Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-07-17
Political Items.

steps were taken to add wounded Confed- |
crate soldiers names to the pension lists, |
and payment for emancipated slayes?-
Cincinnati Commercial.
Columbus Dispatch: The first State cleo |
tion this year takes place in kentucky on
Monday, August 4th. A Governor is to
be elected. The Vermont election follows
on the I'd of September, and that of Maine
on the 9th. Kentucky will go Democratic,
as usual, and Vermont will 60 Republi-
can. Maine will be hotly contested, with
three tickets in the field.
Ifthe Democrats wish to retain Ewing
they must not tail to elect him Governor
this Fall. If the State falls into the hands
of the Republicans, and the Democrats
are forced to take back seat, the General
will make no bones about ''gOing over'
to the other side. He can make a change
of base as readily as any General in his
tory. His political headquarters, SO TO
speak, are in the saddle, "readY to move
at moments notice. . -ChfHicothe Reg
lister.
The Democrats have discovered that
they were sadly mistaken in the belief
that the nomination of Ewing would
''fire the soldier heart The soldier
heart doesn't fire worth a cent over
Thomas He wasn't that kind of Gen
eral. His military career was only of the
jayhawking kind. His experience with
grim yisaged war was chiefly confined to
| fighting bushwhackers in Missouri and
Kansas-very useful in its way but moth
| ing of the heroic in it Chillicothe Regis
| ter.
| The Fourth of July was mildly cele
brated at Montgomery, Ala. The spirit
of the proceedings is thus presented;
'"The orator of the day on that occusiOn
| defended secession, and the speakers gem
orally had no word of regret for the past
course of the South, but all were perfect
" willing that the section they repres-
| ented should be fully reinstated in its old
position of aseendency in the Union, and
on that account strongly condemned of
the leading politicians of the Republican
party"
The Columbus Herald is edited by MIR.
| VIM. s. Fnray, q stalwart Republican,
/ who was formerly on the editorial staff of
the Cincinnati Gazette. The Herald says
there are five hundred stalwart Republi-
cans in Columbus who will not support
Mr.. FOster.-HGrdin County Democrat.
The Herald says nothing of the kind,
nor has it eyer said it. On the contrary,
it believes the whole Republican State
ticket will receive the unanimous and
hearty support of the Republicans of Co
lumbus, and that the latter will probably Y
be Joined by five hundred honest men who
have heretofore voted the Democratic
/
We have it from the direct testimony of
members of both Houses of the late Legis-
lature, that much OF the Revised Code
was not read at all in the House, as the
Constitution requires; that the unmean-
J ing and unconstitutional 'reading by
title'' was more than once resorted TO in
said House; and that when the Republi-
cans forced form of reading in the Sen
ate, large portions of it were skipped by
the readers, and only a few members
listened to any of it. The Democratic
pretense of prolOnging the session nearly
to the dog days in order to Econsider the
Code," must be dismissed as the veriest
sham.-CoIatnabus Herald.
Ex-senator Alcorn of Mississippi, con-
: firms the view of every close observer ot
Southern political sentiment, by saying
that there are more people in his State in
sympathy with the Bourbon rawlings OF
persons think. He is sorry to say it, but
it is true. '''The Editor really means
what he says, and there are thousands
who applaud him. Talking to a repor-
! ter of The st. Louis Post Dispatch about
= Southern sentiment, Mr.. Alcorn added
, GAS things now are the South viii senC
extreme men to Congress. Take. Chal-
mers, for instance. He is u true repres-
entatiVe of the sentiment of the South.
tell you many of the people down there
. are very bitter, and fear to look intC
the future"
New York Herald: Ohio cuts as grea
a figure in our cotemporary politics a!
Virginia did many years ago. How many
, Ohio politicians imagine themselves il
D | the direct line of succession to the Presi
+ dency, it would be rash to guess; but nC
doubt Messrs. Foster and Ewing please
: themselves with the fancy that, in the
t political slang of the day, lightning may
t strike in their direction - not to speak o
3 Senator Thurman and General Garfield
Secretary Sherman and General Grant
the last mentioned having among hi
: other and numerous pieces of good 1ucl
= also that of hailing from Ohio Ii OhiC
n should continue much longer to monopo
liZe all the pleasant and exalted places il
: the Government, we shall presently SCI
t ambitions mamas securing temporary
Y quarters in Columbus to insure their ex
3 | pected sons fair start in life.
n GEN. EWING 9 views on the silver cur
u rencv question again furnishes us will
y some interesting points. la 1876 in hi
Z famous debate with Gen. WOOdf0rd, h
T insisted that although the Government
e had expended considerable to replace thu
q fractional currency with silver coin, i
. was waste, because it would be impos
u sible for the silver to remain in the hand
G of the people. The brokers would COB
e bic it all up and shi ip it to the money cen
ters, and thus cause great inconvenience
and loss. Merchants and grocers woult
be compelled to issue shfnplasters to tax
It's place, and all we would get for an ad
dition Of forty-four million dollars to til
# bonded debt, would be groceTs' shinplaz
- - ters in place of the Government fractions
currency. The best reply to this is tn
- silver that jingles in the pockets of eyer,
- man, and which shows that General EW
= ing was a false financial prophet, VIII
RI In h1
d = TO every appropriation bill passed b
>, the Rebel Brigadiers was q political ride
attached, favorable to disloyaIty and the
- success of Southern secession. 1t was il
4 this shape that different bills was sent t
y the President and were promptly and con
" stitutionally vetoed and returned. B
he this means alone was the country save
I'd from the control of the dislOyal elemen
ID of the dislOyal Southern States. TIL
re germs of secession are as certainly a pal
W of their character as in 1860, and thei
A. purpose to destroy the Nation as we'll de
is fined. Then they sought to accomplish
Is it by resort to arms; now by q sySteI
a of legislation wholly shaped toward tn
Id advancement of the idea OF State suprem
rs acy and secession. And had it not bee
er that President Hayes persistently refuse
to sign all such dislOyal measures tn
Rebel Brigadiers might have been far aC
vanced on the road to supremacy and til
IN Nation to ruin.-XeniG TorchIight.
re The belief of many Greenbackers tbs
M their ultimate success is to be reache
ct only through the destruction of one
rs the old parties; the Indignation of larg
r class of the Nationals at the undisguise(
is rebellious ''rule or ruin'' spirit which tn
n Democracy have boldly manifested du
Is ing the extra session OF Congress; an
5y deep disgust at the utter faithIessness
rs Democratic professions, as manifested b
II their deliberate failure pass the Silve
Id bill, has already raised the question of