Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-07
POLITICAL PARAGRAPHS.


n5FAmong the witnesses before the
Voorhees, Exodus Committee, the other
day, was an ancient colOred man from
Natchitoches, La, who said he was a
Republican, but voted the Democratic
ticket because he considered it safer TO
do so.
alTy~Oh, Mars Bob, amt dat Kansas
de place de big squabble was afore de
wah, bout you white folks takin' de
iiggers to2 Wall den, eff it was good
for slave niggers, how comes IL to be
bad for free onesP-AHeged Oration of a
c0l0red brother
ny The Democratic party stands in
the relation TO Samuel j. Tilden that a
Michigan undertaken once stood to a
supposed corpse. Being summoned by
friends to take the necessary measure
ments for a coffin, he repaired to the
house and was astonished to find the
'corpse' lively enough TO sit in an easy
chair and receive visitors.
BeS~ General Joe Lane, who was odor-
ously conspicuous in Kansas as a pro-
slavery Democrat during the exciting
Kansas-Nebraska controversy of nearly
n quarter of a century ago, and who
AANo uNtA "a AEeANAEAb VI OIGEOA ApI Nllt
past eighteen years, still pops up in
politics occasionally. just now he is
Democratic candidate for the Oregon
State Senate.
Bsy" The Democrats in Indiana have
been bowling for years about Repub-
lican election frauds, importation of
voters ETC., but when a Constitutional
amendment is proposed to bar all such
business, the whole party machinery is
brought to bear to defeat it, and the
party lash is applied unsparingly tomake
Democrats vote against it This shows
how much truth there was in the howl
about frauds.
BB- There's nothing skimpy about
Tilden, nothing mean. Some candi-
dates are content to arrange matters
with n single aspirant for the Vice
Presidency. Mr.. Tilden has a man in
nearly every State. Tilden and En-
glsh, Indiana; Tilden and Palmer, Illi-
nois; 1ilden and Bishop, Ohio; Tilden
and Randall, Pennsylvania, and so on.
Mr.. Tilden is bound to accommodate the
public, being, in fact, one of the most
disinterested of men.
R1y These are the pending issues be.
tween the two parties at the coming
election: Whether the Nation or State
is sovereign; whether the Nation shall
protect its citizens in free and honest
ballot; whether the United States shall
afford protection to its citizens in all
parts of the Union, and whether the
Supreme Court shall be stripped of
jurisdiction for the vindication OF the
rights of citizens. Mr.. Da1Oes' sDeecb
at tho Massachusetts State Contention.
B1yH The inability of Mr.. Tilden to
procure the nomination at Cincinnati
for himself is now well established.
Mr.. Tilden will not be the Democratic
candidate, The single hope he has is
to dictate the choice of candidate and
secure the nomination of the person he
picks out. In our judgment, Tilden's
man, whatever his name or occupation,
will be as hard to elect, If nominated,
as Tilden himself The fact that he Is
Tilden's nominee win handicap him
from the start and he will not possess
the poor advantage of controlling the
spigot of the historic barl. MIR. Tilden
must keep his hands Off altogether, or
the Democracy will have crushing
load to carry. Charleston Is. CO. NeuS
(Dem.). NI