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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03

"GoULD says that all those who
spread flowers over dead. soldiers
graves are fools. Ladies, you are
not allowed to decorate the graves
of your fathers, husbands, sons or
brothers who died for our country, if
you do you will be abused and called
fools. But about election time the
soldiers will be bully boys."-Regis-
ter.
The above is a first-class lie by
the stationary time of our Town
Clock, and if the person who wsetsit
has not sufficient brains to properly
construe what we did say and mean,
he should quote us. We said nothing
about brothers and sons or fathers
and husbands. What we did say
was, that instead of 'acting the fool
in spreading flowers overthe graves,
if the money wasted for this purpose
was used to fill with flour the sacks
of the widows and orphans of the
dead soldiers, it would look more
sensible" and we say SO again. The
simple, yet beautiful and affecting
custom of antiquity which has de-
scended to modern times of decora-
ting with flowers the graves of those
We respect and love, finds a response
in every soul not utterly callous and
insensible to everything that is love
ly and affecting, and ifthis was done
to-day by the brothers and sisters
and fathers of the deceased, it would
carry with it its beauty. But to see
a lot of broken down political hacks
and office-seekers, taking charge OF
this solemn and beautiful privilege
and running it for political capital,
as has been the case for the past sew.
eral years, is too thin and disgusting
and ought to be discontinued, out o.
respect for the relatives and friends
of the dead. OF course this little
and contemplate effort to prejudice
the soldiers and their friends agains'
us, by a gross lie, will not be correct
ed by the Eaton Register. Its oh
ject is to manufacture votes in thi!
county in the interest of the Gran
dynasty and its own pocket. l
cares no more for the dead soldie
and his friends, or whether flower
are spread over his grave, than doe!
the Hottentot, only for political pur
poses. We are tired of this hypo
critical cant, and hence our remark
about it. If the fathers, husbands
sons or brothers will do this, we ar
in favor of it, but not ifa lot of hypo
: critical politicians and office-seeker
, manage it as heretofore. Now MI
t Register, publish that.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03
June 8 1875.
DEMOCRATIC

The Democratic Central Commit
tee deem it unnecessary to make any
special appointments as Delegates to
the Convention, which meets at Co.
lumbus on the 18th inst, but ie-
quests every Democrat or Liberal
who can attend, to consider himself
a Delegate and represent the County
on this occasion. Half-fare trains
will be run on all the roads to and
from Columbus.
BY order of the Dem. Cen. Com.
j. v. CAMPBELL,
Chairman.
L. G. GOULD, Sec'y.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03
(From the Wayne Co. Democracy
THE REDUCTION OF STATE TAX
Es FOR 1876, BY COUNTIES.
Total Rcducffan in two Wears,
$7,2GO,Oo0.

Below we give the amount of State
collected in each county in 1878
under levy authorized by the Goth
General assembly, and the amount
that would be collected on the dupli-
cate of 1874 under the levy author
lied at the adjourned session of the
6lst General Assembly, which is the
Democratic General Assembly that
closed its session on the Both of
March, and give the reduction for
1875 as compared with 1873. 1t will
be remembered that the late General
Assembly at its regular session, a
gainst the protest of the present Aud
itor of State, reduced the levy for
State purposes from three mills and
five tenths of mill to three mills and
two tenths of a mill. Had the old
levy authorized by the preceding
General Assembly, which vas Re
publican, been maintained, and
which the Auditor of State insisted
should be maintained, there would
have been collected from the people
for State purpose $474,O0 more than
was collected. Contrary to the gen.
eral expectation, the State levy was
decreased one-tenth of a mill more at
the late adjourned session ofthe 61st
General Assembly, which makes a
further reduction of $15S,000 on last
years duplicate. The old levy au-
thorized by the Republican General
Assembly would on last years dupli-
cate produce $632,00O more than will
be produced under the present levy.
AS tie reduction of taxes on the du-
plicate of 1874 amounted to $474,-
900, and Is the reduction authorized
in 1875, to take effect in the Deem
Der collection, would amount to $685.
600, so the total reduction authorized
by the Democratic General Assem-.
bly, in 1874 and 1875 amounts to the
grand sum of ELEVEN HUNDRED
THOUSAND DOLLARS! We shall here,
after give a table of the reduction by
counties for 1874 and 1875, and thus
show how much the reduction for the
two years is for each county. L
Governor Allen and the Democratic
State Ticket and Democratic Gener
al Assembly shall be elected at the
October election, a:further reduction
OF one hundred and Wty-eight thou
sand dollars can be made By the neG
General ASSemby:
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03

A terrible "raeket" was created at
the corner of Main and Fifth streets
about midnight last night by a man
said to have the "jim.jams," who was
running up the street screaming ter
ribly, and pursued by a couple of
friends.-DaytOn Democrat.
There, that is all owing to the ed
itor of the Eaton Register residing
in that city. 1t is a distressing af-
fiction. Wonder if this is the same
case that occurred in the JoHrnnl
office, and caused that paper to ap
pear two DAYS with the saaIc date:
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03

PURSUANT TO an order OF the Fro
bate Court, the undersigned will
offer for sale at public auction, on
Saturday, June 90, He75,
on the premises, between the hours Of
2 and 5 o'clock, p. m, the following
real estate, b. them held as Assignees
of the firm of Barnets & Whiteside,
to-wit:
1st. One large Flouring Mill, built
in the best manner, slate roof, all the
latest improvements in machinery,
both steam and water power, with six
run of burrs, is convenient to Rail-
road depot at Camden, and is i'll all
respects first-class Mill property.
Also, Saw Mill, two Dwelling Houses;
Barns, Stables, and sixty [60l acres of
land. Appraised at $23,000,O0.
I'd. Sevcnty-one and a half [71@
acres of land in the southwest quar-
ter of Section Is, Township number
6, Ranged, east, Preble county, Ohio,
is partly in timber, has good stone
quarries, and is about one-half mile
from Railroad. Appraised at $4,000.
TERMS OFSALE-One-third cash.
one-third in one year and one-tlIird
in two years; deferred payments to
bear interest and to be secured by
mortgage.
DAVID BARNET,
ISAAC L. CRAIG,
AssignGes.
May 81, IS75-w5 prf 1920
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03

The Democratic State Convention,
to be held at Columbus, June 18th,
will undoubtedly be II of the larg-
est and most enthusiastic Conven-
lions ever held in this State. Every
Democrat who can possibly do so
ought to attend. 1t is expected to
be such an outpouring of the Demo
cratic hosts as was never before wit
messed OF any similar occasion.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03

The administration organs that
arc bowling about Gov. Allen giving
positions to mefitorious democrats,
ought to refresh the memories of
their readers with instances where a
Republican Governor ever appointed
democrats in preference to members
of his own party. Then there would
be some show of consistency in their
bowls.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03


The flag ends of the old Republi-
can Ring and Clique, that used to
once rule and control the political
affairs of this county more than they
do now, and who were not present at
the great out-pouring (?) on the
22d of May, had a little private eau
Gus in Eaton on last Saturday, and
we understand quietly disposed of
the unattended to business, such as
arranging for a County Convention,
nominating q ticket, naming the can
didates, and also to plan out the way
the campaign shall be conducted
in Preble, &c. 1t appears there has
been some want of harmony among
these old hacks, as to the propriety
CT holding a county Convention, see
ing as how the people of this county
don't pay much attention to them
any more. A continual howl is
to be kept up IN Catholic suprema-
cy, in order to blind the Independent
voters and seduce them into Radical
camps. 1t has been all arranged, at
least satisfactorily to themselves, and
The honest and Independent voters
may look out for some wonderful ex-
hibitions of political strategy and
grand and lofty tumbling. The
independence of the masses of this
county has been tested, however,
and proven entirely satisfactory to
all except the o~fice-hunters and pap
babies, that want to moropolize the
"solid chuncks Of fat" that drop from
the County Treasury. These old
wire workers may as well rest easy,
and not work themselves into seri.
Il cases of sim jams" because the
people will vote to suit themselves.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03
SMOKED OUT!

The great horse racer and dog
batter and gift taker, has finally
out on the third-term question,
and thus outwardly removed a heavy
load from the shoulders of his office
holders. 1t is IN the shape of a let
ter addressed to Gen. Harry White,
President of the recent Republican
State Convention, held in Harris
burg, Pa, and is a very remarkable
document-more so for what it
don't say than what it does say! 1t
speaks very fl~atteringly of Gen.
Grant and the sacrifices he made
in accepting the Presidency. He
says he ''never sought the office for
a second term, ner even a first TERM"
and he would not utter q word TO
change the will of the people-that is
to say, that if the people want him
for a third term he is willing to make
the "sacrificeIn He says the "ques-
ton of the number of terms allowed
to any one Executive can only come
up fairly in the shape of a PROPOSE
ton to amend the Constitution,
which is his argument that if the
people want him q third time, there
is nothing to prevent the great gift
taker from making the sacrifice
again! He thinks that it ".may hap
pen in the future history of the coun-
try that to change an Executive be-
cause he has been eight years in Of
flee will prove disastrous" which he
clearly intends should apply to Gen.
Grant. Now amt that ridiculoust
He says he "would not accept a pom
nation if it were rendered, unless it
should come under such circumstan-
ces as to make it an imperative du-
ty." Would the circumstances" Of
the prospect ofthe ascendency ofthe
Democratic party make it an sim.
perative duty" to make the "sacri.
flee" again? Certainly it would. He
thought it was his imperative duty
the first time and the second time tc
save the country, and he will consid.
er it an imperative duty" the THIRD
timel The letter is as clear a bic
for the nomination as could have
been made, and proves c~onclusively
that he has no scruples whatever Il
make the sacrifice for another
term. Of course Grants office-hold
ers and advocates will point to thii
letter as a clear proof against his as
pirations for q third term, and I'm
dertake to make considerable CAPT
tai out of it in the interest of thei
chief. The Cincinnati Commercial
after reviewing the letter says: 9Th
President pointedly defines his doc
trine as to the third term to be tina
there is no principle worthy of con
sideration against it, no opposini
tradition that the American peopl
are bound to venerate or even re
spect; and he broadly intimates tina
he may be again called to make tn
sacrifice" under a sense of duty, a
when he first accepted the Office
This explains ITSELF" 'Rah fc
Boss Grant!
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03

From all u exchanges we get the
gratifying intelligence thas the late
rains and fine warm weather which
followed have greatly improved the
crops, both grain and fruit; and that
there is a good prospect for an az
erage yield of wheat. The peach
crop has suffered generally from the
severe weather of the winter and late
frosts, but there will be half a crop
of other fruits.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03

The ceremony Of decorating sol
diers' graves at Springfield, Illinois,
is noted as having been postponed,
in order not to interfere with q cir
Gus exhibition, and still any body
who says it isn't dule ct decorum pro
pdtrta mort is deemed 4 villain in
Springfield.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03

The. gentleman who lives in Day
ton city and edits a paper in Preble
comfy, was not appointed a delegate
to the Radical Convention from either
place. He might have went as a
third-term advocate from Montgom-
cry and a no-third-term from Preble.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03

Notwithstanding the last Demo
cratic Legislature cut down the sal
aries of County officials about TWEEN
ty-fve per cent, there seems to be no
want of patriots" to serve the peo-
pie at the reduced rates. At the Re
publican Convention of Seuenteen that
met in Eaton to represent the third
term principle, fourteen of them are
on the anxious" bench, and will be
on hand at their nominating Con
vention to pledge themselves to any
and every thing for an office.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03

The Grant organs grind out con-
siderable music against the Ohio
Legislature that saved thousands of
dollars to the taxpayers of Ohio,
but there is no music against the
$4,000 safeguarding President
and the corruptions under his adj
ministration. How consistent this
''bresd and butter brigade is, to be
sure? How they fear Democratic
rule.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03

Monday Evening, May 81, 10.
Council met in regular session at
Council Chamber. Present.. H.
Zoos, Mayor; VIM. H. Ortt, Clerk;
j. L. Chambers, N. Fi1bert, Thomas
Fulton, Jas. Gable AMI S. II. Hub
bell, Councilmen. Council called to
order, minutes Of previous meeting
read and approved. The following
bills we're presented, found correct
and orders directed to be issued for
the respective amounts.
C. Ahrens & Co. Gin. o. mds.
for Fire Department $6,75
Coffin & Son 2 brls of Gasoline
and drayage, 22,4I
Carol & McCabe ceiling belfry
and raising bell On Hall, &c, 37,S5
W. E. Vest q days serv. assist
ing Eng. surveying Water st. 4,5O
On motion Council vas instructed
to meet no tomorrow TUESDAY at
l o'clock, in front of the Court House
and locate a public Clstern. A pc
tition of j. T. Deem and five other
property holders on Cherry street,
between Main and the north lines OF
Messrs. Reichel and Fulton's lots,
praying for the sprinkling of said
street with water during the summer
and fall of 1875, to the north lines OF
the lots above designated. On mo-
ton the petition was received and
laid on the table one week. Messrs.
Fulton, Hilbert and Gable were ap-
pointed q committee on the purchase
of a Hook and Ladder Wagon for
the Fire Department; also on the
sale of the Red Rover hand Fire En-
CINE. Adjourned to Monday eve
ming June I, 1875.
WIN. H, ORTT, Clerk.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03

Grants organ-grinders and pap
suckers are trying to convince the
people that there is an alliance be-
tween the Democratic party and the
Catholic Church, and a conspiracy
between them to destroy the present
school system. The Democratic party
is opposed to sectarianism in the
schools, and to church politics. 1t
believes in equal rights to all relig-
ions, and opposes the attempts of all
denominations whether Protestant OF
Catholic, to interfere with, Or control
the present school system. The
charge is made because Democrats
respect the Catholics right to wor-
ship God according to the dictates
of his own conscience.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03

If Grant really believes it is his
duty to stop Klu-Kluxing, why don't
he send a regiment or two into Penn
~sylvania, to stop it in the mines? 1t
is. true that those who arc murdered
in the Pennsylvania mining regions
arc nothing but ''white trash"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03

A horrible and distressing disas-
ter took place last week, in Holyoke,
Massachusetts, the chief paper man
ufacturing town of the United States.
A crowded Catholic Church took fire
and seventy-one persons burned to
death, and some thirty others we're
injured, many of them fatally. The
fire originated from the draperies
about the altar being touched. by a
candle. There were seven hundred
people in the Church at the time.
1t is the most sickening disaster that
has occurred for many years, and the
scene in and around the Church was
heart-rendirg in the extreme.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03

We would like some of Grants
hand-organn, that r. screeching
such doleful music against the late
Democratic Legislature, to tell us
what great measures it left undone?
And while their ha2d is in, they
might as well tell what great mea-
sures the last Republican General
Assembly adopted.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03

The public schools of Ohio have
been made non-sectarian. People
who don't like them need not patron
ize them. If the School Fund was
divided to suit the religious preju-
dices or creed of a certain sect, it
wouldn't be long before rich old
bachelors, without children, would
be asking to be relieved from the
school-tax. Hands off the School
Fund, gentlemen.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03

Tt is amusing how very shaky some
of the Grant organs get near election
times about a few of the rebels that
a:e laying around loose. We don't
see why. Their chief made Mosby
his confident and give Gen. Long
street a fat position, and Vice Presi-
dent Wilson visited Breckenridge. 1t
is an old scare crow that don't fright
en- very many any more. As the
boys say, it is "too thin" Hold up
the Pope, that is your best and only
chance.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03
ONE ITEM,

Doubtless all our readers know
what is meant by United States Mar
shals. If there are any who do not,
we will state for their benefit, they
are Government officers appointed
by the Government to superintend
elections in the interest of the gov
ernment. This definition applies
strictly under Republican rule. In
the States and Territories there are
in all sixty-four Marshals. Accord
ding to the report of the Attorney
General, these Marshals have cost
the government in the LIST three
years, nearly seven millions Of dol
lars, or about $4,000 a year each.
That this money is mainly squander-
dered as a corruption fund, designed
to aid in perpetuating the power of
the Republican party, there is hard
ly room for a doubt. And in order,
says the n. Y. Sun, to make sure of
n sufficient revenue to maintain this
Ubiquitous system, the Republicans
laid new taxes in the last days of
Congress to the extent of thirty-five
or forty millions Of dollars. While
every branch of business is depress-
ed, tens of thousands of laborers
anxious to work are idle, imports are
falling off and stagnation in trade
universal, the Treasury is robbed to
support rogues in office, whose only
recommendation is that they are
friends of the President and third
termers. 1t is a beautiful condition
of affairs, but q fat take for the Mar,
shals and Revenue Collectors, to
draw "chunks of solid fat" from the
United States Treasury and the
taxpayers pockets, to 'lubricate''
their Threats that they may howl fol
Grant and against the Pope!
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03

From dispatches published the
wheat prospects in the north west
and west is decidedly encouraging.
1t is thought the crop will be fully
ND to the average heretofore.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03

Half-fare tickets will he sold to the
18th of June Convention. Every
one who a should attend. 1t will
be a rouser.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03

The only capital the Grant organ
has in this county to induce the peo-
pie to support the Republican party,
is to frighten them about the Pope.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03

Whenever the Republican party
runs short of political capital, they
raise the cry of prescription against
the Catholic Church, and affect great
fear of the Pope.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03
Partition Notice.

MARGARET LOO and Joseph Loop, her has
band, II Howard county, Indiana. May Lyons
and David Lyons, her husband, of Da' kr county:
Ohio, Barbara Oti aid Joan ont her hush t2d, OF
Preble county, Ohio, Eve Alexander and Julins
J. b. Alexander, her husband, of Allen county,
Indiana, Elijah Pease of Adams county, Indiana,
Barbara Lindsey and Hiram Lindsey, her nus,
band, Elizabeth Lock, Lula Clouse and David
Clouse, her husband, and Jesse Lock, of Noble
county, Indiana, Noah SchlOs5er, Mary SchlOsser
and John SchlOsscr, minor chilrden OF Lydia
SchIosser; formerly LYDIA Pease, and John Schios.
ser her husband, and Guardian OF said minors Of
Preble county. Ohio. are hereby notified that on
the 18th day of April. 1873, Frederick Lyons and
Susannah Lyons, filed their petition in the Court
of Common Pleas, of Preble. county, OHIO; de,
handing partition of the blowing described Real
Estate, situate in Preble county, Ohio. and IN Har-
rison Township, and being q part OF the north east
quarter, section IS, township range ) east, Begin
ming at n point on the east line of the section 40
poles south of the north east corner thereof and
running thence soEth 81 II degrees west l4d.GI
poles to Il stake; thence south G3 degrees 5 min
east 81 ,g5 poles TO Il stake; thence south % degrees
s min. east 1927 poles to n stake; thence north 80
degrees 3 min. west 20 poles TO the place of begin
ming, containing i6.0l acres. Said petitioners VIII
apply for an order for the partition of said prenii-
SEES ut the next term of said Court, commencing
June /, 1875.
Atty's for Petitioners.
Attest, ". I. QUINN, Clerk.
May, %, lS7j.-Gw. prs. SS,1O.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03
Partition Notice.

dl GltlCIl IN Ol1lO.
NOAH sCHLOSSER, Mary Schlosser, JOIN
jr., minor children of Lydia SchlOsseir,
decd, john Schlosser and John Schlosser. guard
ian of above named minors, are notified mat on
the 18th day of May, 1875, Elijah Pease filed his Pc
tition in the Court of Common Pleas, of Preble
county, Ohio, wherein he demands partition OF
the following Real Estate, situate in Preble coun.
ty, Ohio, and in Harrison township, and described
as follows, to-wit: Being the north part OF the
northeast quarter dissection Is, Township 1, Range
,, east &c; beginning at a stake at the north
west corner Of said quarter, and running thence
in the channel of Twin creek; thence south 6J de-
grees, s min, east lG:jl poles to stake; thence
north SIL. degrees, east 1861 poles TO 4 point on
the east line OF the %section; thence north ) degrees
3 min, west 10 poles to the northeast corner OF the
section; thence south 81 IL degrees, west lt0:6l
poles to the place of beginning, containing 39a3
acres ofland.
Said petitioner will ask for an order for the par.
tition Of said real estate, at the next term OF said
Court, commencing June !, 1875.
CAMPBELL &.GILMORE,
Att'ys for Petitioner.
Attest-W. D. QUINN, Clerk.
May 20, lS75-w6 PR so'6u