Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-09-24
POLITICAL

To select candidates for offices so
responsible as Governor of a great
State, and State Prison Inspectors,
Canal magnates, etc., would seem to
require the best men of a city so in
terested in good government as New
York. A glance at the list of dele
egates to the Democratic State Con-
vention at Syracuse from a majority
of the districts of this city is enough
to sicken one, and make one doubt
whether, after all, the idea of self
government is not a failure. Who
are the delegates? The men of char
acter, those who have a stake in
the city and State? Not a man of
them. In one list of thirty delegates
published last Monday morning,
| twenty-eight of them are Irish keep
ers of the lowest drinking houses
and bucket shops in the city, and
whoseplaces are the resort Of thieves,
prostitutes and rufians, and all un-
der the ban of the police. These
men who would be thieves them
selves but for the fact that it is more
profitable and safe to plunder the
thieves than to be actually in the
| profession, go to Syracuse to repre-.
sent the Democracy of New York,
and to make State officials. The
party is worthy of its representa-
tives and the representatives are
worthy of the party.
Morrissey who was kicked out of
Tammany, was possibly the least
Objectionable of the lot; but he has
men in his delegation for whom
hanging would be too good.
| The Republicans of Ohio and
| Pennsylvania, who are sore-headed
over trifes, and by their apathy, fast
ening the Democracy upon their
States, ought to live here awhile,
that they might appreciate fully what
Democratic rule means. They ought
to live for year or so under the
domination of Irish rum-mill keepers,
rufians, thieves and blacklegs; they
ought to have to pay the taxes we
have to pay, and to put up with rob-
berry of the most barefaced descrip-
ton; they ought to live under gov
eminent run entirely in the interest of
one class, and that the worst one,
and they would go home ready and
willing to take off their coats and go
to work for the only party that
makes pretense of decency and
honesty. Were l citizen of Penn
sylvania, would esteem visitation
of yellow fever as less a damage to
the State than a year of Democratic
rule, for as it is here, so it has been
everywhere that that party has had
power.
BEECHER-TILTON.
The Beecher- Tilton nastinesss is
not over yet by a long WAYS. 1t will
be remembered that at the beginning
of the muss Beecher procured an in
dietment against Frank Moulton, Til
toms friend, for libel in charging
that the said Beecher had been gull
ty of adultery with Tilton's wife.
This indictment still hangs over
Moulton. yesterday, Britton, States
attorney, offered to Moulton a with
drawal of the indictment on the
ground that the late trial settled all
the points at issue. Moulton indig-
nantly rejects the offer. He says
that he is indicted for a crime of
which he is innocent and demands
that the case go to trial. Beecher
wants it dropped, and it was his |
friends who influenced Britton to
make the offer.
The cat under the meal is this. In
the late trial Mrs. Tilton could not
be brought upon the stand to testify, |
because she was the wife of a party
interested, but in this trial her hus-
band is not interested, and she can
be compelled to testify as to what
she knows of the matter. Mr..
Moulton wants to get her on the
stand, to put her in the hands of
acute lawyers who will sift her-he
wants to compel her to testify open
ly as to what she knows of her let
ters and Beeoher's letters, without
private instruction. Moulton has
blood in his eye, and he intends to
follow up this trouble till he ends it
one way or the other. 1t is easy to
understand why the Beecher party
are willing to let the scandal drop,
and just as easy to understand why |
Moulton is not. He demands a tri-
al on the charge of libel, and he is
willing to let the world know wheth-
er he !libelled Beecher or not. 1
don't see how Beecher can afford to
avoid the issue, and therefore there
is to be revival of the nastiness.
Let us hope that the trial won't last
as long as the first one did. i /
Beecher returns touthe city this
week, his friends signalizing lis re-
sumption of labor by a grand testi-
monial ovation at the Brooklyn
Academy of Music.
Tilton commenced his big lecture
tour last night at Port Jervis, N. Y. |
He had AN immense audience and
was heartily greeted. He speaks
this season two hundred consecutive
nights, twice in New York and
Brooklyn. OF course he viii draw
immensely.
J, ., ,---a a.- BUSINESS.
I am exceedingly glad to be able
to report a decided revival of bus
mess in the city. The country mer-
chants are here IN force from Maine
to Texas, and while they are not buy
ing with anything like the freedom
of former years, they are doing de-
cidedly better. Instead of merely
sorting up, a majority of the country
buyers are purchasing stocks. Twen-
ty-fve houses reported yesterday
that theyiwere making larger sales
than last year at this time, by twen-
ty per cent, and that payments were
never better.
No one expects the large rushln
trade OF former years, but it is graf
flying to know that there is an in
crease. Money is very plenty in the
city for those who have proper collat-
erals, though it is almost impossible
to get at it on any but city securities.