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Declaration of Principles.

The Woman Suffrage State Conven-
tion of Massachusetts, which met on
the 18th ult., consisted of 706 delegates,
representing los towns and wards of
cities. They put forth the following
Declaration of Principles:
The Woman Suffragists of Massachu-
setts, in delegate convention assembled,
respectfully submit to the people of the
commonwealth the reasons which COM
pei them for the first time to make in
dependent nominations for State Off
GERS.
For many years they have appealed
to both the great political parties of the
State to rectify the injustice which
taxes and governs women without their
consent, and which subjects them to
cruel legal disabilities as wives, mothers
and widows. But their appeals have
been disregarded. The Republican party
of Massachusetts, after repeatedly en-
dorsing Woman Suffrage in its plat
form and repudiating it in the Legisla-
ture, has just refused to invite Republi-
can women to take part in nominating
their representatives, and has framed a
platform which it declares has double
meaning on the suffrage issue. The
Democratic party of the State has re-
fused to take any action on the subject.
The Prohibitory party of the State, on
the contrary, has invited women to
take part in its primary meetings, with
an equal voice and vote in the nomina-
! tion of candidates and the transaction of
! business. 1t has made the establish
ment of Woman Suffrage one of its
avowed objects, and has nominated
candidates all of whom are Suffragists.
State governments have jurisdiction
over matters with which the national
government has no concern. We main
tain that all State officers should be
elected upon State issues, Independent
of national politics. And, whereas
Woman Suffrage is only question of
State policy, it is the duty of the
| Woman Suffragists of Massachusetts
so to cast their ballots next November
as to represent their principles in the
choice of State officers.
Believing that governments are just
only when they rest on the consent of
the governed" and that the establish
lishment of truly representative gov
ernment is vastly more important than
the success of Rice or Adams, we COM
mend the nominees of this Woman
Suffrage State Convention to the suf-
frages of the people, irrespective OF
party, as the candidates who represent
impartial suffrage and equal rights for
all
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First Love,

When our prosperous city was in its
infancy, a young blacksmith and his
wife lived near the junction of North
First street and Hennepin Avenue.
Not successful in business at that
time, the young husband, whose real
name was John Felix, though he bore
the most tender affection for his young
wife, as the sequel shows, started
for the far West, with the determina-
ton to obtain wealth and independence.
Here he remained until the break
ing out of the civil war, when he en-
listed and became a Union soldier.
While under the command of General
Sherman, he met comrade from our
city, who told him of the sad misgiv-
ings of his former wife, and of her
marriage (she for some reason had
never heard from him, though he had
written her several letters), to a second
husband. Felix then informed his
comrade that he should never return
home until he had acquired the inde-
pendent fortune he had first unsuccess-
fully strived to obtain. Upon the close
of the war, he once more turned his
sorrowful footsteps toward the West,
and there soon laid the basis of that
! fortune he had been so long searching
Territory, his flock grew in number,
and his fortune smiled as blandly as his
ambition could desire, and he was, most
naturally, as time passed, overcome
with the desire to once more visit the
spot where his happiest moments had
| been spent. About six months since he
wrote to his son, who at the time re-
sided near Minneapolis and received the
| letter. The boy, who was an infant at
| the time of his fathers departure, and
never knew him, could not understand
| its meaning, and gave it to his mother,
who instantly recognized the writing,
and, with a woman's nature, her first
! love so dwelt in her heart that she told
| her second husband, without a mo-
ments warming, that she could not live
with him any longer. During the past
week, John Felix, after an absence of
over II years, returned to our city, and
! having learned that she who was once
| his wife was keeping boarding-house
on North First street, he Immediately
went thither. He called and recognized
! her voice and figure, those charms he
| had admired in days past. He appealed
to her charity by telling her he had no
money. She told him he was welcome
to such fare as her home afforded.
While waiting upon him, he asked her
> numerous questions, and finally wound
up by asking her if she ever knew a
man in the city by the name of John
Felix. Her curiosity being greatly
aroused at having a name pronounced
she had seldom heard for years, and di-
vining through the magnetism of love
who the man before her was, she threw
herself into his arms and gave way to
the joyful tears that remained unwept
through all her long waiting, and John
says he cried too. John further informs
us that he intends soon to return with
his family to the land that has pros
pered him, and where we arecreditably
| informed he is reckoned among the
wealthy ranchmen who inhabit the fer
tile plain.-MinnedpOLiS Tribune.
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ITO be continued ]

NOT A GENTLEMAN.-Abou a year
ago, while on my way to a city in Ten
nessee, was seated in a first-class car,
and directly in front of me sat a rough
looking individual reading a newspaper
and smoking a cigar, seemingly una
ware that smoking was prohibited in
the car. The conductor, passing through,
saw him and said:
Gentlemen are not allowed to smoke
in this car, sir"
The man, coolly taking the cigar out
of his mouth, said:
''I amt no gentleman, never was one,
and never expect to be ~ and then con-
tinued smoking, perfectly at ease.
This cool answer seemed to petrify the
conductors tongue, for, after contem-
plating the smoker in silent amaZement
for few moments, he walked off and
bothered him no more about the rule
against smoking.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-10-20

Aunt Judy was struck with a sudden
blindness when she came clustering in.
John and Edna were seated together
upon the lounge, under the morning
glories that reached their tendrils to
caress them through the open window.
"Edna, where are my spectacles ?"
she exclaimed, nervously.
"On your wheel, auntie. Here they
are," rising, and placing them in her
hand.
"Have you made it up, children ?"
There were tears in the good old lady's
voice.
eyes, Aunt Judy. It's all right now
between us-that is, as to each other"
said John, "and the next thing is to
look out for living"
"My potatoes want hoeiug badly, and
I don't mind giving you a job that will
board you for a SPELL" suggested Aunt
Judy, speaking as though half certain
that her proffer would receive a con-
temptuous refusal.
"All right" said John, promptly.
"Where's your hoe ?"
The implement was procured, and,
for the first time since John Smith had
reached his teens, the young man used
it vigorously.
"Now, child" said Aunt Judy, "you
must learn to work, too. AS the wife ol
poor man, yourself penniless, you
must neither be afraid or ashamed to
turn your hands to useful occupations
You'll find a woman's work no child's
play, L assure you, especially if you
raise a family, and that's more than
likely, for you remember the old adage
"A fool for luck and a poor man fol
children"
"Teach me to spin, won't you, aun.
tie ?"
"No, child; that won't pay. 1 only
spin for amusement, and to keep my
self busy. You must learn to cook anC
wash and make and mend and starct
and iron and economic and manage
In raising a family for poor man
you'll find your hands full of such la
Dor, and you can only save-at least
till you get cows and chickens and pig
to make your pin money"
81 wish I had talked this all over will
you before was married, auntie," ant
Edna heaved sigh. "But then, you
illusions won't fit my case, for dom
intend to have a family"
Aunt Judy laughed immoderately.
''That was just the way your mothe
talked before you, dear. Never wa
there a higher spirited yonng woman
than she. No matter what example
had been set by others, she was going t.
show the world how to get along sensi
bly,. And she did, with a vengeance
Seven children in single file, and on
pair O twins. Pm not trying to dis
courage you, but it's well enough t
warn you that you may be prepared
encountersqualls and breakers"
81 wish were dead ~ cried Edna, i
despair.
"If that wish would kill marie
women, there wouldn't be many left,
replied Aunt Judy. "And now, deal
I've a plan in my head that propose
carry out for your especial benefit. rr
} going South to make visit, and wi
} leave you and John to harvest my corr
milk my COW, feed my pigs and chick
ems, gather in and secure the vegetable
and cook your own food. l shall be al
sent one month, and if you do you
work well, and let nothing go to vast,
E rll give you hundred dollars to begi
housekeeping with on my return. 1t
better setting out than your paren
had, by great odds"
ITO be continued
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-10-20

The number of illiterates in the United
States by the census of 1870, above the
age of ten years, was 5,500,000. OF these
more than 100000 were adults, upward
of 100000 more were from fifteen to
twenty-one years of age, and 1,000,0 600
were between ten and fifteen years. OF
the number between fifteen and twenty
one years, it is estimated that about
one-half have passed the opportunity for
education.-M Il. Journal Of Education.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-10-20

a sad incident occurred at the funeral
of young girl near Berlin the other
day. Her mother, an old woman of
sixty, who was standing on the edge of
the grave with head bowed down with
grief, suddenly uttered a piercing
shrek, and fell headlong into the open
pit. She was raised at once, but life
had fled
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-10-20

'There is nothing in the world so
truly gratifying" said Mrs. Potter, "as
the strict performance of ones duty"
and she savagely threw Potter's night
key into the cistern.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-10-20

The Boston transcript has heard of a
servant girl who inquired on the first
morning after her arrival: "And does
girls that lives out have to make their
own beds, mum ?"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-10-20

two years ago, of persons whom have
not had the opportunity of asking to
sign this. If it is allowable, you can
use them, and if not, they are separate
from the others and can be thrown
aside.
Hoping you may have pleasant and
profitable meeting, remain,
Very respectfully,
SARAH NJ. MCCowN,
Vice Pres't o. S. w. S. A.
Oregon City, September 25, 1875.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-10-20

Woman's degraded, helpless position is the
weak point of our Institutions to-day-a dis
turbing force everywhere, severing family ties,
filling our asylums with the deaf, the dumb,
the blind, our prisons with criminals, our cit
les with drunkenness and prostitution, our
homes with disease and DEATH National Cen
tennial Equal Rights Protest.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-10-20

Rosa Bonheur, the distinguished
artist, was thrown from a carriage
while riding in the country near Paris,
recently, and received severe injuries.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-10-20

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the
year 1876, by Mrs. A. J. Duniway, in the office of
the Librarian Of Congress at Washington City,
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-10-20
Oregon City, September l, 1876.


lfr8. II. A. LoughaTy, President O. s..
W. s.. A.-Dedr Madam Il send petit
ton with II names, which 1 secured in
a little more than one days canvass. If
the petition could have been properly
circulated through the county, have
no doubt many more names could have
been obtained. am both pleased and
surprised at the general improvementin in
the sentiments of the community.
Some who expressed themselves bitterly
against it two years ago now signed the
petition. The truth is certainly
marching on"
I also send list of names which were
signed to the Woman Suffrage petition
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-10-20

Cobalt, sold as fly poison, contains no
cobalt; but consists of impure metallic
arsenic.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-10-20

The more you contract debts the more
they expand.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-10-20
EDNA AND JOH N
"A Romance OF Idaho Flat.

BY MRS. Al. DUNIWAY,
AUTHOR OF JUDITH REID" "ELLEN DowD,"
"AMIE AND HENRY Lee" 1.-THE HAPPY
HOME" GONE woMAN's SPHERE"
"MADGE MORRISON"
ETC, ETC, ETC.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-07-20

ZACH. CHANDLER, Grants Secretary of
the Interior, has been chosen chairman
of the Republican National Committee.
He is the embodiment of Grantism, and
in his zeal for Hayes and Wheeler, he
will make the officials fork over for the
campaign fund. Every official, whether
he be a Collector of Internal Revenue or
a poor 81 200 Clerk or $500 Messenger,
will be assessed between now and No
vember; and those who have indepen-
dence enough in their composition to re-
fuse the tithes demanded will be mark
ed. There is cause to believe that Chan
dler has more influence with the Presi-
dent to, day than any other member Of
his Cabinet. He is just the kind of a
man who is competent and willing to do
dirty work.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-07-20
A SCENE N 7FHESENAFE..
Senator Boutwell, Charged by Davis,
of Virginia, with Having Doctored
the Treasury Books.
SENATE.

EENh ",
Washington, July lS.-Mr. Boutwell,
made personal explanation, stating that
the Democratic platform adopted at st.
Louis charged that the late Secretary of
the Treasury (alluding to HIMSELF, had
forced balances in public accounts He
denied that such was the case, and read
from the Report of Finance Committee,
recently made to the Senate, stating that
they were fully satisfied that not the least
change had been made in the books.
Mr.. Davis said if the books of the
Treasury Department had not been
changed, official statements sent to Con-
gress had. He proposed to review the
report of the Finance Committee on the
subject in few days, and would then
show that discrepancies existed.
Mr. Boutwell, said that the Senator
from West Virginia Davis reminded
him OF a child playing with geometrical
books when he attempted to deal with
figures. He did not understand the
value of figures.
Mr.. Davis, in reply, said that the GUS
tom OF book keeping in the Treasury had
been inaugurated by Alexander Hamil-
ton, but the Senator from Massachusetts,
knew well who in;erfered with them
He reiterated charges that figures had
been changed, and declared that he was
prepared to show it. ..
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-07-20

PRESIDENT Grant has the constitutional
right to appoint Cabinet and other exec
utive officers, and has a right to request
their designations when he desires to
make change. But the Constitution
does not give the President control of
the political party which elected him to
Office, nor does it make the party respon-
sible for those acts as President which
he performs wholly of his own motion.
A clear understanding of this fact will
prevent much misconception and hard
feeling-Caeueland Herald, (Rep.)
Is the Herald becoming tired, ashamed
and disgusted with the President of their
party, which their National convention
at Cincinnati SO fully and cordially en-.
dorsed?
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-07-20

THE Greenbackers are just now trying
to determine where Hendricks stands
on the financial question, and are not
lust so sure of his fidelity to their partic-
ular financial theory. He has earned
the significant title Of "fhe Great Strad-
der" by the ingenuity with which he
frames his sentences, to enable them to
face both ways. Last fall he made a
speech at GAINESVILLE, in which he used
the following language:
"To render it possible without hurt to
the country, coin and paper must come
nearer together in quantity. No
one desires to return to specie payments
more earnestly than do, for ! believe
that gold and silver are the real standard
of values, universal and permanent.
Every interest will be strengthened
by increasing the supply of coin. II
| have unshaken confidence that the ma
tional council of our party will so adjust
these differences as to maintain our an
cieut doctrine in favor of sound and
staple currency, and politics in acCor-
dance Herewith, and with a return to
specie payments always in view"
This language was thought little het.
ordox at the time by the greenbaCk De-
mocracy of this State, but the unwaver-
ing faith in the wisdom and fidelity of
Hendricks enabled them, with a grain of
salt to accept it for the time as tolerably
good greenback doctrine. But when
translated in the light of the st. Louis
platform, upon which Mr.. Hendricks
stands, it has significance no so much
in accord with the genuine greenback
doctrine, and the adherents to that faith
now understand that Hendricks stands
with their opponents, and is in favor of
just what they oppose, and their faith in
him is very much shaken.-AHiance Re
viely.
The Review has "straddle" ofits own
more remarkable than that of Mr.. Hen
bricks That paper was fierce green
back organ-antagonized neighbor Bas-
com on the question bitterly, and now
supports HayesenWheeler lovingly, along
with the Repository, although Hayes pro.
claims for resumption. Talk about 'strad-
dlingp
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-07-20
THE DEBT STATEMENTS.


/ On the 22d ult., Senator Davis, of West
Virginia, offered in the U. S. Senate the
following resolution;
Resolved, That the Secretary Of the
Treasury be requested to furnish to the
Senate at an early day statement show
ing the public debt at the end of each
fiscal year from 1886 to 1876, as appears
upon the books of the register.
The object is to secure from the treas
ury department an accurate statement Of
the public debt for the last forty years,
The annual finance reports of the de-
partment have given what are called
statements of the debt, and what pre-
tend to be official statements, but they
do not agree with one another. The
finance report of 1870 informs us that the
debt in 1862 was 1924, ,l76,4lS, while the
report of 1871 informs us that the debt in
1862 was $5l4,2l1,971, difference of
nearly $l0,00O,000. One report says the
debt in 1868 was 81, ,ll9,772, 1888; another
says it was $1,09S,79 ,lSl. One report
says the debt in 1854 was $l,8l5,SS4 $40;
another says it was $780, ,6OO,4S9. These
differences in the debt for five years as
stated in the two reports amount to S299-
Sol ,440. In the finance report for 1874
there appears TO have been decrease Of
the debt in 1878 of $lS,76S,335; but on
page five of the same report it is stated
that the decrease was $49, ,667 $50 diff
ference of $24 4S99,324 in the two state
ments. In the report for 1874 the debt
for 1868 is stated at $2,234, ,4S2, ,742; in
the same report the debt for 1868 is sta
ted at So, ,25l 500, ,2lS-an increase of $l7-
207 ,475.
Senator Davis's resolution was a rea-
sonable request for information; but SEN
ator Edmunds, of Vermont, Collected"
to it, and the other Republican Senators
showed a similar unwillingness to have
it passed. Manifestly there is something
in the treasury figures and statements
these Senators cannot explain.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-07-20

We published last week Gov. Hayes's
letter Of acceptance, and our readers no
doubt observed that II was a carefully
worded document. 1t abstains from all
reference to the vast corruptions that
have induced the people of the country,
almost without distinction of party, to
demand a change of administration
This feature is doubtless out Of regard
and tenderness to Grant and his official
friends. The corrupt and thieving crew
that Grant has been fostering might do
great damage to Mr.. Hayes, should he
dare to say word adverse.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-07-20

The n. Y. World says the Ohio Demo
Gratis are wheeling nobly into line. Most
unquestionably. The fact is, the Democ-
racy ofOhio are Democrats, and they pro-
pose to aid in restoring good government
and Constitutional rule. In naught else
is there safety and prosperity. The fc-
titious era of some years ago was only
deceptive. People now realize its falsity
and corrupting tendencies. All now feel
the sad results of that ruinous peri
cd. Lavish paper money and robbing
protection" never produced any other
esult. Ohio Democrats fully under.
tand this, generally.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-07-20
A FORTUNATE ESCAPE,
Perilous Condition of Train-Heroic
Conduct of a Young Man.

Cincinnati July I4,--During the great
storm in Ohio train of cars ran into a
tunnel near North Bend, in which the
water was so deep that it put out the fire
in the locomotive, and over a hundred
passengers were imprisoned. Another
train would be due in an hour, and itwas
necessary that somebody should get out
of the tunnel and reach neighboring
signal to prevent terrible disaster. The
water was about four feet deep and run
ming swiftly. Ayoung man, whose name
is not given in the Times account of the
occurrence, volunteered for the exploit.
The total darkness increased the danger,
and the distance was an eighth of a mile.
The young man removed his boots and
coat and plunged in, The current kept
him along, and he easily kept his head
above water although collisions against
the rocky sides of the tunnel nearly disa-
bled him, but he made the passage and
stopt the threatening train. In the mean
time the passengers in the tunnel were
trembling with hope and fear, and the
suspense was not relieved until several
hours later, the water subsidized, the fire
in the locomotive was rekindled, and
their journey was continued.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-07-20

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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-07-20

FREDERICK HAssAUREK, of Cincinnati,
cannot be spared in the coming cam
paign. The situation in Ohio needs his
ringing voice ard potent influence. Mr..
Bristow gives up his projected trip to
Europe to advocate a cause which cannot
command his honest sympathy. Mr.,
Hassaurek cannot do less for an issue
which receives his warmest APPROVAL
This is no time for the patriot to leave his
country. Mr. Hassaurek was forced out
of the paper which owes its success to
his stalwart ability. Let him remain in
Ohio to direct, as of old, the great army
of his friends and fellow countrymen.-
~ Y, World.