The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-11
THE DEMOCRATIC MEETING.

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The meeting of the Democrats of
Preble county, called for Saturday
last in the Court House to appoint
delegates to the State Convention,
was a very pleasant and harmonious
gathering. 1t was not the largest
we have ever had-neither aas it
the smallest-but it was composed
of the representative men of the
county-the farming and producing
class-the men who are oppressed
and born down by taxation and who
are opposed to contraction, poverty,
bankruptcy and the ruinous policy of
the present corrupt administration,
and in favor of greenbacks, prosper
ity, honesty and economy, just and
equal laws to all alike, whether they
earn their bread by the sweat of
their brow or by sitting in their easy
and cushioned chair, clipping their
gold bearing and untaxed coupons.
The proceedings of the meeting in
full, will be found in another column
OF our paper. The resolutions speak
for themselves. They are bold, out
spoken and truthful upon the great
wrongs inflicted upon the country,
and express themselves in the inte-
rest CT the people and in antagonism
tothe moneyed monopoly now ruling
the financial policy Of the nation.
Around and in support of these res
olutions, it seems to US, that every
laboring man, every producer, every
honest and independent voter in the
county can cheerfully rally. A
change of administration must be
inaugurated or the government is
lost to the people and prostituted in
the interesto of the capitalist, as a mere
machine to be run and controlled fol
the benefit of the few at the expense
of the many. So it has been admin
istered for the last fifteen years, and
the bondholders having control o.
the Republican party, r marshal
ing their forces through that ergani
cation to ~perpetuate their power, mo-
by meeting the issues of the day BY
fair and Legitimate argument, but By
lighting the old dead issues of thu
war over again, and thus attemptin:
to prejudice the minds of the peopl'
against the reforms proposed. Ger
tainly there has been enough of thi
kind of political deception and hum
buggery to open the eyes Of the pee
ple and lead them to drop party pre-
judices and aEimosities, and vote 70
a change. The people have sufere'
io.g and wonderfully from the rul
of corruption and profigacy, and tn
, time has now arrived for them t
speak as Americans, as freemen an
as Christians, whether these abomi
, nations shall be continued, an
whether divisions and difference
should not be laid aside in order I
rescue this great and glorious go,
t eminent from the hands of its plur
dering Goths and Vandals.
r Give US honest BILL ALLEN f
g President. In him we can trust ft
a reform. There is no evasion {
hypocrisy in him. Integrity is h
) first and most prominent trait
:, has adorned every day and hour
his life-his public and private re
ord is as unspllied as that of chill
hood-he is far above the reach
bargain and sale, and frowns upc
the political knave as he would upc
: the midnight assassin. Give US hi
then, for n term as proposed, at
. salary originally fixed by Congress
a and all rings and peeulation in of
cial places will disappear, and I'll
e Republic be brought back to
T original purity, as a government
!. and for the benefit of the Peep.
The laborirg classes are for the o
Roman, but the politicians a
against him, for they know well if
! the Presidential chair no rings cou
be found, and consequently the
trade and business would cease.
" There is a class of men grown
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