The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-09-14
Political Notes.

hayes, III llluen, ~; cooper, o. IuJ
ON the brakes.
1t is observed that people on the
fence are tapping their toes "a iittle on
the Hayes side.
Tilden's income in 1862, it is
claimed, reached $l0S, 900, yet he swore
his taxable income was only S7,llS in
that time.
The Baltimore Gazette threatens to
oppose "Minute Men, to the Boys in
Blue. That kind of talk is at least
eleven years too late.
Democratic papers are changing
their tone a fortnight ago they
Dragged and blustered; to-day they
threaten or appeal for votes.
Wonder if Tilden wanted Wade
Hampton nominated for Governor i'll
South Carolina "for the sake. of the
outside eiiect?'-Nea0 York Tribune.
The two great Bens at the next ses-
sion of Congress will be Ben Butler and
Ben Hill. The Republican minority
will feel as though it might have been
--worse.-PrcSs.
The Northern States alone are going
to elect Hayes and Wheeler The
Southern 'people' had better accept
this as fact and come in and help
swell their majority.
Mr.. Blaine is to make his first
speech i'll Indiana, with General Ben.
Harrison, at the grand rally at the
Tippecauoe battle-ground Oh the 26th
inst. That will be u monster meeting.
The result of the Vermont election
shows II Republican gain of nearly
five thousand. The Democrats have
lost their only State Senator and
twenty of their fifty-nine meDl-
bers of the House.
Carl Schurz is meeting with ova-
tions wherever he goes at the hands Of
his German fellow-citizens. He adj
dressed as many as could get to hear
him, some three thousand in number,
in Chicago last night.
Charles Francis Adams accepts the
Democratic nomination for Governor
OF Massachusetts. The Boston papers
say that Rice is stronger than when
he ran two years ago, and that Adams
nomination gives them no concern.
North Carolina Democrats affect to
be indignant at the sending of Federal
troops into the South, but in July,
1854, Vance, the rebel Governor, now
their candidate Tor Governor, sent
armed soldiers to the polls, ostcnsihly
to keep dcsefters from voting or dis
turbing the election.
Complete returns of the Vermont
Gubernatorial vote have been received
and give Fairbanks A, ,5S2, Bingham
y ,o23 and scattering 20; Fairbanks
majority, 23,537. Full returns of the
Lower House give the Republicans;
2O5, Democrats 81, and no choice D; u
Democratic loss Of %.
The Chicago Times speaks of "Ver-
mont and other remote places" This
calls to mind the surprised ejaculation
of Il bacllwoodsman i'll the wilds of
Maine, who when told by an amateur
sportsmna that his home was in New
York, exclaimed, why l shouldn't
think you'd like to live so far off"
The Richmond (Va.) Wing says:
at is no concern who were in array
against the Union ten years ago, all
have been amnestled and placed on the
same equal footing before the law"
And yet the wig and all the Tilden
allies in the South are continually
complaining of the "harsh termsn i'm
posed upon the South.
The Macon, Georgia, Telegraph is
Democratic, but it is honest enough to
admit that Governor Hayes is "a very
estimable and honest gentleman-per-
sonally worthy the suffrage of any man
who believes he is adapted to the eX-
alted position he aspires to, and the
extraordinary emergencies which he
will be required to meet.
Wendell Phillips thinks great
things of the housekeeping South
erner, whom he describes as shrewd,
able, unmatched politician, and pro-
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the battle field, he will beat us at the
ballot box. 1t will occur to most peo.
pie that we shouldn't have met him
on the battle field in 1861 if we hadn't
beaten him at the ballot box in 1860.
So Theu!-Somo of the Tilden or
cams boldly assert that unless their
candidate is elected in November "a
revolution must follow.n That is just
the way they talked in 1860, and the
result is known. Do they again mean
what they say? Ifso, let the loyal and
patriotic men of the country be pre-
pared for the contest with these rebels
and traitors. BY the Eternal, the
Union must and shall be preserved"
Has South Carolina received its
"bar'l of money" already? 1t would
seem so from the Beaufort cOrrespon-
dence of the Charleston Ne,Os, which
SAYS: "Ihis is the first occasion that
the Democratic party has had the ad-
vantage here of being financially bet
ter prepared to wage an election con-
test that its adversdries. The Repub-
Leans are all dead broke, and there is
no money among them. Our resour-
ces this time will enable us at least to
hold hand with funds necessary to
conduct the compaign with vigor"
The Democrats of Des Moines, Iowa,
nominated Mr.. ID. A. Kent for County
Clerk, but he declines, refusing longer
to act with that party because (among
other reasonS) the voice of Northern
Democrats echoes everywhere in de-
Tense OF Southern outlaws and in eX-
cuse of their crimes, and because the
eX-rebels are using every effort to Sc
cure payment for the loss of property
destroyed on account of their own dis
LOYALTY and treason to the Govern
ment, thus taxing the property of the
dead soldier to reimburse the traitor
who killed him.
This is the way the Massachusetts,
| and Connecticut nominations strike
| the New York Tribune: 1.-Two more
excellent tigure-heads. In Massachus-
sets, Mr.. Charles Francis Adams; in
| Connecticut, Mr.. Richard ID. Hubbard.
| But we beg theVoters of Massachusetts,
and Connecticut not to allow their at
tention TO be distracted from the
character of the ship and the appear
! ancc of her crew by the figure-head