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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-09-19
TESTIMONIALS.

Ravenna, March 20, 1875
AR y $ RTzZELL: Dear Sir:-My Wagon that
sGufchased of you about two years ago. 1 must
Gknowlehgc is much better than eSDecteI
fieIns of medium size. l thought it too light for
my business; but it is just right runs light and
rom my kiln. 1t will carry eight thousand
Sounds, and has never cost me one cent for re-
pairs. Yours truly, u.F.CARIS,
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MIR .. 5. EUZZELL. Dear Sir In the fall af
~ purchased of you alisht wagon Weivha
WITH box on. 532 pounds. 1T is IA thin Bile skein
which think is the easies running wagon in
use nave frequently drawn Z, 900 pounds uu.
on 1t at one time. All the expense that mt
upon 1t for the first twelve years was for set
ttiis TIRE once. Yours, with respect.
g EIDRIOGE
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INSURANCE AGENCY.

woHld announce to the people of Rayenpa
amt vicinity tina: have opened an oflice in
S%i!t's building, over the Jewelry store Of
Wait, Dewey " Co represent the following
sound and reliable Insurance Companies:
Cooper, of Dayton, o.,
E., M. & M, of Hamilton, O.,
Jefferson, j of Steubenville, O.,
Ohio, Of Dayton, O.,
Lycomins, Muncy, Pa, Mutt.
buckeye, Shelby, o., Mutual.
". Il. COOLMAN.
Rayenna. March 70. 1873 24atf
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CLEVELAND a. PETGSsEfit! EsAyI.EoAD
On and after Sunday. May IL, iSlS Trains
will leave Stations daily, tSundays CAcCnted,)
as follows:
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Are the most
effective and
congenial pur-
gativc ever dis
covered. They
are mild, but
e ff'e ctual in
TIL ir Op era
tiOn, moving
the bow Is
surely and
without pain.
Although gen-
tie in their op-
erotiOn- thew
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GOING Noxrn-htA.N LirSss.


TUsCARAW AS BRANCH.
Leaves
Rayard II ~ Il III. ard SOC y. m.
New philadClphia, $50 :. ~. and : 10 pm.
Arrives.
Bayarl, $50 4. N. and f.IG y. M.
New Philadelphia, 2.3O and 1.2O p. m.
h. K. Nj ! E&S,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.
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Ravcnna, March II ISIS

Ravenna. March II, ISIS
MIR O. s. BUZZELL: Dear Sir-Wc have been
usihs one Oh your one horse wagons now over
two years in our lumber yard often loading it
with one thousand feet OF green hemlock and
OAK, ahi we think it the best and easiest run
nihg wagon we ever had. ii will carry GUu0
BIS, and mas never cost dollar Tor repairs
Tor that time. Yours. truly
4. SUTHERLAND & co.
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also have for sale
% VILLAGE LOTS

Wen located on high rolling ground and in tina
mnSt pleasant and growing part of the town.
+" Ill be sold cheap and on easy terms
taveDna. O.. Jan q. 1878 81.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-10-25
THE GREENBAoK FIATERs.

1t is not surprising that Peter Cooper
protests against the Greenback platforms
of 1878, and issues an address appealing
to the Greenback candidates and papers
TO drop the platforms and advocate moth
ing but the repeal of the resumption
law and the substitution of legal tender
greenbacks for national bank currency
He warns them that to advocate repu-
diation of bonds, unlimited issue of pa
per money, imitation of values, and 9TH
er reckless measures, will be to throw
away golden opportunity for success.
He tells them that their platforms can
not receive the approval of the thinking
and rejecting people of the United
States, and that they propose altogether
too much, and are going altogether too
fast. But Dir. Cooper's warning comes
too late. His entreaties are in vain. The
Greenback party has run wild 1t is
like locomotive off the track on a down
grade, with fanatical engineers trying TO
guide the machine in dozen different
directions at once, and crazy firemen
poking fuel under the boiler already
ON the point of explosion. The passen-
gers themselves who have been induced
to board the greenback train, with the
hope of speedily reaching promised
land of plenty and ease, are alarmed
and COMPOUNDED at the terrific jolts
which become worse every moment,
and to escape from the illfated eX-
petition before it is totally wrecked,
are rushing by the thousand into
their old seats in the Republican and
Democratic ranks, glad to escape the
smash up of November 8. Peter Coop
er calls on his friends to man the brakes,
stop the Greenback train while there is
time, get back to something like sound
track, and go ahead with some regard to
safety But the schreeching of wild-eyed
orators like Sam Wood, the putting of
blatherskite papers like the Advocate,
the yelling and bowling of frenzied can
didates like Mitchell and Maxson, the
noise and dust and confusion drown the
voice of every true friend of the Green
back party and cause, and the train must
keep its wild down grade career until it
brings up against the ballot box in No
J vember, and lies a shattered wreck of
blasted hopes and aspirations at the feet
of the American people, who see in time
to stop its ruinous progress.
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THE FIAT COLLAPsE

The fiat collapse in Ohio, Indiana and
Iowa was a surprise to all. In the his
tory of politics for twenty years there
has been no scheme before the public
that was so arrant a humbug, and so
well calculated TO "catch" votes. But
the sober, second thought of the people,
the great reaction. came too quick for it.
Thousands of honest men were led into
the so-called new party without proper
investigation, and without calculating
the evil effects of such proposition as
the issue of billions of "absolute'' mon
ey. The elections in the states above
named, proved, remarks the n. Y. Her
aid, Gndep0pdenD that the Nationals
were, after ali, playing what they would
call "bluff game" and scared the weak
kneed Democrats ON a very 'thin hand"
A comparison of their positive puIish-
ed claims" before the election and the
net result makes their movement ridicu.
lous. The National organs claimed
100000 votes in Indiana, and three con
gressmen. They cast in that state, where
they are strongest. only $4,000 votes, and
with the help of The Democrats, not by
their own votes, elected one congress
man. They claimed 10000 votes in
Ohio, and three cogressmen, and they
cast, as nearly as we can tell from inn
perfect returns, less than $1,000 votes
and elected no congressman. They
claimed q congressman in West Virgin
ia, but elected none, Having made ,
combination with the Democrats in 10
wa, they claimed four congressman, but
with the help of Democratic votes, man
aged TO elect only two and it j,
clear that If they had stood alone thel
would have got none, That is to say
they had not in Ohio and Indiana, tn,
two states where they have the creates
strength, a third Of the vote they claim
ed, and IL il had not been for Democrats
help they would not have elected sin
gle congressman anywhere. i is alb
surd Cor them 10 talk any longer Of
greet popular movement. The tide i
setting fast against them, and they hav
made their largest showing. snd tina
amounts 70 just three Democratic Rep
resentativea, elected by the assistance 0
iGreenbaek votes. That Is all and it i
a pretty poor second fiddle
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AFrER rHE aPuREs owns.

The Emporia NEWS having become
Disguised with the twaddle of p. B. Max
son, the National candidate for the legis-
lature, publishes the record on this pink
Of perfection in the new party. It has
searched the records and finds where old
Maxson fraudulently beat the citizens of
EIdorado out of $500 foE-the attempted
removal of the land Office to that town,
and also gives the commissioners letter
recommending that Maxson be removed
from the Office of C. s. Register for agree
ing to recommend the removal of the
land Office from Neodesha 70 Independ-
ence, for q consideration. It will be re-
membered that Col. A. IL York, 1.-THE
present pure politician of the National
party, with deceased banker Of this
city, went TO Neodesha, and there bribed
and bought P. B. Maxson and his asso-
ciate for the sum of 8, 400, and that the
city Of Independence did pay Msxson &
Co 81 900 of the amount Maxaon, York,
ct al, are the class who are aOW denouEc-
ing the Repub ican party because Of its
rascality (g)-fhe real trOuble being that
the Republicans viii no longer elect
them 70 Office The political records Of
the leading National ofaceseekers won't
wash.-Indepepd eace Tribune.
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GOOD TALK.


At Nashville, Tenn, on the 21st, Hon.
John F. House was nominated for con-
gress, and made the following speech,
which is certainly noble in its express
sions. There is no doubt but that the
scourge, and the liberal manner in which
the needs of the south have been cared
for by the contributions in the north,
will do much to bring about better
feeling. If the south could only get to
the point of allowing liberty of speech,
there is no doubt but that perfect har-
mony would prevail between the two
sections. We believe that day is com.
ing. 1t is for the south to say how soon
it shall come:
Hon. JnO. F. House was unanimously
re-nominated as a candidate for congress
for this, the sixth congressional district,
to-day, by the Democrats. In his speech
acknowledging the compliment he said {:
I'm the national contest between the two
great parties, they will divide upon gov
eminent policy, and without sectional
luminosity; sectional hatred will be elm
mated from the contest. So far as the
south is concerned am certain that such
will be the case 1 can't, fellow citizens,
find it in my heart to indulge in feelings
of malice toward the people of the north
when witness their magnanimous and
gracious conduct toward the southern
people. feel like pulling off my hat
and standing uncovered in their pres
ence; and greater than the victory of the
Appomattox is the victory won by the
people of the north in their noble and
generous contributions to the stricken
and suffering south. Upon that fatal
field the south surrendered her sword /;
and within the shadow of the dark wing
of the pestilence beside the new-made
graves of her heroic sons and daughters,
with bowed head and fearful eyes She ex-
tends her hand and surrenders her heart
to the gracious and magnanImous north.
Gods own hand has bridged the bloody
chasm. Let not the ambition of man
seek to reopen the wounds and to rekin-
die the embers of sectional strife. Let
US go into this great contest of 1880 with
out any of these elements of sectional
bitterness. OF course, we will be divid.
ed as to questions of governmental pol
| icy, but with that eliminated from the
contest the representative of the south
can stand upon the floor of congress as
the peer of any from the northern states,
and can look to the material develop
ment of his own section, to the enlarge
ment of commercial relations, and make
the southern people more prosperous
With fraternity and harmony restored to
this great country, she can march on to
more glorious and illustrious future
than has been seen in the past"
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GIVE HER THE CREDIT.


The Republican party has controlled
Kansas ever since she was admitted into
the Union-seventeen years. 1t made
the states constitution and has enacted
its laws. For the fact that the states
debt is only one million and was limited
state; for the existence of liberal ex-
emptions to protect the poor mans
homestead and mechanical and agricul-
tural tools; for the splendid growth the
state has made, and its school system,
which is the best in the Union; for the
fact that a dollar of our state script has
been worth dollar for the last twelve
years; for the fact that our school fund
has been SO carefully husbanded and
guarded that in a few years more we will
have no school tax to pay; for the fact
that there is now over $500, 900 in the
treasury, and that every bond is prompt
ly paid when due, andy that our state
credit stands number one in the money
centers of the country, while the credit
of nearly every state under Democratic
control is heavily discounted, the people
are indebted to Republican management
and Republican integrity and honesty
In all this time, and with all the men the
state has put in position, the people
have not lost dollar by theft or defal-
cation. Some attempts have been made
in this direction. One treasurer was
convicted of using the states deposits
for which he received some personal
benefit He was promptly ousted. An
other was accused of depositing large
amounts of money in banks. He was
compelled to resign to save impeach-
ment. Another Intentionally robbed
the school fund by buying bogus bonds.
He was promptly arrested, his property
seized, and he only saved himself from
the penitentiary by escaping from pris-
on and fleeing to foreign country. Of
the $4,000 he got dishonesty, a part
has already been recovered, and the bal
ance is amply secured. It has been
the Republican policy to demand the
strictest honesty on the part of its public
---~S-NJ NN ~ NSNA d140 give
no quarter to the few who have proved
recreant to duty in any way, or deceived
the confidence of the people. Out of the
~ men who have been elected to state
office the three exceptions above men,
toned are the only ones that have been
accused of betraying the people. Can
any party in any state show cleaner or
better record? Why the attempt on the
part of some who have helped make this
splendid history to take from the hands
of the Republican party the power which
ithas exercised so well for the interests of
the people. Is there any excuse for such
action? Look before you leap. No man
can justly say ought against Republican
rule in Kansas. Every Republican can
feel proud of the record of the party
in Kansas.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-10-25

Our Democratic friends and all 9TH
ers who want TO support Simon Butcher
for the Office of register of deeds, will
find his announcement in another col
umn. He was nominated for that Of
fee by the county Democratic conven-
tion. He has been in Lyon county some
twenty years, and has always borne a
good reputation. His qualifications are
excellent, and he served in like capac-
ity In Ohio before coming here. We
make this statement for him because the
Democratic paper here has comparative
ly no circulation in the county, and be.
cause il is due Mr.. Butcher that his
friends should know he is a candidate
and that he respectfully asks their votes
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-10-25

The whole management of the city of
Glasgow bank-eight in number-have
been arrested, and are in jail. Their
crime consists in throwing away thirty
one millions of dollars belonging to 9th
er people. The Scotch are a terribly
practical race. In some quarters of the
globe set of bank managers who had
actually squandered $S1 ,OOO,O without
anybody suspecting it, would be thought
remarkable financiers, and perhaps sent
to congress.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-10-25

Brother Mitchell and Sister Elder held
two meetings yesterday at Liberty Hall.
There were present, in the afternoon,
about one hundred and twenty-five peo-
pie, and in the evening seventy-five or q
hundred more. Brother Mitchell did
most of the talking. He said four Ma
poleons in New York could not make as
much fuss as Ben Butler He thinks
there is mighty big impending crisis,
and he supposes the n. g. party to have
been sent for the purpose of bringing
that crisis to focus He said that once
the professors al Evanston lived high on
the rent cf s!ieir property. Now they
are poor. iile church could no longer
help the L=.s;iss-., snd the good men are
wailing bes-aiisr They cannot be sent out
as missionaE sss.- Farmers cannot now
help pay the preacher. though they have
an abundance of corn, and wheat, and
pigs, and horses, and cows, and poultry,
&c. Bishop Simpson was quoted to
prove that something IS the matter. And
so, and so the speaker ran on--LawreRce
Journal.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-10-25

A DOGwOOD BAsIs.-When Elder
Mitchell spoke in Emporia some three
weeks ago, he showed the wisdom of a
gold basis for paper money, while the
paper money did the work, by dog
wood parable. He said some years ago
when people commenced to pillow in the
eastern states, every farmer thought he
had to have a dogwood plow-beam.
Nothing else would do, and nothing else
was used. But finally, as the country
settled up, and great many plows were
called in use, dogwOod began to get
scarce. There were not beams enough
to do the business with, and the people
were in a great dilemma. But N ingen-
ious Yankee came to the rescue. He
Immediately began to manufacture oak
pillow beams declaring that they were
based on dogwood, and that he would
redeem them in dOgwood beams. II
proved to be Observation-Disclosures.
Yes, but Judge Price, of Doniphan
county, punctured Bro. Mitchell's dog
wood story most effectually, by saying
in his reply to Mitchell's speech at Troy
that to carry out the would-be govern
or's theory, it would only be necessary
to take piece Of paper and print on it
''this is pillow BEAM" and it would be
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of our connection with the transaction.
If it knows nothing, which we believe to
be the case, it should cease its cowardly
and lying insinuations. 1t is only cut
ting its own throat by such course, and
the number of votes it will make by
SANDER win do it no good. We are just
as ready to expose fraud as anybody can
be, and when we know of any, shall
proceed to do SO as we have always done,
without fear or favor.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-10-25

Suppose some good man, whose note
you would take, comes along and wants
10 buy your hogs and corn. He offers
you q note with no date of payment.
How much is that note WORTH Would
you take it for anything? What could
you do with it? The "fiaters" propose
TO issue just that kind Of notes, say two
billions of them. This would be a nice
currency, would It not2 Its circulation
would injure the poorer classes worse
than any other, because the capitalist
can always take care of himself.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-10-25

Some one horse correspondent reiter-
ates the silly charge that arrangements
have been made between senator Ingalls,
and Col. John A. Martin, of the Cham
pion, by which the latter is to be APP
pointed postmaster at Atchison, and that
his appointment was the object Of the
senator's recent visit to Washington.
Col. Martin again denies this story, in
the most positive manner, and we have
no doubt but that ii was manufactured
out Of whole cloth in the first place.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-10-25

ELDER HELPING BLAIR.-Mr. Elders
candidacy in the seconed district has be-
come so evidently in the interest of the
Democracy that he is losing much sup
port that he would otherwise receive.
No Democratic Greenbackers support
Elder, they all support Blair. Yet Blair's
position on the greenback question is
identical with that of Haskell. Blair
posed to the fiat scrip idea advocated BY
Mitchell and Elder. Yet Republican
Greenbackers are asked to vote for e.
der, when the only possible result will
be TO help Blair.-Ganett Plaindealer.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-10-25

1t is stated in our tslegraphic dis
patches that the particulars have at last
become known concerning the lease of
the Denver & Rio Grande railway, by the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fee road, for
thirty years. The lease takes effect De-
cember 1st The Denver & Rio Grande
receives forty-three per cent of the gross
earnings. decreasing one per cent. yearly,
and will receive thirty-seyen per cent.
from the seventh to the fourth years.
The San Juan silver mines are to be
opened through the Grand Canon of the
Arkansas, and the ultimate design is to
connect with the Kansas Pacific. This
transaction is regarded as the defeat Of
Jay Gould, and warm competition
with the Union Pacific for freight traffic
IS predicted.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-10-25

The long civil war in Cuba will
probably leave one beneficial result. II
so nearly killed slavery that the utter
extinction of the institution is only a
QUESTION of time, and short time at that.
The introduction Of white laborers from
old Spain and the adoption of Ameri-
can machinery are fast coming into ia
vor with the planters, who have become
tired of slave labor, so greatly democrat
lied by the protracted struggle.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-10-25
The Greenbacker didn't like st. John

The Greenbacker didn't like st. Johns
speech, in this city. That's pity. We
think st. John ought to have consulted
the reverend editor of the G-backer be-
fore he spoke, and allowed him to fix
it up to suit the sanity Spangler. OF
course the G-backer misrepresented the
speech. After reading that paper for
some weeks no one would expect any
thing else from it. The fact is that st.
John knocked the bottom out of the
humbug stuff such small potatoe finan-
ciers as Spangler has been trying to dose
the people with. No wonder it didn't
suit him.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-10-25

Resumptionists tell US that one dol
lar will purchase as much now, as two
dollars would formerly purchase. That
may all be true; but the question has
very sensibly been asked, "where are we
going to get the dollar ?''-Greenbacker.
Stand around the streets and curse
John Sherman.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-10-25

OF the 100000 mercantile houses OF
which Dun, Barlow & Co. take cogni-
zance, S,76S failed during the first nine
months of 1873, with liabilities of $780,
100000. At the same rate for the year,
this would show one failing to every
sixty persons engaged in mercantile or
manufacturing business, each year, and
we rather think that has generally been
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-10-25

To the cry of Reform is necessary"
comes back the echo from s. ]. Tilden
Proposition, to bride the Florida can
wasting board, 'aeeepted If done only
once" He did not wish to pay twice for
the same job. The "true inwardness" of
the attempt to buy the Presidency, and
thwart the will of the people, is now
known, and places Tilden and the Dem
ocratic party in a very damaging posi-.
tiOD
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-10-25

"a fellow feeling makes US wondrous
kind" So the remembrance that Watson
has voted the Democratic ticket for the
last six or eight years creates kindly
feeling in the bosom of the little red
eyed editor of the Sun, even though Wat
son is now reconstructed into a Green
hacker pro tempOre. Davis knows how
reconstruction goes himself
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-10-25

The New York Tribune's expose OF
the cypher dispatches in Florida, by
which it was proven that Tilden offered
$4,000 for an eleetor, disturbs the old
man Of IS Gramercy Park. OF course
he denies He tries TO shin the respon-
ability for the infamous cyphers upon
has wicked partners, and the Democratic
party, which was rather bewildered Al
FIRST, promptly follows his example.
Yet we do not hear that Nephew Pelton
has lost his position as confidential bust
aesE manager Of his uncle, or that Smith
Weed h any the less active in the Demo
cratic campaign in New York, or even
that the relations Of Manton Marble with
IS 0ramercy Park have been disturbed.
The only course LEFT for TjIdep is TO re
nounce his wicked partners.
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Irredeemable currency has always been
a curse to the country. Itcannot be 9th
erwise. And yet Bro. Mitchell, who can
blind an audience with illustrations and
historical illusions, wants to fill your
pockets with that kind of stuff