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New-York tribune., 1877-05-31

After festival comes a reaction, and after
the uarale ana enthusiasm of the open-r ceremonies Of
Decoration Day, the meeting AT the Academy OF Music
last ng4t was not large. At O'Clock there were less
than 1000 present and the great spaces OF the
Academy gave an Impression Of emptiness. Among the
few - eE of prominence present were Maor-Gen. Han
cock; Mr. Herring the originator OF the hi 20 make
,lis day holiday Henry Bergh, Judge Brady and
Gen. J. c. PincMoy. The stage however. was well
nll.d The music was given by the Governors Island
band judge Brady presided, and after prayer by the
Rev. DR.. +. 5. How land spoke as follows
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: TIE Grand Army oi the Re
uubic. with battle figs and veterans behind
tnc mas marched in solemn procession As day not TO
to meet and conquer enemy, but 10 lay upon
The graves OF dead comrades memorial flowers. God
now tmllng from the shepherds bells aud the graft
Jude of nation expressed by floral tributes iakes the
armed to the teeth and led by heroic ana beloved officers
The rand Army of The Republic means ne Republic
have become Of this whole country, divided and in
danger OF perpetu4 scparaoni This great land IN iie
destiny Of man, the sublime, unlimited power ana
sphere freedom and progress, demands t1at II snail
never bc torn asunder 10y faction or 10y fraud put
bus tlt3a motto out Of many We are one and one
UHf L "IT ,,, ji,16 W.. flIfau from flat higl nm
nscle on which foreflthcrs placed us as band Of
S,h So M W and West-u0iijcal social and religious
W. are and are be- band of brothers, who would be
one whenever life Of the nation or one thlOb OF lis
t eart was in danger Tho recollection Of the com
rade who no longer answer the IUca! IOl himself
and for whom the response must De given, Dead upon
tbc I'D of honor" is the tOnd OF undyng devotion TO
the cause sui loved and hOnOftd, IN when the llVnS
and the OTg0ttcndead fought side b. sdeand the SYM
bo Of the regeneIon-yest me recreation OF this nation
out of blood and lire, accomplished by the Grand Army
the public. God keep tine memories green OF thOse
who were among the sain-nOt in malice not for re-
yeuge but in gratitude and in love FOR service uOby
done and life freely given 10 the Union aye, ana Goa
bless and pros per the living hero also!
There Is touching but simple grandeur III the eIO-
Guent ceremonies OF tniS day commemorative as they
Of heroes whose Ns were gwen away I1r the pres
eryatI1n OF "a nations life When the mem
ories which they invoke are borne ON stan
An aglJw with golden records OF deeds giOrl-
Ous and immortal. DO wonder that Decoration Day moves
th heart ana and puts to Tie front, III ali their
Iuaiestv the value Of PATRIOTISM the love oi country
and that holy pledge 10 preserve H. one and
comes thus The link between the present aud the past
teaching the lessons Of loyalty. OF treasured herosn oi
tbc rraiudc OF nation and OF the determination OF
the people that star shall fa from 0uI flag, no color
f.I.
New-York tribune., 1877-05-31
When Freedom from heT mountain hight
jnfurlcd htI standard 10 the an,
She tore The azure robe Of night;
And set the stars Of glory there.

And there they must remain forever.
While we thus honor the dead, let us not forget tie
living hero Many OF the veterans OF this state, with
constitutions shattered by disease contracted during the
war but subsequently developed of It's poor
houses. We must not let tins shame rest upon us. IL
be necessary remedy This To do than to
make known. The veterans or this state
for tnls purpose have planned Soldiers Home. 1hcy
have bought 2lO at Bath. Steuben County, and
about r5O 900 has already been subscribed, aug
mcutcd by the addition of 800 sent Judge Davis by
lady who describes herself Friend Of the Soldier
for the Soldiers HOme." and refuses gye name
II there were more gentlemen here tonight | would
call for three cheers for that lady God bless her !
Flfty thousand dollars is wanting To complete the
terprise and provide home for 45O soldiers.
One hundred thousand men by paying cents
each can this, hty thousand by paying one dollar
each ten Thousand by paying five dollars each trust
Won are all eager In tho ten thousand gang Cheers
and augher Let IL he remembered that for those who
were injured taken sick ia the camp, provision
A made by existing laws IL mistake to suppose IL
otherwise There is no asylum for them and they de-
pend upon the aid OF the state snd It's people. Our late
New-York tribune., 1877-05-31

Gail Hamilton calls The Boston Journal and
The Boston Advertiser aerobas They might retort by
ntimang that the gentle Gail Is not success In the
dumb belle hne.-IN. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-08

New York Sun; Returning Board
Hayes likens his departure from Co.
lumbus to Abraham Lincoln's depar-
ture from Springfield, 16 years ago.
Both Lincoln and Hayes received a
minority of the popular vote, but
here the comparison ends. Lincoln,
with a majority of the electoral vote.
was lawfully elected President and
he left Springfield to assume the
powers and the responsibilities which
were his by right. Hayes with at
least twelve votes less than q MAORI
ty, is not honestly elected President
of the United States. He leaves Co
lumbus to occupy an ufice which the
people gave to another man. Lincoln
babe his neighbors farewell with a
clear conscience and an unsullied
reputation and his expressions of
reliance upon divine aid were
prompted by a sincere faith. Hayes,
with facile tongue, repeats the sol
emn words which Lincoln used.
His reliance, however, is upon fraud
and dishonesty and the prayer OF
Lincoln comes like a proclamation
from his lips.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-08

"The administration of any Presi-
dent will be in the main what the
party which elected him makes it,"
said MORTON. Returning Board
WELLS, of Louisiana, a thief and
scoundrel, Don CAMERON, a shame
less and reckless political gambler,
MORTON, a licentious, depraved and
corrupt dog, CHANDLER, an abandon
ed and u~nprincipled scamp, SHER-
MAN, a convicted public robber, and
JOE BRADLEY, the betrayer of his
country's confidence and perjured
s'non-partisan" Supreme Judge, is
the party which elected RUrHER-
FRAUD HAYES, and the people can
Judge what kind of an administra-
ton they are to have if there is any
reliance to be placed in what MORTON
SAYS.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-08

Tilden's case in both Florida and
Louisiana was strong in law and in
fact and ought to have prevailed be-
fore a tribunal where eminent Judges
held the balance of power and would
have prevailed if these Judges had
also held the balance of justice with
an eye blind to partisan advantage.
The forgery and fraud by which the
Returning Board wiped out Tilden's
majority in Louisiana are familiar to
every newspaper reader in the land
and a vote of eight to seven to ex-
clude testimony in this case will not
suppress the facts.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-08

A California woman, Mrs. Jennett
B. Frost, having won a suit for the
possession of two hundred acres of
land in the District Court, on which
an appeal vas taken to the Supreme
Court, dismissed her attorney and
pleaded her own case before that
high tribunal. According to the re-
porters she "analyzed its merits in a
clear and musical voice, and sum-
moned up logically and forcibly."
Decision reserved,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-08

1t is reported that Senator Morton
sent a telegram conveying the first
decisive news to Returning Board
Hayes in the following words:
"Commission refuses to receive
testimony. You r elected, sure"
Another report attributes to Nor
toms private secretary the following:
Commission refuses to receive ev-
idence. Hurrah! Hayes is Presi-
dent"
Thus, both these eminent members
of the party of fraud proclaim their
conviction that the proceedings OF
their party and the election of the
Fraudulent President could not
stand the test of an investigation.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-08
HayeS..S q!

The Presidential rape is ended,
and a fraudulent President has been
sworn in and now occupies the place
once filled by a Washington, a Jeffer
son, 4 Madison and a jackson! The
scene is closed-the curtain is shift
ed and the infamy and villainy re-
moved from the gaze ofan indignant
and outraged people, who for four
years longer are obliged to obey the
mandates of a set of political gam
blers and knaves, that should long
ago have been dangling from the gal
lows or driven from the country. Is
there a man with spark of honoria
his body or a spoonful of patriotism
and love of country in his soul, that
envies the position, however exalted
or high, under such degrading and
shameful circumstances? 1t is a
burning shame and a disgrace to the
whole civilized world, and it may be
well for the Republican party, that
embraces in its organization the po-
litical thieves and villains of the
country, to stop and consider The in
fanny of putting this man into the Of
flee of the Presidency, through the
prostitution of every fair and honor
able means-by assaulting the very
life of our free institutions and drag
ging them down into the depths of
pollution.
Mr.. HAYES knows full we'll himself
he was not elected, and he goes into
the Office in a manner that gives him
no title to the respect of the people.
The finger of scorn will be pointed
at Linn by every honest man-they
will teach their children to despise
his name and he will be spoken of as
long as the eternal years last, as the
Fraudulent President.
In the language of the New York
Sun:-"These are days of humilia'
"tion, shame and mourning for every
"patriotic American. A man whom
"the people rejected at the polls, has
"been declared President of the Uni.
"ted States, through processes Of
"fraud. A cheat is to sit in the seat
"of George Washington.
"Let every upright citizen grid
"himself up for the work of redress
sing this monstrous iniquity. Nc
"truce with the guilty conspirators
"No rest for them, and no mercy til
"their political punishment and de-
"struction are completed"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-08

In the last hours of his second
term, GRANT admitted that the peo-
pie of the whole country are tired of
seeing the army and navy employed
to sustain usurping State Govern
ments like the Kellogg fraud, and
says that, if they cannot sustain
themselves, they will have to give
wnN
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-08

The New York Sun:-RETURNING
BOARD HAYES reached Washington
in a pouring rain, and was carefully
guarded by the police. He comes
in a storm of the elements of ma
ture, but he and his Fraudulent
party must expect to leave Wash
ington in a tempest of popular JUS
tice which will sweep away the fabric
of fraud of which he is the cap sheaf
and MADISON WELLS and JOE BRAD.
LEY the foundation.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-08

The n. Y. Erpress takes this
view of the blue glass theory from a
speculative stand point: "Blue glass
will cure all ills the manufacturers
are heir to. Before the mania com.
menced it was Is cts per square foot;
81 per foot is the present quotation
A large firm in Massachusetts, took
time by the forelock last summer,
bought up all the blue-glass to be
had at the, then, ruling prices and
made a corner on the new curative,
Results fortune made in q few
months out of the gullibility of q
miracle loving public.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-08

The sigh of relief breathed out, by
the partisans of Hayes upon hearing
of the decision of the High Commits
sion reminds one of the half sad, half
joyous expiration of a convicted MUIR
derer who through technical plea of
his attorney escapes the gallows and
goes to the peuitentiary for life.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-08

The case in a nutshell: The Re
publicans, knowing their fraud, fear
ed to trust the Supreme Court judge
and they opposed, with all their
might, the "plan." The Democrats,
supposing that a Supreme Court
Judge must necessarily do right, con-
sented to the tribunal The Dem
ocrats haven't got the Presidency,
but they know a good deal more
about judges than they did.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-08

Thanks to the country it is rid of
GRANT rule. His has been the most
wicked and corrupt administration
any people under the sun ever suff-
cred from. He is a bad man-cold,
selfish and dishonest. During his
eight years in the Presidency, most
of his boon companions were thieves
and political gamblers and knaves-
men who robbed the government
with the knowledge and assistance
of Grant. But, after all, Grant is a
fair representative of the party in
power-a party that retains its pow
er by trickery, fraud, perjury and
downright stealing.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-08

Some of the Republican papers are
very indignant to think that some of
the citizens of Colleton county, South
Carolina, should burn Grant in efagy
ON the 22nd. This was done to show
their utter contempt for tine man who
ordered the U. S. troops stationed
there, to prevent by force Of arms, if
necessary any military display upon
Washingtou's birth day.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-08

The army of vultures are iocking
to the Capital and surrounding His
Fraudnlency to get their bills into
the rotten carcass that GRANT de-
serts. We believe Eaton has fur
nishcd no one yet, anxious to accept
a position under a nan who obtain
ed his position through perjury, for
geries and lies. But from rumors
there will be.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-08

The New York San: "But what
reform of smaller public evils can be
expected from a President who takes
his Office through fraud2 How can
a man who receives such a dignity,
knowing it to have been obtained by
bribery, theft and burglary, ever re-
form anything? And what moral
support can be given by any honest
citizen or any independent journal
to such a man in such a situation9
For such an offender there can be
nothing but condemnation, merciless,
constant, unsparing, until he aban-
dons his offense and relieves the
country aud the age from the inso-
lent spectacle Of such unblushing
crime"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-08

There is no use denying that the
decision of the Electoral Commission
in the Florida, Louisiana and Oregon
ase was a disappointment great
disappointment-to a nation which
had hoped that so high and dignifi-
ed a body as the Supreme Court
would prove itself above mere parti-
san sentiment. That the decision
should give legality to admitted
frauds is bad enough. but that it
should reach this end by n strict
party vote heightens the disgrace.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-08

The n. 7. Tribune says, very
cruelty, of "the greatest living Gen
eral," just as he is about to retire,
that ''thus far the only apparent re-
suit of President Grants pardons of
whisky thieves has been to restore to
society a number Of persons whom
society had willingly resigned to the
Pepitentiary,n
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-08

According to that Columbus, O.,
correspondent, Gov. Hayes hasn't a
blemish of any sort. He never did a
mean or dishonest act in his life.
He is a little more than g. most too
awfully upright in his walk and con-
versation. His wings sprouted sew
eral years ago. He is eminently fit
ed to teach the higher grades of NOR
ality to all the late angels and might
even now and then drop a hint which
would be serviceable to the Thro.e
itself.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-08
Notice..

ON the 2sth day of February, 1877,
" the Probate Court of Preble Coun-
ty, Ohio, declared the estate of Martin
Foutz to be probably %insolvent. Cred
itors are therefore required to present
their claims against the estate to the
undersigned for allowance within six
months from the time above mentioned,
or they will not be entitled to payment.
JAMES CAMPBELL.
Admir- of Martin Foutz, decd.
March s, 1S77-w4
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-08

Gov. Palmer of Illinois, who thinks
Senator Morton is head and Shout
ders above all other Republicans in
capacity, recently said, "when you
talk of running a Republican party
without Morton it would be like run,
ming the Christian religion with the
Savior left out"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-08

The National Returning Board
have decided that there is no moral.
ity in American politics. Elect your
party candidate, whether by fair or
foul means, is the advice of the Su-
preme Court.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-08

His Fraudulency took the oath of
office on Saturday evening, With no
n present to witness the act but
Chief Justice WAITE. JOIN SHERMAN
and President GRANT. And they
"loYe darkness better than light be-
causestheir deeds were evil"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-08

The Chicago Iimce very pointedly
remarks. If there is left any vesture
OF decent public respect for a court,
the majority of whose judges have
shown themselves to be contempt
BILE partisan demagogues, the world
may well marvel thereat.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-08

"Eight-up" beats "seven-up'' when
the stake is the Presidency. Poker
Schenck's game is nowhere alongside
of the Bradley, Edmunds, Garfield
and Frelinghuysen contrivance.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-08

A Republican paper says: "Gov.
Hayes believes in God and bids his
time" Now we would like to bet
two cents that he has more faith in
the crookedness of Returning Boards
than in the DEGREES of an overriding
Providence.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-08

Radical organs and orators seem
now to-be passionately interested in
the "solid. SOUTH, since the votes of
Louisiana and Florida have been
stolen to make a fraudulent Presi-
dent.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-08

GRANTS administration was the
most profigate, corrupt and rotten
that ever existed ON the face of the
earth, but he was honestly elected
President, and that is more than can
be said of RUTHERFRAUD HAYES.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-08
The reading people in this commu-

The reading people in this commu-
nifty draw their inspiration from AZ
daily Enquirers, 81 Commercials and
81 Gazettes. At one time the En-
quirer had the lead-over 70 copies
being sold. Eaton does her share
for the Cincinnati dailies.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-08

The fraudulent and wicked pro-
cesses which t1e Republican manag-
ers know so well how to carry out have
triumphedi in the Presidential contest
and the man who was not elected
goes into the Presidential chair.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-08

The inaugural proceedings and
Address of the Fraudulent President
will be found in full on the outside
page of the DEMOCRAT. Read it, and
if it consoles you, all right.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-08

ga solid south for Tilden," was
the sneer of the Radical thieves du-
ring the Presidential campaign, and
then they turned around and stole
enough Of its votes to elect their Pre-
sidenti
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-08

There are only a few cities and
towns in this country where enough
men can be found so lost to all shame
that they publicly exult over the
Presidential robbery. Only a few,
thank the Lord.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-08
THE PoPE,S TOE.

$50 |
The Catholic question in politics
is so dead, that it would seem to be a
noisome task to disturb its putres-
cent remains, but it is well at times,
after a closely contested battle, to
look back over the fields of carnage
and count the slain or disinter the
mangled dead for decent interment.
The Catholic question never was,
however, a lire issue. 1t was but a
spook, bedecked in the habilimcnts
of a giant, set up to the timid
and alarm the weak, and now that
the fog has cleared away aRl its
character and purpose disclosed, how
shabby must the dupes feel who were
driven into the Radical camp by fear
of it. Many an honest but ignorant
voter could not but see that the pol
icy of the Republican party was rad
ically wrong, but through fea- of
Catholic supremacy and a division
of the school fund, was induced to
vote and act with that party. 1t was
made the key note in the late cam
paign in. Ohio, and Pappy TAFT
sounded it so skillfully in his Cleve-
land speech, that for his subserven-
cy to the party he was rewarded with
the position of Attorney General. He
told the people that if the Democrat
ic party continued in power in this
State, that not only would the Geghan
law be suffered to remain in force,
but that further and more decisive
measures would be adopted for a di-
vision of the school fund. Need it
be said that the action of our Demo
cratic legislature has given the lie to
the charge. But the false alarm serv-
ed it's purpose. 1t served to blind
the masses to the real issues. In
fighting the phantom, they forgot
that the contest was one for an hon.
est administration of the government,
for the hurting from power of thieves,
scoundrels and Presidential conspir-
ators, who we're gorging themselves
off the fat of the land, while the hon
est and toiling masses were out of
employment, with their children in
many instances, begging for bread;
for the recognition of the rights of
the poor man, the laborer, the me-
chanic, the business man who might
be disposed to employ his capital in
business and manufacturing, and
against the bondholder and the mo,
ney lender, whose interest lay in en-
HANGING the purchasing power OF
their capital and the price of their
money.
The Democratic party ever has
been, and is to-day, the friend of our
public schools, and the father of the
system, for by the diffusion of uni
versal intelligence alone, will it be
rendered impossible for demagogues
and scheming political gamblers to
thus hoodwink and deceive the mass
es of the people into the support of
men and measures, only beneficial to
the few at the expense of the many.
What lying subterfuge will next be
sprung?
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-08

1t is reported that the veteran
Snowman, P. T. Barnum, has his eye
upon the Louisiana Returning Board
and the Electoral Tribunal as an adj
dition to his museum.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-08

BoAK and HUNT's Bank, of Leba-
non, Ohio, went to pot on last Fri
day, the loss footing up over $780,
900! 1t is the second bank failure
in that place within three years and
leaves the city without an institution
of that kind. Poor radical ridden
Lebanon, how she bleeds for the
cause of Republicanism? Why didn't
she hold on a few days and meet that
"revival of trade" to follow the in
a%uguration of His Fraudulency?
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-08

J. MADISON WELLS stole the cleo
toral vote of Louisiana and present
ed it to Gov. Hayes. Wells has al
ready been branded by the intelli-
gent sentiment of honest men
throughout the world as a thief, a
forger and a perjurer-and it is a
well settled principal of the law that
the receiver of stolen goods is just as
bad as the thief.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-08

For the last ten years the Radicals
have been stealing everything they
could get their hands on and have
wound up their robberies by stealing
the Presidency.