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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04
REBEL RoLL-cALL TN THE
WHINE HOUSE.

In these days, of frantic rawlings
over the ensanguined garments as
the forlorn hope of salvation to the
Republican party, imagine our Re-
publican substitute for the Presiden-
cy as he steps out of the balcony of
the White House to call the roll of
his appointees from the old ranks of
rebel soldiers, bush-whackers and
guerillas.
U. Atty General-Genera Ack-
erman.
U. S. Post Master General-Gen.
Key.
u. S. Dist, Attorney, for Virginia
Gen. Hughes.
U. S. Dist, Atty for Mississippi
Col. Chandler.
U. S. Dist, Atty for S. Caroline
Col. Northrup.
q. S. Dist. Atty for Louisiana
Col. Hough.
U. S. Dist. Atty for N. Carolina
Gen. Rusk.
U. S. Judge in N. Carolina-Gen.
Settles.
u. S. Judge in Georgia-Col Bar.
renger.
u. S. Judge in Louisisna-Col.
Foreman.
u. S. Dist. Judge in Alabama
Gen. Herbert.
U. S. Revenue Col. for North Car
olina-Col. Young.
q. S. Revenue Col. for Missis-
sippi-Ctl. Henderson.
U. S. Revenue Col. for Virginia
9Th Dist.-Capt. J. H. Reeves.
U. S. Revenue Col. for Virginia
9th Dist.-Capt. H. c. Bailey,
U. S. Director of Mint at New Or
leans-ex-rebel Senator Foote.
U. S. sub Consul at Sicily-S. P.
Bailey, Jr., of Mosby's command.
U. S. Special Treasury Agent
Chapman, of Mosby's guerrillas.
U. S. Levee Commissioner for
Louisiana-Gen. Humphrey.
q. S. Wan Department-Majol
Griswold.
U. S. Surveyor of the Port of New
Orleans-Gen. Longstreet.
u. S Consul to China-General
Mosby.
U. S. Minister to Russia-General
Orr.
U. S. Inspector of tobacco-Majol
S. P. Bailey of Mosbys's command
assisted by his son Robert P. Bal.
ley,
q. S. Inspector of Customs, al
Fortress Monroe-another one .ot
Mosby's guerrillas-Major E. W,
Massey.
Want of space forbids following
on the list, but they comprise a large
share of the titled officials of the
c~onfederacy that were left unprovid,
ed for, by their friends at home,
among them are noticeable the
names of Longstreet who slaughter.
ed so many Union soldiers at Chick.
amagua and elsewhere.
Capt. Reeves of rebel artillery,
who is allowed to employ 27 Of his
old comrades as subbordinates.
Many of these appointmentsswe Were
made from the worst class of rebels.
among which we find Gen. Key, as
also Gen. Mosby.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04

1t is amusing to notice the deep
indignation manifested by Republf-
can newspapers, at what they
thought was going to be- little Dem
ocratic Returning Board business in
Maine! How glibily they yelled
"fraud," "villainy," political iniqui-
ty," &C., ove it, every one of which
approved, applauded and chuckeled
owe the Louisiana Returning Board
fraud. What a set of hypoerits these
Republican journalists show them
selves to be?
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04
A pREsInENT FoR LTFE.

The Duke of Argyll has an opin-
ion, and he expresses it. On the
deck of a steamer about departing
from New York he said, among
other things:
"For myself, I do. not think that
the people of the United States can
possibly do better than to replace
General Grant in the White House,
and to keep him there by successive
elections, if need be for the remain
ing term of his life. I have taken
pains during my visit here to read a
good many OF. your journals, and l
think / have discovered evidences of
a strong wish that General Grant
should again become the chief exc
cutive magistrate of the Republic"
Certainly; and the Duke of Argyll
might have noticed in a good many
Republican journals evidences of a
strong wish to have the government
of the United States get carer and
nearer, if not in form, in spirit to
the English government. They may
differ Is to the person who shall be
the leader to materialize their wish,
whether it be Grant or some one
else, but the tendency of their
thoughts, inclinations and aspira
tions is toward a stronger, iron-hand-
ed national government, with a Pres
ident continued for life, and with
the States reduced to provinces, and
governed as such from Washington.
The nation even if spelled with a
big N, is not expressive enough Of
the a%ristocratic grandeur they desire
the name the government should
bear. The imperial republic suits
better, and is what they suggest
The imperial republic, with States
holding the same relation to it thai
counties now bear to States. and {
President for life, would fill the bill
of these Monarchists at heart. AT
ter that much was well established
titles of nobility would follow, ant
the imperial republic could thel
boast of its Dukes, and Marquises
and Earls, and other titles of nobili
ty. We say the Duke of Argyl
might have learned all about thi
tendency of a portion of the Amer
lean people, represented bysscer
tain Republican Journals, ;andeper
haps did discover it, but he content
!, ed himself with telling very littl
, about it. He has given enough, how
ever, to put patriots and lovers Q
liberty on their guard, and to war
them against the a~scendency of
party that has within itself such
strong tendency toward imperialism
even an imperial republic.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04


The Columbus Democrat says that
if Grant cannot be the Father of his
Country, he thinks that at least he
ought to be its uncle. To secure
this result he desires all parties to
waive their preferences and elect him
by reclamation, So says his late
Quartermaster General ingalls,. The
best service the country could do
Grant would be to forget that he
ever was President. AS a military
chieftain he won the plaudits and
grateful remembrance of his couh-
trymen. AS President, he was con-
nected with an administration that
is a stigma upon our civil history.
For corruption, profigacy, incapaci-
ty and violation of law, it never had
a parallel in American history. In
stead of making Grant President
again, it were better to forget that
he ever was President, and remem-
Der only his military deeds. The
Grant "boom" has broken out in the
South, and it is strongly limited that
some of those naughty confederate
brigadiers are helping it along.
Grants itching for the place is suf-
fciently powerful to enable him to
accept it from jeff Davis, if j. d.
could be appointed a committee of
one to present it to him.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04
They Want a Solid South.
From the Cincinnati Times, (Rep

from the Cincinnati Times, [Rep.)
It's rather rough on those Louis
lana Republicans that their North
ern brethren turn the cold shoulder
to all their appeals for aid. The re-
quest isn't for money, but for speech
es, and not a Northern Republican
has stepped forward to respond. 1t
is hard to suspect that these North
ern gentlemen are anxious to see
the Democrats carry the State, so
they can raise the. cry of a solid
South, but that is just the suspicion
that find voice in some quarters
And these gentlemen who are so
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04

The "Christian Statesman" goes
for Gen. GRANT for.his disregard of
the Sabbath, in travelling on that
day and making it point to leave
San Francisco on Sabbath morning.
He is a "strong man." and if he gets
the Republican nomination for Pres
ident, the good Christian Republi-
cans will vote for him all the same.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04
Rebel C~usssdness.
Butler Co. Democrat.

/. Two confederate military COM
panies constituted part of the pro-
session that passed through the
streets of Washington on the day
when the statue OF General Thomas
was unveiled. Why don't the Tele-
graph set up a howl, and publish
the fact to the world as another evil
dence of Southern "cussedness" and
rebel lawlessness?
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04

Why don't Secretary SHERMAN
rush down into Mississippi and as
sist Eliza Pinkston in her difficult
ties? 1t was her startling story OF
a murdered husband, duplicating re-
putable mel for political purposes,
that gave him the material as q
visiting statesman" to help fasten
a Fraudulent President upon the
country. One good turn deserves
another, and Mr.. SHERMAN should
not forget Eliza's friendless condi-
ton.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04
Bill Gibson.
Newark Advocate.

1t is a splendid commentary upon
the real character of the Republican
party-the party of "high moral
ideas"-that Bill Gibson, who was
indicted, tried and found guilty of
~embezzling public money while State
Treasurer, and who only escaped
his merited punishment by illegal
technicality, is to "sit upon the right
hand' of Charley Foster, as Adju.
tant General.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04

If the "solid South" should agree
to take GRANT as their candidate for
the Presidency, and the Democracy
of the north would "accept the stu,
a%tion," and JEFF DAVIS should es-
pouse the cause of the Republicans
and support their SHERMAN OF
BLAINE, then GRANT would be de,
nounced as a traitor to his country
and JEFF DAVIS lauded as sloil.'
That is exactly the way it works
with the sweet-seented, "all the hon
esty," "God and morality" party,
that has been %plundering the people
in every shape for twenty years, in
the 'name of the Union"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04

1t is a gratifying fact for Demo
Gratis to know that those Republican
papers which were SO swift in de-
nouncing the result of the late cleo
ton in Virginia as an evidence of
the debt-dodging policy of the Dem
ocrats r now waking up to the fact
that the Republicans were chiefly
responsible for that result. The
Republican organs have been look
ing over the field and are surprised
to discover that of the white Repub-
licans seventy per cent. voted with
the Regulators. and of the colored
Republicans at least eighty per cent.
voted that way. This estimate puts
three fourths of the Virginia Repub-
licans on the side of reputation.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04

The Cincinnati Enquirer boasts
that it islands close to the throne
of the Presidential Fraud, land is
really the organ of the Prcsidentr!"
It looks like it, when it publishes his
Secretary's report and his Message
before they are read to Congress.
The Democracy of Ohio might as
we'll be looking around for another
aorgan'' with different music.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04
You Bet it Would.
wooster Democrat.

1t was the Republican carpet bag
and scalawag rule in the South that
made the South "solid" against the
Republican party. Had Republican
rule been benefcent in the South
the Republican party could have
held its sway there. Were the Re-
publican party to administer Gov
eminent in the Northern States
where they hold supremacy after
the Southern carpet-bag and scala
wag style, it would not be long be-
fore those States would be convert
ed to fast adherants of the Democrat
ic party.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04

When MI. HAYES reflects how he
got into the Presidency, he oughn't
to complain at the small theft of en-
terprising journals, stealing his pub
lie documents and giving them to
the public q few. days before they
are ripe. Oh, pity the morals of the
country under Republican rule!
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04
CLOSE OF THE L U

With this issue the EIGHTH year
of our second connection with the
closes, and as we glance
back over the past years of our edi-
torial career, and think of the life
less condition Of the paper and of
fee when we entered to assume con-
trol-the adversities we struggled
and fought against to keep it on its
feet-and cur final and triumphant
success, far beyond anything we n
ticipated, we find much for which to
be thankful The estimate that is
placed upon a newspaper by the
public is the truest judgment upon
its character. In SO far as it re-
spends to the public want, in that
degree will it reach public favor. It
is Judged for itself alone, not for
what it has been or for its future
possibilities is it taken into the es-
TEEN of the people, but each succeed
ing issue as it appears adds to or
detracts from public favor. If a
journal is conducted so as to contin-
ually add to its friendships, even
though the additions may come
slowly, that paper must be regarded
as successful in its sphere. By this
standard we can, without egotism,
put the DEMOCRAT in the catalogue
of successful journals. Our interests
dictate that we keep it in that list,
and beyond this we have no indica-
tion of promises in its future con-
duct to make, 1t has many warm
friends in and out of the County. II
has also managed to stir up some
very warm enemies. For the many
kindnesses of the former we fee
grateful; to the bitterness of the lat.
ter Indifferent. Among its class o.
friends there are strong arms that
would not hesitate to strike in oul
behalf and stalwart forms upon
which we lean with confidence, and
this fact it is that keeps our SUI
bright and warm.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04

Vice President HENDRICKS says
he will do his level best to carry In
diana for the Democratic nominees
for President. There is no uncer-
tainty about his position on that
question. He is a statesman every
inch of him.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04

The Springfield, Ohio, ministers
are against funerals on the Sabbath,
and request people to die so their
funerals cannot be stretched to the
Sabbath! If it was customary to
pass around the collection box upon
such occasions, Sabbath funerals and
parades would be popular with them.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04
For Republican Editors.
New York America.

New York America.
The worst feature of our boosted
liberty of the press always makes
itself prominent at election times.
Electioneering ISLANDERS form too
frequently the stock in trade of the
partisan editor. 1t were well if q
little wholesome libel law could be
administered in this country as well
as in England.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04

DIR. D.. A. Morse, Superintendent
of the Dayton Asylum for the Insane
has completed his report for the past
year, which shows that the total cur
rent expenses were $82,167.55,
against $4,000 for 1878, a reduction
of $4,832,45 for the last year.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04

The late Zach Chandler told a
friend in Washington last winter the
election of Hayes cost him $4,000,
and showed a check book with the
stubs, upon which the items were
accounted, to show the truth of his
statement.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04
Drawing it Mild.
Eaton Rau;star

Thomas Ambrose, ex-Clerk of the
q. S. Court of the Southern district
,ofOhio, ifreports be true, has shame
fully conducted himself and taken
advantage of the government and
the parties who had business in his
Court.
Mr.. Ambrose wasn't an tex
Clerk that anybody knows of. He
was the boss Clerk of the business.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04

The combined vote of Robinson
and Kelley for Governor in New
York was 466, 2O2; the vote for Cor
nell, Republican, was 41S,179. This
places the Democratic majority OF
votes over that of the Republicans
at 3S,023.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04

The Message of Mr.. HAYES is on
our first page, if any of Jul realers
have a desire to- peruse it. There is
nothing very startling in it, that is
certain, and we leave each one to
draw their own conclusions as to its
merits.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04

BARTON S. JAMES, Esq, Clerk of
Butler county Courts, was stricken
with paralysis on Monday night last,
and died in a few hours afterwards.
He vas a splendid, genial and com
panionable man, loved. by all his
friends.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04

The Columbus Democrat has pros
pered so lively that a receiver had
to be appointed to take in the cash
So far we have been competent to
handle all that our friends rush upon
us, but don't know Whist a day NAV
bring forth under these "good Re-
publican tines"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04

And now comes the claim that
JOHN SHERMAN is holding the office
of Secretaryship in violation of law.
Ofcourse he is. If nothing else was
against him than the truth that he
was appointed by a fraud, that would
be sufficient to make him ineligible.
But let Congress look into it.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04

Adventists declare that the world
will come to an end in March 1881.
Well, if the Republicans elect GRANT
or steal him into the Presidency, or
any other man, we are ready for the
change, and it won't come any too
soon for the good of this country.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04
Southern Sentiment,
Monroe cTen.l Democrat.

A few newspaper correspondents
arc giving it out that Grant is the
choice of Southern Democrats. We
don't believe anything of the kind.
No Democrat will ever endorse q
man whose two administrations were
distinguished for rotten rascality
above everything else.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04

Gov. Bishop has issued an order
disbanding a number of MALTA COM
panies, among them the Kinney
Guards of Portsmouth, and the Pear
son Light Guards and Colman
Guards, of Troy; and Col. Entrekin
is charged with the PRONUNCIATION
and execution of the order.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04

ALLEN G. THURMAN and CLARK
SON N. POTTER, of New York, is our
choice of a ticket for 1880. 1t would
win by a large majority, and no Re
turning Board r~ascality would cheat
them ont of their places.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04

sfirewd as to the effect on the North
Of a solid South seem not to perceive
that they are helping along Grants
candidacy most powerfully. Alice
samee, they are.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04

The Prospectus of the New York
Sun for 1880 will be found in anoth-
column. 1t is one of the ablest edi-
ted papers in the country besides
being the cheapest.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04

Over one hundred thousand sheep
were killed last year in Ohio by dogs,
being an increase of fifty per cent.
over the number killed the preced-
ing year. Ohio dogs seem to be
fond of mutton.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04

There is not a particle of doubt in
our mind but that the Democrats
will elect their President in 1880,
unless they commit some outrageous
blunder during the session of Con-
gress.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04

There hasn't been a political
murder. in the South since a few
weeks before the October election.
About next summer they will occur
frequently.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04

If Leadville was only located in
South Carolina or Mississippi, what
a political bonanza it would be for
the Republican party? Murders are
the order of the day there now.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04

The Carlisle PA. Sentinel come
to us this week much improved in
general appearances. 1t is one of
the best rooral papers published in
the "Old keystone"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04

If it wasn't for the black fraud
that darkens Mr.. HAYES title to the
Presidency, he might have been a
credit to the country in that posi-
ton.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04
JUST OPENED /!

HAVING decided to return to Ea-
u ton, my native place, after an abb
n of fifteen years, to make it my
future home, 1 have opened WATCH,
CLOCK and JEWELRY STORE In
Stephens building, on Main street,
where l intend keeping a full assort-
ment of the latest make and styles of
the hest
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04

Talk about tissue ballots in the
South! They are discounted by the
"greased ballots of the Republicans
of Buffalo, N. Y. The surface of
their tickets was 10 creased or glaz-
ed that they could not be scratch
ed" nor would pastors stick or
them. Every year the Republicans
get up some new swindle to keep
their weakened fellows from boiling.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04

There is some hope for this nation
even spelled with a big N, when
Michigan furnishes a man who re-
fuses a United States Senatorship
when passed to him.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04

That southern outrage" commit
ted by ELIZA PINKsroN, has not re
ceived the attention it deserves from
the Republican journals. What is
the matter?
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04

Gen. JEFF C. DAYS. died in Chi
cngo on Sunday afternoon last of
pneumonia.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04
Clocks & JeWe|Iy


and all other articles in this line of
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receive a liberal trade from my old
friends and new acquaintances.
Repairing made a Speciality.
All Watches, Clocks and Jewelry re-
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My charges will be reasonable and sat
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Eaton, March 81, 1879-tf
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04

It is the opinion of Gen. EWING
that GRANT will get the Republican
nomination for the Presidency. We
hope so.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04

1t does not appear that the Cover
nor and council of Maine ever had
any intention of throwing out re-
turns of the late election and count
ing in the Democratic candidates.
The only intimation that any such
thing was intended came from the
Republicans whose guilty conscience
troubled them.
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Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.l :
f. t!tpl l..sal LONDON, December "a, 1878.
The Buliionist IA financial iournaD Of SIt-
urday last published In eItens0 the speech
OF the Right Hon. Edward Pleydell BouYe-
RE before the Convention Of Virginia Bond
holders.
A London banker, who is not committed
to any Of the schemes proposed for the set
Element of the State debt, told me to-day
that be thought the plan Of the Council Of
Foreign Bondholders was the most feasible:
Private adYices from Virginia agree In
the statement that public sentiment is de-
cidedly favorable to a just and equitable
settlement. This is, hope, the true aspect
OF affairs. IL ,,.a g.s.-.err
Whenever there was a fog while I was in
America somebody would say to me, "Don't
this remind you OF England" Now things
are reversed. The hard frosts and deep
SHOWS Of the past week have reminded me
OF the winters in Canada and the northern
States. This is an ssold-fashioned winter y
with u vengeance. The thermometer in
some places has been down below zero.
while railroad trains have been buried in
snow. 1t took FIVE powerful locomotives to
drag the mail trains in Scotland yesterday.
The London parks present gay and AMI.
mated appearance, with crowds OF skaters
on the ornamental lakes. d. 2@t.sst ~ y j
There Is much complaint about bad trade,
bot trade never was so brisk among the
sbepkeepers OF the metropolis. Ii you 20
into q STORE the chances are that you may
have to wait three quarters OF an hour be.
fore sou get served. ST. ANDREW. J,