Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-08-07
PoInricalItems.

The Ohio State Journal says the question
will be determined by the people of Frank
lin County this fall whether or not men
can be elected to county offices who will
be content with their legal fees If any
of the officers of Franklin, or any other
county have taken illegal tees they ought
to be boosted, and the sooner the better
l-Fdirfeld County Democrat:
General Sam Cary still maintains that
there are some millions of unemployed
laboring men in the country; and Gener-
al Ewing told the same old story sub
stantially at Lancaster. The old and
Young farmers of Fairfield who heard
Ewing's doleful story would have laugh
| ed in his face but for the fact that they
were restrained by their regard for good
manners.-O. s. ,Eoatrndl.
The Ohio Democrats have of late os-
tentatiously paraded their poverty of cam
] paign funds. Facts of this character
which naturally would be kept secret
they have permitted to fall into the hands
of correspondents of Republican news
papers. This is believed to be a shrewdlv
conceived, but badly bungled scheme to
mislead the Republicans and divert their
attention from the modes which it is pro-
posed to use the Burlington Hack
| eye.
A representative of the Register and
Tribune has been talking with many of
the leading miners in reference to poli-
tics, this fail, and the general impression
is that the miners will endeavor to make
| themselves felt against Ewing, who is re-
garded with general aversion. The DEM
ocracy have been ignoring the miners for
a year or two, but those who delve in the
| bowels of the earth will endeavOr to even
| up things this fall Youngstown Register
and Tribune.
Is it a part of the 'tOhfo Idea' to abolish
the National Banks at once because the
circulation of these institutions is secured
| by the deposit of Government bonds :?
| The proposition is, that the banks tend to
perpetnate the National debt. The debt
exists all the same, and it is simply i'm
possible for this generation to discharge
it. twill be time enough to discuss how
bank circulation is to be secured without
Government bonds, when we have paid
off the debt.-O s. Journal.
In the course of his long speech at Ian
caster, General Ewing was able to state a
| fact, and we take pleasure in pointing it
out. He said the Republican party was
not responsible for the great crops of last
year and this year. That's a fact. Those
good crops, however, have been bitter
| dose to the politicians whose great party
has been to magnify the commercial dis
| turbance and industrial distress of the
country, and who are disappointed, en-
btttered and cast down by general pros
perity.-Ctncinndti Commercial.
1t is true the Resumptlonists have no
right to claim that they helped the coun-
try to its crops and markets, enabling MS
at once to resume without a jar, ard to
pay off our debts to Europe at the rate of
hundreds of millions a year.
1t is true also that parcel of politicians
have for Il long time been at pains to tell
us how miserable we were, how the coup-
try was going to the dogs and cats, how
we must stuff ourselves with paper money
forever or perish.
They hoped for the misery of millions
that they might help themselves to place
and power by an affectation of special
sympathy, and all the arts of quackery
and the reckless promises of demagogues.
Happily they miscalculated the resources
of the country.
America is in the way of rapidly becOm-
ing the richest country in the world. A
course of Confederate financiering would
destroy the prospects of this generation
for splendid prosperity, but we doubt
whether anything else could.
The financial idiots said we, the pro-
ducers of gold and silver, couldn't find
the precious metals to resume on. We
had only to dam up our own supply for
little while. They said Europe would
snatch our gold from us, but we are
stronger than Europe. The best in the
world belongs to us, and the professors
IN politics ofpublic disaster should cease
10 pose IN attitudes of despair, and no
longer devote themselves to preaching the
Cn1h gs Aamentable.--Ci CilcisaGtt COaa0aeTcial.