The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-11-14

school district. This is a matter of
!, little importance, but them we are
bound to stvindicate the truth OF his
q itory.nna sf0ol ais sfnl bssilo' 3
-os9 gai1--L-- = - - cl.iS II
no - That NIajority.,nsmi4i (
Il The Grant papers are Growing most
Justify over the immense majority
given, their candidates at the late elec-
/ ton. How that majority was obtain-
ed is shown by the following from the
Enquirer. sit's -
The popular vote of the United
States may be pretty nearly approxi-
mated in the following estimate: d 9
Whites for Greeley. ...s.- .... 8. 100000
= Whites for Grant -.- ~. ~. 4, ,90O,00
-ss5fs5ss fssssssfasi8 bis. sslg sssi
all White majority for Greeley 400, 900
Negroes for Grant, .s.lii ag950D00
y. Negroes for Greeley, ~ , !!i'. $4,000
g9yg Negro majority for Grant 100000
aa1 Grants total majority, white and
negro conbined,1 2 is 100000. The to-
tai vote is fully 100000. Grants
majority on this is about seven per
cent. In other words, he has 100 votes
to Greeley's SO. This is the extent OF
the tremendous sweep we hear so
5fimuch about. sa11i'i 80, ''''A ~. - :.
- - Now, that the election is over and
the Radicals have another fourIyears
-flease ofpower, we hope they will take
up, the Philadelphia platform and be-
stow upon it their careful and prayer
. tul study.u Fearing that u they may
have forgotten its pledges we call
attention to the following:.g; :, ..sas.i s''@i
&. They promised reform IN the Civil
Service. aa,tf5sa s., 15.,..r,,e.,ii5snI i
a.,r They resolved in favor zof abolish
.ing the Franking Privilege, which
they SO grossly abused during the late
canvass. ~, t,s... sssa..I7 All
They declared in favor of,a speedy
return to specie payments. bft1
s.ilThey reiterated their repeated op-
position to donating the public lands
to railroad and other corporations,
They declared themselves in favor
of the right of local government,
g'as And they committed themselves in
favor of retrenchment and reform.
These things are substantially what
we contended for in the late canvass,
but we had no confidence in the often
violated promises of the party in pow
er. We judged them by their works
rather than their words. In our op-
a position we were overwhelmingly de-
feated. Let not the vietors in the
hour of their triumph forget these,
their solemn pledges to the people
They have the power in all the de-
partments of the Governmental car
ry them out. The Democrats and LIB
erals are powerless to interpose any
obstacle, if they SO, desired, to their
5 fully redeeming their apledges. Let
8sus watch and wait. shyIis
:. 8il 10 --L.---.aa -, - ..!..l zLii i}lia
Gazette, the leading Administration
3,organ in this State thinks the result
of the recent election is not to be taken
as an endorsement of the, acts of the
party in power. 1t says: Hsti bids
No one who has been a closeJ OBJ
server of the current of public senti-
ment during the campaign will claim
that the people meant, in voting for
and electing Grant and Wilson, and
siinicontihuing the Republican, party in
hpower, to be understood as endorsing
without qualification the course Soi
the party during the lasto fodr wears.
The statesman or the leader who puts
such o constPuctionSupont the, decision
of the people will commits a3tgrave
mistake. If the successful party shall
$50 iconstrue it, it will commit a grave
terror. szg tJBd I'D e saiue. bsd .
Two weeks ago any one who would
have dared openly to question tht
propriety of every, act and measure
a of, Grants administrations W ould have
been denounced as disloyaL But now
some of his most ardent supporters
fearing that the late result may BIZ
taken, as an endorsement of the polio,
of Grant, are beginning to set back.
fires. The truth is, there is not an In,
telligent man in the country who does
not feel that the pleading measures o.
1.-The administration are simply infa
nous. But so welded have the peo
pie become to party that they ar,
ready to endorse anything their cor
rupt 1esders may do i'''h .!ssh 9iio 10
81 sss.l-.Zl sLle u. ,.a.L.Lll-2 L.9aI iohw
80 To THE PoINT.-The thanksgiving
proclamation of Governor Hoffman
tof New York, is a model of brevity
After appointing the 2Sth day of No
yember for that purpose the Govern
or simply says ;pgtala b9iisa seag u
ho"Let the people, while utterins
thanks and praise, show their graft
btude to God by helping those who ar,
suffering and in want. eel - .xsteiA
Could any thing more be addedP,
A German named John Hope, com
mftted suicide at, his boarding ,hous
in Cleveland, N Thursday o last b.
shooting himself inthehead. Liquor
lis supposed to have been the cause
. - 80. Z. 2.