Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-07-18
OUR NATIONS CAPITAL.

We had a pleasant chat recently with
Senator VOORHEES,, of Indiana, upon the ap-
preaching election in Ohio. He is very
confident of Ewing's success and said that
were an election held to-day his majority
would be sweeping, for the people are fully
alive to the issue Of the day and to the ab-
solute necessity for reform and the ousting
Of the Republican party from power. But,
he said, am aware Of the vieissitudes of
politics and it is possible the current which
has set in so strongly towards Ewing may
change its course and defeat result. The
Tall Sycamore Of the Wabash" never ut
tered a sager oracle than this, and his wis
dom, like that of Billy Barlow's, may be
summed up in the latter's wise saying
sit mout and agin it mout'nt" Mr.. Voor-
heeS, however, is the only Democrat we
have met who permits any contingency to
enter into the Ohio canvass. for ali, like
StillsOn Hutchns-that embodiment of
wisdom which edits the Daily Post-insist
that Charley Foster can't possibly c.iu, and
that Ewing IN carrying Ohio give. his party
passport to the White house next year,
consequently all are as happy as so many
clans over the prospect. On the other
hand our Republican friends are equally
jubilant for all advices point conclusively
to Fosters election and that there is cause
for apprehension of loss through over con-
fidence.
Portland, Oregon, gives us p straw to
show us which way the wind is blowing
now by electing Hon. D. P. Thompson as its
Mayor. As this city has been strongly
Democratic and was the grand centre for
Democratic manipulatiOns at the hands Of
Glover and his birds of prey for years past,
the election Of Gov. Thompson to the May
orally shows that he, il not the party, has
strength enough to win on square deal. "
Gov. Thompson went from Ohio to Oregon
about % years ago penniless boy, and has
by his pluck and brains worked his way ap
from poverty's walk to immense wealth, as
well as TO the head and front of the Re
publican party in that State. The Port
land Standard (Den1.) says of him. ''He
knows no defeat in anything" We predict
that this characteristic of the Gov. by
which he was able to carry Portland will
extend to the State and that Oregon will
fall into the Republican column in 1880
''by large majority"
There are most painful rumors here in
circulation, that Senator Edmund's health
is so broken as to prevent him from future
work in the Senate. This, if it prove to be
fact would be indeed calamity, for the
future has great need for him in it. as he
is the master mind of the Republican party
in Congress. The ablest lawyer in the SEN
ate, his judgment upon measures is that
of the highest court for his party, and to
lose him, now that the whole Democratic
party brigadiers and all are charging upon
the defenses which the Republicans have
erected since 1851 for the preservation of |
the country, is to lose our most trusted |
leader, and we can but hope he may return
next December from his European tour so
invigOrated as to take his place at the front
of the mortal national battle to be fought |
next winterin Congress. The extra session !
just ended bad as it were for the country |
is but the merest beginning of what the |
Democracy will attempt when they meet |
again, hence the need Of all our leaders at |
their posts.
The Confederate blue bloods of the South |
J6Il us lldJ lu6 dTlSJOCTdJS Oh IQelF section 1
have none of the shortcomings of human |
nature which exhibits themselves among
plebeians as a consequence of the social
equality notions and of the lack of that
noble blood which makes the "Southrons"
the superior people. Yet with all their
blather about inferiority we plebians ocea-
siOnally witness something which inclines
US tC think, though we don't dare say it
aloud in these fighting days that human
nature may perchance be as weak among
aristocrats as among mudsills. A Miss
Horton has come here from Alabama to en-
ter suit against the son of Senator Morgan
Of that State, for seduction and breach of
promise Of marriage. She has engaged
three of our ablest lawyers and evidently
means business. Her father before his
death was Senator Morgan's law-partner.
and she alleges that young Morgan took |
advantage Of her youth-being only II |
years of age at the time-to accomplish her |
ruin under promise of marriage. Ordin-
arily such suit would attract only local |
notice, but as it arises among the class
whose assumption has always been that its
women never fall though poor white trash |
do, we hereby chronicle the matter for the /
edifestion of your plebian reader.
Washington, July 10, 1879