The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-10-26
Campaign Notes.

Campaign Notes.
.CoURIER-JoURNAL: There is one re-
deeming trait in Babcock. He likes dogs.
Among his bills as Commissioner of Pub
licBuildiBgs and Grounds, paid out of
the United Treasury, was one for thirty
dollars for the board of his faithful ca
nine companion.
The bloody shirt was not successful in
the West. 1t will accomplish less in the
East. Blaine, Morton, Colfax, Kill
patrick, and their fellow stump orators,
now hoarse after their Western cam
paigning, will in time recover their voices,
but roar as loudly as they may, they
will evoke no responsive echoes among
the people in this region.
New YORK Journal of Commerce: 1t is
plain, as we have several times most dis
tinctly stated, that the presidential cleo
ton is to depend entirely on the vote of
the thinking men of the country. The
middle, moderate men who are totally
dissatisfied with the existing administra-
tiou, and are earnestly desiring thor
ough reform, can now see that the issue
is entirely in their hand.
ST. JOSEPH Gazette: According to Re-
publican logic the Democratic party
proves itself sectional party, by carry
ing three Southern and three Northern
States, while the Republican party shows
itsef national by carrying four Northern
States and no Southern States. In real
ity the Democracy is the only national
party that has had existence in the coun-
Try since the Whig party disbanded.
THE slow peison of this Administra-
tion-alasI not slow enough has pene-
trated the great cohorts of office holding
Republicans, from the Cabinet to the
custom-house. Will Mr.. Hayes be
stronger than the convention which cried
I" 10 trionphe" to Grants administration
when the people had repudiated it with
a unanimity unparalleled in history p
James H. ScoUelt, a Liberal Republican of
Nelu Jersey.
Mr.. CARL ScHURz may aswell at once
retire from the canvass. His German
countrymen pay no heed to his words,
and he is distrusted even by the Re
publicans who hire him to speak in
their behalf. Mr.. Schurz has thrown
away great political opportunity, sold
his birthright for mess of pottage, and
he will have to spend the rest of his life
in getting out OF the false position into
which his faulty has put him.
LYNCHBURG (Va.) Nedcs:: We are
"solid" for a sound financial policy
which shall relieve trade and manufac-
lures of the depression produced by the
specializing, gambling system of the
Republican party. We are "solld !"
against thieves and /" solid" for all honest
men. We are "solid" for Tilden, Hen
bricks and reform, and "solid" against
Grant and his successor, peculation and
extravaganza. A "solid South means
good to the whole country and not evil.
RIoHMoND Dispatch: We admire the
ingenuity, if not the honesty, of the New
York Tribune people, who now assume
that the "grsenback vote" elected Will
liams, and this, loo, notwithstanding that
both the Tribune and the Times, when
the greenback organization in Indiana
sold out and abandoned the field, as
sumed that the greenback party, thus
left at liberty to return to their old par
ties, would rally-the largest number of
them-to the Republican party, and
make their victory over Williams all the
more certain.
WHO altered the books at the Treas
ury Department by which the National
debt was increased over previous figures
$3.50, ,000,0O07 If Tilden were President
that question would soon be answered
as would several others equally impor
tant to the taxpayers. Under Hayes
there would be continued covering up
as under the present Administration. Il
the people want to know what ha!
been done with the thousands o
millions of taxes they have paid since
the war they must not elect Hayes
Nothing but radical change will give
them the information.
LOUISVILLE Corisr-Jomnal: Th,
bloody shirt never had better oppor
tunity than in Indiana, yet it has provel
a dismal failure. The people refused f
become "solid" and march beneath it
folds; refused to sanction the Republi
can claim of monopolized patriotism
refused to declare that corruption is
virtue; that prescription is a proper ap
pendage of the principles OF human lii
erty. .The principles OF the Reput
lican party were fully, exhaustiyely
earnestly presented to the Indianiar
and they haze rejected them. They wi
again reject the proffered cup of poiso
in November. The country will rejet
the Republican party in November.
BREAK, break, break,
o, gently break the news,
That Indiana totally lost
And Ohio doesn't enthuse.
o, well for the 'rithmetie man
That he counteth up his gains;
And well for the Governor good
That he sings as he dons his jeans.
And still the returns come in
And the Districts to hear from appal;
But, o, for the tlirt of bloody shirt,
And the voice Of Bob Ingersolll
Break, break, break,
Break gently the news to us.
Alasi though October is bad enough,
November will be wuss.