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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04

Gov. ALLEN understands exactly
the situation and what the people
need to bring the country back to
the good old times ofplenty and pros
perity. In a speech at q Changers
reunion, in Licking county, very
near m year ago, he said: "Permit
me 10 make the observation, that ev-
cry one can apply as he pleases, if
we don't get back in this country to
cheap government and honest living
then the country is gone" This is
true; until we get back to cheap gov
eminent, National, State, county and
municipal, it will be hard times for
the poor man and mechanic, for they,
in truth and in fact, pay all the tax
es. Their wages are daily decreas-
ing, but the taxes to defray the ex-
penses of q dear government, cannot
be reduced. Gov. ALLEN might have
also added, that under Republican
rule such a ambition of things will
never be brought about. We must
vote for a change of rulers and a
change of administration.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04
FROM THE WEST.
CozAD, NEB., April %,

(e1oD -tL1 4f otts r
Ed. Democrat-In perusing your
welcome paper, ] see that you wish
to hear from all parts Of the country,
and Twill give you a few lines from
this place,
Some two years ago there was !
town started here, and since thet
there has been a steady increase. As
there are special rates here from Gin
cinnati for this year, which are $685.
so, round trip, there are a good many
accepting of the opportunity and 10
eating here with us and opening up
large farms, and building houses,
&C., and where now stands the beau
tiful town of Coed, two years ago
there was not a fusrow plowed, a
house built, nor any thing. There
is a bridge being put across the
Platte River, by Mr.. j. J. Cczad,
which structure will cost not less
than twenty to twenty-five thousand
dollars. There are three wholesale
and retail houses in this place, the
largest is that of Mr.. O.. H. Toney
who carries a large stock of genera
merchandise, and who is filing a
large number of bills for the Black
Hills, ofwhich there are a good many
going. AS for our lands, I viii moi
at the present try to give a sketch o
them, for it is far more beautiful
than the pen can describe, and as FOL
prodrctiveness, the State statistics
show far more from the amount thar
in any other State in the Unicn
Crops splendid. Weather good.
Carr. r.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04

The Presidential kettle is beginning
to bubble, especially in the republican
kitchen, and the candidates are snap
ping and snarling at each other, and
keeping things lively in the way of
charges of dishonesty and bribery,
the one against the other. Thus they
are constantly kept in hot water, and
one wonders whether the honor and
emolument attached to the position
are worth all the bother, at least since
Grant has made it by words and
scandal.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04


For years the Democratic press of
the country have held up frauds and
corruptions before the people, but
they did not seem to attach any i'm
p~ortance to them. But the thieves
themselves knew the truth of the ac-
cusations brought against them, and
the Poland gag-law was devised to
strangle the Democratic and indie
pendent press, and prevent the expo
SURE that has now come through the
fundamentally of q Democratic and
independent press, and a.Democratic
House of Representatives.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04

The escape of Babcock from the
tolls of the whiskey fraud inyestiga-
tors was surrounded with SO much
mystery that the country has refused
to accept his acquittal as an evidence
of his innocence. We are now learn
ing how it was accomplished and the
story reveals the details of a wide
spread official conspiracy to defeat
justice. The worst feature of the
whole affair is that the President was
evidently aware of the facts bearing
on the cas- against his secretary and
tactily consented to the efforts ofBab-
cocks friends to suppress them. II
Cesar's wife should be above suspi-
cion where should Cesar himself
stand.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04

The Toronto Globe says: a De.
troit seed firm recently moved six and
half sacks of its catalogue to Wind
sor, Ont, and there mailed them to
persons in the Uzited States, saving
$3,170by the transaction or cheating
the United States revenue, as some
call it, out of that amount. The
charge for what is known as third
class matter, in the United States is
four times as is charged for the same
class in Canada. Under the late pos
tai arrangement between the two
countries the United States and Can
ada each agreed to take care of the
others mails without charge. Hence
the Detroit transaction"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04


The Revolution in Mexico contin-
les to progress, but in what direction
it is next to impossible to determine.
1t would seem, however, to be divided
in its action as well as its leaders and
unless the rational army is very weak
or otherwise unreliable there is a
probability of a Lerdist success in the
end. The government has a status
and a treasury, and above all, an o.
ganization, while its opponents de-
pend on plumber for the means for
carrying on the struggle.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04

The last Ohio Legislature, in its
great wisdom, passed a Law imposing
the duty of keeping the National road
in repair Upon the counties through
which it passed. If the tolls are in
sufficient to maintain the road in good
order then the burden falls upon the
taxpayers. This law will prove nm
popular in many Of the counties, but
it seems to be inst, nevertheless.
The people who receive the benefit of
the National road should keep it in
repair, and not the taxpayers of the
State at large, as has heretofore been
the case.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04

The meeting in the Court House
next Saturday will be open for eve
rybody, aud we hope to see even the
able editor of the Eaton Register
there, that he may draw a compare
son between it and the seven Office
seekers that constituted the Repnb-
lican Convention, held in an office,
to appoint delegates.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04

The Republican papers seem to
have agreed upon concerted action in
attempting to break the force of the
revelations daily being made. The
policy seems principally to be to at
tack the credulity of the witness tes-
tiiying before the committees. 1t
strikes us, considering that these Wit
nesses, one and all, have been a part
and parcel of and enjoyed full conf
dence and much prominence in the
Republican party, this policy is a
triie suicidal.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04

Congress has passed q bill for the
protection of actual settlers on public
lands against grants made prior to
their entry, but of which they had no
notice at the local land Office. 1t is a
measure in favor of the pioneer
against subsidized corporations.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04
GRANT,s DOOM.

There is abundant cause and proof
o justify the Presidents impeach-
nent and conviction, without going
the case of Babeock. As
is doomed to disgrace and
lefeat next November, it is a qres-
ion Of expediency only, whether the
provided by the Constitution
or high crimes and misdemeanors
be applied to hi m. Judge
Durell sought to escape impeach-
nent by resignation of the Office he
had abused and d~iscredited. The
Judiciary Committee, headed by Ben
held that he was still amena-
BILE to trial, but the play was not
the candle, as he was power
less for further mischief.
The developments of Grants con-
duct in regard to Babcoclk's trial are
astounding, and show disregard of
law and decency that shocks the pub
lie mind. Mr.. Pierrpont; has testi-
fed that the instructions to the Dis
Attorneys, virtually sforbidding
immu- ity to States evidence, were
prepared by the Presidents order,
and without any conference til the
prosecuting officers of the Govern
ment. The effect of that order was
to embarrass the prosecution of the
Whisky Ring at st. Louis, Chicago,
and Milwaukee, and that was nm
doubtedly its intention.
Bell. the detective, who formerly
served as Grants scout in the army,
and who was first recommended by
him for a place in the Attorney-Gen-
erals office, and then in the Interior
Department, swore without being
contradicted in any way, that Grant
desired him to spy out the secrets of
the District Attorneys Office, and to
report as to the probable guilt or in
nocence of Babcock upon the testi
mony there filed away. He distrust-
ed Col. Dyer, and sought this cian-
destine method of looking into his
hand"
Col. Dyer swore before the Com
mittee of War expenditures, that
Fox, one of the Grand jury that in
dicted Babcock, kept the President
informed Of the proceedings in re-
gard to Babcock's indictment, the
nature of the testimony against him,
and the inclinations of the jury,
These secret communications were
received by Grant, with full knowl
edge that Fox had violated his oath
and that he himself was a party te
an outrage upon the law which be
had sworn to see faithfully executed
These acts would be sufficient t.
impeach Grant. He interfered will
the course of justice, through Pierr
pont, to exclude testimony agains'
Babcock; he employed a spy at tn
public expense to search the Distric
Attorneys office; and he connivet
with a member of the grand jury t,
expose the secrets of the inquest. ]
it had been possible to arraign An
drew Johnson on any part OF thes'
charges, or on fragrant corruption
such as Grant has openly counte
nanced, if he has not shared in it
thunder. no human power could hay
prevented his conviction. As it was
he was barely saved upon a parts
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04
nFMooRArlc MysTlNe,

The Democrats OF freble county
are respectfully requested to meet in
the Court House, in Eaton, at II
O'Clock, P. n, on
safnrday. May ., 1sse,
for the purpose of selecting sis dele
gates to represent them in the Dem
ocratic State Convention, to be held
in Cincinnati, on Wednesday. May
nth, 1876. Also, ten delegates to
the Congressional Convention. which
meets in the city of Dayton, on
WEDNESDAY, May 10th. for the
purpose Of selecting delegates to the
National Democratic Convention, to
be held in St Louis, Tuesday, June
9th, 1876; aud to transact such
other business as may come before
the meeting. A general attendance
is earnestly requested.
J. V. CAMPBELL, chairm'm.
L. G. COUP, Sec'y.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04

In one week six persons commit
ted suicide in New York city because
they could not get enough to eat, and
$3.50 worth of flowers we're laid on
the grave Of a pet dog in the same
city. Sich islifc.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04

The Republican Legislature didn't
do anything to asave our public
schools" This must have been an
oversight, or their great zeal last fall
was . mere sham2
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04

The site on Nh CHI Cincinnati is
built was sold for less than fifty sill
yer dollars in 1857. It wasn't the
same quality that jingles now. it was
wortha gold dollar.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04

Unless the Railroads make a more
liberal reduction in their fare to the
Centsnnial. the number of visitors
viii fall short Of all calculations here
tofore made.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04

It requires o good deal of cheek
for a Republican hand organ to preach
to its readers about corruption in the
Democratic party, but we notice
some of them possess the aaticle in
abundance. We would like TO know
just what kind of readers such
"cheeky" fellows imagine they have?
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04

The Western Ohio Fair Association
have resolved to hold a Spring meet
ing at Piqua on the 14th, 18th and
10Th Of June. The fair is to be held on
the Sd, 4th, 9TH and 9th Of October.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04

The Stars and Stripes: The stars
to denote the States in the Union
and the stripes to indicate the color
of the suits which, Federal officers
wear in the Penitentiary.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04

The "rag baby and cabbagele lear
currency is more vaIuah e than the
nice. new, beautiful and shining sill
yer halves and quarters. Amt it
stranger
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04

All accounts agree that the wheat
acreage of England will show a deci-
ded falling off from a year ago, the
farmers of that country concentrating
their attention more and more upon
cattle raising.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04

The Cincinnati Enquirer says
fractional currency is aselling in the
banks Of that city at a slight premi-
UNI" Let the silver jingle.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04

WnrAA AIIxs is still rising up
in Ohio. The counties of Butler,
Lucas, Allen, Knox. Athens, Law
renee. Meigs and jackson, have ali
indorsed him.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04

We hope as many Democrats as
can spare the time, win come in on
Saturday next to the meeting. We
want to be beat sevsn by a large ma
ioritv.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04

The Cincinnati Enquirer is not
very particular whether the Demo
cratic party succeeds or not, so it
beats Senator THURMAN.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04

OF the eighty three counties in
Ohio twelve have mor than 100, 900
sheep, Delaware being one of the num-
Der. Licking heads the list with
210,771.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04

Whiskey men have defrauded the
government out of $500, 600, 900 dur
ing the last twelve wears, not to men
ton the untold billions they annually
fitch from the pockets of the people at
large.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04

The Supreme Court of Connecticut
has decided that ballots evidently in
tended for a man who is a candidate
for office are to be counted, even if
there is a small error in the names.
That decision is just.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04

Mr.. WILLIAM McKEE, proprietor
of the St. Louis Globe Democrat, was
sentenced by Judge DILLON, on
Wednesday of last week, to impris-
onment for two years in the County
Jail, and to pay a fine of 10000.
Mr.. Mckee was one of the whisky
conspirators. A stay of commit
ment for two weeks was granted.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04

Some exchange says that every
tenth able-bodied man in the country
is out of employment. Too largea
number entirely for business and in
dustrial health.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04

Mr.. LAxDERs has declined to run
on the independent tiel ct for Cover
nor Of Indiana, and viii support the
regular democratic nominees.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04

the Radicals spent $l4o, 600 to
preserve the purity of the New York
election in 1872.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04
BIAS the Radical party ever had a


HAS the Radical party ever had a
fixed and certain financial policy.
based upon correct principles? Look
at their national and State platforms.
Have they ever treated the question
in the same way any two years in
succession? For fifteen years the
entire financial policy of the govern
ment in all its phases and ramifica-
tons. has been in their ARE and
keeping. Since the war, for more
than ten years, is it not patent and
undeniable that it has only been the
creature Of their whims and follies?
That it has lever been controlled by
just and firm principles, but has al
ways been vaciIlating iE every emer-
gency-unsteady as the wind and
inconstant as the sea. Speculation
and overrroduction were stimulated,
doubt and uncertainty gathered day
by day, and the entire fabric Of
finance was shaken from .foundation
wall to turret stone" No help; nc
remedy; but every business interest
in the land Frustrated, if not des-
troyed, and left to grope and foun.
der alone, helpless and broken. Who
can deny the correctness of this pic
ture of Radical folly and want Of
craftsmanship And yet this party
asks the people to still continue it in
power, with all its corruptions, ras'
cality and shortcomings.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04

The Tariff bill agreed upon by the
House. Ways and Means Committee.
lea es tea and coffee on the free list.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04

Blue jeans have advanced in Indi-
ana since the nomination of farmer
WlLLIAus for Governor.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04

Notwithstanding silver jingles a
round rs, failures continue to occur
every day.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04

According to all reports the wheat
crops Of Ohio win be an average
yield, if not injured hereafter.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04


some of the temperance folks who
helped the Republican party to VIC
tory last fall in Ohio. They suppos-
ed that if a Republican majority
were returned tothe Legislature that
that be dy would repeal the legisla-
ton of the preceding Legislature
touching the Adair Law and the Nc
Connellsville Ordinance. Looking to
Cleveland and Cincinnati, the Repub-
lican politicians concluded it would
be safer to disappoint the Prohibit
Itionists in the party than 10 anger
the Germans in those cities sho last
fall helped them to their majority.
The Lorain Republican is rot, how
ever, satisfied; and this is the way it
expresses its dissatisfaction.
an one important particular, how
ever, nothing but failure is the re
suit of its deliberations. It hasfail-
ed to re-cnact The Adair law or the
M Connellsville section of the mu-
nicipal code. The demand came mp
to them from tens of thousands OF
people from all parts of the State for
Legislative action giving them power
to choose whether they would endure
the biighting curse of the rum traf.
iie, and power to drive it from their
midst Upon this matter Of vital
Importance to the public veal. the
present Legislature has totally failed
to meet the expectations of the PEG.
pie"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04

Assignees Notice.
TIE ur dersigncd have been duly ap-
i pointed and qualified by the Pro-
bate Court of Preble county, Ohio, IS
Assignees of Robert l.. Sheaffer, for the
benefit of his creditors. All persons
having claims against his estate are re-
quired to present them duly authenti-
Gated within the time required by law,
and those indebted to the estate are re-
quested to make prompt payment.
PATRICK McGREW,
WIN. J.. MEANS,
Assignees Off. l.. Sheaffer.
April "a, 1876-w3
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04
DANGER or OUR REPUBLIC.

1t is truly a lament1ble fact that,
in this Centennial year of our exist
ence as a nation, our free institutions
are being threatened with a danger,
which II not checked promptly by
the people, must sooner or later end
in the destruction of our republican
form Of government as we'll as the
enslavement Of the people. That a
crisis has been reached in our his
tory, not that she nation is one hun
drcd years old, but that recent reve-
lations show a degree of crime and a
disregard of the most solemn official
obligations throughout every depart
ment of State-from the chief mag
istrate Of the nation, down to the
lowest Office in the gift of the peo-
ple--which, considered in a moral
point of view, more seriously threat
ems the stability Of our free institu-
tions, than even the outbreak of the
recent civil war did the national uni
ty of the government. Then the
great mass Of our people were arous-
ed and alive to the danger which
threatened; now they seem disposed
to regard With indifference, or as q
matter of secondary importance to
the CT party, the corruptions
and prodigacy that is destroying
their substance, and making slaves
of themselves and their children. If
there yer was q time in the history
of this nation, when the condition of
the country demanded of the citizens
the most careful consideration, as
we'll as the exercise of the purest and
most unselfsh patriotism, that time
is now. If we would save the glor,-
GUS heritage of freedom, made sacred
by the tolls, the suffering, and the
blood Of the fathers, party spirit,
party animosities and party prefer
ence, for the time being, must be bur
led out Of sight and ont Of mind
We, as a people, r now called up
on to meet a greater obstacle, a more
desperate and insidious enemy 70
free government than either foreign
or i~ntcrnecine war. We now meet
the demon of corruption, both pub
lie and private, emboidened and en-
couraged, because doubly entrench'
ed behind place and power, and the
great question to be solved by the
people now is, how shall we NEE
and vanquish this common enemy
In a struggle like the present, in
volving as it most assuredly does
our national life, men are nothing
party success should be considered
as nothing, while the whole and un
divided energies Of the people shoult
be exerted for principle, for self-pre
servation, for a pure and honest gov
eminent. The demands of the time
are honest, sober men for office, from
President down to the lowest, anc
this d. mand comes to every maj
-oonn.rv .na her -,,osner;tv No oar,
NOT r. what MARTY be belonqs. Re
for,n i What ia wsnted. and there !;
onlv one way that reform can h,
bronobt abont Only bv the unsni
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04

The Centennial opens next We'd
nesday, 10th inst.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04

The Prohibitionists will hold a
National Convention at Cleveland on
the 18th of May to nominate a can
didate for President and Vice Presi-
dent.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04

Come to the meeting next satur-
day
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04
MANBRlNo BRUCE!

IAMBRINo BRUCE!
BY Alcalde, by Mambrino Chief, by
Mambrino Paynaster, by Mambrino,
by Imported Messenger.
1st Dam, Leila, by Dowings Vermont,
Sire of Gil Vermont.
End Dam, Betty. by Hunts Commo-
dore.
Bird Dam, Betty Bounce, fast trotting
Canadian mare.
The Dam of Alcalde was by Pilot, jr.,
he by Old Trotting and Pacing Pilot,
Nancy Pope, the Dam Of Pilos jr., was
by Havoc, by Sir Charles, by Sir Archy,
by Imported Diomed.
Hunts Commodore by yambrino, by
Imported Messenger.
Dam of Hunts Commodore by Vol
unteer, by Imported Messenger.
Will make the season until July lst, at
tho stable Of JOHN NEAL, in Eaton, Pre-
BILE county, Ohio.
TERMs.@S20,oO to Insure a Mare In
Foal. Money due when the fact is as.
certained or the Mare parted with.
MAMBRINo BRUCE is eight years old
fifteen hands and three inches high;
rich Blood Bay, fine name and tail and
sound feet, and is full brother to s'Enig-
ma," (record, 1880 With but little
handling he has shown full mile in
2 AZ, and quarters at a better rate. The
combination In his pedigree of the most
approved tretting strains should earn
for him the attention Of those DESTROYS
of breeding
Fine Roadstcrs and Trotfcrs.
While his kind disposition, large bone
and muscular development p' omise for
his get the best qualities of the General
Purpose Horse.
April 20, 1876.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-03-02

SAVING AND HAvING.-Either a man must
be content with poverty all his life, or else
be willing to deny himself some luxuries,
and save, to lay the base of independence in
the future. But if a man defes the future.
and spends all he earns, whether his earn
ings be one dollar or ten dollars a day. let
him look for lean and hungry want at some
future time-tor it will surely come, no mat
ter what he thinks.
To save is absolutely the only way to get
a solid fortune; there is no other certain
mode. Those who shut their eyes and ears
to these plain facts will be forever poor, and
for their obstinate, rejection ofthe truth may
hap viii die in rags and filth. Let them so
die, and thank themselves. But, no! They
take a sortof recompense in cursing fortune.
Great waste of breath.
They might as well curse mountains and
eternal hills, For | can tell them fortune