Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1879-10-21
POLITICAL NOTES.

In Macon, Ca, no child will be allowed
at the public school unless its father has
paid poll tax.
Cleveland Herald 1t is not ''trupes' it
is Republicans ut the POLL" that the brig
adierS are exercised over.
THE old Democratic party is about
dead in Ohio, Maine and Massachusetts,,
and il touches on dissolution in many other
states. saws Wendell Phillips He might
have added that in Maine it cut its throat
with the edge of greenback shnplaSter
Belfast Journal.
MIR. Nelson Baker, prominent Iowa
| Greenbacker, and one of their most effect
/ i've speakers, has come back to the Rcpub-
| lican party because the GrcenbackerS have
sacrificed principle TO policy. and he Is un-
willing TO become tool of the rebel-Dem-
ocratic party.
Postmaster General Key reports that
| he found several old hard-Shell Democrats
/ in Tennessee during his recent visit who
/ bdwailed the premature arrival of good
/ times. on the ground that IL they had
waited a little the Democratic party would
/ have had the benefit which they always
bring to the party in power.
burlington Ha,rkeye. "What brought
Grant homc:" mysteriouSly demands a
/ Missouri contemporary. We didn't follow
the game close, but he might have got in
/ ON hard hit 10 center field. or a hot liner
10 third, badly mutled, or daisy cutter
ont to left field; it's easy enough 10 get
| home when YOU are on third and have a
/ lively hitter at the bat
Some of the political banners of Ohio
are significant. one reads "RcpubliCanS
Thirtv-hvc tons of gold imported In 1879
for American products Resumption -
Another: "NLlNth Congress, G6 Demo
cratic majority, NLNth Congress 10
/ Democratic majority, NLNlth Congress,
: Democratic majority. And NLNlI Con-
SrcSS, exodus OF Rebel BrigadierS.
The reduction in the tobacco tax by
| the last Congress has thus far resulted in
| a steady loss 20 the revenues OF about
/ threc-QuartcrS of million u month with
out any reduction in prices 10 the conSum-
\ cr>. showing that the manufacturers and
| dealers alone proftcd by the reduction
/ And now the Kentucky di>tiller> are NOV
| iug for reduction of the whi>kcy tax.
/ They had better keep still.
What about grceuhlck>:" said Il
voice in Music Hall, while General Butler
was speaking in Boston the other night.
We'll. said the General, Il have read in
/ the newspapers that the grccuhaCk party is
dead Let it be-. Let the dead bury their
dead" The audience applaudcd this Sug-
g,>tiou. which looks very much - though
! Butler aud his followers have made mp their
minds that Srccubacki>m is thin. Of the
past.
/ Nothing could show more forCibly the
/ thoroughly >tIlwart condition of the Re
publican party than the enthusiastic greet
/ ing 90 Senator Chandler in Massachusetts.
/ Iii, rough. intensely earnest Western way
/ of expressing himself is heartily COM
mendcI even In classic Boston. The whole
party In the North is solid and aroused,
and nothing buta vigorous vocabulary can
adequately express liz tcc,us>.- tribune.
/ Senator Chandler believe that the mis-
sion of the republican party will not be
| finished until Northern republican can
make republican speech and vote re-
/ publican ticket I'm any part of the south
with the same security with which the
/ Southern mau cam express his opinions re-
speeding the riShtuluesS OF the rebellion
and vote the democratic ticket In the North.
/ The party would Doe needed even AFTER that
condition had been attained 70 maintain 81
/ desirable state OF affairs.