The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-11-01
A Word TO the Voters OF Ohio
County.

on the 9TH inst. and cast his vote for
ThDEN AND HENDRICKS. When we
say this We mean it. We cannot ex-
pect to gain an electoral vote by poll
ing five hundred Democratic majority
in Ohio county or that our regular
electoral vote will be diminished in the
State if Ohio county goes Republican.
But this all can see; is the death strug-
gle of Radicalism. A drowning man
will catch at a straw for his support.
The Republicans have no hope Of
electing their President, hence their
lively interest in holding their party
together; even in Democratic precincts.
We have been a close observer of
all the movements of the Republican
party here in this county-have noted
them as crest-fallen and wo be-gone-
Why? The answer is this: Their
most intelligent leaders have become
disguised with the fraud and corrupt
ion of the Republican party, and the
negroes and cOlored men have become
so enlightened that they will not be
whipped into Radical traces" any
longer. They are freemen, they have
their rights and privileges the same as
any of the anglo saxon race, and to-day
they stand upon their own merit us
any true American citizen. They tire
of the old song "we" (the Republicans
set aside the ironbonds of slavery-(as
base lie as was ever uttered from
any radical pulpit and placed you
where "you are to-day" Again, they
cry "TLDEN favors the payment of
the rebel war claim" Did 1 once
think that, sooner would l that the
hand that pens this would be paralyzed
before it placed into the ballot box q
vote for him. This is only a political
ruse. A scarecrow gotten up for the
purpose of Guiding the colored vote.
There is no use talking any more about
the payment of the rebel war claims by
President Tilden. He ,ciR not do it.
HE SAYS so IN A LETTER to be found
on our first page. That he says clearly
and succinctly. There is no chance
for doubt about the matter. The
thing is settled beyond dispute. More
than that, Gov TILDEN will keep n
sharp eye on the claims of those pre-
tended loyalist, which Republican rings
would put through if HAYES should be
elected. There alone is where the
shoe pinches. They are not "afraid
they will pay the rebel claims" In
diana, Ohio and Kentucky have lost
enough in the last ten years by the
prostration of Southern industry, ell
terprise, and the pinching economy
necessary TO save enough from their
hard earnings to pay the taxes i'm
posed upon them by carpet-bag thieves
to pay three times the gross amount
of the "rebel claims" that have never
been presented to Congress. Here is
the proof: The debt, of all the South
ern States at the close of the war, was
in round numbers less than forty mil
lions; to-day thanks to the subsidy
scenes of carpet-bag thieves the aggre-
gate State debt of the South has been
swelled to nearly four hundred mil
lions.
This is not half we have lost by the
prostration of the South. Our steam
boats and railroads, our machine shops,
our foundries, and in fact every indus
try, has been losing money Or suffering
great reduction in profits. 1t would
be difficultto ascertain the exact amount
lost to our people during the last ten
years by bad government in the South.
1t is not the true soldier of the North
that fears any payment of the "rebel
claims" or any true soldier of the
South that wants it done. 1t is these
liberal hundred days slaughterers of
beans and bareback, Home guards etc.
The "bloody shirt" was buried in
Indiana, and its illusions lost in the
last election, hence this new basso-pro-
fundo howl, with tight tenor accompa-
niment.
But as we said before, the Democrats
do not intend to pay the ''reb bills" or
any part Of them, and every sensible
Republican knows; or, ought to, that
the charges are absurd. Democrats
are as fond of their money as Repub-
licans, and are the inveterate uncom-
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