The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-09-21
Political Notes.

still on the decline.
Governor Hayes will celebrate his
fifty-fourth birthday in October
Tilden, the periurer, is what they
call him now, instead of the reformcr.
The reform club of New York has
endorsed the nomination of Governor
Morgan.
The Hon. Ben. Wood, of New York
city, has bet $iOO against $4,000 that
Hayes will carry New Jersey.
The Erie Republicans are raising
poles all over the county, and the
campaign there is fairly on its legs.
Speeches are being delivered in In
diana at the rate of 600 week, and
full vote is certain to be pollcd.
We never knew the Democratic
papers SO unanimous as they are about
Tilden's perjuries--they don't say
word.
The emblems of the Hayes and
Wheeler club at York are pitchfork
and wheel-to pitch into the canvass
and wheel out heavy vote.
The Democratic city officers of Bal
timore have been assessed two per
cent. of their salaries for campaign
purposes, and some of them are COM
dDOuN illlS hllit vi ltiOIIl.
Allen, Thurman and Pendleton are
astonished when they read in eastern
Democratic papers that Hayes has
no record.n Who was it that whipped
us SO confoundedly? they ask.
The other day the st. Louis Repub-
licdn, one of Tilden's supporters,
printed on its editorial page Father
Ryan's tribute to "The Conquered
~ M, tlon+,
| monWeoith, on the 3Oth ult.. gave
prominent place to series of verses
eulogistic of John Wilkes Booth.
General J. M. Tuttle, of Iowa, says
he is constantly receiving from ex-
soldiers who refuse to support Tilden
and Hendricks. Indeed, he says, II
don't see how an intelligent soldier
can do anything else, as the rebels and
copperheads are now running the
party their own way"
South Carolina Democratic papers
are printing the rebel war records of
| their candidates for State officers. OF
one it is said that she participated in
! the grand movement of Gen. Jackson
/ hurting McClelland's advance forces
back into Maryland" and that his
was "a military career of w hich any
Carolinian might be proud"
| Rev. Barnar Sears, agent of the
Peabody Fund, has written to North
Carolina, where Democratic official
stole the fund, as follows: "The
money due to your schools has long
been in the hands of eX-Supt. Pool.
But to save you and your teachers from
further embarrassment, will pay it a
second time and look to Mr.. Pool to
refund"
1t is noteworthy that the General
James b. Steadman who is believed to
have projected the now exploded story
relative to Governor Hayes tax re-
turn, was wrong about $3.50, 900 in his
accounts when General Grant re-
moved him from the New Orleans
Collectorship.
Appearances are that the Republi-
cans can elect Hayes without carrying
Indiana in October, but upon the
whole they should carry Indiana. We
are indeed of the opinion that when a
party fights to win Il national battle,
it should carry all the States within
its power.-CInci,naH Commercial.
"The Democrats chose Seymour
with their eyes open-chose him be.
cause of his Objectionable record, and
must bear the burden of their choice
as well as the disgrace of their own
trickery and double dealing with him
and with the public to the end. They
declared then that they could not hope
for success with anybody else, and the
people will now take them at their
word. ."-Ne,O York Tribune.
The Democrats have been Dragging
very loudly that Governor Tilden has
saved New York some five million
dollars in decreased taxes, but it turns
out now, as the Comptroller's last re.
port shows, that this reduction is
simply due to the eXtinguishment OF
the State debt in the ordinary course
of liquidation, and that the cost OF
Mr.. Tilden's State administration is
, just as costly, if not more than any
, preceding.
} Our South Carolina correspondent
f is almost sure the Democrats will
} carry that State at the approaching
election. We presume there is nj
doubt of it. The Southern Confeder
!, acy would not be solid without Soutl
Carolina. The Republican majorit,
/ in the State will be overcome, as il
Mississippi. The Derringer policy
will prevail. That is the reason WHY
\ there is such howl about bayonetS
' Cincinnati Commercial.
This sentiment from a Mississipp
= paper reminds us of something
Wasn't such talk common in 1860
"If the coming election demonstrate
that the sentiments of the Republican
party are the sentiments of the North
. then let the South make her arrange
ments to let the North severely alone
;, We believe we will find within on
:, borders sufficient of patriotism an
:, ability to devise some means of ren
= dering ourselves independent of thos
g who hate and would destroy u.s."
e The Democratic candidate for til
IS Presidency Is worth about five mil
h ions OF dollars. Some of his partii
friends will not put the figure les
than six millions. He has been i
e the enjoyment especially since til
q abolishment of the income taxi of a
II income exceeding three hundre
thousand dollars a year. He has ha
y net return from his Lake Superit
l. iron mines of more than a quarter of
IT, million dollars in one year. He wi
s. he able to live comfortably withol
at the Presidential salary and perqu
OF sites.-Cin. Com.
~ The New York Sun having stat,
that Hon. Carl Schurz, in writing
a friend in Washington, had said tn
,. in Ohio the German vote was array,
he against the Republicans, and he b,
~ doubts whether Hayes would car
Us the State, friend of the eX-Senat
4, telegraphed him yesterday about 4
es Suns story, asking for the facts al
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