Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-09-11
cAMp1AGN NOTES.

If it be true that Fernando Wood
is to help the Hon. Wm.Allen stump
this State, it will be better than a
circus. If Vallandigham's ghost
could drive the team the show would
be perfect. ID ~, ..,....-,, g.,
The venerable Aliens Columbus
speech does not improve upon furth-
er examination. The only point
that we discover in it worthy of men,
tion is the new, original and truly
elegant metaphor ofs"root hog or
die" ree5.4t >fri .nr5i'e.i l'' '-.
The Democratic party of Iowa
confesses itself in articulo mortis.
No State Convention will be held
this year, and the State Central
Committee has just issued an ad-
dress advising Democratic voters to
support the nominees and platform
put forth by the"Anti Monopoiists.' %
The Republican party will walk over
the course. 73.u .n,.9 57HAilei5 '-i
About seven millions Of the pub
lie debt we're paid in the month of
August, by the present tyrannical
and bloodthirsty administration.
The spoiled party is also a spoils
party. =di 2ala7 -.-i 1.-i s4s
The last Democratic Legislature
sat the longest and cost the most of
any ever held in the State.
Really, this will never do. The
Republican party has had things in
Indiana pretty much its own way for
number of years-and see the sad
result. Despite having to pay a war
debt of six millions of dollars, it can
now point to an accumulated school
fund of eight millions of dollars, the
largest of any State in the Union.
No wonder the Democracy strain
every nerve to get possession of the
State Government. What a tempta
tion for Tammany Ring!
Col. Bill Allen used to try very
hard to get Henry Clay to axe some
notice of him. He would below and
bray, and turn toward Clay,and paw
around, and snort and snuff the ali
and then double himself. Clay nev
er paid any attention to Allen; still
there are Democratic papers that
speak of him as a cote mporary of
Clay, Webster, Benton and other in.
intellectual giants, just as if they
had really associated with the ole
gong.
The details of Governor Moves
administration were investigated by
Democratic committee, which clos
ed with the declaration that, sin the
official conduct of NO public officer
wherher elective or appointive, ha.
corruption been disclosed" This i,
the best compliment possible for the
administration to receive. ojrd
One of the leading Democratic pa
pers Of the Eastern States think.
that the great want of that party i.
leaders. And followers, it NIGH
have added; for, thanks to the EN-
ancipating and quickenihg spirit Of
the age, the number of their dupes is
every day growing less and less. ro
The Massachusetts Democratic
platform resolves @That the Repub-
lican party is responsible for the Sc
ductlon of the Democratic members
of Congress to the corrupt schemes
of the Republican party" Poor in
nocent little creatures. r.-.-
The Boston Globe says of the De
mocracy: "The ioparty's work is
done, and it is fast disappearing
from even the local fields where its
vestiges will naturally remain long.
est. In the South, the contest be.
tween the negroes and their late
masters; in the West. the struggle
between the farmers and the rail
roads, and in Massachusetts,, con-
test which we need not name-are
to-day the live issues in the politics
of the country. The Democratic or
ganization can deal with none OF
them, and is incapable of taking
up even the most trivial issues of the
day." --. 80.