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

: VOL. IX--NO.44

They are keeping home o'nights, doing
some reading and more thinking, and
they, mean to signalize their stolid ard
effective conclusions in a way the ballot
will thoroughly interpret.
The provoking causes to this state of
feeling amoLg the masses have been the
condition OF things and the style of be-
hayior in the National Administration.
Living is high. wages are low, want is
great, and work is scarce. Enforced re-
trenchment in the homes has found its
only recognition and imitation in the
House of Representatives. The Senate
mas secuted any reduction of ex-
penses. The President and his
Cabinet have done all they could
to defeat any cutting down of expendiz
lures. 1t has been over banded Repub-
'lican opposition that any reduction of
expenses has been effected at all. At the
same time. the Administration in its in
depreciation of the laws of retrenchment
which it had to accept, has been reckless,
truculent and ingenious in getting as
much animal pleasure as possible out of
the money for the overgorged plunderers
in Office. The President has transferred
the Government to Long Branch all the
same, though it costs roundly to do so.
The Secretary of the Navy has fitted up
the Tallapooss at an expense of $50, 900,
and is on prolonged Government
picnic in her, at running expense of
$4,000 day to the people. The Secre-
tary of War and the insolent Bare
bones who commands the army are
junketing with s. large staff all over
the country and are making calls
on Belknap's and Orville Grants post
traders, for their Autumnal tribute
wrung from starving soldiers and pinched
officers on the frontier. The Secretary
of the Treasury is pleasuring in Maine.
The Attorney General is busy organizing
hell in the South. The Postmaster
General is tampering with the mail
matter of the people, to see that as few
anti-Republican circulars and papers as
possible are.deiivered. The Secretary of
the Interior is bossing the National Com
mittee of the party and levying two per
cent. bloodmail on all the employees Of
the Government.
These are spectacles which add insult
to the injury which the people feel.
They are matched-are the spectacles-
by which the party in power is indulg-
ing. 1t is a campaign of unqualified
abuse and calumny. Instead of en-
gaging to relieve the distresses of the
people the Republican managers are in
sulting the candidates and the move
ment that are the product of the popu-
lar desire for relief Instead of defend
ing or explaining their records they are
starting the most outrageous ISLANDERS
against their opponents. These ISLANDERS
have no relation to. the matters before
the country.
They are meant to divert the attention
of voters away from the denominations of
misgoverDment. Thus they are designed
as an experiment upon the intelligence
and as an aggravation of the distresses
of the people.
The people are preparing to respond.
They are preparing to vote out the gang
that have neither the conjunction TO
disgorge or the decency to disperse.
They are appreciating the Reform record
of the Democratic candidates and the
order, peace, economy and relief that
follow from Democratic Administration.
They are only waiting their time and
chance. Both will be presented in No
Yember, and then the most surprised
persons will be the politicians on both
sides, at the little effect to be attributed
to them in canvass which the people
are taking into their own hand.