Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-10-02
Rings.

ing and blistering, are at their
wits end. They cannot under
stand why, after so copious bleed
ing, the people seem more than
ever restless and feverish, just at
this time above all other, a col
lapse is most to be dreaded. While
Gov. Noyes is telling the people
that u country was never so
prosperous, one financial crash
after another thunders back the
stern contradiction Of the asser-
ton. While he is telling the
farmers they never were so pros
porous, their hands are upon their
f1attened pocket books, and their
brains are busy devising ways
and means to lift mortgages from
their homesteads, or meet cur
rent expenses, swelled to oppres-
sion by the Ubiquitous tariff made
for tho benefit of a few monopo-
lies. Even President Grant is
startled from behind his cloud Of
smoke at Long Branch, and hur-
ries to Washington to look after
his hard earned deposits in the
collapsed First National Bank of
the Capital city. And while the
big Rings are thus troubled, the
little Rings find that for them no
angel of health has stirred the
more troubled pool of American
politics. The Republican Ring
of this county, having slaughter
ed some former associates who
possessed too much manhood, in
tegrlty and patriotism for Ring
performers in the most 1udicrous
display OF modern times, +
scared out of their wits by evil
dences of independent thinking
on the part of the people. The
game is played out. No number
of cracks from the party whip
are going to make an awakened
people play clown to the discom-
flied Ring masters. Every little
of1ce-holder may in vain echo
the words of Gov. Noyes, "tte
country was never more pros
porous than now," and paint in
glowing colors the bright politi-
cal Canaan beyond, and to which
they are leading, but the Dead
Sea apples of political promises
turning to ashes on the lips
which have so long smacked
down with gusts, the false doc
trines of these little wind bags,
most thoroughly nauseate the
masses.
We say to the Court House
Ring, and to the participators in
the illegal, irregular Convention
called together on the 9th of
September, to ratify a ticket be-
fore cut and dried, that the spirit
of independence is aroused. We
tell them to their teeth, that they
are not the guardians of the po-
l!tical manhood of Preble county.
We tell them now that there will
be more independent voting in
Preble county next October, tb an
there ever has been before. We
tell them that the people now
thoroughly awakened by the as
founding developments of cor
ruption in high and low places
are awake, and determined to
rescue the country from the
vampires which are drawing its
blood from every vein. They
are determined to reduce official
salaries to their proper level
they are determined to abolish
every sinecure Off are
earnest about bringing the
government of Counties, States
and the Nation, back to it's early
economy, simplicity and gran
.eur.
Therefore, go to work, de-
nounce us, howl about the gen
eral prosperity, hang up around
your political field the old torn
garments of dead and buried is
sues-set up your stuffed men of
,traws between the crooked rows
your political organizations
throw mud, shrek, howl, put on
your war paint-you have to
come out OF your lava beds, and
every "Shack Nasty Jim" OF