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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

The Republicans of Rhode Island
found themselves in a minority in
the gubernatorial election. Their
candidate received 1904 votes, the
democratic candidate received 6,921,
and the prohibition candidate 5,O06.
Result, no election by the people. If
some 1000 or 5000 citizens of Rhode
Island were not disfranchized by the
real estate qualification the little
state would be democratic.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

.4=lIr n E"F...... IE2-EaH
The section of the army bill, re-
lating to troops at the polls, as it
passed the House, is as follows:
That no money appropriated in
this act is appropriated or shall be
paid for subsistence, equipment,
transportation, or compensation of
any portion of the army of the Uni
ted States to be used as a police force
to keep peace at the polls at any
election held within any State; pro
yided, that nothing in this provision
shall be construed to prevent the use
OF troops to protect against.domestic
violence in each of the States OF ap-
plication by the Legislature thereof,
or the executive whenever the Legis-
lature cannot be convened.
The vote was strictly q party one
lis yeas and 50 nays. Last June
this same amendment passed by 172
to 31-cnly II republicans voting
against it, and II in it's favor. A
more complete somersault has been
rarely in Congress, than the Repub
lican party has accomplished on
this simple prohibition of military
interference at elections. One pre-
tense is they are opposed to legisla-
ton on appropriation bills, but Gen
eral EWING exposed the sham of
this, by showing that in the twelve
years the Republicans held power in
Congress they had passed, on ap-
preparation bills, sS7 political riders
of one kind or another.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

Mr.. GEo. C. GoRHAM, a rampant
Grant man, says hatnobody's name
but Grants will be heard at the Chi
cago convention. What is to be dope
with the Blaine and Sherman men?
Are they to be muzzled like dogs in
hot weather?
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

Over half a million of republicans
are claimed by certain over confident
Blaine and Sherman organs to be en-
thusiastic opponents to the third
term. The sincerity of the profess
sions of this alleged half million will
soon be put to the test at the polls.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22
TI1DEN AND BISHOP BOOM.
Humboldt (Tenn.9 Argus.

Humboldt (Tenn.9 Argus.
We don't see how Democrats who
supported Tilden in 1876 can oppose
him now All shy he vas defrauded
out of the Presidency that he had
nothing to do with the fraud, and to
set aside the man defrauded, is non
sense. If you want to do justice to
your standard-bearer, nominate him,
and with Bishop, of Ohio behind him,
the old gentleman will make the can
.yass lively.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

The adoption CT the proposed
amendments to the Constitution of
Indiana, at the election on the 9TH,
takes that State out of the pivotal
October States in Presidential con-
tests. Under the new fundamental
law, the State elections in Indiana
will hereafter be held on the day of
the Presidential election, and the
desperate October battles to win the
November battles are at an end.
Pennsylvania retired from the Oeto-
Der conflicts in 1874; Iowa followed
in 1878, and now Indiana has joined
them, leaving Ohio the only really
debatable State in October. Vermont
and Maine yet retain their Septem-
Der elections, at which they must
make exhaustive contests, not to
elect their State tickets, but to in
spire the party in the doubtful
States, and Rhode Island insists up
on electing her State officers inApril.
1t will be well for the States in
which these battles for needless ma
jorities must be made and well for
the country when all the States unite
on a uniform day for the election of
President and State officers. Under
the present system tens of thousands
of dollars must be expended in
Maine, Vermont and Ohio in Presi-
dental years, and all the desperate
appliances of desperate politicians
must be employed to gain victories
on the outposts as an inspiration to
the party in the coming general trial
of strength and the sooner such con
ficts are abandoned, the sooner will
our national elections be trusted as
the honest reflection of the popular
will.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22
Carson (Nevada) Appeal.

Ia The unterrifed Democrats in this
section believe that the ticket nomi.
mated at Cincinnati next Junew will
be Tilden and Bishop. Bishop, it
will be remembered, is the bounding
Ohio boy who carried the State Of
Ohio by $4,000 majority in 1877.
Tilden and Bishop, it must be adj
mitted, are strong pair to draw to.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

The Supreme Court of the United
States has made the very important
decision, that if a bank receives
special deposits Of bonds or other
valuable property for safe keeping:
it is responsible for the loss of such
bonds or property, whether it re-
ceives compensation or not.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

A terrible tornado almost destroy
ed the town of Marshfield, Mo-, on
Sunday night last. Seventy persons
were killed and over one hundred
injured. 1t was the most fearful and
destructive cyclone ever known in
the country.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22
Thus prates the New York Trt-

Thus prates the New York Tr5-
bune: "The opposition to a third term
makes no war upon Grant or upon
his presidential record. 1t simply
claims that his nomination might in
volve a risk of defeat, and that the
nomination of no other candidate
would. This isn't factiousness; it is
common sense" This is not cam
mon sense either. 1t is ~prevarica-
ton. The other Blaine and Sherman
organs will be somewhat surprised to
learn that they have made no war
upon Grant or his record. The TrS-
6une is endeavoring to season its
prospective dish of crow.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22
mi NEW 0

Some of the leading Democratic
politicians of New York State, who
united with ohm Kelly last fall in de-
feating Governor Robinson, have
formed themselves into an associa-
ton known as the Democratic Union
of New York. AT their last meeting
they passed q series of resolutions of
which the following is a sample:
"Resolved, That it is the object
and purpose of this Democratic
Union to arrest the progress of the
nation toward Capitalization in viola
ton of the fundamental law, and to
restore sound constitutional govern
ment by an honest and capable Dem
ocratic administration, and to the
National Convention for President
and Vice President as are herein
suggested. And when the Conven
tion shall have nominated candidates
it will be the duty of this Union to
aid and advance their election and
Inauguration by all means within its
power"
mong the members of this newly
organized society r such men as
Governor Dorsheimer, Judge Spen
Ger, David Dudley Field, Augustus
Belmont, Erastus Brooks, John E.
Devlin, Luke F.. Cozans and others
of equal prominence whose names
had much to do with making the Kel
" bolt of last year respectable. That
these representative Democrats
should follow John Kelly in boiling
the Cincinnati nomination in the
event of it being Mr.. Tilden is sim.
1 NV q s~fran0a fraoE of tho founv
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

Gen. BEN LEFEvRE is one of the
most popular, attentive and hard
working Congressman ever sent from
Ohio. The people of the Fifth Dis
trict will do well to return him for
another term.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

Whatever may be thought of the
color line in politics there a be no
question as to the ~propriety o fdraw-
ing it closely in the a of engi-
neers and other railroad employees
whose ability to distinguish green
from red involves the safety of thou
sands of lives.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

There is no other political prospect
that discourages the republicans half
SO much as the Increasing indicaz
tions that TILDEN viii be nominated
for the Presidency by the democrats.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

There seems tc be but one candi-
date for Congress Undertaking in
this District, and that is JOHN A. Nc
MAHoN. ItIooks now as if MAC would
have to stand the racket again. He
can do it gracefully.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

A reliable historian will soon be
needed to write up the rise, decline
and fall of the American empire.
The range of this subject will be en-
braced in one year-1SS0.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22
TalIahasee lFla.l Patriot.

We notice by our exchanges that
Uncle Sam Tilden, of New York, and
Uncle Dick Bishop, the great Buck
eye racer, are considered away ahead
of all competitors in. the national
steeple- chase FOR the White Houee.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

The idiotic editor of the Okolona
States has replied to -. p. C's."
trashy bombast on States Rights.
For regular idiotisr, twaddle, bald
erdash, trashy 'hog wash" it is hard
to decide which of the two excel.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

During the three months session
of the Ohio Legislature Lieutenant
Governor H~ickenlooper occupied his
position as President of the Senate
only one day. For this service he
will receive $500.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

The Richmond State thinks the
election news from the West ought
to settle the location of the Demo
cratic candidate for President. 1t
thinks the two most available men
are Bayard and Seymour.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

Hon.. II. MADE, of Cuyohoga
County, will be presented to the
Democratic State Convention rs a
candidate for Delegate at large to
the National Convention. Mr.. Wade
is a sterling Democrat of high stand
ing, an | would be of benefit to the
Democracy of thcState in his region.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

If Sherman will not be permitted
to benefit the country by an admin
istration of its affairs from the pres
idential chair, he win at least have
enriched our literature by a number
of his biographies.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22
Leavenworth (Kan.) Appeal

=" ~ IouFOHNFOl9 NIAHu'J HPFouI.
There is still hope for the land,
and bright hope for the Democratic
party. With Tilden, of New York,
and Bishop, of Ohio, we can and will
wrest the National Government from
the corrupt and fraudulent party
who now prostitute it for their own
agrandizement.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

The "put up job of the colored
cadet will furnish some campaign
points for the Republican party.
The southern courage mill' won't
grind any more.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

Hon. E. B. Eshelman, Of the
Wayne County Democrat, is men
toned as a candidate for Secretary
of State. Here is our ER on that
ticket.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

TIE temperance advocates have
gone into summer quarters, since the
Republican Legislature sat down on
Local Option.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

This District cannot do better
than return JOHN A. McMAHoN as
its Congressional Representative. II
ought to be done unanimously SO he
dare not decline.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

The death of a Congressman on
duty is an expensive luxury to the
people of this country. They should
try to reach home and die surround
ed By their mourning friends.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

The owner of the Gettysburg bat
tle-field has filed a claim before the
Congressional committee for the rent
of the ground while the battle was
being fought. Cheeky, that.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

The Republican party has placed
itself upon record in favor of troops
at the polls. 1t wants to repeat the
infamy of 1876 again-of installing
a fraud in the White House.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

If SAMUEL J.TTLDEN is nominated
for the Presidency, Uncle Dick BrsH-
oP will adorn the second place on
the ticket. That seems to be a fore
gone conclusion.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22
F1emingsburg lKen3 Democrat.

FlemlnSsDurg Ahen.9 democrat
The executive ofthe United States
should be in the hands of a fearless,
incompatible statesman, and an hon
est and conscientious business man.
Uncle Sam Tilden, Of New York,
and Dick Bishop, of Ohio, fill this
bill.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

Gov. FOSTER has appointed the
following gentlemen as Trustees of
the Dayton Asylum for the Insane:
DR.. S. A. Baxter, of Lima, for three
years; Dr.. C. NJ. Godfrey, ofPutnam,
for one year; Jacob Chambers, of
Preble county, for two years; John
D. Kemp, of Montgomery county,
for four years; and Jos. Clegg, OF
Montgomery, for five years.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

Newspaper correspondents fail to
keep Mr.. TILDEN sdead'' or to get
him out of the Presidential race.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

We haven't noticed lately among
our Republican exchanges anything
about the O'Connor Legislature. 1t
has been aO'Connorized."
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

The Troy Imperial is the name of
a new and very spicy little sheet, just
started at Troy, Ohio, by Capt. A.
Kaga and E. j. Scott. In tone it is
democratic, and we wish it lots of
success. Z
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

The "thirty days reform Legisla-
ture have let go after overa hundred
days of "dead- beating the people
of Ohio.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

Hon. ALEX. H. STEPHENS has our
thanks for a copy of the report of the
Committee on coinage, weights and
measures.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

The crime of rape should be hang
ing by the neck until dead. If that
don't stop it, nothing will.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22
Cuire (Texas5 Rec.

OF all the booms for President and
Vice President, Tilden and Bishop
seem to be the most earnest and ir-
refragable. t'
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

The ghost of Mrs. Surratt will
dwarf the Hancock boom.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

Republicans speak gently now
about the O'Connor Legislature.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

The late cold snap has chilled the
Groesbeck Presidential "boom."
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

JEwErr,s boom is increasing.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

April %, 1880.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

L, G. GOULD, Editcr.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22

Forest fires are raging all over the
country.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-07-17

the country. When one looks at his poke
book and only discovers in it IS cts, no wonder
he feels like turning communist.
| When the Joliet fishermen get hungry, the Re
publican says, they take a steamer and go down
to the Kankakee feeder. What does he feed
them on?
| Prof. Tice is accredited with saying that a hot
current Of air will pass over this country in july
and August the like Of which has not been
known for three hundred years.-EL
We shall have our last winter overcoat brought
out and repaired Immediately
would not cause shade Of pain
To ovcrspread that face so fair;
All no. dear girl, nor would degn
To add a mite unto your care.
| would rot have that lovely hue
OF features clouded by a frown,
But duty bids me say to you,
Your back hairs all a.comng down.
Olive Logan is back from Europe. Olive Is the
person whom King Alfonso hired to write an ac-
count of his wedding for American papers. Olive
and Lucy Hooper have, to judge from their let
tiers, been running the various European courts
for the last year or so.
In johnson county, Texas, man has been
sentenced to two years IN prison for having two
wives, ore Of which does not belong to him, and
another man has been sentenced to five years for
having only one horse which does not belong to
him.
We have heard so much talk about this self
raising flour that We bought barrel Of it the
other day, and yet, when the bill came in We had
to 20 and raise the amount ourself There are
all kinds of swindes now -a-days -Peck's Sun.
There is one peculiarly about the trout that
cannot understand, says Reformed Lecturer,
and that is, that iiyepound trout, caught in a
New England trout brook, is about the size and
weight of n two pound sucker in an Illinois
creek. | suppose, however, 1t is owing to the
superior fineness and flavor of the trout WOrld.
All! that is better. The Woodford Sentinel says:
The number Of letters in the names of Hancock
and Garfield, respectively, has been noted as
painfully suggesting the ''S by {" commission in
favor of Garfield: but the material has not al
been used For instance:
HAN COCK-1
NGLISH-1
GAR E D--S
AR II Re
Anybody knows that two rs will beat an and
a g.
Trousers under the skirt" remarks fashion
paper, "are universally worn by equestriennes."
Well, yes; we should think that was the proper
place to wear them. An equestrienne with
trousers outside the skirt would be spectacle
sufficiently startling to attract considerable hu.
man attention, if indeed il would not scare the
horse. And, then, to consider the amount Of in.
genuity required to get both l-gs Of them over
the same skirt.-Ahantic Honthy.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-07-17
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON, ID. c., July 10, 1880

WASHINGTON, ID. c., July 10, 1880.
1t Is conceded in political circles here that
the Democrats have much the strongest and
have been placed on the defensive from the
first. They have been trying to explain away
the De Golyer and Credit Mobller business
to disprove the verdicts of their own invest.
eating committees, and to rccant their own
damning editorials of only eight years ago
But the Democrats have not yet given promi-
nence TO their strongest accusation. The Cred
it Mobiller and De Golyer matters can be eX.
planned On the hypothesis of innocence only
by the stultifylng admissionthat elr"great IN.
Itellectual, brainy candidate" is a slmpleton.
But, great as the crime of public pecuation
may be- it is dwaried by his participation in
the crime Of the century, the crime of crimes,
the counting out of the lawfully elected Presi.
vent of the United States. James A. Garfield
was one of the conspirators who went to New
Orleans, who conspired with the Louisiana
Returning Board, and afterwards voted to
make their conspiracy successful, when he was
a member of the electoral commission. -Four
years ago the Nation stood aghast before this
crime against RepubicanIsm and the rights
of man, and hundreds of thousands of men
swore that, at the time of the next piebescitum
this CRIME should be branded; that its perpe-
traitors, abettors, condoners and beneficiaries
should feel the deep loathlng of an injured
people, of nations Insulted majesty.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-07-17
Rural Happenings.
SHERIDAN.

SHERIDAN, July 12.-The fourth, which
came on the 9Th at Sheridan, was grand sue
cess so far as numbers were concerned; over
two thousand people helping to revive the
halowed memories Of seventy-six Mr.. D.
Robinson, landlord of the Sheridan House
entertained over two hundred guests; and VI
j. kinchobocker, our popular restaurant man
took in about $3.50 for his days work.
Sheridan can well be claimed as temper.
ance town, as but one drunken man was seen
on the streets on Monday, and he came on the
evening tram from parts unknown.
Politics are dead. Never since the corner
stone of Sheridan was laid was there so little
excitement over political questions as at the
present time Mr. s. Morahan of Harding,
was in town on Thursday, and said that three
strong republicans IN Harding had thrown up
the Garfield sponge and declared they would
vote for Hancock and English. A. V. Viii t
ney editor of the Ne,Cs Letter, still tries to in
fuse some zeal into his patrons, but it is like
blowing wind INTO skeleton-life and energy
they cannot find. NERO.
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