Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-10-20
Ohio gave in October 1872. a majority


Of 12, 2,1O5 Republican, and in November
gave Grant a majority Of "a 1O6
Indiana went Democratic, in October
1872 by a majority of 114s, and in Novem-
Der it gave Grant a majority Of q, 900.
When you hear Democratic speaker be
wailing the enormous taxes the people
must paw, ask him who created the debt
and made the taxes necessary.
Sporting men who put their trust in the
Democratic Central Committee, are throw
ing after their disappearing stakes some re
marks about the enthusiastic Chairman
that are more emphatic than compliment
tary.
The younger DIR. Tyng took part on the
dedication of the First Reformed Episcopal
Church in New York on Tuesday-10th,
Bishop Nicholson presiding. May we net
expect demonstration against the young
rector from Bishop Potter.
Somebody announced the death Of Como
dore Vanderbilt, in New York the other
day, which raised the old mans dander,
and a refutation was at once sent out By
him, asserting:
"I am alive and doing well-better than
for many months. c. YANDErBIT.
While Gov. Hayes is giving his time TO
the duties Of his office in Columbus and al
lowing election to take the even tenor Of
its way, Gov. Tilden is devoting himself
mere or less seduously TO his campaign
head quarters in Liberty street, n. Y, di-
Eecting his chances and prospects.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher comes to the
front again. In announcing a series of
meetings this week of the Women's Union
Missionary Society at the church Of DR..
storrs, he regretted these meetings should
be held in church, the going 10 which
wiz be offensive to many persons, himself
included.
Illegal aud fraudulenr. voting was car
ried on in Cincinnati, and on the southern
line Of Indiana, on the 10th to greater
extent than ever before. In nine wards in
Cincinnati. the votes polled in excess Of the
entire adult male population, 1876. The
wards are all largely democratic, and these
figures show how the honest voters were
swindled.
The true test of the Republican strength
in Indiana is shown in the vote on Congress
and Legislature. The retuns show a Re
publican gain of four Congressman and
majority in the Legislature. Does not this
result indicate, beyond doubt, that when,
next month, the lines are drawn between
TiIden and Hayes, the State viii be almost
certain for the latter.
Carl Schurz never uttered a greater truth
than this in his closing speech the other
night in Ohio: ''The effort on the part of
the Democrats to make the South parti-
san unit once more is fraught with wide
spread disaster to the nation, and must be
put down in this election at all hazards. "
Let all northern States do as well as Ohio,
and the solid South is nowhere.
The calm and placid current Of the cam
paign in South Carolina was broken on
Monday night last. by three hundred armed
men, who entered the county Jail at Edge
field by force, and caried away quantity
Of arms belonging to the State militia
These will be added to the stock Of argu-
ments now in use by the Democracy; and
the work of pacifcation and umfcation
viii go On as before.
The Fifteenth Ward Tilden and Hen
drick Club of New York, numbering. about
three hundred members, recently held a
meeting at which the club was re-organ-
ized and a resolution unanimously adopted !
amid great enthusiasm denouncing Tilden
and rendering their support to Hayes and
Wheeler. The Cleveland paper reported a
few days ago, a similar operation in that
city. The Reformer is not STRENGTHENING
himself very fast in that way.