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The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-05-05
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION
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The next Union Republican National
Convention for the nomination of can
didates for President and Vice President
of the United States will be held in the
city of Cincinnati, on Wednesday, the
14th day of June, 1876, at IL o'clock
noon. and will consist of delegates from
each State equal to twice the number of
its Senators and Representatives in Con-
gress, and of two delegates from each
organized Territory and the District of
Columbia.
In calling the convention for the
election of delegates, the committees of
the several States are recommended to
invite all Republican electors, and all
other voters, without regard to past
political differences or previous party
affiliations, who are opposed to reviv-
ing sectional ISSUES, and desire to pro-
mote friendly feeling and permanent
harmony throughout the country by
maintaining and enforcing all the con-
stitutional rights of every citizen, in
Guiding the full and free exercise of the
right of suffrage without intimidation
and without fraud; who are in favor of
the continued prosecution and punish
ment of all official dishonesty, and of an
economical administration of the Gov
ernment by honest, faithful and capable
officers; who are in favor of making
such reforms in government as expert
ence may from time to time suggest;
who are opposed to impairing the credit
of the nation by depreciating any of its
obligations. and in favor of sustaining
in every way the national faith an finan-
cial honor; who hold that the common
school system is the nursery of American
liberty, and should be maintained abso-
lutely free from sectarian control; who
believe that, for the promotion of these
ends, the direction of the government
should continue to be confined to those
who adhere to the principles of 1776,
and support them "a Incorporated in the
Constitution and the laws; and who are
in favor of recognizing and strengthen
ing the fundamental principle of Ma
tional Unity in this Centennial Anniver-
sary of the birth of the Republic.
Z. ID. MORGAN, Chairman,
WM. Z. CHANDLER. Sec'y,
Rep. Nat. Com.
Washington, Jan. y, 1876.
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Washington Dispatch TO the inter- Ocean,
JUDGE TAFT AND RETRENCHMENT,

When Judge Taft took the war port
folio. the House Committee on Appro
priatiOns, III courtesy 20 him, returned
the esti,.gates for the War Department
for reylsion. ana fof Seye-al weeks he
has been engaged in looking them D yer,
with the assistance of Generals Sherman
and Sheridan. Secretary Taft has made
redpetions in the estimates amounting
to five million doil4rg.. IN ro1nd numbers,
which, while cutting the army expendi
tures down to the smallest possible
figures, will leave reasonable support.
The Judge says he thonght as long as re-
trenchmept was in fashion he thought
he would see what he could do, and as the
Democrats had been so courteous as to
refer the matter to him, he would save
them as much trouble and labor rs pos
sible.
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CROOKED WHISKY IN ONO.

ISpecial Dispatch 10 iIie CincinnaII tiaZ-ite
URBANA, o., April IS
The first crooked whisky in this district
has been discovered at Tippecanoe City,
Miami Co., and Collector Wilson has
seized the distillery of A. NJ. Link, and
the Ohio Alcohol Works, owned by A.
N. Link s. Co. The property has been
turned over TO the United States Marshal
for the Southern District of Ohio for
condemnation The case has been on
hand for some time, and MAS worked up
by Revenue Agents Long and Gavett,
assisted by the revenue officers oe the
district.
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Mr.. BLAINE, in closing his remarks
last Monday in the Hoasc. "fi,-. - f.;ting
the malicious SANDERS which have been
circulated against BIN. concluded very
sensihly by asserting that hereafter he
should give himself no further trouble in
regard to such mean and malignant ac
cusations We believe that this is the
proper course to pursue. Tie public
man who stops to vindIcate himself from
the attacks of penna-liners and dis
appointed place-serkers gets into the
same predicament a. the Traveller who
disnounted from his horse TO kill the
noisy grasshoppers that annoyed him
Oh ms journey by incrS>ant chirping.
Silent contempt is the best ;tntidote
against such lpfanets
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-05-05
THE INDIANA ELECTIONS

The spring municipal elections which
came off in Indiana last Tuesday, re-
suited in great gains for the Republican
ticket. In indianapolis, especially, the
Republicans made clean sweep of
almost everything on the ticket OF
the thirteen wards, eleven are Republi.
can. The Democrats only carry two by
an aggregate majority of 226, giving the
Republicans popular majority of 4, 315,
and two thirds of ti.e City Council. In
1874 the Democracy had nearly 1, 600
majority in the city Democratic roughs
signalized their disgust at the result by
attacking and mobbing a few colored
voters, who We're quietly returning from
she election.
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THE CHILDREN'~ OPERA.

THE CHILDREN : OPERA.
In aid of the Centennial" stares one
| al head of every pleasant project now Il
days, and people are pretty well pillagGd
on one pretext or another. The last
WIS the very pretty spectacle OF Gin
drrella' at the Academy of Music, gwen
by two hundred and fifty children of
fashionable families. Tabieaux from
Mother Goose followed, and il was
pretty sight, the curled dariings,
with flowing flossy hair, and cloudy
white silver spaDgled dresses, with gauzy
wings and wauds a. fairies, and all the
romantic Mother Goose people-Red
Riding Hood with her basket, the Sleep
ing Beauty and the Enchanted Prince;
and it won plenty of compliments and
plenty of dollars from the admiring
families and friends who filed the house.
Perhaps the best fun was the next day,
when tht young performers all went
down to Mora's the Spanish artist who
stage with such delicacy, to be photo
graphed in costume 4 crowd stood
about the entrance TO the gallery on
Broadway for hours, TO catch glimpse
of each SNOWY clad little figure as it fled
from I.ia.Huia- carriage up the steps.
The boy- .y,.e the handsomest in my
eyes. T.:ere was one little prince in
blue satin and silver court dress, whose
mother ought to pray that he might go
to heaven before he grows up 10 spoil
one trace of his open, laughing beauty;
and the fair boy in black satin CONT
mental dress, with white silk stockings
and ruffies at his wrist, looked as if he
had just stepped out of picture, with
his noble countenance and grave sweet
air The girls had marvellous, delicate
compiexions-too delicate for pleasure;
and, with their shrinking manners,
seemed like wandering iHoonbeams.
even the slender. fragile creatures of
fifteen who will be debutantes next sea
son, who held the parts of Continental
danes in lowered trains and powdered
hair. there was hardly one of them that
locked substantial enough to kiss. Like
sugar angels, they were TO look at, but
not to taste. But fancy how charming
was the interior OF the photograph sa-
loon, with groups of miniature court
people in gold and satin, with blue and
purple and rose mantles, figures la
pom ps.lour and vatican, niched in the
window seats, delicate faces, happy, |
tiny spIites, hardly as tali as their golden |
hair was long, presided and hovered |
over by anxions mammas in black satin |
and white bonnets. What fun it was to
be hidden in the photographers closet, I
and among the villainous smelling acids
and chroinates, and peep out at the
aud the gorgeous little sitters
as they were taken.
SOMETHING ABOUT PICTURES
The gallery OF the late WIn. T. Bio,i-
yett, sold at auction this week for over
$50, i''o, q tidy sum to have locked upin
pictures. air. Taylor Johnston. whose
private gallery is Che OF the choicest in
New York, opens it 10 The public in his
OWN house in aid of the Women's Cen
ennial Fund, charging 81 90 admission,
ma tiae chance is eagerly sought. 1t is
expected that Mr. Stewards pictures, for
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-05-05
Tle Lowest CashPriCeS

On all Dry Goods during this Spring and
Summer ever known, viii be found by gong
to Hume& Halls Cheap Cash Siore.as the con-
tinued decline in prices for the last two years,
making all goods cheaper than before known,
with 10 prospee; Of any advance, our stock
all being new AM bought with the decline,
doing business Tor Cash and lightest possible
expense, selling the Best Goods 10 all at
strictly One Price Il will be to the interest
of all TO get our prices before purchasing.
Owing TO the large and increasing trade in
cur Warranted Boots and Shoes, we have de-
termined TO make Prices so Low that il will
close out all Spring and Summer goods AMI
Carpets during the season, TO make room for
our Boot and Shoe trade
Mrs. Hume has completed arrangements
with enc of the Largest Millinery Houses in
America, and will receive all the latest styles
Of Millinery. Ladies will find here the best
assortment, and Lowest Cash Prices.
HUME & HALLS
Cheap Cash Store.
April 2S lS7G.-y1
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''IDEALISTS. "

''IDEALIsTs.
81 must confess | have been some
what surprised at the ill-temper will
which some Republican papers haye de
nounced the proposed conference as a
sort of gunpOwder plot, gotten up for
revolutionary purposes by a set of reck
less ''idealists" they call us, when
they want to make the moral superiority
of the practical politician" strikingIy
apparent. 1t might, perhaps, be well
for them to remember that some of those
''idealists, -four or five years ago, strong
ly denounced the abuses of the govern
ment, which then and since came to
light, and warned the party in power of
the consequences which inevitably would
follow, if the iniquitous agencies then
at work were not sternly resisted. If
the ''idealists" had been listened TO Me-
Donald would not have been permitted
to organize the whisky ring in st. Louis,
the Belknaps and Babcocks would not
have remained great and powerful men
in the government, and tie Republican
party would not now be obliged to strug
gle under that load of disgrace which
to day is it, greatest element of weak
ness. We were then told by the 'sprac
tical politicians" that, il sueh abgses ex
isted, they would be corrected, and
everything put right inside You know
the result. The 'idealists' do not appear
to have been quite wrong afteraIl Now
| find some newspapers exercising their
wit at the idea that the 'idealists' insist
upon "a perfect angel for the Presiden-
cy, and will not be satisfied with any
thing less. As the 'idealists' were not
quite wrong four or five years ago, so |
apprehend they are not quite wrong now.
They think that, in its present situation,
the country needs a man for the Presi
dency who can be depended upon to
possess the moral courage and ability
required for as great an effort as human
energy is capable of. TO crpsiI cOfrup
ton, and to make this pnre govern
ment once more. whatever opposition
he may have to ENCOUNTER, even If il
should come from his own party friends.
This may be called an ideal notion, but
it is also All eniinently practical one. so
much, indeed, that il must be carried
out, If the honor of tine county ~ 10 be
saved and Republican institutions pre-
served. If, 70 use an expression employ
ed by Governor Allen, of Ohio. with
regard to specie payments. honest gov
eminent can lie Laughed down ~ bar
en- ideality,' then we NAV treinb!e for |
the future of the republic 1t seeins to |
me, the papers referred 20 are not quite |
scofiing at the 'ldealists, for
unless am greatly mistaken. the ideal
lists will be iu great demand as soon as |
the Presidential campaign is opened, as
they were last summer in Ohio and many
times before.
AS your letter embOdies suggestions
which have appeared in some journals '
not unfriendiy, | deem it pror.er to
give this reply TO the public ] shall :.
also send YoG an invitation to our con
ference. ana hope you will accept: -''-.
NEW YORK, April 32. G. SCHgaz.E
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TsE Springfield Republic in con-
SaientiDg on the Presidential situation,
gerry sensibiy says: I'VE are for Hayes,
but We dislike TO see Republican news
papers beiittiing Bristow. He lisa strong
man and an honest one-Who deserves
high praise for the noble stand be took
an Kentucky during the war-ana for
has vigorous and persistent prosecution
of thieves and rascals since he became
Secretary OF the Treasury. We
prefer Hayes, bat we could make ourself
very comfortable with Bristow or with
BiaiD4.r
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OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
THE COACHING CLUB -PoLITICAL-THE
CHILDREN's oPERA-PICTURES-
IOyS-RELIGIOUS-B
NEW YORK, May 1876

IHE tOALE1AO CLUB.
1t is a terrible thing to have too much
money. Indeed, am not certain that
it is not better to have too little The
last agony of young New York, with too
much money, is coaching. What is
coaching! A very simple thing. Men
with fine horses who think there is com
fort i'm the old-fashioned stage coach,
went to England and had built for them
old-fashioned stage coaches-iust such,
gentle reader, as you saw on the roads
thirty years ago, fitted out complete
with boot for baggage, and everything
else, as it was in the days when coaches,
or stages as we call them, We're the only
means of conveyance. They put TO
them four blooded horses, and they put
themselves in the uniforms of drivers,
and they load on the roof all their lady
friends, and they drive them, That is
all there is about it. IL means that
certain number of rich young men choose
to transform themselves into stage dri-
vers. There is club of these amiable
lunatics in New York, the head lunatic
being young James Gordon Bennett, the
proprietor of the Herald. Last Satur-
day the club made its first parade. Seven
stage coaches, rather more costly In
style than those you used to see on your
roads, drove up in front of the Union
League Club, seven very rich young
men habited as coachmen took their
places on the seven boxes, forty-five very
rich. and not at all beautiful, young
ladies mounted the roofs, and with the
utmost solemnity the cortege drove off,
up Fifth Avenue to the park, and back
again. The streets were lined with peo-
pie to see this procession, from Madison
square all the way to the park; and if
the object of the parade was to attract
attention, the gentlemen-stage drivers
may be congratulated. But isn't it
queer that in the day of steam men
should attempt so absurd a thing as the
revival of the stage coach? The horses
on these coaches are the very best that
money can buy, and they are eroomed
to degree that is almost painful. By
the way, the absurd English fashion of
cutting the tail of the horse into the
shape of club, has been adopted here.
Pray let it be confined TO New York, for
it is as ugly as sin.
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Irvets more Hayesy every dss. rb

lrRets more Hayesy every day. Fhs
On. Y. Times thinks Hayes would make
a very strong candidate. Be sure he
VIII. Who stands higher with the boys
in blue! Who has a better record as a
statesman? Hayes, VIII a good man
for the second place on the ticket. Sogld
be siHply inyincible, and would carry
Ohio by 80, 900 majority.
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Republican State Ticket.
Err Secretnrn of !Stnff

Fer Secretary Of State,
MILTON BARNES, of Muskingum Co.
For Judge Of Supreme Court,
w. w. BOYNTON, of Lorain County.
For Member Of Board Of Public Works.
JAMES c. EVANS, of Delaware County.
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and Currency reported a bill, author
izing the Secretary of the Treasury,
under such limits and regulations as will
best secure a Just and fair distribution
of silver coin throughout the country,
TO issue the silver coin now in the Treas
ury, to the amount not exceeding So,
000, 600, in exchange for an equal
amount of legal-tender notes, and pro-
viding that the notes received and ex-
changed shall be reissued only On the
retirement and destruction of like sum
of fractional currency received at the
Treasury in payment of dues to the
United States, and that such fractional
currency, when so substituted, shall be
destroyed and held as part of the sinking
fund. provided in the Act OF the 18th of
April, 1876. The bill was objected TO,
so without action the House adjourned
GEN. TON. EWING ON BLAINE.
In puncturing another batch of false
hoods, which his enemies had put in cir
culation, Hon. James g. Blaine, in the
House, Monday last, read the following
letter:
LANCASTER, o., March 20, 1876.
Hon. Jas. q. Blaine, Washington:
Dear Sir: | was surprised to learn
that some persons are reviving the long
since exploded story of your having ac-
quired an interest in the Leavenworth,
Pawnee & Western Railroad Company,
afterwards the Union Pacific, eastern
division, and now the Kansas Pacific.
Four years ago this charge was set
ahoat, and published a card denying
it. l was a director of the company at
the time when you are accused of hav-
ing acquired an interest and until some
time in 1868, and | knew that you had
no interest whatever in the company.
The report referred to seems to have
originated in the fact that your brother,
Jno +. Blaine, one of the early settlers
of Kansas, and clerk of our court at
Leavenworth, held stock in the company,
legitimately and properly acquired long
before you were even candidate for
Congress, and with which you had moth
ing whatever to do. Beyond this there
was no interest in the company directly
or indirectly by any one of your name.
The similarity between the names of J.
E. Blaine and ]. &. Blaine must have
led to the confusion on which the alle-
CATION is based. In that possible mis-
take, | can see some excuse for the
original of this misstatement, but | see
none for the persistency which urges it
after frank and full denial.
Very truly yours,
THOMAS EWING.
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THE Connecticut C0ifrG7st thinks that
Bristow is the leading candidate for the
Presidential nomination In that State,
and then Hayes. 1t says 1T may
safeIy be said and politicians outside OF
Connecticut may rely uponit-that seven
eighths OF the rank and file of the Rs-
publican party in this State are in favor
to .iay III tie nomination at Cincinnati
OF Secretary Rristow fog tle PRESIDENCY.
Their second eiIo!ce, if a western man,
would probably be- Gov. Hayes, OF Ohio
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-05-05
POLITICAL.

The Democratic State Convention did
two foolish things, viz: Ii endorsed
Sammy Tilden and snubEed John Nor
rissey. The Convention by its acts
made it certainty that every RepubIi-
can in the country will vote his straight
ticket, no matter how much he may
have been disposed to bolt. For Tam
many-John Kelly's "ammany-run the
machine from first TO last. John Nor
rissey made vigorous fight, but he was
routed, horse, foot, and Dragons, and
the Kelly was left in complete posses
sion of the field. Tilden was endorsed,
and if lie wins the nomination he goes
before the people as the nominee of the
most villainously corrupt organization
that ever existed. He goes into the can
vass as the especial creature of the old
Tammany ring reorganiZed- lie TweedS
and Connolys under other names. |
have no especial admiration for John
Morrissey, but must say that he made
a good fight, and an apparently honest
one, against these villains But Tilden's
money, and the Tammany organization
We're too much for him, and down he
went The decent portion of the De-
mocracy of New York are very sore over
the result, and with Il good candidate
the Republicans can easily carry the
State Tammany has recovered from
its defeat last fall, and is arrogant as
ever. Let the Cincinnati Convention
give the Republicans good candidate,
and let the st. Louis Convention nomi-
nate Tilden, and we can carry New York
with perfect ease.
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fractional currency is selling 1t a
premium at the banks of Cincinnati. =
That's pretty good Tor the filthy shin
piasters. .'-CouTier.
The same kino of money that our
neighbor once predicted would sell ct a
shilling peck
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-05-05

IL the 10Th Ohio District the RepBb-
licans have pretty generally agreed that
Capt Danford will be more useful with
two terms experience in Congress than
another man would be with no expert
ence, and Danford will be re nominated.
Akron Beacon.
Yes, and IN Charley Fosters district
the Republicans have concluded that a
man who has served three terms In
Congress, knows how it is himself, more
than IA man who was never there, and
Charley is going to go back some more.
Sunday Journal.
The right man in the right place,
always. a man who is thoroughly CON-
petent and honest through and through,
and experienced, is TO be preferred to an
untried and inexperienced one for any
Office. 2ijfia IIrituns.
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I'm sbreTluous zeal

- in SnlsGislu luOu> zeal
Crawl PROSTATE where the faithful only
kneel."
The unfortunate condition in which
Van Tine. the Postmaster, has got mat
ters, is all charged npon the Republican
party in this District, aa6 the most un-
mitigated falsehoods are GiShed up 10 the
readers of that paper as true The Gov
ernment loses nothing, however, as the
bondsmen are abundantly able and will
ing TO meet the deficiency The sympa-
thy which should ever be accorded a
brave soldier, crippled in defense of the
Union, kept him longer in position than
prudence should have dictated. But jus-
tice to all demands that nothing should
be said to prejudice the public mind
until Van Tine has had the full, fair
and impartial trial which is guaranteed
to the humbiest citizen in the land.
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HoN- CHAs. FOSTER will accept our
thanks for copies of the Congressional
Record.
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The Tiffin Star, always sensational
and unreliable, has lost nothing of these
qualities since its advent into tine Dem
ocratic party. The post Office robbery
and embezzlement ar Sandusky City has
afforded it a rare opportunity TO display
its talents in this style of journalism,
think that il saast
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saken their party, but are willing to
employ every legitimate means to ad-
vance good end. And so you might
join us as well as others who will be
present.