics,safer IN silence, haring no porer
TO influence those rho make The laws,by
force Of schich the rich grow richer, and
The poor grop poorer The prosperity of
those who do thrive, and who might .x-
ert their power, If they would, prevents
their action. Iu fact, it fnay be said that
our great increase in wealth is the chef
obstacle, both to the enactment of such
laws as would cause a fair distribution,
and to the repeal of the laws which iow
prevent such distribution.
"The evil nature of our tariff and our
currency is perfectly understood by the
people. They know that both have been
so regulated that by their operation the
rich get richer and the poor poorer. The
1000 National Banks and the tariff are
swindles gotten up by the Jacobins in
power, to rob the laboring classes for the
purpose of filling the pockets of the Ma
tlonal Bankers, ,Bondholders and Eastern
Manufacturers.
R-A Ford correspondent closes an
Article on BoUTwELL's policy, purchasing
bonds, as follows:
"Perhaps it is said in excuse, e,inasmuch
rs the Treasury gets 1856 for gold, and
buys bonds at 122, it still gains IA per
cent by the operation; but the purchase
of bonds is, in the present instance,
treble as much as the sale of gold, and
therefore every 'sl22 in exeess'of the
proceeds of gold sales with which the
Secretary purchases hundred dollar
bond, TWENTY-FIVE dollars is either an out
rage and tun on the people, or he contem-
plates to redeem the rational debt scih a
currency rhich ,riU again be worth only
40 cents gold per dollar"
The truth is, the Administration
throughout, is destitute Of policy, ex-
cept that of filling the pockets of the
Bondholders al the expense of the Tax
Payers. @as Is
ESTbe Bondholder receives for his
Bond $50 in gold which brings him
SOS in greenbacks.
The Farmer receives for his wheat,
corn and wool, $40 in greenbacks which
brings him III the market only $50 in
gold.
Difference between the Rondholder
and Farmer, in favor of the former, thir
tg-threc dollars, or sistys dollars on
ercfy hundred dollars ,corM Of produce
raiSed By the fTmcr.
Farmers, how do you relish paying
this unjust tribute TO sustain Radical
ism?