Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-12-22
wHE TELEGRAPH.
AsHTABULA. OHIO.
Friday Morning, Dec. 22nd, 1876.
Nv doth the hungry Tilden reformer

Friday Morning, Dec. 22nd, 1870,
Now doth the hungry Tilden refOrmer
GO up and down like roaring lion seeking
whom he may scare somebody.
The action of the Prosecuting Attorney
of Sandusky in abandoning the cases of
embezzlement and forgery against Rush K.
Sloane, seems to require an explanation
The Democratic State Central Committee
of Indiana is instructed to demand the in
anguration of Tilden and Hendricks. This
of course disposes of the question before
the country.
The speech of Governor Hayes at Day
ton, last week, offers striking contrast "
the boast Of Tilden that if Hayes shop'd be
inaugurated, be would worry him until the
end of his term.
The Senate on Wednesday of last week.
rejected the Edmunds proposition to
amend the Constitution so as to make the
Supreme Court grand returning OOaru
for the votes of electors Of President ana
Vice President.
We have privnte advices from the region
Of the Red River of the North, which say
that that stream was frozen so hard on
olac,ton day, that four-horse teams were
crossing at pleasure, and that there was
depth of snow on the ground of a foot and
half.
Mr.. Abbott of Massachusetts, is one Of the
Congressional Committee sent to investi-
gate the election in South Carolina. When
Mr.. Abbott found that, even admitting the
vote of Edgefeld and Laurens counties,
with their enormous frauds, Hayes has still
a majority of 900, heexclaimed, 'What are
you complaining about?"
The President of the Western Union
Telegraph Company has refused to deliver
to he-Oongressi0nal investigating commit
zee files Of kilograms sent over his line. He
deserves the thanks Of the Nation. X tele-
grams are to be kept on file, and delivered
to Investigating committees, or anybody
else. the telegraph viii soon deservedly die
a natural death.
The New York World has information
that it is Grants avowed purpose to
clap the entire Democratic House into
Fortress Monroe upon the first symptom of
sn impeachment movement and the Chica-
90 Times is enabled to state that the Re
publicans are secretly organizing and arm
ing all through the North. Can anybody
doubt that there is trouble ahesd3
Wade Hampton was ..insugarated- on
Wednesdavofl last week. in the presence. Of
his own Legislature. He made. a speecn,
and assumed the arduous duties of his
Office with the profoundest solicitude. =
Then ne was wrapped in the United States
flag, which he tried very hard once to de-
stroy, and was borne to his hotel on the
shoulders of half dozen men. The r.
was ludicrously impressive.
The bill that came up at the last session
of Congress, for reducing the salary of the
President from $4,000 to S25, 1000; and
was vetoed by President Grant, not because
it affected himself, but because it was
deemed unjust 10 his successor, came up
in the,senate on Monday last, and failed
{ to pass over the veto. # required a two
thirds vote, bRt reeeiFedlbut % against 10.
Party considerations didnot seem to enter
into the vote, as is shown by the fact that
the Republicans were nearly equally divid-
ed. 10 voting for the bill and IA against it.
Is Democrats voted for and against the
bill. Both Ohio Senators voted for the bill
Yice-President Ferry has expressed the
opinion that the Senate should invite the
House to the Senate Chamber to witness
the counting of the votes of the Electors Of
President, as Was the original practice. 1t
is only of late that the Senate has gone to
the Chamber of the House for the reason
that that Chamber was more commodious.
As the Constitution requires the President
of the Senate to open the votes, and there
by makes him principal in the affair, the
natural order would be for the House to
attend at the place Of the President of the
Senate. instead Of having him take his car
pet-bag of returns and travel over to the
House.
The "Tilden or War" programme of
Hewitt, Wood and Randall includes the
calling of Democratic meetings in every
town of the country on the Sth of January
next, in the guise of conservative mass
meetings, to bolster up the proposed revo-
lutionary attitude to be assumed by the
House in February following. The better |
class of Democrats, however, will have |
nothing to do with the scheme under any |
circumstances, as they see that it is merely |
desperate struggle upon the part Of the
professional politicians for the spoils. 1t
has degenerated from acontest for princi-
pie and the town meetings to be called
viii be engineered by the place-seekers of
the party.