The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-11-02
FFeemen!

sire a change and Reform, let us say
a word for your benefit and conside-
ration. The issues Of the war are
dead and buried, never to rise again.
Peace and quiet reigns all over the
South, except where United States
troops have been ordered for politi-
cal purposes. Our country stands
to-day united, one, indivisible; the
Palmetto and the Pine wave lovingly
beside each other DER the brow Of
Bunker Hill; while Southern chival-
~ and Northern manhood warmly
clasp each other on the threshold of
a new century. "Whom God hath
joined, let no man put asunder."
"7he Republican party is dead"
Two short years ago, this was the
emphatic declaration of an eminent
American statesman and jurist who
belonged to that organization when
it numbered patriotic, disinterested
men in its ranks; men whose voices
have seldom been heard Of late on
national affairs, and then only to
overwhelm with whitening contempt
the incapables and thieves who to-
gether have controlled the destinies
of our Union during the past ten
years. The Republican party is
dead to-day dc jure and de facto,
dead as the issues that gave it being
and which have long passed into
history, but in its place there stands
IN organization calling itself by the
same name, whose chiefs and ranks
and file are banded together by the
mere cohesive power of office and
public plumber.
The various State Governments
in the South are quietly conducting
their local affairs as they did twenty
years ago, wherever Federal bayo-
nets do not overawe the voters; the
representation of that section in Con-
gress is complete, active, and loyal;
and an absolute differentiation of all
our citizens exists, thank God, thro-
out the Union, unless rendered i'm
possible by Grant and his ofice-hol-
ding minions. 1t is therefore clear
as the sun at MONDAY, that the Re-
publican party has no pretext what
ever for continued existence on ac-
count of any undecided issues of the
war. Nevertheless it refuses to dis
band, although according to the Hon.
VIM. M. Eva-ts, sits term of enlist
ment has expired" and, with consul
mate e%ffrontery, actually seeks per-
mission from the citizens it has out
and robbed, to retain its hold
of the reins of government during
the next four years. Such a terrible
e~ventuality would go far towards alb
solutely destroying the peace, pros
perity and liberties of this Union
and its repute with foreign nations;
and it is time, therefore, that honest
men of all parties take stock of the
position to which we are reduced,
carefully the records of
the candidates submitted to them
for the Presidency.
Grant, with his cohorts of Bah
cocks, Belknaps, Shepherds, Colfax-
es, Chambers, Robesons, ct i'd genus
omne, could never enlist the sympa.
thies of honest patriots at the pre-
sent crisis in our national affairs,
but the very same influence which
him at the outset, and has
kept him in power ever since, now
asks the public to support such Sc
nonenities as Rutherford
B. Hayes and William A. Wheeler.
Though the team may be changed
the same willy old frauds handle the
reins on the box and are struggling
to keep their places.
Therefore, honest and independent
voters of Preble county, the issues
Of the war are settled and the Repub-
Iican part has 'served its term of
enlistment" and ceased to be a party
Of honesty or patriotism, and there
is now but one grand, all-important
issue in the present.contest, and that
is the re-estabfishment of an honest,
capable and patriotic government at
Republicans! you of
the school of Lincoln, Chase, Greeley,
Sumner, Chase, Wilson and Seward,
you must surely be aware there is
not even a hope for any such results
from the election of HAYES, and it
consequently your duty, if you
lesire achange in the administration
u governmental affairs, to vote
'or TILDEN and HENDRICKS!
It is your only hope! You have
,onfded in promises too long! Will
you not do it?
1t is a fact admitted on all sides
that the carpet-baggers who run the