The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-11-20
THE DEMOCRATIC PRESS.
sAxUEL d. HARRIS EDITOR AND pusLrsHrn.
THURSDAY. NOV. 20. 1879,

RAvENNA, THURSDAY. NOV. go. 1879,
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In adUance.
Now that the elections are over the
Radical outrage mills have ceased to
grind out their accustomed grists.
They call it Grants boom. and ats
all right" only slight mistake in the
orthograpby. 1t should be spelled
bum.
The Radicals of Louisiana have nom
mated rebel brigadier' for Govern
or, and now let them keep up their
howl about Confederate Generals
In the Summit county Court of
Common Pleas on Monday, Mandella
Bair recovered q verdict of S., 900 dam
ages against Simon Slayer, for breach
of promise. <
The paramount question in Demo-
cratic circles, says an exchange, will
be: tsKho as the Democratic nomi.
nees for President and Vice-President,
can carry New York and Indiana next
year?" That question settled and the
Jig is up.
The Cleveland papers announce
that the wife of Hon. r. F. Paine has
united as leading lady with careful
ly selected dramatic company under
the management of Mark Millinger Of
Cincinnati. She was announced to
make her debut at Lancaster on Mon
day night.
In 1867 the people of Ohio voted
down by fifty thousand majority, an
amendment to the Constitution of the
State to allow the coIored men to vote
yet in Cincinnati, on the 14th ult.,
colored man was elected to the Ohio
Legislature. Things amt now as they
used to be. i -
John Kelley received $4,000 votes
for Governor in the recent election in
New York. These were cast by Dem.
ocrats and caused the defeat of Robin
son. Added to the regular Democratic
vote and the Empire State is Demo-
cratic by nearly forty thousand ma
jority,
Hardin County has been awarded
the banner offered by the ladies of
Columbus for the largest increased
Democratic vote at the October elec.
tion oyer the vote cast for Tildeu In
1876. The increase was $40. 1t is ex-
pected the banner will be publicly
presented on the Eighth of January,
1880. by the committee at Kenton.
ELEVEN TO ONE.-The Republicans
Of Virginia elected eleven colored
men to the Legislature of that State
while their brethren of Ohio only
elected one. But the fact of the cleo
tion of eleven African-Americans in
Old slave-holding Virginia as repre-.
sentatives is strange commentary
upon the Radical howlings about bull
doing and intimidation.
The Republicans are loud in their
boastings over q reduction of the pub
Lie debt sIO,352,9O6 during October,
yet they fail to say anything about the
and economy by Dem
ocratic Congress which rendered such
. thing possible. Had the Republicans
had the full sway and kept up their
peculation and plunder such re-
dnstion would have been impossihla
BANKs of this country have sus-
pended specie payment ten times; as
follows: eighteen hundred and nine,
eighteen hundred and fourteen, eight
cen hundred and nineteen, eighteen
hundred and twenty-five, eighteen
hundred and thirty.four, eighteen
hundred and thirty-seven, eighteen
hundred and thirty-nine eighteen
and forty.one, eighteen hum
dred and fifty-seven, eighteen hun.
dred and sixty-one. Each one of these
brought bankruptcy to |
of business men, and sus-
pension more or less general of pro-
and consequent suffering on
the part of the masses of the people.
The Republicans of Maine are great