Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-07-24
POIttIcaI Items.

Thomas Ewing said couple of years
ago that the Democratic party was dead.
Will Mr.. Ewing tell us when life again
came to the Democratic stiff? Tom tried
his financial mind on his own personal
estate and reduced it to bankruptcy iIfa
short time. This is why the people do
not believe in his financial theories. "By
their fruits ye shall know them. "-L0n-
don Enterprise. 8
AS the Democratic party stands before
the country to-day, its success in the
choice of President would signify the
victory of the Southern COnfederacy
over all it's enemies-the Yindication of
the principles upon which the Southern
people stood in their fght-and at the
very least the right of the South, as the
master of rs all, to have the Confederate
cripples pensioned, the slaves emancipat-
ed paid for, and compensation for all
damage to Southern property done by
Invading armies.-C Cincinnati Commercial.
A proposition is now before the people
of Tennessee to scale the State debt fifty
per cent; that is, to offer the creditors a
compromise on that basis. The pro-
position is opposed by two parties for
wholly different reasons. The Republi-
cans as body oppose it because they say
that good faith requires that payment in
full be made-the debt being honest and
the State being abnndantly able to pay.
The reputation DemOcrats-that is, the
out and out repudiatiOnists-Will vote
against it for the reason that they are
opposed to paying anything. The result
is exceedingly donbtful.-O. s. Journal.
John G. Thompson is said, by the Wash
ingtOn correspondents of The Commercial
Advertiser, to have admitted that the DEM
ocrats cannot elect Ewing in Ohio. A
similar confession is said by two frank
Southern correspondents to have been
made by many prominent Democratic
leaders during the past few weeks. There
is no doubt all the Democrats believe
this to be the gloomy outlook, and it is
not strange that they have been over
heard saying so among themselves. Some
OF them trying to put the blame on Sena-
tor Bayard for his opposition to the Sill
yer bill, but that won't do. The respon-
sibility should be divided about equally
between the extra session and the Ohio
Legislature. Both together have COM
bined to make the party OdiOns in the
eyes of the peOple.-N. 7. Tribune.
The Democrats take great credit to
themselves for putting in nomination for
Governor and Lieutenant Governor two
Union soldiers. 1t must be kept in mind
that these two Union soldiers went back
upon their record and their comrades in
the army, before the Democratic party
would receive them into the WigWam.-
These gentlemen have been "cheek by
joWl' for years past with the Confeder-
ate Brigadiers. When General Shields
Union soldier, and General Fields a
rebel soldier, were candidates for Door
keeper of the House, General Rice cast
his old comrade aside and voted for the
rebel soldier. General Ewing was pair
ed, and couldn't vote, but arose and stat
ed that If he were not paired he would
vote for the rebel soldier. It is not sur
prising that these two gentlemen were
made standard bearers in the Democratic
party. If they fought for the Union they
haYe repented of it, and have done works
meet for repentance.-ZdneSUi Courier
Chillicothe Register: Reports from all
parts of Ohio indicate that the uppermost
thought in the minds of the Republicans
is that the Government must not be al
lowed to be captured by the ex-rebels
They are indignant at the revival of the
State sovereignty doctrine which brought
about the rebellion and the whole course
of legislation since the Democrats got a
majority in Congress they regard as an
attempt TO reverse the results Of the war
and start new era of Southern domina-
tiOn. When rebel soldiers are preferred
to Union soldiers for office at the Capitol,
when the Constitutional Amendments are
practically nullitied throughout the Sonth
and when a struggle carried on bV ex-
Confederate Brigadiers in Congress to
break down the Federal Election laws is
gloriffed in Tammany Hall by a Georgia
Senator as second only in Importance to
the Revolutionary War, Ohio Republicans
think it high time to reassert their belief
that the rebellion was wicked and unjusti-
fable and their determination that its
leaders should not accomplish in the
Union what they tried in vain to accom-
plish ont of it.