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Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-09-22
STATES GETTING OUT OF DEBT.

Iowa, under Republican rule, has
paid off all her public debt, and has
a large surplus; Indiana has paid
the last dollar she owed, and her
bonds are no longer the sport of
Wall street stock jobbers; Illinois
has steadily reduced her indebted
ness, and has at easy command the
means to eXtinguish it; and now
comes Michigan, which has reduced
her Indebtedness about two millions
in the past eighteen months. In
the same time, President Grants adj
ministration has paid about $780,
100000 of the National debt, and
reduced taxation about eighty mill
ions.
These Republicans may be terri
BILE fellows in Democratic estima-
ton, but they have great faculty
for getting the people out of debt,
and cutting off the burdens of tax
alton. If left in charge Of affairs,
the years are few when any public
debts will exist.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-09-22
WHO COMMENCED

Discontinued Democrats will
please note that Senator Douglas
was the father of the system of Civ
ing public lands to railroads. He
began it by procuring the donation
to the great Illinois Central road.
1t was the Democratic policy to fos-
ter and encourage railroads by such
gifts. The roads were built that
otherwise would not be built. The
Government lost no money, as the
alternate sections were sold at 81 so
per acre instead of $1,25. But, like
other good things it grew into abuse,
and the Republican party has de-
clared its opposition to any further
extension of it.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-09-22
REPUBLICAN VS.. DEMOCRATIC HON.
ESTY.

Our worthy cotemporary, as well
as all the rest of the Democratic
papers of the country, is wont to
express himself very strongly in re-
gard to the corruption and dishon-
esty of Republican office holders.
1t is much easier to make charges
than to substantiate them, and far
easier to make sweeping allegations
Of corruption against a class than
to point out specific cases of dis
honesty in the individuals that go
to make up that class. While we do
not claim immaculate infallibility
for every member of the Republi-
can party, and will, if you please,
admit that the party contains many
dishonest men-Democrats in dis
guise-we challenge a comparison
in regard to the fidelity of the pub
lie officials of the two parties when
ever and wherever entrusted with
power.
To say nothing with regard to the
marked difference between the Ad-
ministrations of Buchanan and Lin
coin, or of johnson and Grant, nor
yet about the essentially Democratic
City of New York, where election
frauds and public plunder is reduced
to perfect science, few instances,
of recent date in our own State, will
serve to illustrate the point we are
aiming at. In the intensely Demo-
cratic county of Hancock three sue
cessive County Treasurers have
proved defaulters, the last one clear
ing out with from $4,000 to $50, 900
of the peoples money. In the same
county last year the Democratic
Sheriff also proved to be defaulter
to the amount of about $4,000. The
Democratic Treasurer of Franklin
also proved a defaulter last year
and was removed, though the Dem
ocratic authorities of that county
have failed to prosecute him. In
the Democratic stronghold of But
Ter, also, with an unmixed Demo
crat at its head, the county treasury
was lately found empty when it
should have contained 100000 in
greenbacks. And SO the state and
country over, it is found of late
years that wherever the Democracy
is in power, there the money of the
people is in peril. People of Ohio,
see to it that the "plunder" party
do not again get possession of the
finances of your noble and prosper
GUS commonwealth.-Akroa Bea-
con.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-09-22
AN ATTRACTIVE FEATURE OF THE
NORTHERN OHIO FAIR.

The managers of the Northern
Ohio Fair have been untiring in their
endeavors to secure every legitimate
attraction for the great enterprise
under their charge. Nothing has
been left undone that fore-thought
could suggest and that lay within
their power to execute. The grounds
have been fitted up with admirable
taste and great liberality, the induce
ments to exhibitors are such as will
draw to the Fair the agricultural and
mechanical enterprise not only of
Northern Ohio, but of the whole
State and the adjoining States, and
the arrangements for the comfort
and convenience of visitors are as
nearly perfect as experience and
ability can make them.
To add to the attractiveness of
the exhibition the managers have,
after much endeavor, succeeded in
inducing General Garfield to deliv-
er an address on Tuesday, the 9th of
October, one Of the days Of the
Fair, in the amphitheatre on the
grounds of the Association. The
address will be in no way political,
but will be devoted to topics sug-
gested by the occasion, and will
dwell particularly on the advantages
of the Northern Ohio Fair to the
people of Cleveland and of North
ern Ohio generally.
General Garfield is an orator Of
rare eloquence, with the additional
advantage that his eloquence con-
sists not alone in words, but in facts
presented. He has such a large gen
eral information, he marshals his
facts in such orderly array, presents
them in such clear light, and draws
from them such convincing argu-
ment that the listeners for the mere
pleasure of hearing a good speaker,
and the veriest Gradgrind in pursuit
of ineXorable facts, are equally
pleased. The enlistment of Gen
eral Garfield in the cause is a great
card for the management Of the
Northern Ohio Fair Association
Cleveland Herald. -, 81.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-09-22
SPRINGFIELD AND THE STATE FAIR.

The State Fair is an object of
great contention among rival places
that seek the notoriety and the profit
that flow therefrom. To cities of
the size Of Springfield the State Fair
is an elephant; the question is, what
to do with it, for it is too big to
handle readily, and it will not do to
let go of it. But Springfield mas
tered the monster handsomely. The
energy of the citizens of that beau
tiful city of springs was equal to
the task. We fancy there was as
little cause for complaint as at any
of its score of predecessors; much
less cause of complaint than usually
exists.
The provision made for visitors
was on the most liberal and extern
sive scale; the police regulations
were admirable; there was no i'm
position tolerated and very little at
tempted, while means of approach
to, and retreat from, the grounds
were free and unobstructed. The
man who complained of Springfield
and its exertions to make the Fair
pleasant and successful, was
chronic croaker who would not be
satisfied with three square meals
day and a comfortable bed at night.
Newspaper men, in addition to the
general provision for visitors, were
deeply indebted to Mr.. Beach of the
Springfield Adcerttser, who tend
cred food and lodging to every repre-
sentative of the press.
Unfortunately the Fair occurred
just at the heel of the severest drouth
that has visited Springfield for
many years. Every thing was dried
up, save the perpetual springs from
which the town takes it's name, and
the generous hospitality of a people
whose hearts never wither.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-09-22

He proved that their
views on this point had materially
changed. He followed them up one
after another till he came up to the
question of bonds, and taxation of
bonds. This matter of taxation he
made very plain by placing it in a
light in which very few look at it.
Borrowing money at certain per
cent. without taxation is just the
same as borrowing it at higher per
cent. with taxation. Now the gov
ernment did this. In time of need
it offered to those who had money
to lend, a certain per cent. and then
asked for no tax ON it. Mr.. Monroe
had the closest attention of the au-
dience during his whole speech. He
is one of the most candid politicians
that we have ever heard. The peo-
pie of this district are going to elect
him by handsome majority.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-09-22
Germans, do You Hear that?

1t is a little remarkable that all
the leading Democratic organs OF
the nation should have so unani-
mously espoused the cause of Ma
poleon from the first, and so har-
monized in their malice toward the
Prussians.
The Chicago Times, the leading
Democratic paper of the west says;
The party which sympathizes
with France is the party Of Wash
ington, Jefferson, Wright and Doug
las. The party which sympathizes
with Prussia is the party of the rail
splitting Lincoln, the horse-thief
Brown, the beast Butler, the rene
gate Logan, the pedantis Sumner,
the fourierite and free-lover Greeley,
and the imbecile Banks, the misceg-
enationist Stevens, and the drunken
Yates, Nye and Chandler"
To which the Sandusky Register
adds
What do the Germans of this city
say to this? Are they willing fur
ther to support a party represented
by the Chicago Times, and papers OF
its class. We hope when Demo
cratic ticket is presented to Ger
man at the next election, that he will
thrust in the face of the demagogue
who offers it, copy of the Chicago
Times, and ask him if any man who
loves the cause of the Germans will
support party which has stood by
the tyrant of France?
The Cincinnati Enquirer gets off
a nice morsel for the German palate.
Speaking of the Republican party
that paper says:
1t has no good word for the brave
army of Frenchmen, commanded by
men who have won their way up
from the ranks, and filled with vol
unteers who are fighting for home,
country and freedom; but it ap-
plauds the army of marauding prin
ces who would
.'Wade through slaughter to the throne,
|. And shut the gates of mercy on mankind.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-09-22
MORE LIGHT.

The German Democrats in New
York are cutting their eye teeth.
They met in convention the other
evening, and adopted an address, in
which it is asserted that regard for
truth, right, and honor, alike de-
mand of us the severance from any
and every political association that
could or would accept and follow
such an unprincipied, malicious,
mean, and detestable course as has
been chosen by certain would-be
Democratic papers," That is the
reward of the World, of New York,
the Times, of Chicago, and their
like followers throughout the
country, for the servile worship with
which they have bowed down to
Frances golden calf during the
slate" war. The elections the com
ing fall will give emphasis to these
sentiments of the German Demo
Gratis of New York.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-09-22
LET WELL ENOUGH ALONE.

The Democracy of Ohio are ma
king war on our National Bank cur
rency and propose to replace it with
greenbacks. These National Banks
paid last year $19,OOO,OOO in taxes,
which nineteen millions under the
Democratic plan would be lost, while
the banks would pass into private
hands. These National Banks fur
nish the people a safe and sound
currency, of equal value in all the
States, and no sane man will con-
sent to exchange them for the ire
sponsible private bank currency
with which the country was cursed
some years ago. Better let well
enough alone.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-09-22
DEMOCRACY OPPOSES REDUCTION
OF TAXATION.

The Democracy are all the time
harping upon the question of taxa
ton, and claim that they are in favor
of its reduction. Why don't they
do it when they have a chances
On the 18th of July last, great
measure passed the House of Rep
resentatives. On that day over fifty
million dollars of a reduction was
made in the revenue taxes of the
country and over twenty-six mill
ion dollars of a reduction in the
tariff duties on tea, coffee, sugar,
spices, fruits, nuts, pig and scrap
iron, &C., &c. In those things the
people are interested. The Repre-
sentatives that voted for such a
measure of relief to the taxpayers
will be remembered with gratitude.
Now who were theys Hon. James
A. Garfield in his Mansfield speech,
tells us. He says, speaking of it;
The ayes and nays were called, and
the vote stood 144 ayes to 49 nays.
Fifty-five Democrats answered to
their names. Eight of them voted
against it. Not one Ohio Democrat
roted for at.
How is this? When an opportu.
nifty is given, they refuse to act in
accordance with their precepts. II
does very well to talk about reduc
ton, but when the time comes fol
making such reduction, why don't
they go into it heartily and show
the people t. ey mean what they
say?
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-09-22

means to restore Napoleon, is false.
The King has no objection to the
de facto Government because it has
proclaimed a Republic, but cannot
treat with it because it is temper
ary, unstable, and offers no assur-
ance that it could fulfil the con-
ditions of treaty. From this and
other statements it would appear
that the Prussians regard the JULES
FAvRE ministry as the Government
de .tacto and the Imperial rule as
the Government de jure, but neither
being in position to conclude and
guarantee treaty, Prussia will wait
until a government of some kind
arises that is able to perform those
functions. Meantime, to add to the
perplexity of the position, the Reds
are showing their hand, and have
already placarded Paris with declar-
ations of new government, to the
terror of the bourgeoise, who would
prefer Prussian occupation of the
city to the unchecked sway ofa COM
munistic Republic.
Between the Prussian determIna-
ton not to recognize the Provis
ional Government as having author
ity and the manifest purpose of the
''Reds'' to overthrow it and set up
one of a more revolutionary charac-
ter, the JULES FAvRE administration
are evidently losing heart, and the
prospects of a determined resistance
under their direction are fading
away. Trochu is reported to have
said that resistance will result in
massacre and then in anarchy.
Whether he did, or did not, so ex-
press himself, it undoubtedly ex-
presses the facts.
Canrobert, with his extraordinary
column, hopping about northeast
ern France in a way suggestive OF
the Irishman's fiea-"when you put
your finger on him he isn't there"
appears once more in the same old
place-a Belgian special to a New
York paper, notorious for its anti
German tendencies and it's ignor-
ing facts and possibilities in the en-
deavor to put the best face on the
French position. This time We
hear nothing of the column that es-
capped with him from Metz, and
that, after suddenly appearing out
of the ground, or from the clouds,
at St. Quentin, defeated a Prussian
force and menaced the Prussian
right flank. Now he is doing some
thing somewhere, but what he is do
ing, or where he is doing it, the
special has no idea.
The dispatch to the same paper
from London, gives a glowing ac-
count of a great demonstration in
that city on Monday evening in ia
vor of the French Republic, and of 9
"Republic of United Europe" ant
sees in it the beginning of a great po
litical revolution in England.
Among the items of news which
may be true, and are not improba
BILE, but which must not be accepted
with too much confidence, is tht
story that Bismarck has arranged
with Italy that the italian troops
may occupy Rome, Nice and Savoy
if the people express the wish to be
reunited with Italy.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-09-22

SECTION 10. That if at any election
for representative or delegate in the
Congress of the United States any per-
son shall knowingly personate and vote,
or attempt to vote, in the name of any
other person, whether living, dead, or
fictitious; or vote more than once at
the same election for any candidate for
the same office; or vote at place where
he may not be lawfully entitled to vote /:
or vote without having lawful right TO
vote; or do any unlawful act to secure
Il right or an opportunity to vote for
himself or any other person; or by force,
threat, menace, intimidation, bribery,
reward, or offer, or promise thereof, or
otherwise unlawfully prevent any quail
flied voter of any State of the United
States of America, or of any Territory
thereof, from freely exercising the right
of suffrage, or by any such means in
duce any voter to refuse to exercise such
right; or compel or induce by any such
means or otherwise any officer of an
election in any such State or Territory
to receive, a vote from a person not le-
gally qualified or entitled to vote; or
interfere in any manner with any officer
of said election in the discharge of his
duties; or by any of such means, or
other unlawful means, induce any Off
Ger of an election, or officer whose duty
it is to ascertain, announce, or declare
the result of any such election, or give
or make any certificate, document, or
evidence in relation thereto, to violate or
refuse to comply with his duty, or any
law regulating the same; or knowingly
and willfully receive The vote of any per
son not entitled TO vote or aid, counsel
procure, or advise any such voter, per-
son, or officer to do any act hereby made
4 crime, or to omit to do any duty the
omission of which is hereby made a
crime, or attempt to do so, every such
person shall be deemed guilty of crime
ard shall for such crime be liable to
prosecution in any court of fhe United
States of competent jurisdiction, and
on conviction thereof, shall be punished
by fine not exceeding $500, or by i'm
prisonment for a term not exceeding
three years, or both, in the discretion Of
the court, and shall pay the costs Of
prosecution.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-09-22
100000 EACH DAY.

During the war Democrats said
our government spent SO, 900, 900 per
day and they said the debt would
never be paid, but Grant is paying it
at the rate ofabout $50O,000 per day
and that too after the taxes of the
people have been vastly reduced
Let Democratic speakers and writ
ers lie as they will, the debt is rap
idly disappearing beneatht the efforts
of Grants honest, capable and con-
stitutional administration.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-09-22
THE HONEST DEMOCRACY.

press in its charges of unfairness
and corruption against the Repub-
lican party, that it is well to keep in
view, and to refresh the public mind
upon, the remarkably ''honest"
means made use of by the Democ-
racy to obtain or retain political
power. To say nothing of the in
vention and reiteration of the base
ISLANDERS and misrepresentation that
are constantly being coined and cir
culated in regard to public men and
public measures, the outrageous
frauds perpetrated by the managers
of the party, whenever opportunity
offers, ought to sink the party, and
the men who control it, into the very
lowest perdition. Of all the crimes
that can be perpetrated upon an hon
est and confiding people, frauds
upon the ballot box, by which the le-
gal voters of a community are de-
frauded of their rights, are the very
meanest that can be committed.
Although it was well understood
that for series of years the most
gigantic of frauds have been perpe-
trated in the city and State of New
York, by which the city and State
are kept in the hands of the treas
ury plundering democracy, the full
eXtents of those frauds was scarcely
comprehended until made to stand
out in such bold relief, by the cen
sus returns now being made, that
even the democracy themselves are
compelled to partially admit their
truth. For instance, in partial list
of the returns, with an analysis of
the vote given at the election in May
last, by which the democracy gained
such an overwhelming victory" in
the State, we find the following start
ling figures:
In the third district of the third
ward the censns shows a population
of BIS and vote of 33S-72 of which
votes were Republican, and 266
democratic. In the first district of
the sixth ward the population is 102
and the vote 99-23 Republican and
" democratic. In the tenth district
of the same ward the population is
$40, while the vote was $3.50 Re
publican and SS4 democratic. In
the sixth district of the twenty-frst
ward, the population is S55 and the
vote 555-42 Republican and 513
democratic. In the 7th district of
the same ward the population is 716
and the vote 45S-22 Republican
and 436 democratic.
These are but a few samples of the
manner in which elections are man.
aged, wherever the democracy have
control of the ballot-boX, showing
that majorities to any required ex-
tent can be manufactured at will, re-
gardless of population. And these
practices are by no means confined
to New York City. There are well
authenticated instances in Ohio,
where similar trickery has been
practiced, it being well known that
the repeating" system is but one of
the many devices of the Democracy
for gaining spurious victories at the
polls. Is such a party worthy of
the confidence Of honest people,?
The voters of Ohio will, on the sec
ond Tuesday of October, most en-
phatically say, as they have often
said before, NO!
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-09-22
"WHAT He PROMISES HAVE DOME

In ancient Athens two men once
contested for the suffrages of the
people. One was profus in promi-
ses of what he would do, and the
other came forward and said: "What
he promises / have DONE" This re-
ply can well be applied to the Dem
ocratic and R epublican parties. All
that the Democrats promise we have
done, or are doing. l give now one
or two facts: In the last seventeen
months of Andrew Johnson's Presi-
dency, the national debt was in
creased thirty millions; in the first
seventeen months of General Grant, s
administration the debt has been de
creased one hundred and eighty mill
ions, and Congress at its last ses
sion reduced the taxes more than
eighty millions.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-09-22
REDUCTION OF TAXES.

A Republican administration in a
little over one year has reduced the
public debt nearly one hundred and
and sixty millions, and Republi-
can Congress in one session ligth-
ened the burdens of taxation over
$sO,OOO,OOO.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-09-22
RENOMINATION.

The Republicans of the Tenth
Congressional District have done 8
good thing by renominating DR.
Peck. He served out the little time
for which he was elected to the last
Congress with credit to himself and
his constituents, and gave every ev-
idence that with enlarged experience
he would make an influential legis.
lator. We do not suppose anybody
entertains any doubt of his re-elec,
tion.