The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1876-11-02
SUFFIELD.

We did not intend to trouble the
readers of the Press with any items
from this beniyhted place, till after the
Presidential election. We Supposed
that our obscurity would project us
from the comments Of all parties till
Cat leasD after that event ;but we were
mistaken. The big mogul who weilds
the pen, and furnishes the brains of
the "great God and morality party of!
this most intelligent county conde-
scended to pay us visit at our State
election either in the spirit or in the
aesh, and made some comment Is, which
it would be the height of absurdity in,
us to neglect making All attempt to
answer, and in you, sir, in refusing US
space for that purpose. lie says:
"The Democratic judges of election
in Suffie.d are set of beauties" We
say, we don't make beauty an issue at
our spring election, but the worst of
them are much better looking. IfelloW Ws,
than Mr.. Hall. He says, ':They held
the election in bar-room." To that
we must plead guilty, but excuse our
selves on the ground that it is the only
place accessible to US for that purposes
The building of TOWN. hall has often
been before the people, voted on, and
lost. The Republicans voting against
1t to q man. But we are not OF that
class who throw the blame on a minor
ity, we deserve the rebuke, and hope
it will have the affect of touching the
pride Of our property owners the next
time the question comes to vote. But
he adds, The whole number abandon
ed the ballot box and went to their
Democratic dinners." To which we
answer, (excuse the pointed brevity)
you lie, Sir; They did no such thing.
He further adds, "They gave ample
opportunity tor any kind of chi.
canery that was in the programme
OF the managers" The only chicanery
used was by party of Republican
roudies who spent the whole day trv-
ing to pettifo. the right of fraudulent
voters to deposit their ballots. We
don't like to infringe on the space it
would take to illustrate few of them
or else it would be very amusing. To
finish up, the Republican Democrat
says, "They are of the anything to
beat Hayes crowd" Mr.. Han,a YOU
write us down as a benighted people, /
but we have examined the. record of
your candidate, Hayes. and we would
give him credit if it was his due. We
have examined his record as a soldier
and only found him medium. We
haye looked over the time in which he |
was III Congress, and found him away |
down below the average. We would |
willingly give him credit for any no.
ticeable act performed as Governor OF
Ohio; but we fiud nothing there wor-
thy of record. In fact, we come to the |
that we might select 10000 |
men in this State and any one of them
would make better President than
he would. On the other hand we find
that the Democratic candidate, Sam
uel j. Tilden, has buen faithful to
every trust reposed in him. We find
INN man of great mind. great re-
former, and we believe that he is des-
tined to renovate this great country
by wiping out the dirty spots daubed
on its history by the perjured thisving
Radical administration. s'noI 81
In our benighted State we have a
certain amount of patriotism or ma.
tional pride, which stimulates us to b
use every Inauly effort to- save the
country the disgrace of electing to the
highest office in the gift of great
people such a lump of insignificant
mediocrity as Hayes. So
We have not totally revie we'd all +
the items of the editorial paragraph, Fl
fearing to take too much space, but
will conclude by detying any one,
or all of the Republicans of Suffield,
to point to US one act of the Demo
cratic Judges on last election day, un-
becoming gentlemen, Or contrary to
law, the great Billingsgate Slang
whanger of the bastard Democrat to
the contrary notwithstanding. tis
Respectfully, Yours, mid 1-t. +
M, .CAIIILI.