Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-12-24
POLITICAL BREYITIES.

AVLAllNAh DhENlllLOs
B1~Was it Wade Hampton, or En-
glish, or Hancock who did itP
S~Even New Jersey isnot all bad
it has Republican Legislature.
BaS~ If the Democratic National Com
mittee only had a wicked nephew!
B9~Tilden took his turkey ioyfully,
as becomes a man who has condoned
it all.
BJ~Senator Hoar says "Garfield will
not be the tool of anybody, nor the con-
tinuation of anybody, nor the servant
of anybody"
Bs6~ The Solid South cannot exist
long in the face of Democratic protests
against free counting. Exposure by
members of the family will ruin the
business.
BG~ The Democrats are wondering
who will fill Garfeld's place in the Sem
ate. Let them wonder, if there is any
comfort in it; when the Republicans
get ready they will name the man.
Detroit Post and Tribune.
ES~ Paul Strabach, Republican, had
1000 majority for Congress in Mont
gomery County, Ala, which the Demo-
Gratis proceeded TO reduce by throwing
out the strong Republican districts.
"Let us have an honest count"
RG~ The Democrats, who have grown
wise after the defeat, denounce their
campaign as one OF blunders. When has
the Democratic party done anything
else than blunder since 1862 Is not
its very existence the prime blunder of
alp
BGy~ There has been no end of reme-
dies proposed for the Democratic pa
tient, but there is only one which will
do it any good, and that is the one
which it is sure to get, namely-seclu-
sion from the eXcitements of official life
for the next twenty years.-M Y
Tribune.
Bay" Every mans lip must curl with
contempt as he reads Barnum's bung-
ling attempt to sneak out of the respon-
sibility for the Morey iniquity. Moth
ing has so Thoroughly shown the real
poverty of his intellect and his re-
sources as this ineifably feeble attempt
to eXculpate himself from the crime of
which he stands convicted before the
whole country. AS a bit of special
pleading it does not rise above the aver
age of the mumbling and inconsequen-
tial excuses made by criminals when
ordered to stand upand say, if they can,
why sentence should not be passed
upon them. 1t is puerile, pointless and
elf-contradictory, and cannot help low
ering Mr.. Barnum in the estimation of
those who, while they have had no re-
spect for his moral scruples, have al
ways believed him to be a shrewd
scamp. Toledo Blade,
Bey~Will there never be an end to the
| Democratic endeavor to explain their
defeatP They have ascrbed it to Til
den's lukewarmness and Kelly's treaoh-
cry, to Barnum' blunders and English s
unpopularity, to Republican coloniza-
tion and the Federal Marshals, and still
they remain just as much in ignorance
as to what did it as the colored man was
in regard to his misfortune. He was
STOPPING over to get IA drink from a
creek, wholly ignorant of the presence
of a mischievous goat, and in a moment
found himself sprawling in the water
When he crawled out and was asked
how it happened, he answered: "I
dunno, 'Xactly, boss; but pears to me
as if de shore kinder h listed and frowed
me-" The Democrats had better give
up the attempt to explain the defeat of
their party, and conclude that the coun-
try just "h'isted and frowed" it.-M
T. Tribune.
6Sy- 1t is well to bear in mind that,
contemplate as this whole Chinese let
ter business has been, aud utterly un-
worthy, on any theory of its origin, of
the stir which has been made over it, it
certainly did have an adverse influence
in several States on the fortunes of the
Republican party. Suppose that its in
iluence had been powerful enough in
this State to leave the Republicans in a
minority, and, therefore, to elect Han
cock; or suppose that the State had
gone Democratic, with this letter figur-
ing as one of the causes which led to
that result. What would have been the
effect on the Re publican voters of the
North of the discovery that they had
been cheated of victory by forgery and
subornation of periuryp A discovery
like that would certainly have brought
the country nearer to the verge OF civi
war than it was in 1876; would have
disturbed confidence in the stability OF
our Government, paralyzed industry,
and caused an amount of distress and
ruin which it would be difficult to meas
ure. And all this because few miser
able political tricksters were ready tC
take any risks, to descend to any deptl
J of rascality, in order to secure for theil
party the benefit of what they regarded
as an excellent campaign document
The actors in this plot stand before the
bar of the country charged with the
lblaekest and most dastardlY treason