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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-10-28
REPUBLICANS FOR HANCOCK.
lIr. Jerome and Col. FOrney Address.
ing a House Full of Men Who Can't
Stand Garfield.
From the New York Herald.l

[From the New York Herald.l
A meeting of curious and significant
character was held last evening in Chick
ering Hall. There were fully 1000 peo-
pie present, several hundred of whom
were ladies of stylish and intelligent ap-
pearance. The fact appeared that it
was gathering of Republicans, who
came together to indorse Hancock and
to raise the widest kind of applause at
every mention of his name. They out
heroded Herod, and threw dyed-in-the-
wool Democrats entirely in the shade by
their enthusiasm for the Democratic
candidates. According to the card the
meeting was called by the "National
Association of Conservative Republican
and Independent Voters" and the re-
sponses must have been gratifying to
the managers. At 8 o'clock there ell
tered on the stage Mr.. Leonard Je-
rome, accompanied by the orator of the
evening, Mr.. John W. Forney. Of Phila-
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-10-28

instrument, which cannot be accomplished bit
with the consent and approval of large pro-
portion of the North themselves. The Four
teenth amendment to the constitution declares:
Neither the United States any State
shall assume or pay any debt or obligation in
CURED in aid of insurrecton or rebellion against
the United States, or any claim for the loss OF
emancipation of any slave; but all such debts,
obligations and claims shall be held illegal and
yoid.r
To alter or amend the constitution it is neces-
sary that the alteration or amendment shall be
proposed by two-thirds OF both houses of Con-
gress, or by general convention called on ap-
plication of the Legislatures of two-thirds Of
the States. The amendment, when proposed,
must be ratified by three-fourths of the States,
or by conventions in three-fourths- thereof.
Three-fourths are twenty-nine. The South has
only sixteen. 1t would require q solid South
and thirteen Northern States to alter or amend.
No such amendment as we are charged with de-
string is demanded, requested or contemplated
by the people of the South. We went into tho
war with all of our energy and all of our re-
sources. We made the best fight VIC could.
We were vanquished, and we will abide the re-
suit. When we reflect on the bitterness with
which Republican partisans pursue us. upon the
malignity with which they mlsrepresent ,ls, VIC
are doubly, trebly thankful to the noble band of
Northern patriots who have stood as wall OF
fire between us and military despotism.
In the third session of the Fortleth Congress
QS79-71). when Mr.. Garfield was Chairman of
the Committee on Appropriations, the Army
Appropriation bill established the Court of
Claims, consisting of three Commissioners,
"who shall consider the justice and validity Of
such claims as shall be brought before them of
those citizens who remained loyal adherents to
the cause and Government of the United States
during the war, for stores or supplies taken or
furnished during the Rebellion for the use of the
| army of the United States in States proclaimed
| as in insurrection against the United States"
| That commission reports to Congress or all
| claims presented. There cannot be n claim re-
| ported upon by that court belonging to one who
was disloyal to the Union. No claim Of {. dis
| can be paid or will ever be presented to the
| Court of Claims by Congress.
Alabama on the Claims BugabOO.
An address Of the Democratic State
| Committee of Alabama has been issued.
1t thoroughly indorses Gen. Hancock's
letter on the claims question, and, sum-
ming up, says: "Our party in Ala
bama stands committed by its platform,
by the action of every department o. the
State Government, and by The Judges of
its courts elected by it, first, to the ac-
ceptance of the result of the war Sec
ond, to the equal political rights of ev-
cry citizen; third, to the faithful main
tenance of the public credit, State and
national, and unfinching opposition to
reputation of any public obligations
fourth, to the free and fair exercise OF
the elective franchise; fifth, to the
strictest economy in the administration
of public affairs"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-10-28
Water Lilies.

An exchange says: "Water lilies can
be cultivated by sinking half a hogshead
even with the ground, placing in soil
taken from the bottom of pond, aud
planting few roots therein. The hogs.
head is to be kept full of water, and the
year following crop of lilies, surprising
those usually found in ponds in wild
state, will be produced.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-10-28
ROBERT C. WINTHROP ON SEC.
TIONALISM.
(From the Chicago Times. ]

OI1IOHE50 II1IIoS1
1t is significant circumstance that
radical New England, which first began
the political warfare against the South,
and whose natural sagacity earliest fore
saw that the conflict between the Sec
tions was inevitable, should be the first
to incline to relinouish the sectional
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-10-28

IAN EXHIBITION OF PARTISAN SPLEEN"
LFrom the New York Herald independently
The person who gave to the public the
reportof Grant s conversation concerning
Gen. Hancock certainly did him no SER
vice, but great injury. It will not
raise Gen. Grant in the esteem even OF
Republicans to see him descending to
the abuse of fellow-soldier, whose gal
lantry and devotion to the Union he has
on previous occasions freely acknowl-
edged. To say now, in the heat and ex-
citement of political canvass, that the
Democratic candidate is vain, that he is
ambitious of the Presidency, that his is
petty character, only brings to every
body's recollection that in his cooler mo-
ments, and before he was moved by
what will be generally esteemed partisan
rancor, Gen, Grant said "There are
men in that organization (the Democratic
party, men like Bayard, Mcclellan,
Hancock and others whom I know.
They are as loyal and patriotic as any
man. Bayard, for instance, would make
splendid President. I would not be
afraid of the others in that office" Re
calling this language we may pass over
soldier as an ebullition of partisan
spleen, which, as it is unworthy of him,
the public oug ght to overlook and forget.
1t has no weight, nor any importance,
except as it rouses q regret in generous
minds to see so eminent man SO forget
| himself.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-10-28
NeWSpaperS.

From newspaper directory published
in New York we learn that 9, 723 news
papers are published in the United
States. OF these journals 1885 are
Democratic, 1,747 Republican, and l22
Greenback. The number of political
papers printed in each State and Terri
tory is as follows.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-10-28

SMOKING is to be prohibited among
West Point cadets. Hazing will go on
as usual.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-10-28

A SCHENECTADY IN. " firm sent
large shipment of brushes and brooms
to Jerusalem.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-10-28
eusine.. car. Of ave Dimes Or lcs. s. pr aunum.

Business cards of I've lines or less 81 pr aunum.
local notices. 10 cents p .r Line each Insertion
Simple announcem ments Of marriages q nd sscatts,
nd church and bene7oent society no ices iBs rfed
rs-. Any sdlilio to oo::.lry notices wiii be
cha-get Eve cents per line.
Fsvors must be han ,ei in as early rs Tuesday
morning to insure inss, tion the same week.
commuuica:i ms upon subjects Of general Or local
mt reAt eve solicited
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-10-28

the answer will come. Old politicians
say that this attack of Grant is only an
other section of the Grant programme.
Already Gen, Garfield has become a
minor figure in the canvass, and if this
Grant-Hancock controversy becomes
very animated there is danger that the
Mentor statesman will be lost sight of
entirely. 1t is remarked as part of Gen.
Grants plot to make Garfield insignif-
cant-as he truly is-as party leader,
and keep the Galena politician as promi-
nent figure as possible. No one here
sees how Gen. Garfield is to derive any
advantage from this talk The excessive
importance given to Grants utterances
is only another evidence of his being
the most prominent man in his party.
Gen. SIocum's Denial of the State
nent Relative to the Battle of Get
tysburg.
lCincinnati Telegram.l
Gen. Slocum, in an interview to-day
with q reporter, bluntly said that if Gen.
Grant said, as quoted, that Gen. Han
cock did not choose the battle ground at
Cemetery Ridge, Gettysburg, then Gen.
Grant lies. For" said the General,
Il was there, and I know. I heard
Hancock saw: This is the spot to make
the fight, and here we will make it I
not only saw Hancock at that place, but
stood there and heard him choose the
spot, and had confidence enough in his
generalship not to interfere" This from
Slocum is severe on Grant, if Fowler re-
ports him right, for he makes Grant say
this i:
He CHancock) did not select the battle
ground, as his dispatch to Gen. Meade shows,
and thought of retiring from Cemetery Ridge.
when Slocum came up and superseded him In
command.
So Grant was reported in the Com
naercigt this morning, and Gen. Slocum
comes forward with denial, and says !:
81 ought to know, for I was there.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-10-28
Press Comments.

"sTRANGELY FoRGETFUL."
IFrom the Philadelphia Times Independently
A month after the nomination of Gen.
Garfield, and when Grant was sulking
away in the mountains, an interview
with him by L. G. Entright, an old Pa
cific friend of his, was reported in detail
in the public journals, and never con-
tradicted by Grant. In that interview
he spoke freely of Gen. Hancock, say
ing that, in his opinion, "No better or
safer man could be elected to the Chief
Magistracy." Three days ago another
interview was given in the party organs
from Grant, as reported by Rev. DIR.
Fowler, a prominent Methodist minis
ter The interview was so grossly vitu-
perative, of both Hancock and the
South, that it shocked even the
friends of Garfield, and Grant
hastened to modify the statements
of his ministerial interviewer; but, after
all the explanations that Grant made, he
stands on record as falsifying himself
about Gen. Hancock. When did Gen.
Grant speak the truth about Gen. Han
cock? Was he truthful when he declared,
after Hancock's nomination, that "No
better or safer man could be elected to
I the Chief Magistracy," or was he truth
full when he declared Hancock to be
"Crazy to be President" and "Ambi-
tious, vain and weak? ?" In one of these
statements, like his directly-conficting
statements respecting the South, Gen.
Grant told what he believed to be the
truth, and in the other he could not
have done so. 1t will be remarked that
when he indicated the South, and COM
mended Hancock as one of the best and
safest men for the Presidency, he was
not prompted by politicians, but spoke
voluntarily, and for himself; and that
when he condemned the South and
Hancock he spoke Immediately after
conference with Garfield, Conkling,
Cameron and Logan, who had gathered
in Ohio to save Garfeld's own Republi.
can State to the party. Very many men
of all parties will profoundly regret that
Gen. Grant has been so strangely forget,
full of the integrity of his public opin.
ions, and henceforth he will rank only
with the desperate politicians who de.
luded him to defeat at Chicago, and
whose friendship must be fatal to all his
hopes of political success in the future
! He has effaced all the little gliding thai
was left on the third term banner, an6
that is an achievement for the country
but it is at a fearful cost of once freely
profered homage to our great either
and soldier.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-10-28
UNION GENERALS FOR HANCOCK.

The following is partial roster of the
Generals of the Union army who have
declared in favor of Gen. Hancock for
the Presidency.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-10-28
GRANTS CAB.

A Talk with Gen. Hancock ON the
Subject of the Grant-FOVIer Inter
View-The Words Put Into the Ex-
Presidents Mouth Not Such as Sold
iers Arc Wont to EmplOy-A Promise
that the Charges Will he Met IL
They Were Made by Gen. Grant
Army Officers at the Capital sur
prised at Grants Descent Into the
Mire of Politics.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-17

The Young Ladies' Missionary Society
OF this city, will give concert at tho Pres.
byterian Church, on December 2sh
Miss Hettie Moreland, Of S!eubeuville,
WHO has been visiting the family OF Mr..
Henry Caldwell, returned home on We'd
nesday.
Another wedding Ia booked for Gravel
Hill, next week.
Rev. VIM. CASTOR and wife will leave
for their new home at Cleveland, to night.
Tho Presbyterian Chapel will give
concert on Christmas eve.
The Street Commissioner Is diLching the
Gravel Hill cut
Sheriff Hilles, OF S. Clairsvilie, was in
the city yesterday, se,,ling up his &C.
counts with the saloon keepers, who were
indicted at the lGsi term 0l coutt.
The little daughter nf Ilr. JOhu Mitchell
Is very bad with the diphtheria.
Mr.. W. A. GNrby, Of the Goblet Works,
Ia having his Office repainted and papered.
When this Is completed he will have one
Of the finest Offices in the city.
Mr.. Lewis Marshall Is moving into the
houee formerly occupied by Rev. CASTOR,
and Col Tom Morris will occupy the house
vacated by Mr.. Marshall
AT the last meeting the Board OF Fdnca.
ton appointed Mr.. James Reese 10 d the
vacancy caused by the resignation Of Mr..
s, Fl. Lee. Mr.. Reese has accepted the
appointment.
Several Of the young ladies Of this city
are making arrangements to give Leap
Year party in the Central Hall on New
YEARS. Eve. As this is the last opt Or unity
for the ladies, trey p,opo'e to have q
splendid time in watching out the old and
10 the new year.
Jas. McCirall was before the Mayor yes.
terday, ch Wssl with drunkenness, and
Jas. Arnold for committing a nuisanCe.
Bills are up for the Melrose Mastery
Monarch, composed entirely OF home
talent, will exhibit in ZiIch's Hall from
Christmas night until New Years eve.
" here this company have exhibited they
have drawn full houses, and we are GER
tain that any one who will attend, will be-
highly pleased with the evenings enter
tainment.
The advance sgent Of the great strss-
burg clock WAS In tho city looking for q
suitable place to exhibit his piece o! mas
ter art.
Mr.. Vim. Anshutz, who has been in
KSusas for some time past, has returned
to this city. Il, y, +.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-17
THE EDITORS.
Meeting of the ohio Association at zauesY
willie.


sANDUsHY, Quo, December lG.-The
Register of this city will tomorrow contain
the following: ITO members Of the Ohio
Editorial Association: The annual meet
ing OF the Association will be held at
Zlnesville Tuesday and Wednesday, jan
uary II and 10, 1881. Thursday morning,
the Goth, the members OF the Association
will become guests OF the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company for trip to
Washington and Baltimore. II Is Bpe-
cially important that 80 many OF the mem.
bers as possible should be at ZInesville
Tuesday evening, for business purposes.
The frat regular business meeting will
be held at "a. NJ. Wednesday, the lQh,
and the otficers and the Committee on
Membership should, II possible, be on
band Tuesday evening. At the Cincinnati
meeting OF 1850, last June, the Constitu'
ton was so amended that no person Ia
eligible to membership who Is not the
actual editor orpublisher, one or both, OF a
newspaper published at least once week
OF reputable standing and has been 80
regularly published ut least two years, No
person eau enjoy the hospitSlittes extend'
ed to the Association save such editor or
publisher and immediate members oi his
own family. The object oIthe new article
In the Constitution was TO cut of all dead
heads and dead.beats, and make tho Asso'
citation what II should he-a bona fde
Editorial Association for 0hio-lhe terms
and conditions Of the new Constitution will
be rigidly adhered to in the future, and II
will be useless for outsiders tn ask favorE
from the officers. !. F. MACK,
President Of the Association.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-17

AN ONO EDITOR ON THE sESAToRsHlP.-
Geo. McCIelland, Esq, editor ofthe Barnes
nesyille (ohio) Enterpri% was in the city
yesterday. In conversation with re-
porter be gave 1t as his opinion that Secre.
tary Sherman would be the successful can.
didate for the United States Senate from
Ohio. Said he: "Sherman is the choice
Of the Republican party, because he is
regarded as possessing more ability than
Governor Foster, and Ohio people have
great respect and consideration for intel.
leCt. The Legislature will yield to the
popular will in that regard, as 1t has al.
ways done hitherto. Therefore it is GER
tain that Secretary Sherman will be elect
ed. Nearly all the Republican press OF
the State are for him. do not hear
much about Judge TAFT or Judge West.
Stanley Matthews will 20 on the Bench.
Sherman and Foster are the Snly promi-
nent candidates"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-17
The New baltimore, Piitsburgh and
Chicago Railroad.

WoosrRR, O., Dec ember 19.-The pros.
poets Of the early completion Of the new
Baltimore, Pittsburgh and Chicago Rail.
road are now very Aattoring, as Jay Gould
has taken hold OF the project and will use
1t TO connect with the Wabash Line. This
10 q direct road from Pittsburgh to the
Chicago Junction on the Baltimore and
Ohio Line, and will pass through Wooster,
Ashland, Plymouth and several other i'm.
portant towns. The projectors OF this
new rord negotiated with President Gar
rett, OF the Baltimore and Ohio, for some
time, hoping that he would take hold OF 1t
aud insure It's early completion, but meet.
Ing with little success, President W. E.
Schmertz, Of Pittsburgh, finally made the
proposal to Gould, which was accepted,
and 1t seems certain now that tho road
will be built in the coming glseason.
The substance OF this dispatch has been
already published in the INrELLIoENcEE,
aud It seems to embody an actual fact,
which Is that alter all the much talk Of an
extension Of the Connellsville branch oil
the Baltimore and Ohio road from Pitts
burgh TO Chicago Junction, that we have
heard 50 much OF for the last year or 80,
the project hos really been headed of and
absorbed by the iniatigable Jay Gould.
As to what will now bs Mr.. Garretts
policy remains to Be seen. He, OF course,
still has the HempaeId, and only thirty
Tliles OF a gap between Washington and
Conaslsville needs to be filled, hut after SC
long a seson OF dtlly.dallyinG II Is doubt
iul whether Mr.. Garrett can even now be
hurried up. He Ia 80 constitutionally
calculating aud procrAstinaLing that moth
log can be yentured as q matter oiopinior
in regard to his action, except that he vii
continue to put of and put of In th'
lu!ure as he has in the past, unti
he is literally forced by his rivals t
do something in sheer self defence
The time was, a few years ago, when hi
could have had the Fort Wayne road from
Pittsburgh TO Chicago, but he dilly.dallist
ADD hsmmed aud hawed over 1t until tn
PeunSylyaniG road stepped in and Gu
him out, and forced him to build the pres
ent Chicago division OF his line. He neve
made a greater mistake In his life thai
when he let that great opportunity 3
past but It only illustrates the polio
which he has pursued before and sine
that event. Therefore we make no calcr
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-17

CAPITAL AND LABOR.
A Very Important Dee,sion In New
York Court.


ROCHESTER, N. Y, December l4.-Some
weeks ago the Johnston Harvester Com
pany, Brockport, reduced the wages OF
moulders, and the men struck, and caused
cessation oi work OF between 400 and
500 men. The Company refused to make
tho change, and quietly secured an in
junction from Judge Macomber, Of this
city, to restrain the strikers from interfer.
ing in any respect with such new men as
they would employ. Judge Macomber,
on hearing the argument, decided to-day
not to make the injunction permanent
The Judge, in his decision, which is very
long, says that the molders were at work
by the day or piece. and had not contract
ed their services for any stated
period. The orderly cooperation Of EN-.
ployes 10 secure On increase OF wages or
for tho maintenance ot such right is now
permitted by Chap. ~, Laws OF 1870 Toe
origin Of this kind OF actions was at the
time OF the substantial enslavement Of do.
mestiC servants, and went on the theory
that they bad no freedom OF action. He
was unwilling to extend the doctrine Of re-.
covery for the peaceful enticinH oi free
agents. He holds there should be no leg.
islRtion on this subject beyond such as in-
sures both parties from violence, trespsss,
etc. Aggregated capital has tendency TO
induce combinations 81 labor, to prevent
capital from disturbing the relationship to
the detrIment Of labor. 1t Is. he says, for
such reasons that trades unions were or.
ganized, and ior such reasons Is 1t, iiat ali,
that their policy can, on the principles Of
political economy. be recognized and sus-
tanned. Let The law of supply and de.
maud govern the parties. The field open
to both parties Ia wide. It Is regarded as
a very important decision as a precedent
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-17
THE W. & l.. u. ROAD.
Annual Election OF Direstors-Prospect.
or tho Road.

NoRwALk, O., December l6.-Yesterday
being the day OF the annual meeting OF
the stockholders OF the Wheeling & Lake
Erie Rsilway, and for the election OF Di.
rectors, the meeting was organized by call.
ing Hon. O. B. SticKney, oithis city to the
chair, and appointing F. G. Lockwood
Secretary. Two thousand seven hundred
and sixty eight shares OF stock were voted
on, aud the following gentlemen were
elected Directors: D. L. Wadsworth, OF
Wellington, for ten years, in the place
OF Albert White, OF New London, resign.
ed; J. W. Wickham, Jr., of Huron;
John Hslmes; Jos eph Bell, Wheeling; Joel
Wood, Martins Ferry, each for three
years. 1t Is now a fixed fact that this road,
80 long delayed In its construction, will be
completed In the near future. The
termini OF the road are Toledo
on the northwest, and Martins
Ferry and Wheeling on the southeast,
passing through the extensive coal re:
vious Of the Tuscarawas Valley, In Stark
county, making the city OF MassilIion end
the village Of Navarro, In Stark county,
aud Ioar, ia Tuscarawas county, points on
It's line; thence to Martins Ferry, opening
up the extensive coal fields Of Carroll,
Jefferson, Harrison, and Belmont coun.
ties, which Of themselves. with
the Tuscarawas Valley, will keep
the new road busy, connected with the
great trade that Massillon will furnish for
Il, trade that can only be measured by
its capacity, however great that may be.
Mr.. Folger, OF Massillon, Is here in the
interests OF that city, and IN accordance
with his suggestions Messrs. John
Wood, OF Martins Ferry; X. II.
Cochran and Joseph Bell, Of Wheeling;
WiCkham, OF Huron, and Sutherland, oi
smithfeld, Jefferson county, accompanied
by o. K. Greggs, the contractor who built
the whole road, will visit Massillon and
the TuEcArawas Valley from Huron to
Pike Station, tiity.six miles The
road Ia being built rapidly and
will be in running order by the
lst OF May, OF turthest. The Board re.
mains the same as last year, except that
John Holmes, OF Harrison county, takes
the place OF D. A. Baker, Jr, OF this city
fact Of much significance ID view oil the
future prospects Of the road. A presi
dent will not be elected for some days o,
weeks.