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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20
POLITICLA-ITIEs.

Blaine is credited with having a bar'l
Of his own, and placing it where it will
do the most good.
President Hayes would not accept an.
other term, even if offered to him on q
silver plate.
Last week Blaine bagged three states,
West Virginia, Nevada and Michigan,
The Third Term took in Florida.
Grant had a small crumb of comfort
from Florida, and so has old Tom Settle,
who is supposed to be a great man.
Take ont the Republicans who will
not vote for Grant if he is nominated,
and it will leave a hole in the party big
enough to sling the state of Texas thro'
without touching the edges.-Cin. CON-
Dennis Kearney is to have another
chance, the California Supreme Court
having granted permission to have the
record of his former trial reversed.
The fact that Hay declines being a
candidate for Presidential %favors, has not
caused a stampede among the other can
didates.
Senator Edmunds called out amen
when Senator Hill had concluded his
speech on the Kellogg case. Mr.. Ed.
munds no doubt voiced the general sen.
timent of bis party on that occasion,
They we're glad when the speech was
ended, because it hurt.
Grant is now being advised to resign
in the interest of harmony" His fol-
lowers retort by informing Blaine and
Sherman that if it is harmony they are
after they can secure it by r~esigning
themselves. Grants reply to this plea
for harmony is short but expressive, He
says: my enemies cannot force me from
the field"
The quiet gentleman of Gramercy
Park has the satisfaction of knowing
that he compels the whole Republican
party to stand guard day and night for
fear Of him
For Bishops in the Methodist church
no colored man need apply. Yet the
Conference is nearly solid for Grant, with
Bishop Simpson at the head, who pleads
for his favorite. Will colored people
never learn that their votes, not their
persons, are all that are required by the
Republican party,
Thurlow Weed declares in the N. Y,
Tribune that Mr.. Tilden would be a
stronger man as a candidate than Grant
in fact, he thinks any Democrat could
beat the ex President. Mr.. Weed has
been a close observer of American poll
tics for half a century, and has a strong
basis of experience on which to rest his
prophecies.
The Republican party came near dying
of blight when Grant was President
The way he builds the party up is now
apparent in Illinois.
And still Grant has not scored a single
Republican state, except Pennsylvania,
which is in revolt. 1t is almost a solid
North that sternly Confronts the Third
Term.-Cin. Com.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20

THIs is the question Gen. Garfield did
not answer when on his feet making a
personal explanation in the House:
Mr.. Frost-Is the gentleman in favor
of or opposed to free paper2"
The Globe, Democrat says of this:
"It was a short question, and needed
only a short answer. Five words, one
way or the other, would have answered
it; but we grieve to say that Mr.. Garfield,
instead of stating pl ainly and ~unequivo.
ca,lY whether he was in favor of repeal.
ing the duty or continuing it, drew up
an average campaign platform in favor
of such a duty as would Incidentally pro.
teCt American manufacturers and at the
same time reconcile the demands of
American consumers. This was not
what Mr.. Frost wanted to know, and it
was not what the country wanted to
know, but Mr.. Garfield seemed to be
unconscious Of his exposure"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20

The number Of houses destroyed by
the fire in Milton, Pa, was 666. Only
two places Of business were left. The
people of the town are quite destitute.
An old man, Augey, was burned to death
trying to saw the stable of the Poor.
house. Gov, Hoyt has sent $50 tents
Provisions have been sent. The fire
originated from sparks from the saw-mill
attached to the car works. The princi.
pal losers are, VIM. Raber, tanner, $l25.
900; Heinen, Schooner & Co., $75, 900
Academy of Music $4,000, car shops
100000 - insurance $40, 900. United
States Hotel $4,000, Broadway House
$4,000, Cyrus Brown, druggist, $50, 900
A. L. Wagner $50, 0OO-insurance SAC
900 Schwartz Marble Yard SIS, 900, in.
surance $4,000; ], F, Gauger & Son,
%clothiers, $4,000, insurance So 900, The
churches destroyed were the Reformed
SIS, 5000, Catholic $40. 900, Baptist SIS, 900,
Methodist SIS. 900, Covenanters $4,000,
Evangelical $4,000, Presbyterian $40, 900,
insurance $4,000. The aggregate loss is
estimated at 81, 800 900,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20
Nick BIDDLE. in Jackson's day, was a
bigger nan than John Sherman, and he
was cleaned out at last.

The day when men can be driven in
front of a lash, in the hands of party
teamsters, b s passed. Let us hope no
more such language will be used, Such
men as Geo. VIM. Curtis of New York,
Secretary SchuTz, Hon. Benz. Butter
worth, Gen Henderson, Rev. freeman
Clark, Gov. %Pierrepont, and hundreds OF
thousands of others all over the land.
who believe with them, will feel very
badly when they learn that the Ohio
State journal calls them 'sore heads."-
Youngstown Neu8, Rep.
The i'll feeling getting up between the
discordant elements of the Republican
party is becoming bitter. A friend
writes from Chicago that the contest in
chat city at the late Republican primaries
was red hot that the better element,
the business men, &C., were against
Grant and that the corrupt and worst
elements of the party were the Grant
partisans, The cumming element, po-
litiCal l%oafers, needy and seedy, made up
in the main the Grant element. OF
course, the party teamsters" think they
can clash" the others in when they haye
forced Grants nomination.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20

SANFORD E. CHURCH, Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court of New York, died
Friday afternoon at his residence at AL.
bion, in that state, of apoplexy. Judge
Church was an eminent jurist, and
his name has been frequently mentioned
in connection with the Presidency. He
was born in Milford, 0tsego county, N.
Y, April IS, 1916. lie received a good
education, studied law and became emf.
nent in his profession. He took an &C.
tive interest in politics, and in 1850 was
elected Lieutenant Governor of New
York, and re. elected to the same Office
in 1862. In 1857 he was elected Comp
troller Of the state, and in 1859 he ran
for the am Office but was defeated. In
1870 he was appointed Chief Justice Of
the Supreme Court of New York, which
position he held until his death.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20

STATE SENATOR HARTsHoRN AND
THE DIVISION OF WASHINGTON
TOWNSHIP.
We have adverted to the sCheming
political trlckery of the Hartshorns, In
securing the division Of Washington
township into two election precincts,
when it was opposed by the legal voters
of the township, and not required on
any principle of right.
We were not aware till a few days ago
that Mr.. Conrad, of the House, who is a
citizen of Massillon, refused to be driven
by the tyrant Senator, Hartshorn, and
opposed the division. Mr.. Snyder, the
other member from Stark, was Controll'
ed and driven by HartshOrn, and served
the purpose. 1t would not seem that
Mr.. Conrad was very active in his oppo-
sition, or be could have defeated the in
EQUITY, for it was only a Hartshorn
scheme to suit the purposes of the un'
principled political schemers of Mount
Union College.
There was no good reason for the di'
vision of that township. There is DC
stream ~obstructing communication nc
range of mountains, and no swamp, The
8 swamp angels of Mt, Union College were
the only parties in interest. The vote
Of the township is small, in 1875, 46S in
1877, 434; in 1878, 1893. These are the
highest votes, and the average for years
would not exceed 425.
The Hartshoru scheme was to slip the
bill through the Legislature in a hurry
and have it a law before the people gen
orally would know anything about it
The first public report was that it was 1
law but a telegram to the Clerk of tht
House informed citizens Of the township
that the bill hat passed the Senate, anC
was then in the House for its third read
ing. Thee gentlemen sent a frienC
down to have it delayed a day or so til
they could get up a reMOnstanCe and for
ward. This was done, though strongly
and meanly opposed by Hartshorn anc
Snyder.
The twain, Hartshorn and Snyder,pro
claimed through both Houses tina
"there was no opposition"-"not a lettel
opposing it," &c. When the remon
STRANGE came it wal signed by 255, a large
majority of the voters of the township
and of course it gave this pair of falst
sChemers a backset, for their petition
had but l40 signatures. After this Mr.
Conrad said the measure would never bt
heard of again in that Legislature; anC
probably never would in any, except
Republican Legislature,
After letting the bill sleep a while
Hartshorn and his man Snyder pressed
it as an important political measure, anC
it was put through.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20
"GArH,n of the ENQUIRER. thus write

GATH" of the Enquirer, thus writes
from New York, under date of the 10Th
New York, May 15.-To.day's advicef
materially strengthen Grants friends
and depress the industrious feas of Mr.,
Blaine, The decided probability OF Hi
nois coming in straight for Grant is ad.
mitted by his enemies, while the high
character of Robert Lincoln, the sons oil
Douglas and other Grant delegates from
Chicago, please the solf.esteem OF Grants
observsnt friends here. Blaine's coun.
tenanCe looks anything but happy as he
game Spectators and political offscour.
ers. The idea that money is q part oil
the Blaine tactics is very generally be-
lieved, and Pennsylvania and the South
ern states are said to be the fields for it.
Jay Gould and j.. B. Chaffse seem to be
the most responsible Blaine men.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20

CHARLES s. WOLFE. the member from
Union county in the Pennsylvania Leg
islature, and a Republican, who exposed
the bribery and attempted bribery Of
Kemble, and instigated and assisted the
prosecution, has been rendered a public
dinner in Philadelphia, but declines the
compliment, asking, however, the friends
give their influence and counsel in the
future to redeem the honor of the state,
and establish Virtue, Liberty and Inde-
p~endenCe," in truth and act, as they are
in name, as a motto of our grand but
much dishonored Commonwealth.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20
MassillOn, Tuesday, May 25th.
THE GRANT-BLAINE CONTEST,

THE GRANT-BLAINE CONTEST,
Is waxing warm between the ~Contending
parties. At Chicago it resulted in a bolt,
the Grant men being the boilers, as they
were in a minority in the county Conven.
ton. They retired aud organized a con.
yention of their OVID. The outlook is
that Grant will nevertheless have a ma.
jority in the Illinois state convention,
where his followers will carry things
with a high hand.
The Cleveland Herald, Sherman, thus
shows the bitter canvass between the
Grant and Blaine factions that so nearly
divide the Republican party. The arti.
Gle appeared in the Herald Of the 10th
Senator Blaine's anvass has been in
no sense a ConciliatOry n He has
asked no favors and he has given none,
He has plunged fully into the enemy's
country in all cases, burning his bridges
behind him, and laying waste with fire
and sword. OF course the result of this
is, be has cultivated a goodly crop of en-
emies as we'll as a formidable following
of friends. If the latter are in sufficient
force to enable him to storm the fort and
carryit by assault at the first dash, great
will be the glory of the Plumed Knight.
II he fails in this, however, he can have
little hope of a compromise with any
faction Of the enemy. He certainly can
expect little comfort from the supporters
of Grant, if we may Judge from the tone
of comment in the Grant Businesses he
is now storming, and the disposition OF
the Grant delegates is likely to be of
vast Importance in deciding the result.
There are indications at present that the
Grant wave will only result in sweeping
into the convention a group Of delegates
INADEQUATE to elect their candidate, but
strong enough to hold the balance of
W The friends of Secretary Sher.
man are disposed to believe that their
candidate, with the respectable following
he will bring into the convention, stands
as fair a chance of being selected by the
Grant men for a second choice as does
Mr.. Washburne or any of the others
who have been classified among the dark
horses, and this fact, together with re.
cent Important aCCessions to the Secreta.
RVS strength, has given them decideI
encouragement. v
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20
THE CONNOTTON VALLEY RAIL
WAY.

THE CONNOTTON VALLEY RAIL
WAY.
The action of our City Council grant
ing the 0nnotton railway company the
right of way through the city, as was
done last week, meets with general APP.
proval among our citizens.
We learn, however, hat some of our
friends residing between Cherry and Ro.
land streets object, and would prefer the
road should 60 along the latter street,
rather than up Saxton street, which is
Immediately east of and parallel with
Ch9rry.
The street assigned to run the road
over will bring the passenger depot on
East TusCarawas street, where the rail
way will cross, thus locating the depot
very conveniently for all making use of
the road, and quite convenient to the
business part of the town. Adepot loca.
ted 30 conveniently will save carriage
hire to citizens and others, and is GER.
AMY worthy of consideration. Is it
not then as well that the railway should
cross TusCarawas street at this point as
well as further east, when it is evident
it will be better for the town and ali
concerned.
Rowland is a residence street ;
Saxton is not. The former is a wide
and beautiful street the latter is a mar.
row street with an occasional stable, ex
cept where it crosses TusCarawas. We
think, therefore, that the Council acted
judiciously in this matter, and the mem
bers deserve well for their prompt &C.
ton. We doubt not that after a little
reflection, and a consideration of the
important points, our friends will see
the propriety of the Councils action.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20

THE Chicago Times thus inquiries as to
Don Cameron'samode of organizing the
Chicago Convention: "Don Cameron is
Chairman Of the National Republican
Committee. AS such chairman the duty
will devolve on him Of calling the Chi
cago Convention to order. But having
done 30, will he proceed to say Gen.
tlemen of the Convention, l have chosen
the Hon. Roscoe Conkling as your tenn
porary chairman, and have the pleasure
of introducing that illustrious gentle.
manP' OIL will he say: The Convention
will please proceed to the election Of q
temporary chairman"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20
Ghe 4emnrrat.
A D. 1888
STARK COUNTY DEMOCRATIC
CENTRAL COMMITTEES,
A. McGREGOR, Editor.

STARK COUNTY DEMOCRATIC
CENTRAL COMMITTEES
The members of the Stark County
Democratic Central Committee are re-
auested to meet in Canton, on Saturday,
May 29'h inst, 1t is hoped a full atten-
dance will be on hand, as important
business will be brought before the com,
mittee. The meeting will owen at l
o'clock p. m,
VIM. A. LYNCH, Chm,
L. c. COLE, Sec'y. May -, 1880.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20

DEPUTY Warden Dean, who has just
been reinstated by Gov. Fosters new
P~enitentiary Board, has begun his old
rule of tyranny. He was discharged a
couple of years ago for ducking and Sc
we're treatment Of the prisoners. The
old experienced guards are being dis.
missed to make room for personal favor
ties in Columbus. Deans old tyrannies
and cruelties are producing a general
state Of decentralization. All this comes
Of Republican reorganization.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20

The N. Y. Tribune, Jay Gould's organ,
is bitter against Grant and urgent for
Blaine. Jay Gould and the Pacific rail.
way companies found Blaine, as Speaker
of the House, a man after their own
heart, as Speaker, Blaine had the fix.
ing Of railway and other committees.
These companies know their friends.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20

The back.action boom has struck the
coke trade and manufacturers have re.
reduced the price from S. to $3.50 per
ton. This carries with it a reduction in
the wages Of workmen. Many blast fur.
naces during the recent revival used
coke, whick sent the article up from
ninety cents to Eve dollars per ton. The
stagnation in the iron trade has largely
Choked off the demand for coke.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20

The Illinois Republican state Conven-
ton met at Springfield yesterday. The
Blainites held a caucus meeting Tuesday
night, and so did the Grant delegates.
At the Grant meeting Robert 7. Lincoln
presided and Stephen A. Douglas acted
as secretary. Both parties were deter
mined.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20

WAsHBURNE was in Maine last week
knew nothing of the use of his name in
Chicago against Grant, and is for Grant
first, last, and all the time. He repudi.
ates all combination with other candi.
dates. All this is received with doubt
by Grant leaders, who rather think
Washburne would like to be the mar.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20
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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20

DURING the past thirty years 1880. 900
emigrants arrived in the United States
from abroad, and of this number Att.
600 were men or boys, and 1888, 900 wo.
men Or girls, the excess of the former
being 1,624,OOO, thus making the ratio
between the two exe almost exactly as
three to two.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20

The Mahoning county Democrats have
elected delegates to the state convention
which will meet in Cleveland in July.
Resolutions we're adopted urging the
nomination Of Judge u. D. Thomsh for
Congress!
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20

THINGS are getting lively between the
Alliance Review and the Repository, The
Rep. dubs the Review man "a mongrel
Republican Greenbacker," and the Re-
view man applies it's CaustiC in its caustic
way, calling the editor a "young milk
sop" DC. So far Joe is aheadsg c
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20

Bob %INGERsoLL expresses himself of
the opinion, rather that the Democrats
will win this year. Bob ia prophet
enough to see that Coming events cast
their hind legs before"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20

WITHIN the past two or three weeks
twenty furnaces that sell pig iron in
Pittsburgh has gone out of blast. There
is a good supply on hand, probably
enough to last till fall.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20

DELL Roy coal is soon to be well
known in Canton. The Steel Works are
receiving fifteen car loads a week over
the C%onnotton road. This coal is of the
best quality.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20

BOB INGER5oLL thiuks the Democrats
have the best chance to elect the next
President. In this about two thirds of
the people of the United States concur,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20

TIE Anti Third Term Convention at
st. Louis proposes to call a National Con.
Vention in case the Republican party
passes away at Chicago and a third term
faction takes its place.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20

The great musical festival at Cincin
natl began Tuesday evening. The cho-
rus numbered six hundred and twenty,
and the orchestra q hundred and fifty.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20

IT would seem that Whitaker, the
colored West Point cadet, wrot the
anonymous letter threatening to kill
himself, and really slit his own ears.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20

A reduction of twenty per cent, in the
wages of coal miners and coke drawers
in the Connellsville region is to take e..
feet June 4th.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20

A STRONG government is one where
Justice is the rule of action, and honesty
is the purpose, and the general good of
all 10 the result.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20

The River and Harbor Bill that pass
ed the lower House of Congress on Mon
day appropriStes near nine millions of
dollars.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20

IT does not look as if the Republicans
regarded John Sherman as the mighty
fnancier.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20

REPUBLICANS think it will be Blaine or
Grant-that is, which or tother.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20

Read Rev. DR.. Talmage's sermon on
the second page of this paper.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20

AN exchange defines a noble man--an
honest assessor. .'as 'a. $50
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1880-10-01

Levi JOHNSON, Of Norton county,
Kansas, is in Iowa soliciting aid for
the people Of Phillips. Sherman, Dsca-
tur, Sheridan, Rawlins and other
counties. In Nortoa county 49, 0
people are in absolute want Of food.
The wheat crop in all the above named
counties failed, and in June was
plowed up and planted 10 corn, which
has been destroyed by the web
worm. Johnson says one family lived
eleven weeks on wheat bran, and 9TH
era four weeks on corn meal. lie
says the local papers suppress these
facts, as it will injure the State.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1880-10-01
Notice of Final Homestead proos.
LAND OFFICE AT BOISE Cry,
Idaho, Septembe 4th. 1880

Ae Office Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE Fol.
k& loving named settler has filed nosioe of his in
tsn'ion to make rna proof III support o his ella m
ana seeuee anal entry thereof. and that said proof
VIII be made before the Register and Receiver AZ
snsi. oinc ~ Boise city dshp. Friday. October
9th, 1850, viz: Mahlen Is. Moore Eofseshoe Bend
Solse county Idaho Territory, Homestead Appl
carton No 55T Tor the M sWM 4 NW1f SEX 4 SWL
~ = sec 2tpo Nt p, aud be names he following
witnesses to praNe his continuous rssitience nno
shu cnllvasion Of said tract, viz: William White
Dennis DHey. Peter Buck and imothy Dacy all /
do hoe Bend Postotiice, Boise Coasty. Idaho
territory. JOAN u. MILLER,
Register.