The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-11-27
THE DEMOCRATIC PRESS.
SAMUEL d. HARRIS EDrron AND PusLrsHxn.
rHURsDA1sNov. s7. 1879.
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CoNGREss will assemble next Mon.
day, when the racket will begin.
Gov. Bishop has pardoned three less
prisoners than did either Hayes o,
Young.
The Daily Times of Vineland, N. j.,
is out for Allen G. Thurman for Pres.
ident. The old man is not forgotten
after all.
IT is claimed that DeGolyer Gar.
field lacks just seven votes to make
him solid for Senator, and has no
bar1 of money to make his calling and
election sure.
IT is claimed that Chicago made
$500, 600 by the great Grant bum in
that city on the 18Th, and now Cincin-
natl, Columbus and other towns are
going into the speculation.
A WASHINGTON special says: 'In
private conversations President Hayes
has expressed himself to certain mill
tary visitors as of the belief that Gen.
Grant will be his successor in the
White House.
DID Congress lie when, in 1862, by
an almost unanimous vote of both
houses, it declared by resolution that
the war was prosecuted on the part of
the Government 10 'preserve the
Union with the rights, dignity. and
equality of the States unimpaired
SOME Republican politicians pro-
pose getting Grant out of the way by
making him Field Marshal of the
Army at salary of $4,000 q year.
OF course the people will do anything
to please Grant and the Republican
leaders,
The Democrats of the County of
Yazoo, in the State of Mississippi
have elected q colored man to the
Legislature. Still the Radical screech-
ers will continue to assert that the
people down in that region have no
regard for the Constitutional amend
ments, and no respect for the rights
of the colored people.
The Irishmen in Chicago have ar
ranged for meeting next Monday
night at Mccormick Hall, to secure
from American and Irish American
citizens an expression of sympathy
with Parnell and his friends who are
in trouble in Ireland, and to appoint q
committee to receive whatever dona-
tions may be rendered to aid them IN
maintaining the stand they have taken.
SOME of the Republican papers are
working up a boom for Hon. j. X
Rukenbrod of the Salem Republican
as their candidate for Secretary of
State in the next falls campaign. Mr.
r. is q gentleman Of experience and
ability, and if the Office must be filled
by q Republican we don't know of
one we would prefer to see in the po-
sition than him.
The United States Supreme Court
has declared the law of Congress put
through by Senator Conkling, estab-
fishing patent on Trade Marks, to be
unconstitutional and the Patent Office
will have to refund about a quarter
of million dollars derived therefrom,
while the owners of these Trade Marks,
who thought they had q good thing
will be greatly disappointed.
PROFESSIONAL repeaters in Philadel.
phia, at the late election, were given
dollar for every illegal vote they cast.
They were guided to the polls by Re
publican politicians, protected by Re-
publican police, and when arrested,
bailed by Republican oficeholders.
No wonder they got 10000 majority
ont of false registration which indi-
Gated quarter of million more pop
ulation than New York City.
The investigation of Tom Ambrose.
clerk of the U. s. Courts for the South
ern District Of Ohio, shows that he
bsgged annually about $4,000 fees
that should have been paid oyer to the
Government, and that this pilfering
has been kept up for the last seven
years. The thing got so hot that Am.
brose resigned his Office and has gone
to meet with other honest and smor-
al Radical Office holders who had
gone before.