Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-08-08
Editorial Brevities.
a note on Sunday is void.

When was a Convention known
only two majority?
You can tell a young lady's politics
by the name OF the paper she uses in
making her "bustle."
Parties making bets on the election
are informed that our particular fort
is acting as stakeholder.
1t is said Bill Allen squandered
away $4,000 to purchase the Darke
county delegates to go for him!
Some of the Republicans say the
Democratic party died on the 10th of
July, and the echo comes back to
them-u-ly.
We had the pleasure one day last
week of seeing Budd Doblc, driving
the black horse "Joe Hooker" around
our Fair ground track! He made it
iii about 2:27%.
Abner Dunlap has the finest "turn
out" of any man in Preble county
His double set of gold mounted Har-
ness were manufactured in Eaton by
John Ruppel, and cannot be excelled
anywhere.
We have the most cheering news
from all parts of this State. The peo-
pie are moving with one accord for
Greeley Sc Brown. Let the ball roll
on. ''The day of jubilee is coming"
Prebie county has been furnishing
Radical majorities for Montgomery
county Congressman for twenty years.
And now when she pressed her claims
her rights were sacrificed to a Mont
gomery county local Meeting. Poor
Preble!
The return of the delegate from the
Radical Congressional Convention on
Thursday evening last, was the most
solemn affair we we witnessed. The
Brook men were hostile, while the
"Ring" was all lovely.
Democrats in this County stand as
a unit in support of Greeley and
Brown. That the Democratic Repub-
lican party will elect their nominees.
no sane person can doubt. The peo-
pie demand it. The taxpayers are
determined to have it so.
We would like to know how it
comes that all our subscribers at Lew
isburg cannot get their paper. Every
week some one complains. If the
P. NJ. needs an extra copy, we will
send one rather than disappoint our
regular subscribers.
We will send the Eaton DEMocRAr
to IL new subscriber for three dol
lars-payabIe when Greeley is elected
President of the United States. Now
you plucky, sanguine fellows, who
laugh at the idea of Grant being beat,
hand in your ames
We talk on the streets of Eaton al
NEST daily with many Radicals who
admit frankly and honestly that the
Republican party "has done all the
good it can" Then dear friends, if it
is dead, let its epitaph be written as
was that of a power of old weighed
ia the balance and found wanting.
1t takes money to run a newspaper
as well as any other business and no
paper succeeds financially that carries
OIL a deadhead system. Any mention OF
the peoples affairs they wish to see in
print, is worth paying for. and when
printed is generally as good as any
other investment of the same amount.
The millennium is near. "The lion
and the lamb shall lie down together
After the lst of March next, Horace
Greeley will be President of the Uni
ted States-then we will have peace
and low taxes-the poor men and the
farmers will rejoice and be happy.
Mr.. Gunckel may put down Preble
County as o for him on the Congress.
ional vote. The friends ofMr. Brooke
say that if he did bride delegates tc
go against their own county in Con.
vention, he cannot purchase vote:
enough to endorse him at the polls.
We hope our n~eighbor of the Greg,
lister" will find it convenient to fur.
nish his readers with Charles Sum.
ner's letter to his colored- friends
You know Charles has always been 6
great favorite with you, a bright spar
ticular STAR" and yoH should help tt
keep him shining!
The amount sent into this county t.
bride the Preble delegates for Gunck
ell, was $4,000. It was given out b!
his friends that this money wa
for the purchase of tobacco, blu
it is now known that it was used t,
buy Preble county delegates at tn,
Dayton Convention. How it succeed
ed is before the people of this District
} A great many persons around her,
are personally acquainted with tn,
l Rev. W. S. Bacon. He was Post Mas
: ter at Lockland under the Grant ad
m~inistration. He writes a very touch
. ing farewell to his old associations