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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-28
The Bloody Shirt.

Where the late President Henry
Wilson still alive, such anarchists as
Morton, Chandler & Co., would not be
allowed by him to faunt their "Bloody
Shirt" with impunity. That eminent
son of Massachusetts, was too conscien-
tious a man to use humanitarian cries for
mere party purposes and although an
anti-slavery advocate from his early man.
hood, and one of the founders of the Re
publican party besides, he was tee honest
and brave an antagonist not to "bury
the hatchet" when the issues of the war
were decided.
The Administration Republicans, from
Grant downwards, did not like him. He
knew too much of public life for them
to deceive him, and his integrity was
too infexible for them to use him. So
Henry Wilson had to be put up with
and growled at. We all remember his
last tour in the Southern States, and the
tempest evoked by his visit to Mrs. JEFF
ferson Davis; visit prompted by long
years acquaintance with that lady and
her husband, but which number of
designing politicians chose to distort into
an attempt, on his part, to influence the
Southern vote. SO as to gain the support
of that section in his assumed candidacy
for the Presidential Office. The French
saying, Rien Fest sacre pour un
Sapeur," is well exempliied among a
certain class of American politicians.
With men of the Morton-C Chandler
Ingersoll-Butler stamp, the mcst censis-
tent public and private lives, combined
with the highest services rendered to the
Republic, are utterly valueless unless
they be subordinated to the wishes and
control of the present party managers;
for these latter judge other men from
their own standpoint, and any admission
of honesty in Others would Decessarily be
a condemnation OF themselves.
The fact of the matter is simply this /:
The engineers of the Republican
machine care nothing for humani-
tartan considerations whatever. They
want an election cry, and "our op-
pressed colored brother" will make "a
very good Morgan until election" Not
that they have any respect or kindly
feeling for the colored race, whom they
are well aware would like to be quietly
let alone, but because they think they
may thereby influence Northern voters.
The same contempt which they feel. and
frequently express eoyertly, for the
emancipated negro (whom, after pri-
vately maligning, they publicly rob
through such institutions as the Freed
mems Bank they also evince toward
"the mean whites" of their party. 1t
remains to be seen, however, whether
thee tactics of Misrepresentation, blood,
and hate will have the result they expect
with calm, rejecting Americans. The
issues of ou1 internecine struggle are now
decided forever; they have been immu-
tably fixed in the Federal Constitution;
and in the language of Henry Wilson
bimself, only a few weeks before his
death, the sooner we all of us forget the
war and its issues, the better for the
whole Union"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-28
The People Managing for Themselves.
Brooklyn Sun.


The Democrats are in better form now
than they we're in 1874 and 1875. In
each of those years they won. The peo-
pie are more conscious of the necessity
of change now than then, and then
they ordained change for this year. A
rational consideration of these facts will
give no Republican any comfort, and
leave no Conservative in any doubt.
There is an immense amount of politics
which does not write letters nor show it
self at public meetings. We are, as has
been well said, in the influence of quiet
revolution. Men are thinking for them
selves. Thousands of Republicans have
made up their minds to try the Demo-
cratic party. They know that things are
SO bad that any change will be for the
better, and they feel that the Republican
party can only go on from bad to worse,
unless it is relieved from the cares
of government and given full oppor-
tunity to reform out of Office. These
men do not mean to make any fuss about
their voting, or any mistake about it,
either. They do not intend to expose
themselves to the solicitations of one side
OF to the remonstrances Of the other,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-28

Tilden railroad "robber" or shark, !"
is a scandalous abuse of the power of the
press.
We have gone into this charge" at
considerable length, because it illustrates
the straits to which the Republicans
have reduced themselves for campaign
powder. In the present campaign all
benefit that can be extracted from
charges" will be reaped by the Demo
Gratis who can prove by undeniable evil
dence corruption in the dominant party
of the most gigantic extent, widespread
throughout all the departments of gov
ernment, and practically encouraged by
its head,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-28
Extract from the Speech of Governor
Hubbard of Texas.

Sir, you have been told that we are
demons of hate, and gloat in the thought
of war and blood. Men of New Eng
land-men of the great North viii you
believe me when tor the two millions of
people whom represent, and the whole
South as well, / denounce the utterance
as an inhuman SANDER and damnable
and objectionable falsehood against
brave and, God knows, a long-sufering
people. Want war! Want bloodshedl ]
Sirs, we are poor-broken in fortune and
sick at heart. Had you stood, as have
stood, by the ruined hearthstones, by the
wrecks of fortunes, which are scattered
all along the shore had you seen, as /
have seen, the wolf howiing at the door
of many a once happy home-widow-
hood and orphanage starving and weep
ing over never returning sires and sons,
who fell with your honored dead at
Gettysburg and Manassas; could you
hear as ! have heard, the throbbing of
the great Southern heart-throbbing for
peace and yearning for the old and
faithful love between the States; could
you have seen and felt and heard all
tHese luluSsi Hy Souhei uOh, you "ouiN,
black and white, Republican or Dem
ocrat, take me by the hand and swear
that the arm thus .uplifted against
us, and the tongue which utters the
great libel in our name, should wither
at the socket and become palsied forever
at the root l repeat again, let our
"spears be turned into pruning hooks
and our swords beat into plowshaIes," to
remain everlasting memorials of return
ing peace and good will to the American
people. -
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-28

SoNG-wRITERs have good deal to say
about the "old school-house," but are
very careful not to mention the fact that
a rabbit track would have pHlled them
away from the dear old structure at race
horse speed during any period Of their
attendance.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-28
REFORM Is NECESSARY.
(sT. LOUIS PLATFoRM.)

Reform is necessary to rebuild and es-
tablish in the hearts of the whole people
in the Union, eleven years ago happily
rescued from the danger of secession of
States, but now to be saved from cor
rupt centralism, which, after inficting
upon ten States the rapacity of carpet
bag tyrannies, has honeycombed the
offices of the Federal government itself
with incapacity, waste and fraud; in
iscted States and municipalities with
the contagion of misrule, and locked
fast the prosperity of an industrious
people in the paralysis of hard times.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-28
LINES 10 e0sE,eNoR HAYES.
By UNCLE BEN:

OF Uncle Ben, OBJ Tennessee,
he hail dis glor'us Jubilee,
An tells you dat he sure he hears
De footsteps OBJ more better years;
> More better dan since many day
When honest work brought honest pay,
An cherry body-black and white
Was sure OBJ pay Sat day night.
Gubernor Hayes,
Was sure oh pay Sat'day night.
Now Uncle Ben hab got to say
Deer Gubernor you's in de way
Oh dis good time comm on,
You's in de way, sure as you born,
But dey's comm for ali dat,
AM Ii you stan dey1 lay you fat
You better, derefor, clear de track
For good ol, times am comm, back,
Gnhernor Hayes,
For good OF times am comm backI
or Uncle Ben, he amt no fool,
: De wedder's hot, but he keeps cool,
AM tells you, Gub'nor, what he fears,
AM what TO him as sartin pears:
Dat Tilden Hendricks boun to wiz
Dat Reform ticket mus come in.
Dat when dey nomernated Tilden,
De 'Publicans dey got der fill, den,
Gubernor Hayes, -.
De 'Publicans, dey got der I'll, den.
De Democrats dey say reform,
An dey viii keep dat saying warm,
Till all dis lands ahlaze wld heat,
To hurl de rascals from dar seat, 2 = ~
An put in dose into der place,
What hab at least an honest face;
An though it lebes you in de cop,
Dey boun' to clean out ebery hole,
Gubernor Hayes,
Dey boun' to burn out ebery hole.
Burn cherry hole, from what sees,
An, what hears In ebery breeze,E So
Because dis country now am rose
To put in honest men for dose
Who tifik what's odder folks Is deirs,
An eat EN- gol' like hungry bears
While We gets poorer ebery day,
Because we's got so much to pay,
Gubernor Hayes,
cause we's so many thieves to pay.
JUS give US honest men to feed,
For DIST is what dis country need,
Den we can know, just to a cent,
How much 4 sum is ter be spent
To pay dis nations honest dues,
Which no one neber says refuss;
But when we pays for desc, you see.
We don't know who we've got to fee,
z Guberner Hayes, TTEf
We don't know VINO we's got to fee. Il
Dat fire dey kindled tudder day,
Down at 81 Louis town, dey say, = q
JUS like the prairie hre, spose,
It's spreadin' fast as ightnin' goes.
1t thrills the heart and keeps 1t warm
What soun's the watchword of Reform,
While der's it only fills wild fear,
Who for dat watchword doesn't cheer.
Gubernor Hayes,
s Who for dat vaicnword doesn't cheer.
f-MorTistoicn CIenR.l Gazette.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-28
The Great Issues are Honesty and
Economy in Office.

These are the great and leading Issues
in the pending campaign, and over
shadow all others, and are best set forth
by the subjoined extracts from the st.
Louis platform and the letters of accep-
tance BY Tilden and Hendricks.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-28
public Treasury, and by corrupting the
servants of the people.
REFORM MAY BE SECURED.
SAMUEL ]. TILDEN.)


servants of the people.
REFORM MAY BE SECURED.
SAMUEL ]. TILDEN.)
What you want to do now is to cut
income. 1 would give all legerdemain of
finance and fnanciering; / would give
the whole of it for the old homely maxim
live within yeur income.
REFORM MAY BE SECURED.
(THoMAs A. HENDRICKs.)
Nothing can be well with us or with
our affairs till the public conscience,
shocked by the enormous evils and abuses
which prevail, shall have demanded and
compelled an unsparing reformation of
our National Administration in its head
and in its members.
REFORM MAY BE SECURED.
SAMUEL j. TILDEN.)
Of the public debt, 1886, 100000 bear
interest at per cent. in gold, and S712.-
000, ,000, 600 at per cent. in gold. The
average interest is 5.5S per cent. A
financial policy which should secure the
highest credit, wisely availed of, ought
gradually to obtain reduction of one
per cent. on most of the loans. A saving
of one per cent. on the average would be
SIT 10000 year in gold. That saving,
regularly invested at four and half per
cent, would in less than thirty-eight
years, extinguish the principal. The
whole 81, ,700,00O,0O0 of the funded debt
might be paid by this saving alone with
out cost to the people.
REFORM MAY BE SECURED.
(THoMAs A. HENDRICKs.)
By public economy, by official re-
trenchment, by wise finance enabling us
to accumulate the precious metals, re-
sumption at an early period is possible
without producing official scarcity of
currency or disturbing public or COM
mercial credit, and these reforms, to-
gether with the restoration of pure
government will restore general conf
dence, furnish employment to labor and
relieve the country from the paralysis of
hard times.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-28

true that, like the old Bourbons, it neither
learns nor forgets any thing. Ithas learned
much from the terrible lessons of the civil
war.
The Democracy of the North have learned
to cherish with all the Intensity of feeling
which their great leader, General Jackson,
always manifested against secession and null
LITIGATION, when he put down the first in
cipient rebellion of South Carolina in 1882.
The Democracy of the South have learned,
at the most terrible of all sacrifices, the
danger and destruction which followed the
two heresies of Calhoun and McDuffie, ut
tered more than forty years ago; and which,
as we shall see, were the primal causes of
all our calamities. These heresies are now
abandoned forever at the South as well as
at the North.
The regenerated Democracy of the North
and of the South unanimously declare in
their platf 'rm their devotion to the Fed
eral Union, and to "the CONSTITUTION of
the United States, with its amendments,
universally accepted as final settlement
of the controversies that engeudered the
civil war; They know and feel in every
fiber of their being that those two fatal
heresies, viz: that slavery is blessing, and
that each State has right to secede from
the Union at its pleasure, brought death
into our Republic and cali our woe" To-
day the people of the South as well as the
people Of the North, are opposed to slavery,
for they have learned that it is curse,
and not blessing. The people of the South,
as well as of the North, are opposed to
disunion, for all their interest, hope, aspira-
ton, and ambition are bound up in re.
building their shattered -tates and fortunes
under the flag of the Union.
Gentlemen, it was no more Democratic
war than it was Wing war, or Republi-
can, or an Abolition war, or Methodist
war, or a Baptist war, or Presbyterian war.
The truth is, it was sectional war war Of
arms growing out of war of ideas-upon
slavery, and the right of State secession-a
war between the North and the South
brought on by the mistakes, follies, and pas
sions of men, and not by the Providence of
God. l have no patience with those who
charge this war upon Him, and who tell me
that in the true spirit of a Christian 1 am to
look upon the war as blessing-a war that
robbed me of my eldest son, and laid him in
a premature grave, and which brought the
same desolation to hundreds of thousands of
households as came to mine. No, fellow
citizens; if this war did not come up from
hell, of one thing am sure, it did not come
down from heaven.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-28
REFORM is NECESSARY.
tsT. LOUIS PLATFORM

Reform is necessary in the scale of
public expense, Federal, State and
municipal. Our Federal taxation has
swollen from 100000 gold, in 1860,
10 $3.50, 600, 900 currency, in 1870. Our
aggregate taxation, from $154, 900, 900
gold, 1860, to $3.50, 100000 currency, in
1870, or in one decade from less than
$5 per head to more than $1S per head.
Since the peace, the people have paid to
their tax gatheters more than thrice the
sum of the National debt, and more than
twice that sum for the Federal govern
ment alone. We demand rigorous
frugality in every department and from
every officer of the government.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-28
REFORM MAY BE SECURED.
(THoMAs A. HENpRICKs.l

Dishonesty, rapacity and venality
have debauched the public service. Men
known to be unworthy have been pro-
NOTED, while others have been degraded
for fidelity to official duty. Public Office
has been made the means of profit, and
the country has been offended to see a
class of men who boasted the friendship
of the sworn protectors of the State,
amsssing fortunes by defrsuding the
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-28

Business cards of hve lines less, s. per annum,
Local notices 10 cents per line each insertion.
Simple announcements of marriages and deathE,
md church and benevolent society notices inserted
free. Any additions to obituary notices win be
charged cents per line. 3
Favors MUST be handed in as early a. Tuesday
morning to insure insertion the same week
Communications upon subjects Of general o. 10
cal interest are solicited.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-28
REFORM MAY BE SECURED.
SAMUEL ]. TILDEN.)

The necessity of reform in the scales
of public expense, Federal and NUM-
cipal, and in the modes of Federal taxa
tion, justifes all the prominence given
it in the declaration of the st. Louis
Convention. The present depression in
all business and industries of the people
which is depriying labor of its employ
ment and carrying want into SO many
homes, has its principal cause in exces-
sive governmental consumption under il
lusions of a specious prosperity engen-
dered by false policies of the Federal
Government. A waste of capital has
been going on ever since the peace of
1865, which could only end in universal
disaster.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-28
REFORM is NECESSARY. e
(sT. LOUIS PLATFoRM.)

Reform is necessary in the civil serv-
ice. Experience proves that efficient
economical conduct of the government
business is not possible if its civil serv-
ice be subject to change atevery election,
be prize fought for at the ballot box,
be a brief reward of party zeal instead
of posts of honor assigned for proved
competence, and held for fidelity in the
public employ; that the dispensing Of
patronage should neither be tax upon
the time of our public men, nor the iu-
strument of their ambition. Here, again,
professions falsifed in the performance
attest that the party in power can work
out no practical or salutary reform.
Smyrna times., 1876-07-19
LEGAL AND OTHER BLANKS. &C..

CONSTABLk,S and COLLECTORS
BLANhS.
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CARPET WEAVING

thereby give tony friends and public that
have started the business Of RAG CARPET
Sou.h Street. above town hall, and solicit liberal
patronage / will furnish the chain at lowest city
prices Please give me trial and viii endcavor 70
give you perfect satisfaction. All orders BY mail
promptly attended TO. Price 35 cents with best fply
GEORGE w. HAMPTON,
ian 29-6m smyrna Del.
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100000
pRICEOF TICKETS:

PRICE OF TICKETS:
Whole tickets SO: Halves Sc; Quarters s.; 9Tickcs
500; 27l3 Tickets $500; l63I Tickets 500; g Tickets,
81 600 100000 Tickets at Sl2 each.
Remtt0nCcs can be made by Express Draft, Post
Office Money Ordcro Registered Letter made payable
to Kentucky Cash Distribution Company.
All communications connected with the diStribU-
ton and orders for Tickets and applications of Agents
to sell Tickets, shunld be addressed to
HON. THOS p PORTER,
General Manager Frankfort Ky.
Smyrna times., 1876-07-19
SOLID Wealthl!
$600,0OO IN GIFTS!

Gruudc@ Scheme cccr Presented to tic Public
4 FORTUNE FOR ONLY Si2
NNHE KENTUCKY CASH DISTRIBUTION COM
/ PANY. authorized by Il special act of the Ken
tucky Legislature, for the benefit of the PUBLIC
SCHOOLS OF FRANKFORT will have the first Of
their series of Grand Drawings at MAJOR HALL in the
City of Frankfort, Ky, on THURSDAY, AUGUST b.
1876, on which occasion they will distribute to the
ticket holders the immense sum Of
Smyrna times., 1876-07-19
DON',r TSFAD THT@y

book for newly married people of either sex. or
those contemplating marriage. 1t contains over 200
pages. Bound in cloth. Sent securely sealed for roc
Address Wall X Co., Lock Box 1898, Saratoga, y y.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1878, 1876-12-20
Brown, who is now engaged in taking
subscriptions.

Brown, who .is now engaged in taking
subscriptions.
An examination of some of the ad-
vance sheets Of this work shows that
it will prove to be intensely interesting
particularly,to those who know Custer,
or served with him. Some of the officers
Of the 7th are severely criticised bu
the regiment is given the praise it SO
richly deserves. Many incidents in the
early life Of Custer are given, his brill
liant career during the war is handsome'
ly written up, and last il not least, his
connection with the Bismarck oat cam.
paign, the charge on the village, &cl
The book is beautifully bound in cloth,
in sheep and half calf and is elegant in
appearance. Mr.. Frank Brown, Of this
city, is agent for northern Dakota ano
we predict for. the book an immense
run. He will visit the military posts
in few days for the purpose of canvas
sing. ,... ..,.... .. ..t
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1878, 1876-12-20

The Democrats in congress are becoming frig hten-
ed at the war talk in Democratic ranks aud show
sig ns of returning season.
Morrison, of Illinois, said to republican member
of congress the other day that I'VE shall ne cutting
one another's throat's inside Of one hundre days..
Ben Hill, Of Georgia, concludes the North caa fur
n!sh the victims in that case. The South has had
enough OF war.
Sam Bowles says new election for president viii
undou billy result from the present complications and
saws this is Tlders view The president OF fne SEN
ate in the mean time will be acting president.
DR.. Redield says there was 1000 in New Or
leans for the purpose of buying up the returning
board. One elector was repestediy offered one hun-
dred thoussud dollars to vote To- Tilden.
Emory Washburn, just elected to the Massachu-
,etts leeisla ture, was member Of that body ffts
years ago, then 26 years Of age
The South Carolina returning board, arrested and
fned $500 each for contempt BY Chief Ju stice MO-
ses. have been discharged BY Judge the .: ::
Court who decided that Moses ald his associates
had no jurisdiction interfere with the board In IT.
work Of ofcounting the votes for electors.
Ben. Hill doesn't object to war, provided his
people can have the contracts aud the Ferasnda
Woods do the fighting.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1878, 1876-12-20
The Black Hills.

Major James Whitehead returned5to
Brainerd yesterday from the Black
Hills by way of Bismarck. He left
Crook City on Sunday the 26:h ult.
reaching Bismarck in nine days. He
has taken great pains during the sum
mer to post himself thoroughly regard
ing the resources Of the Hills and the
probabilities Of the existence of gold,
and does not hesitate to say, emphati-
cally, that it is beyond all doubt rich
country, that gold.is plentiful, and that
it is an excellent farming and grazing
country, beside. In fact, he1is very en-
thusiastic in the matter, and advises
every one to 20 there who can. he has
secured half interest in -four claims
and quartz lode, and considers his
fortune made. This we consider as re-
liable information, for.we place implicit
confidence both in the judgment of Mr..
Whitehead and his veracity, and We
have now no further hesitation in say
ing, upon this authority, that the Black
Hills are unquestionably rich in gold
deposits, open to all who choose to 60
and avail themselves Of their richness.
He says farther, that no Indians have
been seen there since Crooks army left,
and the Indians have ceded the Hills.
to the government by treaty, will not
trouble the miners any more, which
renders prospecting another summer
possible and even easy. This being the
case, he confidently believes that new
discoveries will be made the coming
summer farther north, as rich if not
richer than anything yet found. These
being the facts, it is safe to predict
grand rush to the Hills the coming
summer. Mr.. Whitehead proposes re-,
turning there in February, as he says
the travelling will be better then than
after the streams are broken up in
the spring. We shall proceed there
with him, provided. we can dispose .of
our interests here to advantage in the
mean time, to which we propose to De" -
vote our energies Ho! for the Black
Hills.--Rrainerd Tribune. civ .@.. ...