Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-16
PnnlrlnAL PARAGRAPHS.

Democrats 10 get up boom for Cen
cral Hancock is silly. He was not re-
markable as a soldier, and in other re-
spects is a decidedly mediocre man. -
Exchange.
IA" The Irish-Amerioans Of Porter
County, Indiana, are beginning to ask
themselves. in the language Of Emery
Storrs, "Why on earth do we belong TO
the Democratic partyPn To the number
of two hundred and fifty they have de-
termined to practice little thinking for
themselves, and in the future viii re-
fuse TO he guided in their action by the
Bourbon organ or the Bourbon bosses
of that county.
Rdy~The Indiana State Sentinel makes
the bold assertion that " knowledge is
power and then asks, "Does the
Democratic party know itselfp Does it
comprehend its missionP We can an
swer both of these conundrums. The
Democratic party does not know itself,
nor comprehend its mission. If it knew
itself it would disband, and If it COM
pretended its mission it would go out
and hang itself.-IndianaDolSS Journal.
RGy- The Democratic journals are
gradually working themselves down to
a support of the project TO steal seat
for lgnatius Donnelly. They have been
a long time about it, but many of them
are warmly enlisted in the disgraceful
work, and more are about TO Join in.
This is an excellent policy for the bene-
1it Of the Republican party. 1t will
put the Democracy upon the record as
solid in favor Of seat-snatching, and If
that won't make Republican votes moth
ing will.-M Y Tribune.
psB"The wiekednoss Of the Repub.'
4icans in Congress, who made "a par
tisan discussion Of tho Porter affair,
and would not let the patriotic majority
record theirvotes in favor of Fitz John,
continues TO distress a number Of able
editors. Never mind, you viii see
Democratic Congressman as savage as
sheep as soon rs the Presidential ques-
tiOn is out of the way. 1t was not so
much the effect of Logan and Carpen-
ter's arguments as il was a wholesome
fear of the people that made them
hesitate. ~ Chicago Inter- Ocean.
Bny@Brick Pomeroy's Democrat has
been sold to Alexander Vevius, who
will make it Republican newspaper,
says n floating paragraph Imagine the
N1NllAi9 VI tbllSleIHulipu dlu dlllhht-
ment OF the types of that paper--which
are said to silently speak-as they are
made TO retract the fiery and eXtrava-
giant oratory Of Bricks Greenback-
Democrat Socialist doctrine, and in its
place TO utter rational Republican COM
mon sense. The surprise to them will
be about rs great as that TO the types
of the Cincinnati Enquirer this summer
when they are made to laud the ghost
of GramercY Park. Cleveland Leader
BS5-One thing which is especially
good TO be said of the rivalry of Presi-
dental preferences Of the Republican
party in Iowa; It is entirely good-na-
tured. While nearly every Republican
and every Republican paper are ex-
pressing their choice before the Con-
vention, and expressing it decidedly,
there Is no bitterness accompanying It,
and nothing to prevent anyone from be-
ing for the nominee alone after the Con-
vention. This speaks well for the sue
cess OF the party and the good sense of
its members, There have been some
efforts to foment feeling and to engen-
der quarrels that would last over and
beyond the Convention, but the mar
plots so maneuvering have signally
failed, and have been forsome time sub
sided. -Des Moiles Register.
"a The reiterated assertion that In
diana Is a Democratic State has done
much 10 mislead and discourage Repub-
licans in their political calculations.
Indiana is not a Democratic State. The
Democracy have carried the State by a
majority only once since 1862, period
of eighteen years This was in 1870,
when they had a majority of 2,55S In
the last three elections they have car
ried the State by plurality, not a ma
iority. They owe their present control
of the State TO the existence of the Ma
tional party. and II that vote wore re-
solved into its original elements there is
every reason 10 believe the Republicans
would carry the State. At all events it
is maniiestly incorrect to say that In
diana is n Democratic State. whom they
have had a majority in only one cleo
tion since 1862. The fact that they
have achieved success in few elections
10y q small plurality does not mako the
State Democratic. - Indianapolis Jour
nal