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The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-08-13
CROP REPORTS.

The Cincinnati Gazette, of last Wednes-
day, publishes reports from 135 different
points in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois,
covering nearly all the territory that has
suffered from the recent floods. A care
full study of these show that a much
larger proportion of the crops will be
saved than was expected a week ago.
Wheat promises at least two thirds an
average crop, taking the flooded country
through. Oats has suffered more, and
will not yield over half an average crop.
Corn promises more than an average
crop, some sections reporting double the
amount ever harvested before, while
but few sections report unfavorable ac-
counts.
There is some complaints of potato rot,
but by far the greater number of points
report considerably more than the usual
yield.
The hay crop is somewhat damaged in
quality, bat there is no reason to appre-
hend any material fnlling off in quantity.
Had it not been for the recent floods
the crops in the belt of country covered
by these reports, would have been simply
immense. As it is, much larger crop
will be harvested than we had reason to
expect, and while some sections have
suffered terribly, it cannot be said to
amount to a general calamity, and no
distress on account of short crops is to
he feared
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-08-13
4 MATTER For DELIBERATIONS

Apropos of the demand of the Dem
ocratic platform for the extinguishment
the national banks, Hon Alphonso Taft,
in his Marietta speech, says:
This proposition in the Democratic
platform would seem TO be n clamOr for
change, such as uneasy politicians out of
Office are apt TO invent for the purpose
of getting in. Stability in financial af-
fairs is important to the business com
munity; and such changes as this which
is now proposed by the Democratic Con
vention will, at least, bear deliberatiOn
and discussion before turning our backs
on institutions which aided the nation
in its supreme trial, with near four hun
dred millions of capital, and which have
served it in peace as safely and well rs
the national banks have done.
The amounts which the people of this
country have lost by the depreciation OF
the circulating notes issued under form
er systems of banking might not be suiil-
cient to pay our national debt, but
would be sufficient to meet almost any
other liability that could be named and
those losses fell mainly on men who
were least able to bear them. No hold
er of any national bank note of the three
hundred and fifty millions that have
been issued has lost a dollar, or ever
will. That fact should be remembered
when it is proposed to extinguish them
before the short term of twenty years
for which they were Incorporated.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-08-13
NO WAR ON CATHOLICS

The Democratic press is very busily
engaged at the present time in charging
Know-NOthingism upon all who are op-
posing any division of the school fund
or sectarian legislature in the interest of
Roman Catholicism. Nothing can be
farther from the truth. The Republi-
can party contains large proportion of
the intelligent foreign vote. The Pro-
testant German will never vote to virtu-
ally repudiate our National Debt. In
our late war for the preservation OF the
Union, they invested in our bonds, and
they are almost universally opposed to
the pernicious heresy of imitation. The
Republican party makes no war on for
eigners. 1t makes no war upon Catho-
lies as individuals. But it is opposed
bitterly to the aggressive intolerant atti-
tude assumed by the Catholic Church
towards the free institutions Of our Re-
public. The Geghan Bill was an enter
ing wedge in this warfare. The Re-
publican party met this first step in the
Democratic-C Catholic alliance at the
threshold and warned them in the fourth
and fifth pianks of their platform that
a square issue would be made. Alarmed
by the hostility of the people, the Dem
ocratic Convention undertook TO retrace
their steps by putting in their platform
a plank which, vaguely and in dubious
language, opposes n division of the
school fund This, however, viii deceive
no one. Give Democracy the power
and they would not dare to go back on
their Roman allies.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-08-13
EX-SENATOR PUGH on THE SITUATION.

Not many years since Hon. Geo. E
Pugh WAS a power in the Democracy of
Ohio. His voice has not entirely lost its
potency with the Democrats who were
educated in the Jackson and Benton
school. An interview from the Cincin-
natl Commercial reports Mr.. Pugh thus:
! reporter of the Commercial had the
privilege Of an interview on Saturday
evening with the Hon. George Z. Pugh,
in relation TO tine questions involved in
the Ohio campaign. The reporter intro
duced the subject by iuquiring whether
Mr.. PuSh had any engagements to speak
during the campaign.
Mr.. Pugh-.I have been invited by
the State Central Committee Of the Dem
ocratic party, and by the special request
Of Governor Allen, made TO NE in per
son to speak Ia several places. bat con
~i.i-FihE tE, i;'-:iiDE "a which Judge
Thurman Li,- been tr.-;,j-d by the Est-
gTirgg, and tl:r paper, 81, hiclI follow it.
DO not conceive If iu any way agree
able TO nv sense of self respect, To ac-
eept any further invitations, and have
retracted all the engagements which !
| tie Democracy OF Ohio can not listen
with tolerabie respect and common de-
cency 10 their own Senator in Office, the
Hon. Allen q. Thurman, it is in vain
for me to expect. il | should attempt to
speak, anything but Insult
| Reportpr-''Y have noticed the Sc
| verify Of the structures IN the Eastern
| Journals or Judge Thurman's speech at
| Mansfield, and 1 had some curiosity to
| know to what extent you conenrred in
them"
| Mr. PuglI-''I beg leave to say that
the fault of Judge Thurman'S speech
consisted in the fact that he attempted
To give color to the resolutions OF the
State Convention which they cannot
bear in the estimation of any Intelligent
mnu. Those resolutions, though adrOitly
written, and intended to catch the breeze
| from every quarter, did certainly mean
that the Democracy of Ohio are ia favor
of issuing Gleenbacks, being IegaI-ten-
ders, TO an unlimited amount, and with
| no provision for their redemption in
! specie within any caiculab!e time, and if
that b" not delivering us over to n sys-
TEN not merely of inCOnvertible but ire
deemahlr paper money, | confess myself
that / do not resemble the gentleman
described 10y Judge Thurman WHO form
ed that platform, to wit: Masters of
the English language | consider that
| Judge Thurman failed OF his duty on
that occasion, to stand up in the face of
the Convention and to rebuke it for such
Il wide and fatal departure from the well
known and ancieutly established doc
trines of the Democratic party. Ten
words from him on that occasion would
have arrested the attention of the dele
gates, and would have delivered them
from the management of the old Wings
ana Republicans; especially General
Ewing and General Cary would have
been put to the wall. 1t is in vain now
to dwell on grammatical construction.
These two gentlemen, neither one Of
whom had any record of services in the
Democratic party, put to flight judge
Thurman, AS well as the President of the
| Convention, Judge Ranney.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-08-13
CONEORT Hit

Our neighbor of the Courier is much
worked up over the fact that the Repub-
Iicans adjourned their Convention last
Saturday. 1t is certainly very sad that
Democratic party iii the time Of holding
our Convention. When the Republican
Central Committee called our Conyen-
ton one week III advance of the Demo
cratic Convention, there was a shaking
of the dry bones OF tie Democracy over
this unheard-of innovation. There was
Il terrible running to and fro, and
tremblings Of distress" among tie lead
ers of the iniiationists. They gathered
in little groups and called one another
around the corner. Like certain can
didate on their ticket last year, they
.'smelled blood in every breeze and
gunpowder III every gale. When tie
day rolled around, for reasons that
seemed good and sufficient, Republicans
unanimously agreed to postpone the
Convention. Then these same men were
again panic-stricken, and began to fill
the air with rumors of plots and counter
plots Behind every stump and stone,
in their Imagination, lurked over grown
Republicans who were just waiting tc
swoop down upon the county offices and
quietly take possession, open up the
books and expose to the gaze of long
suffering and indignant people the man
ner in winch taxes had been increased
private notes of individuals had beeT
carried, while heavy interest had beer
paid by the county for money to carry
on necessary Improvements.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-08-13
DEMOCRATIC VFRACITP.

The Republicans of Hancock county
have virtually abandoned their organi-
zation and disbanded. They held a
county convention last week and resolv-
ed to make no nominations for county
officers. The truth is, the workingmen
who are out of employment I'm that sec
ton are about tired of RepublicRnism,
and the Democratic maiorities in that
region this fall will be simply immense.
-Van Vert Press, august 4.
For a first-class specimen of Mum
chausenism we commend our readers to
the above. The Republican Convention
did not meet until last Saturday, two
days after the above appeared in print.
There is not a workingman out of EN-
ployment in Hancock county, nor is
there one who has ever been a Republi-
can who is tired Of Republicanism. On
the contrary there was never more en-
thusiasm among Republicans. The cor
ruption of last winters Democratic Leg
islature, its notorious alliance with RO-
manism, its bold and shameless position
on the imitation heresy, all unite to ava
sken Republicans to a sense of their res
possibility, and every voter in theRepub-
lican ranks will be on hand to cast his bal
lot for that true and tried statesman and
incorraptible patriot, Rutherford b.
Hayes.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-08-13
Republican State Platform,

The representatives of Ohio. in con-
vention assembled, reaffirming the car
dlnal principles of their organization.
which have become the received maxims
OF the policy of the State and nation.
declare on specific points the series of
sentiments following:
First. The States ere one as a nation.
and all the citizens are equal under the
laws, and entitled to their fullest mo-
lection.
Second That 4 policy of finance should
be steadily pursued which, without un-
necessary shock to Business or trade.
will ultimately equalize the purchasing
capacity of the coin and paper dollar.
Third. We are in favor of a tariff for
revenue, with incidental protection TO
American industry.
Fourth. We stand by free education.
our public school system, the taxation
of all for its support, and no division of
the school fund.
Fifth. Under ourRepublican system of
government there should be no connec-
ton, direct or indirect, between church
and state, and we oppose all IegisIa
ton in the interest of any particular
sect upon this subject. We should not
tail to profit by the experience of for
eigR governments where the efforts of
the church TO control the state consti-
tute an evil OF great magnitude and en-
dangers the power and prosperity of the
people.
Sixth. We demand such a revision of
the patent laws as will relieve industry
from the expressions of IRopopolies.
SeveRth. A grateful people can never
cease to remember the services of our
soldiers and sailors. and it is due to them
that liberality ard generosity should OBJ
tain in the adjustment of pay and boun-
ties.
Eighth. That we demand that the
public domain shall be sorupllously re-
served for occupancy by actual settlers.
Ninth. The determination of the Gov
ernment to collect the revenues and
prevent and punish fraEds, has our un-
qualified approval.
Tenth. That the power OF munfeiaaI
corporations TO create debts should be
restricted, and local and other expepdi-
fures shoRld be reduced so as to dimin-
ash taxation.
Eleventh. The observance of Wash
sngton's example in retiring at the close
TO second Presidential Term, will be in
the future, as it has been an tie past, re-
garded as fundamental rule in the m
written law of the Republic.
Twelfth. The distinguished success OF
his administration, which, to the fame
of the patriot and soldier has added that
Of the capable and judicious statesman,
entities President Grant to the gratitude
Of his countrymen-
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-08-13
Our Free Schools.
Points for Every Voter Concerning their
Future.

BY request OF Arch bishop Purcell, Bishop Nc
Quaid. Of Rochester, N. Y, visited Cincinnati
In May. and there delivered his lecture on the
policy and demands OF the Roman Catholic
Church with respect 10 the Public Schools
Among other things, he said.
Catholics must avoid side issues. The Span
ish Inquisition punished with torture; the Bis
noarck Inquisition Furnishes by throwing men
into dungeons the American hnqufSitlOT pun
He had not voted since he had been Bishop.
but he hoped the time would come when he
ton would be brought TO a vote. Said he, al
stand here and say, that unless we bring this
thing Of school tdoes 20 The public Jd0t a0e do NOT
deserve The name Of CdfltOicS. Ii may not lie nee
essary 10 bringit 90 the ballot box we may, by
making a demand, effect a compromise; we
may obtain platform on which We may stand
American Catholics will not be 10 patient as
their fathers have been. The platform of the
eSCs sea1s IN noI now Ior as; IL rs lor Jews, ior
suppose we get strong enough TO rise up. Re-
member the platform ison us. Where iSdu The
platform De nheHf Men will learn that W. have
something more 10 do than praying; zoe nftLsf
oOte and The tdgnlel must toOTE. There is jeal-
ousy OF the priests, which will not have force
men,.
From the Catholic Telegraph Cincinnatu
We have prior claim upon the Democrtic
party. the elements composing the Demo-
cratic party In Ohio to-day-fulIy Lwo-thirds OF
said party-are made mp OF Irish and German
Catholics, and they have always been loyal
and faithful 10 the interests of the party Henee
The party Is under obligations 90 as and iUe hdUc
dperfect right 20 demand oJtheTa. as a party, m
asmuch as they are In control of ihe State
Legislature and State Government, and we by
both our means and votes placed Them where
they are to-day, that they should as q parry
redress our grievances.
Ifrom the Catholic Review, Toledo.l
That the Catholic vote should be cast solely
for the Democracy at the cOniag election, is
undoubtedly true.
From the Western CathoIIc.I
We DeJIfBTe % assert that SctOoLs are
nothing btn nurseries and hOLLes Of fdOeifiy ond
moreover, They turn O1a bad ciLfze7as No sound
Catholic would enter a Protestant church OF
have his child go 10 any but an exclusively
Catholic school. Neither a Protestant school
nor any Pm which religion is ignored suits a
Catholic parent or child. The former ICOttlli
rather aLLOlO the EGfLeT 10 gTOD p ia ignOrcnoe Of
the Glphdbef than enter siIch a place.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-08-13

THE Courier man charges that things
were ''fixed up" in the Findlay Repub-
lican caucus. As we have heard no
such charges from any other quarter we
conclude that the editor of the aforesaid
sheet must have sesn Through glass
darkIy," or rather doubly. Perhaps lie
is anxious also to divert attention from
the row which.took place in the Demo
cratic Caucus last Monday night. That
little game is rather tbIn.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-08-13

WE ask every honest Democratic NC,
ter to give the Democratic platform a
careful peTusal. Then let him do the
same for the Republican platform. And
after having read both, then let him
carefully examine the Geghan Law. He
ought by that time to have a faint per-
ception that now is not the best time TO
vote the Democratic ticket.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-08-13
tAREYISJIS.

a gentleman aU Portsmouth, Ohio,
tool, notes Of Carey's speech at that
place, aud ioruarisd some choice ex-
tracts to the CiHeinnqti GGzette from
which we culI the following:
Il tell you Mr. Merchant or Mechanic,
if you have a note out for 81 coo on
yOGr properly, especially if it's in a ma
tional bank, ~ for God'y sate to NOR
row before the sun SETS and notify him
to take your property, for if you don't
and the Republican party is perpetGated,
yon will dag out q miserable existence,
and be lett ut last with n sCbt OG your
shoulders TO begin life anew with"
'.Hayes said times are working better.
/ say they are not; more than million
of men are ont of employment. y hard
winter is approaching, yOur clothes and
shoes are wearing ont. My friends am
Alarmed for you. You can buy a new
dress for : cents, Th.s's "h"an enough,
but wheret the Grvii ere got a6iTg - ght
the cents
''There isn't n e0lOred man here,
worth $500. who does not pay more tax
to the government than 4. T. Stewart" 4"
'SEhsle magt ~ better times or the
working clas-ea vii. st,arye - ge;lin. -
Repndiation i jGd, but'it i i6titI iiIan
StaTcation, and am alarmed for tine
workingmen."
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-08-13
DIP WHOIE nITpY

An effective campaign will carry the
State of Ohio for the Republican ticket
by over 40, 900 majority. But an effect
i've campaign means that every member
Of the party shall beup and doing. Let
Democrats have their differences among
themselves, and let Glaem settle those
differences rs best they can. kepu1li-
cans can best serve the cause of Repub-
licanism by having full turnout Mt the
primary meetings of the party, to the
end that good delegates inay be appoint
ed to attend our Conventions ana place
good candidates in nomination for the
YaFious offices TO be filed. Much may
be done before that Convention meets
by circulating documents and getting
thoroughly posted as to the issues in
yolyed in the campaign. Republicans,
do not biindly follow the lead of any
one. They cannot be depended upon
to SUPPORT men without claims or quail
ficatiOns, nor will they rally to the sup
port of measures they have not fully in
vestigated. Therefore, each Republican
should go to work at once and use his
influence to put things in shape to get
out full vote, f6f JuH turn ont cfthe
party means 1ictOTy.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-08-13

THE Charleston, S. c., Ne1os and
Courier says: "Ex-Presidant Johnson's
death will be regretted by none more
deeply than by the insurance companies.
He was believer in life insurance, and
illustrated his faith by his acts to an ex-
tent that is are.indeed, even nowadays.
The aggregate of the policies on his life
is no less than $3.50, ,O6G. His happy
heirs can well afford to say no more
about that little pile of S7O,O 900 which
the ex7 x7President lost-by the bankruptcy
of Jay Cookies bank"
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-08-13

Gov. ALLEN, when waited upon by a
correspondent few days ago and asked
for an opinion in regard to a return to
specie payments, said:
81 regard the accomplishment of
resumption in this country as physical
impOSSi6iLity. And regard the whole
doctrine of specie payment as an ideali-
ty, without practical foundation to rest
on. Iregard it as id barren tdeGlf-
sy SIR"
A great many men in this country re-
gard their private debts in the same light.
They never get so poor but what they
feel abundRntly able to give their note,
and regard their note as good for the
reason that everybody has it. The
Presidential Chair looms up before the
vision of William Allen, Snd 20 reach
the goal of his distempered ambition he
is willing to go back on his hard money
record of half century. Poor, delud
ed mani He has sold his birthright for
a mess OF pottage.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-08-13

NEW YORK city has long enjoyed the
blessings of Democratic government.
As result, its bonded debt continues to
increase at the rate OF about six millions
a year, while the assessed valuation OF
the city has begun to decrease. The
taxes continue to rise, while the peoples
ability to pay them is every year beeOm-
ing less
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-08-13
WILL YOU HELP DO THIS THING7

Will 4 Ob HELI> ~ IifiO IjfIHF!
The Democratic Legislature, of lust
winter passed the GeShan Bill, by a
strict party vote, every member Of that
party voting for it. This law was en-
acted at the dictation of Roman Cath
oIicism. Mr.. GKGHAY, its author, a
staunch and biaoted Romanist, in wri-
ting to his friend, Mr. Murphy, under
date of March Sd, 1875, said;
We have a prior claim upon the Dem
Ocratic party. The elements composing
the Democratic party in Ohio today
fully to-thirds of said party-are made
up of Irish and German Catholics, and
they have been always loyal and faith
full to the interests of the party. Hence,
the party is under obligations 20 us.
The Catholic Telegraph, the organ of
these prior claimants upon the Demo
cratic party, in an article upon the com.
mon schools, not long ago, said:
1t will he gIorious day for Catholics
in this country when, under the laws Of
justice and morality, our school system
shall be shivered to pieces. Until then
modern pagamism will triumph.
How do Protestant Democrats relish
this kind of talk? Are they willing to
still cast their votes in a party that will
thus ally itself with those who are seek
ing the overthrow OF our most valuable
institutions
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-08-13


GEN. HAYES reception in Southern
Ohio in the opening of the eaRvnss par
takes largely of a mighty ovation, and
is almost unprecedented in the history
of political campaigns. Despite the dis
aster of flood and storm, last Thursday,
at Gallipolis, Gen Hayes and Hon. VIM.
Lawrence had one of the largest and
most enthusiastic meetings ever held at
that point. A procession over n mile
long met them and escorted theIa into
town, and over three thousand people
listened to their speeches. Gen. Hayes
commanded a brigade largely made up
in Southern Ohio, and no officer of the
war YES more enthusiastically loved and
respected by bis men than was General
Hayes, and he we'll deserved to be pop
ular, for he was uniformly Kind and
obliging in his intercourse with them.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-08-13

THE Maryland Democracy IN Their
State platform protest against any in-
crease of the circulating currency, but
demand that such measures be adopted
by Congress =, v,iIi rrault in the resump-
ton OF speei" payments az the earliest
possible moiaent." This SHOWS a diSPo-
sition to deal honestly in financial mat
ters-which is in marked contrast win
the course pursued by their Ohio eonsins.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-08-13

PROF. DONALDSON is not thT first aero
naut who has sailed in the air ne<er 20
be heard from. 4 similar fate befeii a
man named Timothy Winchester twenty
years ago. In the summer OF 1851 WIN
chester assembled in balloon from Nor
walal, Chic, and was last seen passing
near FerIIillion, erie Coanty. Dhio-
He is supposed TO have beenlost an Lake
Erie, as no other tidinSs Of him were
ever FeeeiVei.