Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1880-08-17

debt was reduced over five and half mil
lions Of dollars during the month OF July.
There are twenty letters in winfield
Scott Hancock" in James Abraham Gar
field" and In Chester Absslom Arthur"
The next President will he the twentieth.
AT Democratic Convention In Mlssls-
sippi an orator, who was eulogizug Gen.
Hancock, was interrupted by delegate
with the suggestion. Suppose YOU give Us
"a little less Hancock and more Robert T..
Lee"
Glad to hear from General Hancock
that the bayonetss not a III instrument for
collecting the votes OF free men" Does he
think the shotgun lit instrument to col
lect the votes OF freedmen!
| The farmer Grcenbacker will doubt
less pause moment when he learns that
General Weaver has written the Socialists
"A letter declaring his approval oftheir reso-
luton relating Ia the use OF land-that IL il
not thing that can DC owned by any man.
The average Democratic voter who
was made Ia vote the Fifteenth AmenI-
mrnt Revolutionary, null AMI void IN
1865 must have high appreciation of the
him To vote it To be inviolablc.
1t is said that Mr.. Viewer returns
from the South folly satisfied that there
can he no such thing rs fair election there.
lie heard democrats openly discuss plans
for ballot-boX frauds, and comes 70 The con
cluson that Mr.. Tilden never was elected
by fair yote-a point upon which he has
previously been in doubt.
One illustration of the ruin" which
Republican administration has brought up
on the affairs OF the country is that during
the last year of Democratic administration
at Washington, 1860, money was borrowed
at IL per cent: interest to meet the current
expenses Of Government, while at the
present time the United States four per
cent bonds are selling at premium of
from eight 10 nine cents on dollar.
Col. Thomas Rafferty, OF the seventy
first New York Volunteers complain that
the New York Herdid refuses TO correct its
statement 10 the effect that large MAORI
" of the officers ofthc Third Corps Associ-
alton declared for General Hancock at
recent meeting. Col. Rafferty, says that no
vote was taken, but on the next day there
was an expression ofopinion, showing that
but four OF the members of the association
present would vote for General Hancock.
The North american says: Twenty
years ago IL was the custom among south
ern orators to declare that one southerner
was equal TO doZern Yanks in scrim-
mage. The war changed all that. Now
southern paper comes out with the declara-
ton that the votes of thousand Demo-
La AL Of
We thousand radicals. No doubt of il.
The Democrats are equal 10 counting five
votes for every one cast. but that can
hardly be called reform, can it?
1T Is the quiet vote which Is going to
elect Garfield Men who think for them
selves and make no proclamation OF their
purpose, are the ones whose votes make
the majorities. They are business men
and farmers, who are saying quietly among
themselves "well, business Is good now,
and the country is prosperous. | think we
had better vote In favor OF keeping busl-
ness good and increasing the general pros
perity" The country is full of this kind
of voters, and the louder the Democrats
demand change the stronger becomes
the public opposition 10 one.-N L. Trib-
HRe.
-Hancock's letter of acceptance says:
1T Is only by q full vote, free ballot and
fair count that the people can rule in fact
~ required by the theory OF our Govern
ment Take this foundation away and the
whole structure falls" Exactly, and II Is
for these things that the Republicans Of
Maine are lighting to-day against the
Tabulators who manipulated election re-
turns and the scoundrels who forged them.
Whoever honestly believes in these words
OF General Hancock will vote for Daniel 4.
Davis.
The Cincinnati Commercial (Ind. re-
torts rather sharply to General Hancock's
declaration that the Constitutional amend
ments are ''inviolabe," and that neither
fraud nor force must be allowed TO subyert
the rights ofthe people" by informing him
that these amendments are violated by the
Acknowledgement of colored voters when
they are sufficiently numerous TO effect the
result of elections, and that the terror Of
the whip and pistol will give General Han
clicks party electoral votes which he would
not receive If those amendments were ell
forced.
There are some queer things In the
1876, the entire vote ofChilton county was
llil now II reports Democratic MAORI
ty of 1900 ST. Clair county reported 1929
votes In 1876, OF which Ala were Republi-
can; now II reports Democratic majority
OF 1000. Etowah distinguished herself by
Democratic majority Of 1000 on an ag-
gregate vote Of 1916 four years ago, but
now disputes the place OF banner county,
with an alleged Democratic majority of
1000; Lowndes showed Il Republican ma
jority OF 400 in 1876 1t claims now DEM
ocratic majority OF 1900, being just 10
more than its entire Democratic vote OF
four years ago. There Is nothing like
what Gen. Hancock calls "a full vote"
New York Tribune; The solid south
Is peculiar region for accidents. A
circular issued by an accident insurance
company of Mobile contains table giving
the names OF people who have received .ac-
cident policies during the past six or seven
years. In each instance the amount paid
and the character OF the accident are
given. or the Is persons named one was
injured by fall, one was killed by rail-
road train and one was drowned. The
accidents" in the other IL cases are put
as follows ''KilIed by pistol, ""Hung by
a mob" "Gun-shot wound, sPistol-shot,"
.'Killed, gun-shot," s'killed, attempting to
pistol-shot," "Pistol shot," Murdered"
In what other part Of the civilized world
would assassination be classed under the
head of accident?