Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-10-02
Political Items.

The Solid South is the stumbling block
that threw the Democratic party.
1t is never too early in campaign to
remind voters that victories are won by
going to the polls and voting, not by sit
ting in comfortable chair and calcula-
ting maiOrities.
If John G. Thompson and Mrior Nc
Kinney succeed in raising money in New
York to carry Ohio for Ewing, they
should study the terms of the Seitz Law
before proceeding to distribute it.
The time has passed, and it is thought
forever, when political party can hope
for success in this country upon plat
form that fails to recognize coin as the
true basis for proper currency.
The majority of Charles Foster is va
riOusly estimated at from 10, 900 to 40, 900.
The proper course to pursue is for the
friends of Mr.. Foster to work and vote to
make it 0,000.- Commercial.
If all the gentleman who are prospect
i've candidates for GubernatOrial hOnOrs
in Indiana should happen to remove from
| that State before the next census, it would
| have disastrous effect upon her repre-
sentation in congress.-CO Commercial.
Ewing has been slaughtered in the
! house of his friends. 1t was done at the
special session of Congress. When
Charles Fosters majority is telegraphed
| to General Ewing he can point to the rec
| ord of that body as one of the principal .
if not the chief cause of his defeat.-CODt-
| n.ercial.
Some of the newspapers are inclined to
| mourn because the California election
was not held before the extra session,
! claiming if it had been, that the Demo-
| Gratis could not have organized the House.
| They forget that if the election had taken
| nj a
State might now be Democrates instead of
! Republicans.-COD Commercial
Vast as has been the increase of domes-
tic exports during the past six months,
ending the 3Oth of June last, as compared
| with any like period in the history of the
country, it will look small when compared
with the exports for the six months end
| ing on the 31st of next December, and es-
pecially the exports of wheat, corn and
meats. The deficiencies in Europe must
be largely supplied from the surplus in
| America.-C0 Commercial.
Relative to the false claim set ND bv
General Rice and his friends as to his
authorship of the Arrears of Pensions
bill the United States Rec ord and Gazette
for September says: ''We have of late
received a numb Der of inquiries relative to
the authorship of the Arrears of fPensiOns
bill, and in Ohio especially there seems
co be a general desire among the soldiers
to know whether or not General Rice is
entitled to the credit of having introduced
and secured the passage of the present
law. General Rice did introduce in the
FOrty-tifth Congress Il bill to authorize
the payment of arrears of pensions, but
he is not the author of the bill that be-
came law. This bill was introduced by
Mr.. Cummins, of Iowa, but General Rice
voted for it, and. 1t is said, worked to Sc.
cure its passage"
There is a good deal of talk nowadays
about converting "sOyereign States into
| provinces" " and about the use of the hOr-
rid bayOnet at the polls, but the facts
show that there is no foundation for any
particular worry about the matter. The
people of the South do not appear to be
held in subsection by Federal bayonets.
The truth is that there are no Federal sol
ulefs In Delaware, Kentucky, Mississippi
missouri, Tennessee or West Virginia. In
the other Southern States there are a few
s0ldlers, as follows: In Alabama, 80
UDlted states soldiers in arsenal; in Ar
kansas, o. IN Florida, 1872 United States
soldiers in three separate barracks navy.
yards, ETC.; in Georgia, 80: in To1isians
239; in Maryland, 1872 at Fort McHenrv
in the Carolinas, 30 United States soldiers
at fort at mouth of Cape Fear River omar.
ding Charleston HaTbor; in Texas, moi
one outside of frontier guard; in Virginia
: 2S2 United States soldiers at school OF
l practice at Fortress Monroe. Total lI6G
total population 15,0O0,O 900. In the city
4 of Columbus there are few soldiers
e possibly two hundred-but no one imag.
! ines they will be used in any manner
shape or form towards controlling the
voters of this city, or interfering with the
, | right OF any man to cast q free ballot
Columbus Dispatch.