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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-21
WHOLE NUMBER 400.

mum compounded, while in England
the annual gross expenditures for running
the Government remain almost stationary;
the increase in thirteen years, comparing
1860 with 1873, having been less than two
per cent. for the whole period. In 1872 my
friend, Gen. Garfield, as Chairman of the
Committee on Appropriations of the House
of Representatives, expressed belief on
the floor of the House that If peace con.
tinued, the net ordinary expenses of the
Federal Government, which in that year
were S153, 3,000, 900, would be reduced by 1876
to $125, 100000. But how far circumstances
have proved adverse to the realization of
such antieipations, is shown by the fact that
for 1875 the net ordinary expenses OF the
Government were Sl71 ZOO, 900, and for the
fiscal year 1876, when special efforts were
made to economize, $15S, 100000. Great,
however, as has been the increase in Federal
expenditures, the increase of our State and
municipal expenditures has been compare
lively greater. The aggregate of State debts
was reported in 1875 at 1928 ,000, 900, of which
$164, 100000 had defaulted. The present
aggregate of municipal Indebtedness is in
excess of $500, ,000, 600. The aggregate taxa
ion of the United States has increased from
less than S. per head in 1861 to more than
S13 in 1876. There has been paid out in
taxes-Federal, State and municipality the
people of the United States, from 1865 to
1876, the astounding sum of at least Sc ,000,-
100000. Certainly of all dear and expensive
things in this country, which people buy and
pay for, government has become the dearest
and most expensive.
Thus we find that at time when the
people have been themselves closely
economizing, the expenses of the Gov
ernment have steadily increased, while
heavy taxation has been put upon the
labor of the country to keep up the ex-
travagance. Meanwhile business de-
clines, manufactures are closed, and
labor, skilled and unskilled, seeks in
vain for employment. The first step to
a remedy is to turn out of power the
party under which this criminal extrav-
agance has grown up.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-21
For WOrkin gmen.

We call the attention of the poor, hard
working men of the country to the fol-
lowing item from an exchange:
Thirty millions of taxation saved by the
Democrats in Congress are sufficient to buy
-four enough to last every family in the
country one month.
What do you think of that, voters and
taxpayers? Is it worth while to keep
such party in power, or is it not? The
thirty million dollars saved by the DEM
ocratic House of Representatives in
Washington this last session, would buy
every family in the land about two sacks
of flour! This money, had it not been
saved by the Democrats, would have
been added to the Republican campaign
fund and used to secure votes for Hayes
and Wheeler, Notwithstanding the pov-
erty and necessitiesof the people. And
more money would have been saved by
the Democratic House had it not been
for the Republican Senate, which fought
every attempt to cut down the expenses
and lessen the taxation. Let voters
think of this fact, and go to the polls in
November, earnestly and seriously, de-
termined to act for their own best inter-
ests and the welfare of the whole eoun-
try. sna
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-21
The Income Return Slander.
!itOr of the Detroit Free Press.

To He Editor Of the Detroit Free Press.
The Radical papers, high and low, have
been busy for the last three weeks writ
ing up, modifying and amending their
grand charge of perjury against Governor
Tilden in connection with his income
tax. They repeat the infamous and alb
surd charge in every fresh issue of their
papers, acting upon the principle that
" a lie well stuck to is good as the
truth" and confident that a well dove
tailed falsehood will travel leagues while
truth is putting on its boots, knowing,
too, that Mr.. Tilden will not condescend
to make a personal reply to every malig-
nant partisan assault upon his public or
private character which the vindictive-
ness of party spirit or the ingenuity of
private malice may fabricate. Against
all assaults in this direction the Governor
may safely appeal to the record of his
whole life, as it has been known of all
men. After the great work he has
achieved for the people of both the City
and Sta0e of New York, in freeing them
from the monstrous corruptions which
for years had been sapping the public
virtue and destroying the material in
terests of the people, ne may well look to
that people, and will not look in vain, for
the vindication of his scharacter from the
vile ISLANDERS engendered by partisan war
fare of the lowest description.
And now 1 desire to say few words
in regard TO this great income SANDER,
the falsehood of which none know better
than those who make it. 1t is charged
thar Mr.. Tilden, in certain answer in
chancery made since he became can
didate for the Presidency, swore that he
received $4,000 in 1862 from a certain
railroad company, and as he did not in
clude it in his income return for 1862,
therefore he swore in 1876 that he had
committed perjury in 1862. Now that
is not very probable thing for man OF
Mr.. Tilden's well known character for
prudence and sagacity to do. The charge
is that this $4,000 should have been in,
cluded in his income for 1862; but while
his Radical accusers charge this they
wholly omitted and concealed, for theil
own purposes of deception, the further
statement in his answer, of which they
were well aware, that this same $4,000
thus paid him was for services rendered
during the years 1857, 1858, 1859 anG
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-21

with steady lips and the solid eyebrow that
betokens the good workingman. Gentle,
kindly men, with the soft blue eye and
sudden smile that bespeak home-loving
natures. They stand before me, deterrent,
hat in hand, but stern, with a fierce, re-
pressed kind of self-respect. =
Most of them seem glad to talk little; !;
very glad to rest. They sit upon the door
step patiently, quick to see the first sign of
failing hospitality in their hostess, and gen.
orally ready to "move on" before their
entertainment has begun to weary her.
They tell their stories by little and little, in
the dull, undramatic tones of unvarnished
history.
No work. No work. No work. The
mill has shut down. The shop is closed.
The company has failed. The railroad is
in trouble. Meyer was like this before.
Never thought to come to such pass. Al
ways earned enough. Was steady man.
Came of respectable folks. Never thought
to see the hour he'd be taking dinner from
anybody's hands this way. Never saw such
times as these in all his life. They can't
last much longer. If they do, the man don't
live as can say what will be the end of it.
:. 1t is assad, sad story. But we hear it
from every quarter, and the refrain is al
ways the same as that of the story Just
told. "They can't last much longer-if
they do, the man don't live as can say
what will be the end of it." Men who
never knew what it was to beg are COM
PEELED to 60 upon the highway, hat in
hand, and in the midst of plenty and
abundance, the great army of tramps is
being daily swelled. Such a state of af-
fairs is the natural outgrowth of condi.
tions as fixed as the laws of nature, and
ne change can be expected until differ
ent conditions prevail. The causes which
produced it are, as Mr.. Tilden says, that
for "eleven years governmental con-
sumption has taken larger portion of the
national earnings than the whole people
can possibly save, even in prosperous
times, for all new investments"
The remedy which can save us is sug-
gested by the words of the same distin-
guished gentleman:
There is no royal road for government
more than for an individual or corpora
ton. What you want to do is to cut down
your expenses and live within your income.
| would give all the legerdemain of finance
and fnanciering, would give the whole of
il for the homely maxim, "Live within your
income"
: The man and the party who can effect
this policy are the need of the hour, and
the "grave, grim men whose stern self
respect makes them conscious of the con-
dition to which they are reduced will do
well to consider who is responsible for
their situation and who is able to lift
them out of it.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-21
Republican SANDERS.

Realizing that they are repudiated, the
Republicans have sought to attract atten-
tion away from the main issue by
series of shameless lies. The people are
not to be deluded. They know that these
slanders are only uttered to deceive them
into continuing in power the men who
have squandered their substance in
riotous living. True, Hayes is playing
the part of the prodigal son. for the
Republican party. He pretends to
have abandoned the husks and
the harlots and to have made up
his mind tc make the Repub-
licau party behave itself in the future.
Unfortunately, however, the very men
who have been the companions of this dis
sembler all the while he has been living
the life of a prodigal, are they very ones
who are the loudest in his praises. They
have not changed. Noone pretends that
Grant has. And yet Grant is using the
bayonet to pry open the path for Hayes
to the White House. No one pretends
that Chandler has. And yet Chandler
runs the canvass for Hayes. No one
pretends that Cameron has. And yet
Cameron is relied upon to carry Pennsyl-
vania, while his son leads the army in its
work of tyranny and subjugation. No
one pretends that Conkling has. And yet
Conkling is to take the stump for Hayes.
No one pretends that Cornell has. And
yet Cornell is the leadingi spirit of the
National and State conventions. Hayes
himself writes to President Grant the
most cordial approval of his administra-
ton. The Republican party does the
same thing. There is scarcely
the fiction of a fig leaf
to cover the nakedness of the Republican
party. 1t is the same profigate and
corrupt party, and has stolen hundreds of
millions, while allowing the. business of
the country to be prostrated through its
inefficient management. There is no an
swer to this arraignment. Nothing but
the most puerile of personalities. Moth
ing but the silliest repetition OF partisan
slang, which fulfilled its missions years
AGO.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-21
StraM.O

The Evansville Qnd.) Courier (Dem.)
says: If there have been lingering
doubts in the minds of the people of the
election of Tilden and Hendricks, they
must be dispelled after reading this re-
markable coincidence, that seems like the
voice of destiny. The number placed
under each letter represents the order of
that lettler in the lphabet 4pff
S. .TI-L-D-EN 80
20 20 II 50 =
T. H-E-N-D-R-I-C-K- -5.s...
20 8 s IA IS 9 8 IL 19.............111 1874
r, H-A-Y-E-S ~ 'if
IS 25 19........................ rs
w. .W-H-E-E-L-E-R ,r,s-.r
% % s 5 u 1S..........-......... 80 175
Adding 1874 and IT'S and we have 369,
the total number of electoral votes, in
Guiding Colorado, which has been de-
clared a State by the Presidents procla-
nation. We can give the Republicans
Indiana and Ohio and easily count 1874
electoral votes for Tilden and Hendricks.
But the thing to be considered is, the
coincidence shows that the fates have de-
creed Tilden's election. As matter of
form the people will cast their ballots in
November, but nothing can defeat Tilden
after such manifest destiny as this
coincidence" has disclosed,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-21
Why Hon. John r. Buchtel will Vote
for Tilden,

Hon. John R. Buchtel, the founder of
Buchtel College, at Akron, and one of
the proprietors of the Buckeye Works at
that place, has espoused the cause of
Tilden, Hendricks aid Reform. Recently
at a public meeting Mr.. Buchtel was
called out and responded in substance as
follows, according to the report of the
Times:
az will tell you how became con-
verted, and why l shall vote for Tilden.
/ hold the Republican party responsible
for its every act. You all know how it
purposes to resume specie payments.
Mr.. Tilden proposes to resume by public
economies. The 500 bonds were payable
in currency, in the same money that the
soldiers received. Does anybody know
of the soldiers being paid in gold? No,
but Republican Congress made these
bonds payable in gold. In 1873 the Re
publicans demonetized silver. When an
effort was made 10 repeal the law who
opposed it? You see the price of silver.
Congress should have taken our finances
into consideration in business way.
Have they tried to pay the debt?
Have they not rather cut off the
only way of paving it? Those bond
holders are sharp, and they saw
what was in their interest. They
are monopolists and swindiers. When
they saw that silver was becom-
ing cheap they cut it off. For that act
of a Republican Congress we have had to
pay premium on gold for three years, and
then when the matter is brought up they
refer it. A resolution which was tabled
at Medina shows you what such action
means. 1t is simply dodging the whole
question. Now, have we not right to
vote against such men? If one of you
men who works in the Buckeye were to
steal five cents your head would come of.
If man whom you sent to Congress steals
your money to give to the bondholder,
have you not right to call him to an
account? The interest on our National
debt is 800, 100000 year, and silver at
twenty per cent. discount. That act cost
the taxpayers $a0,000,0 900 per year, and
now we are told it has been postponed for
two years. lam going to vote for Tilden
and Reform. Republicans tell me that
they want to reform the party from within
itself. They have sucked the public teat
so long that they are like young pos
sum, you can't pull them off. If they had
managed our business well we would not
have stagnation and closed manufac-
tories al over the land. We must have
a change, and we can't change for the
worse. Let us all vote for Tilden and
Reform"
The speaker was frequently interrupted
by applause and at its conclusion cheers
we're given for the speakers and the Dem
Ccratlc candidates.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-21
Taft's Infamous Order.
TCiucinnati Enquirer.I

The intent of the Republican party is
clearly manifest in the outrageous order
issued by the Attorney. General of the
United States to the Southern Marshals
of the United States to conscript men,
and boys about fifteen years of age, to
help carry the election. The Republicans
have two chances in playing this game:
if the honest Southern people tamely
submit to this outrage upon law and
liberty the lawlessness will be successful,
and if they resist the Northern heart
will be fired, and the result is expected
to be the same. No such order has
ever been issued by any officer of the
United States, and no such usurpation
and National violence in time of
peace have ever before been contem-
plated. And the American people
apparently notice it not. The instruc.
tions issued to the United States
Marshals in the South are issued for the
palpable purpose of ordering those Off
GERS of the United States to take charge
of the elections in the South. 1t was not
intended that the United States Marshals
in the North should pay any attention to
this order, and this fact is sufficient to
damn the order. 1t is sectional order
from the law-oficer of the government,
authorizing the representatives of the
United States in the South to summon
to their assistance to take control of the
elections "every person in the district
above fifteen years of age, whatever may
be their occupation, whether civilians or
not, and including the military of all de-
nominations-militia, soldiers, and ma
rines." This is the astounding order
issued to the "chief executive Off
GERS of the United States in their Dis
tricts " on the eve of an election. There
can be no doubt as to the Interpretation
which will be put upon the order by the
United States Marshals in the South = it
is notice to "cut loose" But what is the
law in the premises? Some of the open
ing words of the instructions of the At
torney- General indicate the purpose foI
which they were issued: "ln the pres
ent condition of legislation the United
States occupy position toward voters
and voting" etc.-and it should be
known to the Attorney-General that the
"pOsition toward voters and voting" is tC
be taken by the several States within theil
limits, and not by the United States
Suffrage and elections are within the su
preme control of the States. The Ma
tional Government has no business tt
meddle with them. This is the decision
of the highest court, and the practice o
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-21
CAPTAIN GRANT.
BY CARL BRENT.

I'm Captain Grant of the cavalry,
The people all look up to me,
And the party loves me well, you see,
For Pm the boss Of the army.
I've got fight against Sitting Bull -
And Jet my hands are not quite full,
And times are getting terrible dull,
so must use my army.
They say the third term ghost ia laid,
But am not bit afraid, 81
For the game amt out until it's played,
And Pm still the boss Of the army.
Ulysses Hayes, or Rutherford Grant,
It's all the same, whichever you want, ~
And reform must stop its stupid cant
While | Command the army.
Ny deputy boss Is Cameron, - =
Old Simon's smart and secret son,
And you may bet wen hsve our fun
While slashing about with the army.
No matter what the people say,
They've only got the bill to pay,
And laws were never in the way
? When We wantedto use the army.
Now 1 can find some work to do
For Belknap, Bah, and 0rville, too,
And they win fight till all is blue,
As suffers in the army;
And Robson point must strain
To build the navy up again,
And spend his cash with might and main,
For the navy must help the army.
OF votes my side is getting short,
And we can hardly hold the fort
Unless we soon begin the sport
Gs hunting with the army.
The colored people stand and pout,
And are half inclined to vote me out,
For they forget, beyond doubt,
That ttred them with the army. z
Wen drag the darkeys to the polls,
And make the Democrats hunt their holes
And haul the white men over the Goals,
When 20 south with the army,
Though many howl, my win is firm
To cause the Southern States to squirm,
And when want another term
Pn sweep the north with the army.
Our plants thin, but better than none,
Enough for me and Cameron,
And when the work Is once%began
Wecan't control the army.
If now we've not good excuse,
Well make one soon, so what's the use
OF holding back from turning loose
The bayonets Of the army rTyr .
So Terry may grImble and Crook complain,
And brave mems blood the snow may STAN;
No matter If / my point may gain 8 = u
By whipping the South with the army;
For 1 must support the Spencer crew,
And Ames and Packard, and Meses, too,
And in time pn find enough to do
= 81 ioais Times.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-21

thoroughly corrupt has lost power to reform
itself. Devils are not inclined to cast out
devils, and could scarcely be trusted with
the business if they should offer their serv-
ices; and tits because entertain these views
and can not escape their force that sim
cerely desire to see the machinery of the
Republican party battered into fragments,
md the way thus opened for reformation
of parties on the living questions of the
hour, unembarrassed by the memories of
the mast
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-21

Business cards Of five lines or less s. per snnum,
Local notices 10 cents per line zach insertion.
Simple announcements of marriages and deaths.
md church and benevolent society notices inserted
free. Any additions to obituary notices 1fn ba
charged cents per line. - =. "a -
Favors MUST be handed In as early a. Tuesday
morning to insure insertion the same week.
Communications upon subjects Of general q 10.
cal interest are solicited
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-02-12

terest Of the prosecution, but Is as certainly
working for somebody II is also tolerably GER
tam that several Chicago de ectivcs are work
Ing in the service uf the defendant
One OF Habcocks ATTORNEYS, IN conversation
with friend to day. responded to the question
NJ how he WIS getting along with the case ty
parallel. lie said ~ am reminded Of the
qua doctor called upon to oificiato at birth.
Beng questioned regarding hts success, he an.
sWered, I'm doing splendldly; the child Is
dead, the mother will die. but think I can save
the old man The old man OF this story Is sup
counsel didn't intend his jest to be made public.
THE FEELING IN WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 1.-THE testimony
adduced TO day IN the Dabcock trial has added
greatly to the already Intense interest mani
some additional facts known here to a
few persons which will PROBABLY be
friends are very much frightened thereat. They
still maintain that he Ia innocent, but admit that
the case against him IL frightfully strong. The
President, however. will not listen To any such
lk. lie has within the last day or two ex-
pressed himself with great posiuyeness to per
sons who have visited him. To one who
saw him yesterday he declared that Bahcock
was "a innocent of all connection with tho
poss lie that he could be convicted. unless there
was foul play somewhere.
liabCOck's friends here are especially incensed
NJ the cunduct OF Major Grimes, VINO. thev say,
dehneri tely betray ed iabCuCk. lie had no right
to tell what his suspicious were, and the Court
should not Ia We permit ed the questions Of tho
District Att rney To be answered. Hut the
strongest point OF the case against Babcock IA
vet 10 come. The letters which were mailed to
lin by Evercsi will not only be traced to his
hands. tut IL VIII be shown tn { he received
meneN through other sources from Mcdonald
ami JuNce.
There Is one singular thing about Babcock's
Clse. There has heen great deal said about
one +. G. Brcarley, me NJ Dabcuck's counsel
his Irearlcy was. NJ to very recent period, a
special Assistant Attorney-General. detailed for
duty In connection with District Attorney Bliss
in New York CITY. 1t Is known that he boasted
when ON his way to st. Louis that he hau been
specially solicited to assist the defence, and ia
this connection he pointed to n diamond pin
which he wore on his shirt front and said
that was pinned there Ov the highest lazy In the
land who told me to earn II 10y tring.
ing Babcock safe out OF tho hands OF
the Phiiistines. II this mn Brearley
has ever severed his connection with the De-
y rtment Of Jus ice 1t Ia not generally known
hero. The question then - pertinent In this
connection. How does II come t"at pierr pont
Is furnishing counsel for man who Is bcing
tried for an offence AZ inst the & ,vernmeptf'
The President said IN the cabinet meeting to-
dav thlt ne had received the intefrogaturies
uuon which his evidence Is required IA the Bah
cock trial. His deposition Will he made tO-uIot-
row before Chiet Justice " aitc.