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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-10-19

MANNHEIM LODGE, NO. 4SO. Lo.o.F.
MEETS every Thursday evening at Odd Eel
Ill lowF Hall, southeast corner Public Square.
FIXED HENsARDNER, N. G. JULIUS Hook, v. G..
RTpoHaH RTpoHta ba4aoFE nI5Ios; Secretaries iy,nI
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-10-19
Saturday the 28M day Of October, 1876,

the following described real estate situate in said
county to.wlt: Part Of lot No. L. in Melchoir ad-
diti0n TO the city OF Canton, bounded and de-
scribed as follows: Beginning at point In the
east line of said lot 10 feet south from the north
east corner of said lot and at the southeast corner
of q part Of said lot owned by John Berry; thence
westwardly parallel to the north line Of said lot
10 the west line of said lol, thence southwardly
wardly parallel to the north liue OF said lot
thence norhwardly along said east line 80 feet to
the place of beginning. taH.Innsi
Appraised at 81, 10000. ..,s
Sale to commence at one o'clock p. m, Terms
cash. ,f4f}NI tllLNLlN
sept 2S.e up. RAUCH, Sheriff.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-10-19
HOTELS.
AMERICAN HOTEL.

OALEM, oHI0.--John A. Dellenbsugh, proprie-
y tor This popular and well known House has
lately been rehtted and furnished all through A
good sample room for commercial Travellers Liv.
cry stable in CONNECTION with the House, and an
Omnibus to and from all trains, Those patroniz
ing the House will at all times receive prompt
and corteous attention. aug1T-H
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-10-19
FARMERs' HOTEL,

fAhMbho hOlEL
n CONRAD & CO., Proprietors Canton, Ohio
~. corner 4th and Market streets. This Hotel
is located near the center of business, being one
block north of the court house. 1t Is well fitted
for the accommodation of travellers. Terms mod
crate. oct2S76 VI
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-10-19
DENTISTS.
DIR. j. II. sIDDALL .r.
| InENTIsT-oH in Harters Block, Canton
+. JEWELLERS.
DEUBLE & BROTHER
PHYSICIANS.
DIR. D. A. ARTER,
DR.. RIP. JOHNSON, 3y0

DHYeICIAN AND SURGEON = Office, No. 81
Il W. Tuscarawas street. Office hours, from 6 to
y a. m. and from 6 till I'm. . nOTleS4f
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-10-19

WISE BROS.
r livery AND FEED sTABLES-Corner Fifth
IL and Court streets, Canton, o, mylSN-1y
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-10-19

'lW aAaDR. r! p. JOHNSON, }y0 H.a
AND sURGEoN-O Wikidals
I corner. Office hours-8 10 10 q. M, 10 and
to p m. All calls attended to with prompsness
Apr27'6mi lHoh 8y3I sau Ia.sJ.,I .. b. .,.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-10-19
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
ATTORNEYS.

F.E. CASE,
A TToRNEY AT LAW, CANTON, OHIO.
~ ImAr2672-tf
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-10-19

, A sp J. @. sTALLcUP,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, ALLIANCE, OHIO,
! "A ofice In Merchants Block. decSN-n.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-10-19

ED. s. MEYER, HENRY A. WISE.
MEYER & WISE,
At ORNEYS AT LAW-0fice in Mckinley
"A Block up stairs. Canton, o. jan2l'75f
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-10-19

ltt HENRY W. GARNETT, Im .
A TTORNEY AT LAW. No. 2, Columbian Build
n ing, Fifth street. between D and Z, WaShing-
ton city Please to refer to L. schaefer Attorney,
Canton, o. -.... deoiS3
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-10-19

XXI M. M. KING,
4 A TTQRNEY AT LAW AND JUSTICE or THE
IA PEACE Alliance, Ohio. [sept7 T6H
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-11-23

IT seems not to have been the inten-
ton that an army of the United States
should be maintained-through taxation
of the whole people for the purpose Of
acting as national police in connection
with State matters. 1t was and is ex-
pressly provided that the States shall do
their own police work, and their own
military work through their militia force,
and that the army of the United States
should not be permitted to intervene,
save only in cases expressly provided. for,
and then acting only under the control
of the civil authority of the State which
should call it to AID the State authority
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-11-23

THE Now Orleans Democrat of the
18th, learns that two of the Republican
electors in Louisiana held Offices of prof
it and trust under the United States at
the time they were voted for, and are
therefore ineligible. 0. H Brewster was
United tates.Surveyor General for Lou
isiana, and official documents signed by
him duringthe canvass are in existence.
Judge A. B. Levisee, another Hayes cleo
tor, is, the Democrat is informed, Uni
ted States Commissioner, an office OF
profit and trust, and he is therefore incl
igible,
We have to add the ineligibles in Yer
mont and Oregon, and the case in Wis
consin, so that there is plenty of mater
ial to work on. r..
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-11-23

The Republican party four years ago
ran Grant for reelection to the Presiden-
cy, and the Democracy had for their can.
dldate Horace Greeley. The supporters
of Grant succeede | in making many peo-
pie believe that if they elected Greeley
there would be general financial revul-
sion, that factories, furnaces and mills
would close, and thousands Of honest la
borers and mechanics would be thrown
out of employment and reduced to power
ty and want. Grant was elected, and the
government remained in the hands Of
the Camerons, Belknaps, Babcocks, and
notorious plunderers who have rioted
and reveled with moneys stolen from the
public treasury, whilst almost every de-
partment of industry has been suspended
and hundreds of thousands Of people are
unable to find employment to earn bread
for their families. And now we see that
when the people have voted these men
out of power by an overwhelming ma
jority, they are plotting, and seem deter
mined to count in Mr.. Hayes, their de-
feated candidate, so that they may con-
tinue in evil doing. We shall see.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-11-23

AN exchange says ut is possible
that Tilden and Hayes may both take
the oath of Office on the 4th of March
next"
Of course, this is in the event that Con
gress fails to agree, and to declare who
is elected President; or, if the Senate
should declare Hayes elected, and the
House should find for Tilden. We trust
no such complication will come, and that
Congress will find it no difficult matter
to declare who is the Peoples choice
and also that he is elected by the forms
of law. According to the Constitution
and the act of Congress, the Presidential
term is four years and no more.
Article 2. section l, of the Constitution
expressly excludes any such idea as Mr..
Cushing has audaciously suggested. 1t
says:
"The executive power shall be vested
in President of the United States OF
America. He shall hold his office dur
ing the term OF four gears
The act of March /, 1892, section l52,
declares as follows:
"The term of four years for which a
President and Vice President shall be
elected shall, in all cases, commence on
the 4th day of March next succeeding
the day on which the votes of the elctors
have been given"
Should the electors fail to choose the
President, it will devolve upon the lower
House of Congress to choose, each State,
in that event, would cast one vote. In
this case Ohio would vote Tilden, as a
majority of the members of the present
House are Democrats. Pennsylvania
would also vote Tilden for the same rea-
son, while New York would vote Hayes,
Tilden would be chosen, as the Demo
Gratis have majority Of the States in the
HOuSe .r b..
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-11-23

PATTERSON, Conover and West, the
three carpet-baggers who misrepresent
South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana
respectively in the United States Senate,
are in the North viewing the Southern
prospect from afar. Neither of these
Radical worthless has an iota of interest
in the States they are supposed to repre-
sent in the Senate, more than to hold Of
fees they are neither qualified, morally
or truthfully speaking legally to fill. 1t
is boldly charged that all three secured
their election by briblng negro l.egisla'
tors, More than half of the carpet-bag
Senators from the South secured their
elections the same way since the war;
The absence of these three ideal Radicals
from the South just at this important
crisis suggests to us the thought thatthey
know all three of the States are Demo
cratic, and they are too cowardly to stay
down South and meetthe issue. Patter-
son, Conover and West have only two oc-
cupations-to hold Office and make mon
ey. AS soon as they find out that the
Democracy have possession of the State
Governments over which they helped 10
dominate since the war, their office-hold-
ing occupation will be gone, and then
will their interest in the South and for
the Southern people cease. Like ninety
nine out of a hundred Radical carpet
baggers who have been elected to office
in the South since Grant was first chosen
President, they will depart to other parts
"unwept, unhonored and unsung."-Cn'
ElUlliTer r-Fr
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-11-23

CAN any one inform us what right the
President has to interfere with the
count" for his successor? What right
has he and the members of his Cabinet
to interfere unwarrantably any more
than any other citizenP Old father Taft,
Grants Attorney General, sent long
and unsolicited opinion to the President,
who has nothing to do with the question,
on the constitution of the Board of Elec-
tors. He claims that an elector for Pres
ident is not appointed" within the
meaning Of the Constitution till he is
commissioned by the Government Of the
State and duly qualified, and that the
places of ineligible candidates for electors
can be filled by the remaining members
of the board. He cites the cases Of Gen
erals Blair and Schenck in Congress as
parallel ones, Congress having decided
that although Blair was duly elected by
the people, he couldnot qualify or take
his seat, because he was holding another
Federal Office at the time Of his election
Congress- may take cognizance Of this
and disagree Withhold granny Taft. .al
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-11-23
Legal Notice.

HENRY CHANCE. Sarah Grant, Mary A. HOLES,
I'll Lydia Uran Elizabeth shaffer and the un-
known heirs of Lavina Stanley deceased, one of
the heirs of Lavina Chance, deceased, all Of the
State of Ohio Jesse Chance, who resides In the
State of Michigan, Rhoda Bevington, who resides
in the State Of ofPennsylvania, the unknown heirs
ofPerry Chance, deceased one of the heirs of La
vina Chance. deceased, who reside in the State Of
Minnesota, and the unknown heirs of Rhoda Maui
son, whose names and places of residence are
unknown: ,"..
viii take notice that Peter Chance, sdministra-
tor Of the estate of Lavina Chance and Rhoda
Manson deceased, on the I'd day Of November, A.
D. 1876, filed his petition in the Probate Court
within AMI for the county of Stark and State Of
Ohio alleging that the personal estate of said dec
edents Is insufficient to pay their debts and the
charges OF administering their estate; that they
died Jointly seized in fee simple of the following
described real estate situated In said county to wit
Lot number twenty (20) in the old town Of Free
dom (now part Of the town Of Alliance) Lexing-
ton township, Stark county aforesaid.
The prayer Of said petitionis is for a sale Of said
premises for the payment of debts and charges
aforesaid
Said petition will be for hearing on the Doth day
of December, A, D. 1876, or as soon thereafter as
~Tlo PETER CHANCE,
Administrator Of Lavina Chance and Rhoda
Manson, deceased
Canton, o. November o. t876-hW,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-11-23

PRESIDENT GRANT sent soldiers South
before the election, claiming they were
necessary to protect negro citizens
against intimidation, and to secure them
in the full and free exercise of their right
of voting. The result of the elections
there, is against Grant anG his party and
now the party organs claim the negroes
were intimidated, and hence the State
Returning Boards must reverse the result
We're too few troops sent? Shonld there
have been greater array Of military pow
er? 1t would seem that Grant, Bandit.
ii" Sheridan and Chandler are not hap
py over the result. They mourn that
things baye gone so far for Tilden and
Reform. 1t is sad. The Democratic
House last winter refused to increase
the army as Grant wanted it.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-11-23

TEE DEMOCRAT is furnished to subscribers at W
per year; 81 for six months fifty cents for three
months, invariably in advance.
CORRESPONDENCE, containing important news
solicited from all parts of the county. Writer'S
name and address required on every communica
ton as private guarantee Of good faith.
Business Cards one dollar per line per year No
card inserted for less than three dollars per year
I Business Notices in Item columns, on fifth page
inserted for ten cents per line each insertion. If
inserted in reading matter twenty cents per line,
No notice will be inserted for less than fifty cents.
Yearly advertisers allowed the privilege of
changing their advertisements quarterly.
Double column advertisements 25 per cent ad-
ditOnal
All transient advertisements must be aceompa-
MED with the cash,
Advertisements, to insure insertion, must be
handed in by Wednesday noon.
Rates of Advertising furnished on application.
Address all communications to
A. McGRFGoR & SON.
Canton, Ohio
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-11-23
THE ELECTION IN LOUISIANA,

The following extract from a special
dispatch to the Enquirer from New Or
leans, under date Of Nov. 10Th, speaks
for itself The Major Bascom mention
ed is son of our neighbor of the Repository,
and is no doubt worthy officer and gem
| tleman.
Major Bascom, who was in command
of the United States troops in West Fe-
liciana, one of the alleged bull-dozed
parishes on election day, is here, and
and states that there was no intimida-
ton or violence that would in any way
change the result of the election. The
usual vote of the parish is about l,SOO.-
This time it was about 1000, with Dem
cratic majority of 465, The trouble was
that the negroes voted the Democratic
ticket in large numbers, D. A. Webber,
the Republican Supervisor OF the cleo
ton in the parish, denies point-blank
that there was any intimidation, and has
refused to comply with Kellogg's request
to protest its vote, and has handed in a
clear and honest return of the ballot
The greatest act of violence committed
in the parish occurred two days before
the election, when Tom West, the Dem
ocratic candidate for Sheriff. was shot in
cold blood for heading Democratic pro-
cession.
In refutation of Governor Kellogg's
claim of murder, violence and intimida-
ton in Moorehouse, made in dispatch
to Zach Chandler, b. W. Harrison, Depu-
ty U. S. Marshal; c. B. Wheeler, Repub-
lican candidate for Senator; J. c. Weeks
editor of the Bastrop Republican; F. NJ
Grant, Supervisor of Registration; Geo.
Petiken. Sheriff of the Parish; Franklin
Vaughan, District Attorney pro tenn,
and Z. F. Buckingham, Commissioner of
Elections, all of them Republicans who
voted for Hayes and the Republican
State ticket, have made affidavits to the
entire falsity and untruthfulness of his
statements and say that the election was
fair, honest and free. The affidavlts OF
hundreds of negroes who voted the Dem
ocratic ticket are being recorded at the
Democratic headquarters These show
how it was that Louisiana went Demo-
cratic by 5000 majority. These negroes
are being beaten, prosecuted and turned
out of church for voting the Democratic
ticket. Notwithstanding these facts the
Returning Board will cast the vote for
Hayes.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-11-23

AN Alliance organ informed its read
ers last week that on the Friday evening
previous, on hearing of Grants ordering
troops South, "an indignation meeting of
Democrats of Canton paraded the streets
and hallooed for JEFF Davis" 1t would
seem by this that the crazy people and
knaves at Alliance still get the night
mare over JEFF Davis, They still want to
use JEFF as a bugaboo to save and contin-
ue Granti,m with its load of infamy. 1t
yelps, "let us have peace" while it waves
the "bloody shirt" and breathes dire
vengeance it vociferated, "let no guilty
man escape" when the guilty dogs were
its own bosom political favontes whom
it shielded by schemes, frauds and tricks
and now pardons and releases those who
were found guilty and imprisoned this
same Grantism proclaimed for an "hon-
est count" while it was sending.troops to
uphold its Kellogg, Casey, Chamberlain
scoundrels to defraud an oppressed and
plundered people out of their honest ver-
dict through the ballot-box. Such is
Grantism, and the effort now ls to per-
petuate the same, though an honest, op-
pressed and outraged people have en-
phatically repudiated the whole thing
And they "hallooed for jeff Davis" did
they2 They ought to have hallooed for
soup made of shavings"-whic would
have better suited the Alliance organ of
Grantism. These Grant organs, like the
Cleveland Leader, think "a one cent soup
bone, that butcher would throw to the
dogs" good enough to make soup for "a
laboring mans family Of eight or ten. -
These are the. fellows that talk of Demo
Gratis hallooing for "Jeff Davis" Such is
Grantism and Grant soup for laboring
men. They want to count Hayes in so
as to continue Grantism, and give labor
ing men more "soup made of shavings"
Hayes is not yet counted in, and the peo-
pie will have fair play.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-11-23

WEknow several conscientious citizens
who, for the first time, this year, voted
with the Conservative Democracy for
Tilden and Reform, Foryears they had
been members of the Republican party,
more or less conspicuous. We most cor
daily welcome all such men. AS good
citiz ms all they ask is honest, Constitn-
tional Government. With them country
is above party-right more dear to them
than wrong. Happy for the country it
is that we have Independent citizens with
moral courage to rise above all personal
considerations, and act intelligently, from
conscientious conviction.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-11-23

Two years ago President Grant sent
the military to Louisiana to turn out the
Governor and Legislature that had been
elected by the people of that State, and
to install in their stead men whom the
people of Louisiana had rejected.
Again, shortly before the late election,
he sent troops to Louisiana and South
Carolina to control the voting. Greatly
disappointedin in the result of the voting,
for it went otherwise than looked for by
the men in power, he is now trying the
force plan further. What the final result
of these high-hsnded acts will be is a
question the future will have to develop
The present occupant Of the White
House seems to be drunk with power, Oh
something else, and cares nothing fol
the Constitution and the laws, nor the
expressed will of the people. Franz
Blair's estimate of the unprincipled mar
seems to have been correct.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-11-23
THE RETURNING BOARD.

The uuartette of rascals who constitute
the Louisiana Returning Board, assume
extraordinary powers under the lava
law that would be declared invalid, null
and void in any fair court, X
The Constitution of Louisiana, article
II. provides that "the election shall be
completed in one day. Nothing done by
"Returning Boar1'on any subsequent
day can be construed as part of the cleo
ton, which is completed" when the re-
turns are made up and attested by the
election officers, after the closing of the
polls. All that any canvassing body can
lawfully do, is to canvass the returns and
announce the result as it is found to be-
The Constitution, Article 46, says that
"returns of all elections Of members OF
the General Assembly shall be made to
the Secretary of State" ~
Article "a says that "each house shall
be the Judge of the election, return, and
qualification of its own members, which
issimply an affirmation of the vital es-
senee of all representative government
Without exclusive power to judge OF the
lection and qualification of its own
m mbers. no snch thing as a representa-
tive esembly of the people is possible
For tn power to prescribe the qualifica-
ton anu conditions of membership is
nothing les than the power to prohibit
the existence of the body.
The Constitu ION of Louisiana, like all
other American Constitutions, also vests
all judicial pDwer in the courts OF law
and justice constituting the judicial
branch of the government, In no Sec
ton, no clause, no word o. that charter
of government can be foun ! any war
rant for a Returning Board" interposed
between the local election officers and
the Secretary of State, to whom the re-
turns of all general elections are required
to be made. Not the slightest hint or
suggestion, by expression or implications
of any authority to confer by statute upon
such body the powers to Judge of fraud
intimidation, etc, c.,-poyer which the Con-
stitution in express terms conlels upon
the judiciary,-can be discovered in the
Constitution of Louisiana. The Consti-
tuition itself makes provision expressly
for "contesting elections" in the courts,
and thus by implication and by rules of
legal construction, prohibits the transfer
by statute of that power from the judici-
airy to returning board"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-11-23

No intimidation was heard of in Lou.
isiaha or elsewhere in the South, till il
was necessary to get some States for
Hayes, in order to elect: Even now the
radicals do not locate any troubles at the
election The fact is, the election all
over the South was as peaceable and fair
as in the North. The Republicans had
all the machinery, plenty of troops, Uni
ted States Marshals at every poll, who
certainly we not resisted. Yet we hear
of fintimidation-now that it is necessary
to count States against the Democrats
and for Hayes.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-11-23

PRESIDENT GRANT has taken great in
terest in an "honest" count in Louisiana
and other doubtful States. In fact, was
it not for that purpose he sent the mill
tary South? He has expressed lis con-
fidence that an "honest" count will elect
Hayes. 1t is said the Presidents infor-
nation comes from that pink of propri.
ETY. at New Orleans, brother-in-law Ca
sey, who expects such "count" by the
Returning Board of that State as was
condemned last year by the Republican
candidate for Vice President in his re-
port to Congress,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-11-23

PLAIN TALK.-The man who sides, or
even wishes to count ina President who
was never elected, is public enemy and
a traitor to his country l' sni' fiw
Things have come to pretty pass in
these great United States, when couple
Of negroes on an Election Board in Lou
isiana propose to use their authority to
place a President over the whole Union,
who was not elected. I'd b.s.lf.F 4
Whoever desires a President to rule
this country who was not elected by the
people, is rebel against the sovereignty
of the people, and an anarchist OF; ;imper-
ialist whose proper end'in this land, is a
ropes end, and with a moose I'M IL for a
taitof's neck. - Y0ungaoson Virsdiedtor.. % =
~ ,nrtHASsNf - p
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-11-23

"CoARsE"-Is the erm used by con.
temporary in speaking of us. We never
quibble over another's opinion, especial
ly when it involves a comparison with
lofty self; and when from that dizzy
height of conceit a man may imagine
himself possessed of powers far superior
to other mortal men. Not for the world
would oOe be guilty of disturbing such re-
fnement, unction and calm equanimity.