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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-08-31
A Railroad Lawyer.

The principal objection which we see
urged against Gov. Tilden is that he is a
railroad lawyer.
Well, would the Republicans prefer q
Tombs lawyer for candidate
OF the eighteen men who have been
President of the United States, all but
three have been lawyers; and both the
candidates now before the people are law
yers. If we are to have lawyer for
President, we do not see what objection
=oan- be to him that his practice has
been in the larger class Of cases. such as
those affecting the rights and obligations
of railway companies.
But it is said that Mr.. Tilden's prac-
tice has been lucrative. That only goes
to show that his professional services
have been valuable to his clients, as his
patriotic services will be to his country.
The private fortune which he has ac-
cumulated in his business places him en-
tirely out of the reach of pecuniary
temptation in the White House; and al
though we believe that not more than
one, if any, of all our Presidents ever
yielded to that, still there is no harm in
having it removed.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-08-31
Pickp0ckets.

The New York Tribune describes in
this manner the method of operation Of
street car pickpockets: Three or four
pickpockets will stand on corner short
distance from bank, and watch until
they see some one who is known as the
agent or cashier of manufacturing COM
pany enter the bank, to draw money to
pay employees. One Of the gang enters
the bank Immediately after and presents
bill at the counter, asking to have it
changed tosmaller bills. He closely OBJ
serves where the person whom they
intend to rob puts his money, follows
the agent to street car or other con-
yenient place and steals the money,
sometimes by Sitting the coat on the out
side, and sometimes.by taking it directly
from the pocket-in all cases leaving, if
possible, the bank-book or pocket-book
still in his pocket. The robbed man
feels his book still in his pocket, and
thinks his money secured and by the
time he discovers his loss the thief is far
away. 1t takes much greater skill to
take money than to take watch, and
only the most dextrous criminals at
tempt it.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-08-31
Retrenehment and Business.

Economy in the Government means
profit to the citizen. So long as it takes
all surplus earnings to pay taxes, the
farmer, manufacturer and merchant
must grow poor. Even the compare
lively small retrenchment already eff
fected has plainly favorable effect on
the business outlook not SO much from
the amount of the reduction already ac-
complished as because it pledges the
Government to q continued cutting
down of expenditures and taxation.
The people will this year vote for the
party which seems the most sincere in
promises of retrenchment, reunion and
reform, and will bear in mind that sim
cere and final reunion is essential to
retrenchment. Sentimental and general
politics have this year an unusually in
innate connection with economy, for
one of the greatest causes of expenditure
is the keeping of garrisons in the South,
and the existence or apprehension of dis
turbance there. When the South is once
believed by all to be heartily and finally
in the Union, as much SO as Massachu-
sets or Illinois, one of the greatest ex-
Cusco luz CAtIdfdSduCC Will nave uiodp-
peared. Anything that tends to provoke
disturbance iu any section, or keep
alive any fear of it, is fatal to retrench-
ment.
Reunion and retrenchment go hand
in hand. If this election should result
in extinguishing the last embers of the
bitterness of the war, the consequent
blessings would be exhibited as much in
the substantial financial prosperity OF
the people as in the moral glory of the
nation.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-08-31
The National Debt.

In his letter of acceptance, Governor
Tilden proposes to pay off the whole of
our debt, by a saving Of one per cent. of
the interest which is now paid. That
would save seventeen millions year,
and that saving regularly invested at
four and half per cent. would, in less
than thirty-eight years, extinguish the
principal. This means simply that if
the Government continues to collect
from the peoplethe same amount as now
for the payment of this interest, and
were to re-invest the loan at saving of
one per cent. interest, we should in less
than thirty-eight years have sufficient in
hand to pay off the whole debt, and re-
lieve ourselves from any further taxa
ton on its account. We should not have
to pay any more than now as taxes, and
although we are now only providing
enough for the interest, under Governor
Tilden's plan, we should not only be
paying the interest, but laying by sufii-
cient to pay the principal in less than
thirty-eight wears.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-08-31
WHOLE NUMBER 1877.

rights as a citizen. 1t is impossible, in
the light of our recent political history,
not to see in this order threat which is
meant to serve a partisan purpose. In
what way it is likely to serve partisan
ends we have elsewhere shown; its wis
dom as partisan measure we have else
where discussed: but there is another
and higher plane from which it should
be considered, and from the point of
view of craftsmanship the Presidents
act must be condemned of all sound
thinkers. The Administration of the
government should be not only not
partisan in its methods and purposes; it
should be above fair suspicion of partisan
ship. The indecency of the President
of the United Etates using his Office and
his authority for the promotion of purely
partisan ends is too manifest to need
pointing out, and whether or not the
President has willingly done this, he is
worthy of blame for seeming to do it.
His order is unwise from the point of
view of either patriotism or statesman
ship, and there should be no other point
of view possible TO a President of the
United States.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-08-31

the Democrats carried the State, Captain
Rainwater, an old Confederate officer, was
elected school superintendent for this
county. This year, when the summer
months came, instead of spending his
vacation in the North, as his health de-
manded, he has opened a colossal normal
school, and now has sixty negro teachers
being instructed by him, in order that
they may be competent to teach their
own people and receive the pay for it,
and not let it be given to the thousands
OF the thieves who are tramping through
the South trying to obtain employment
teaching the negro schools for twenty
FIVE dollars month, but who in reality
are filling the negro's minds with
hatred to their best friends. Captain
Rainwater has been running his school
for two months, and will continue
through the summer. Who displays
greater love for the negro man than
this? Let o. P. Morton in his next
bloody shirt speech tell this one truth.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-08-31
What the Troops will do in the South.
New York Herald

lheW 1Ork deralol
Many members of Congress made a
strenuous opposition to the bill authoriz-
ing the enlistment of twenty-five hun
dred additional cayalrymen to serve
against the Indians. The ground of op-'
position was that there are abundant
troops in the South that might be en-
ployed against the Indians. Even with
out any minute investigation this allega-
tion would seem to be well founded. 1t
is preposterous and incredible that with
an army of twenty-five thousand men
the government can not muster force
of more than three or four thousand for
active service in emergency. Acting on
this presumption we have caused careful
inquiries to be made. The reader will
find full and authentic statement of the
number of Federal troops in the
Southern States, with the name of each
company and the place where it is
stationed. The conclusion from these
detailed statementsis is that five regiments
might be spared from the military posts
in the South to REINFORCE Crook and
Terry in their campaign against the
Sioux. There is, of course, no reason
why these troops should not be kept in
the South for precautionary purposes so
long as there is no employment for them
elsewhere, but it is a wasteful absurdity
to maintain idle soldiers in the South
while we are prosecuting an active cam
paign against the Indians with an in
sufficient force. The State militia should
be adequate for every emergency in the
South, or if the militia of any particu-
lar State could not be relied on to put
down a riot, and Federal assistance
should be needed, it is lawful for the
President to call out the militia of the
States whose loyalty and fidelity could
be safely trusted. We ask attention to
the striking exhibit presented by our
Washington correspondent.
The order from Secretary Cameron to
Gen. Sherman, shows that the Admins
tration has had a very definite use of
these troops all the time, and we at once
see why Crook and Terry have been de-
a'ely left without adequate support.
1t is expected that the five regiments
will carry four of the Southern States,
by whipping the negroes into line who
have either become listless in politics or
wandered OIL to the Democracy, and by
terrifying the "fiendish white liners
into subjeetion. By keeping the outrage
mill slowly grinding, and sending
platoons of cavalry hither and thither,
it is evidently hoped to revive the bit
terness which has been rapidly disappear
ing between the races in most parts of
the South. We wish to see all citizens
protected in their rights, but this turn
ing of the army of the United States
into bands of drummers for the negro
votes is pushing partisanship so far that
it would be grotesque if it were not in
famous. This is doubtless the work TO
which Gen. Sherman referred when he
said the highest authority" must an
swer why the troops could not be spared
to fight the Sioux. The desperation Of
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-08-31
How They "Slaughter" Negroes in
Mississippi.

Mississippi Correspondence of the St. Louis Times.
In Sardis / made some inquiries in
regard to politics, and was astonished to
learn that in this Democratic county,
Elride, the circuit clerk was as black as
the ace of spades. and that Milton Little
john, the chancery clerk, was bright,
handsome Democratic mulatto orator |;
that one OF the board of supervisors was
a negro; that one of the representatives
in the Legislature is a negro; that Sheriff
Fletcher, an old Confederate officer, has
two negro deputies. When another mes
sage is sent to Congress teeming with
falsehood, Pamela County, Mississippi,
should be remembered. In this connec-
ton l wish to nail one lie in regard to
the public schools. Last fall it was told
the negro that if the Democrats came
into power they would break up the
public schools. This has been a big
argument with the negro, for they have
been swindled SO much since the war
that they are becoming desirous to edu-
cate their children. Last fall, when the
people were delivered from bondage, and
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-08-31
The Catholic Church and the Public
School system.

For years the attitude of the Catholic
church toward the Public Schools has
been either knowingly or ignorantly
misrepresented. By the press and in the
forum, in the halls of legislation, and in
the pulpits of Professionalism, the Catho-
lie Church has been falsely and foully
accused of designing the destruction of
the Common School system. With the
faint hope of making our voice heard
above the loud din of slander which
meets US on every side when the school
question is discussed, we beg leave to
state categorically the position of the
Catholic Church in relation to the Com
mon Schools:
DECLARATION TO THE PEOPLE OF THE
UNITED STATES.
Enemies of the Catholic Church assert
that the Bishops and Clergy of the Catholic
Church are hostile to the Public Schools of
the country, and are leagued together to
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-08-31
The New York Times.

Here is a specimen of double ender
politics. In 1871, when Tilden was
cleaning out the Democratic thieves in
New York the Times spoke highly of
him. Now, in 1876, when we want to
use him to clean out Republican thieves
at Washington it sings another song:
Due regard to theI Vote for Samuel J.
public interests, to Tilden. The voters of
the general welfare, the Eighteenth As
and the truth of his sembly District ought
tory demands thatlto estee-1 it an honor
Samuel J. Tilden shall and a privilege to
be shown to be whatlelect Samuel j. Til
he has been in the den to the Legislature.
past and is in the He has shown himself
present: 1. A secess- a gallant, conscien-
ionist. 2. An ally Of tious, efficient foe to
Tweed. 8. A sham corruption. We ap-
reformer. 4. A ind-lpeal TO every Repub-
Ter of labor and lIican to work and vote
wrecker of railroads. for him, and do so the
--New York Times, more cheerfully = as
August is, 1876. we make this appeal
because he is an hon.
est Democrat. Neic
York Times, Nouen,-
Der 6, 1871.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-08-31
samuel J. Tnden.
yorl Tryhr,.f

Brave champion Of Right The noisy wrath
Which bafiied malice bellows at thy feet,
Pfoclaims thy Lernaan labor incomplete,
Aud thou must onward in thy fearless path.
What though the harpies OF Corruption rave
AT thy uplifted lance which probes their nests
And pierces bleeding to their sullen breastsf
Whom Falsehood now Is impotent to save
Thy deeds are thy defenses and the hearts
OF this great People, swelling high with hate
State
To hide the ioulness of their inner partsl
Loi Truth, which triumphed over Slav'ry's power,
Now strikes of knayery the fatal hour.
A LATE REPUBLICAN.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-08-31
The Indecency of the President.
New York Evening Post, Radical.

The circumstances in which it Tthe
order to Sherman is issued, throw sus-
picion upon it. Worse still, the facts OF
ou political history during the last
eight years make it impossible for think
ing men to imagine that this order has
be en- issued for no other purpose than
that of enforcing the law and securing
to every man the. free exercise of his
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-08-31

JOHN BETscH, resident of St. Louis,
threw himself under arapidly moving
train, near Jennings Station, several
miles from that city, on the st. Louis,
Kansas City & Northern Railroad re-
Gently, and was instantly killed, his
body being horribly mangled. He had
a wife and six children.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-08-31

a move which dares to saddle the coun-
try with the expense of extra soldiers
while keeping nearly four thousand idle
for political purposes is apparent, and
adds another stigma to the rule of the
party in whose name and for whose aid
it is unblushingly done.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-08-31
Compare the Two.

The Louisville CourisrJownal has been
figuring up the difference of the cost of
government under Democratic and Re-
publican administrations. Nine years
of each are taken as examples. In these
figures the interest of the public debt
and pensions are not included:
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-08-31
PENCIL AND scissors.

THE man who carries all before him
The wheelbarrow man.
IT begins to look as if Turkeys
goose was about cooked in Greece.
THE peanut is symbol of American
independence quite as much as is the
eagle.
The extreme height of misery is a
small boy with 4 new pair of boots and
no mud puddle.
THERE is no readier way of bringing
your own worth in question than to de-
tract from the worth of other men.
MEN who are at the pinnacle of for
tune should ever bear in mind that they
are not out of the reach of vicissitudes.
SOLOMON was very wise man and
Samson very strong one, but neither Of
them could pay his debts without
money.
APARIs dispatch, as published in the
Times says, The report of the death of
Durn, the aeronaut, is untrue" Another
durn lie nailed.
AN editors excuse for discontinuing
the publication of his paper was that
everybody else stopped the paper and ne
thought he would.
TRIALS are medicines which our
gracious and wise Physician prescribes
because we need them. Let US trust in
his skill and thank him for his prescrip-
ton.
THE first wealth is health. Sickness
is poor spirited, and can not serve any
one; it must husband its resources to
live. But healthfnlness answers its own
ends, and has to spare, runs over and
mandates the creeks of other mems ne
cessities. Emerson.
CONFINEMENT.
He that holds fast the golden mean,
And lives contentedly between
The little and the great,
Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,
Nor plaques that haunt the rich mans door,
Embittering all his state.
Black HILLS miners" who try to
deposit belts containing something
heavy with the hotel clerks in Omaha,
are now required to pay in advance. The
assays made SO far after mysterious
disappearance pan out Missouri River
sand.
The society writer of the Peoria
Democrat says of the distinguished Gus
tom of eating exclusively with the fork:
The fashion originated with hotel SER
wants, because the securing of knives in
these vast caravansaries was the most
serious job of the whole daily round of
duties.
"WHAT do you sell these fowls for"
inquired person CT man attempting
to dispose of some chickens of a ques-
tionable appearance. sell them for
profits" was the answer. Thank you
for the information that they are proph-
!. cts, responded the querist, took them
to be patriarchs."
HARTFORD physicians can not be a
very well cuuCdtcu cct.f Anone eiO ~
cent death certificates sent to the city
! clerk, these causes of death appear !:
Colre infantom, scholafer (scrofula), sun
strok, applexy fit. colre fantum, infu-
side (infanticide), absesse, direa, parletic
shok, reustism (rheumatism), general
f debility, hearth disese, earsipless, long
fever, paralasis, loung feoyar, spinal
, Menegettes.
SOCRATES called beauty short-lived
tyranny; Plato, privilege of nature;
Theophrastus, silent cheat; Theocritus,
a delightful prejudice; Careades, soli-
tary kingdom; Domitian said that moth
ing was more grateful; Aristotle affirmed
that beauty was better than all the let
ters of recommendation in the world
: Homer, that twas glorious gift of ma
ture; and Ovid calls it a favor bestowed
!, by the gods.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-08-31

Total amount net ordinary expenses
for nine years from 1882 to 1S6Os5i1, ,290, ,s04 At
The following table shows the annual
net extraordinary expenses of the gov
ernment, exclusive of pensions and in
terest upon the national debt from 1867
to 1875, both inclusive:
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-08-31
Good Words for TiIden.

Republican paper for twelve years.
If there ever was a time when partisan
feeling should be sunk out of sight, it is
now. We feel like counseling every
body to go beyond the limits that have
been heretofore prescribed by party
lines, and weigh only the characters of
the men who are before the people for
Office. Not since ante-war days have
there been two such strong sets of can
didates as there are now for the presi-
Dental chair. Against the private char
acter of either there stands no blot or
stain. Governor Hayes stands out as
having been an old soldier that braYed
the shot and shell of many well-fought
field. He has ever been man of the
highest integrity and honor. Mr..
Wheeler, not so well known, is man of
equal force.
Governor Tilden, though never in the
field as warrior, was always known as
a Democrat. He is a statesman of the
highest degree, an able jurist, and better
than all, true reformer. 1t has been
the pleasure of the writer to have formed
the acquaintance of Governor Tilden,
and he knows from facts that have come
from indisputable sources, that Tilden
has been the means of destroying a
couple of rings that were sucking the
life blood from the great State of New
York.
Governor Hendricks is well-known as
a prominent statesman, and one who is
beyond trickery, always known as being
honest in his course.
These names are all strong ones, and
if either be elected we shall see reform
inaugurated. We shall see a general
clearing out of the vampires and leeches
that have been sucking at the public
blood vessel. Sink all differences oi
politics; 60 out to the polling places
thinking only of the right, character
and principle standing away above party
lines.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-08-31
Tbese f;oures show tbat tbe countrv !

Total amount net ordinary ex-
penses for nine years from 1867 to
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-08-31


The journal des Conndissances Medicales
contains review of certain curious OBJ
servations made by DR.. G. Esbach on the
conformation of the fingers in various
diseases. In persons that perspire easily,
or in the case of disorders that induce
profuse perspiration, such as rheumatism,
typhus fever, ETC., the transversal curya-
ture of the nail is increased to exaggera-
tion. This symptom, which scarcely
ever fails to present itself in rheumatic
subjects, has led DR.. Esbach to establish,
by statistical method, the sudoral etiol-
ogy of that affection, and in the immense
majority of cases he has found the follow
ing result: A man who perspires easily,
and whoinLabits ground floor, becomes
sooner or later, rheumatic; if, on the
contrary, he lives in dry apartment, he
isnever troubled with that malady. On
the other hand man who is not subject
to perspiration may live in damp room
with impunity. Rheumatism appears
thus to be placed on its real ground: !:
dampness may be the cause of it, but
only in such habits as perspire freely.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-08-31
space.

Business cards Of i've lines or less, s. per snnum
Local notices 10 cents per line each insertion
Simple announcements of marriages and denthk,
md church and benevolent society notices inserted
free. Any additions to obituary notices WI BE-
charged cents per line.
Fayors MUST he handed in - early ss Tuesday
morning 70 insure insertion the same week
= Communications irpon subjects Of -xcn1rx1 q -
cal interest are solicited
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-08-31

living in the United States, and who
had been in military service. No appli-
cation has vet been made for any of this
money. There are six thousand five
hundred dollars to be distributed. Ap-
plication by thoss whom it may concern
should be made 10 Maitre SECOND. seven.
Rue Iastsa Paris. apnlication must be
~ F.an.h Tous,,I
-
Mus1C1pAn indebtedness is attracting
attention in England, as it is already
doing in the United States. Several
discussions have taken place in the
House of Commons upon propositions to
restrict the liberty of municipal cor
porations to incur debt, and it is i'm
possible that the permission of Parlia-
mef,t may in future be necessary to the
incurrence of any debt. The combined
municipal debts of England amount to
1852. SOC. 600 this year, an increase over
last year $l2, 500, 900. London's debt is
500, 900, 900, and Liverpool, Manchester,
Leeds and Bradford together owe $72,-
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