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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-09
Change for the Sake of Change.


me Detroit Tribune, being in an
inquirlng mood, asks divers and
sundry questions in regard to a
cnange for the sake of change" of
Demo-Confed for Republican adj
niihlstration. Says that paper:
II change is desirable there must
pe reason tor it. If there is such a
reason, what is it? If change will
improve the condition of anything
vi anybody, whose will it improve.
ana now will it do it? These are
lhe things that thoughtful voters
will ask:
VIII change help me?
viii change help my neighbor
VIII change increase the wages of
lhech4nics and laborers?
viii change secure better price
70 farmers and producers
viii change make employment
more certain?
VIII change increase the profits OF
merchants and manufacturers ?
VIII change make the collection OF
det Is easier?
Will change make it easier to Dor.
row money?
VIII change lower the rates of in.
tereSt?
Will change promote the starting
Of new factories, railroads and enter
pFises
Will change give us better cur
rency'
Will change establish the national
credit on a sounder basis?
Will change increase the flow Of
gold now pouring into our lap from
the Old World
Will change give us officers who
will do better than handle all the
moneys OF the government with only
the loss of one-third of cent on
81 900.
Will change give US purer cleo
tions /?
Will change encourage a nation al
Seltiment and loye of country among
the people?
VIII change enforce the amend
ments to the Constitution more
surely?
Will change add more stability to
the government?
If change Will do no good for these
things, what good will it do?
And if it can do no possible good
why should we risk the hazard of a
change:
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-09
A Greater than Barnum,s.

Wonders have long ceased to De
wonders. There is nothing now that
astonishes the multitude. Days for
running wild with excitement do not
come as often as they did in times
gone by. Such an enterprise as that
organized by the millionaire propri-
etors of the Great Inter Ocean, said
to be twelve times the largest Rail-
way show on earth, few years ago
would fairly cause TO be turned
around, the heads of half the nation.
They have; however, in spite of this
marvellous revolution of public SEN
timent, wherein nothing any longer
astonishes, succeeded in making
more of stir IN the amusement
world, than is healthy for the fnan-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-09
Texas Locals.
TEXAS, Sept. 3Oth, 1880

ENAS, sept. QUIZ, lSSU.
Mr.. EDITOR Peace prevails in
this section. Rev. Il. NJ. Moore
was called to the house of Mr.. Jehn
j. Wills, last Sunday, to join in mat.
rimony Mr.. Wotring and Miss
Sbuttlesworth. After marriage they
started for their home near Aurora.
1t has been said that Rev. Mr..
Moore charges five dollars as mar
riage fee. This is not the case. He
never makes a charge.
Rev. w. Y. Cline commences a
pr0tracted meeting at the Red House
on the Sd of October.
The way some Christians act we
would suppose there were walls and
partitions in heaven, and we all
wanted the best place, and were
afraid of being excluded by others.
Miss Media Roth has returned
from visiting friends and relatives
at Cranberry and Aurora.
Miss Minerva Hollen is visiting
relatives in Harrison county.
PAGE TUA.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-09
Real Estate Transfers.

The following is list of real estate
transfers filed for record i'm the office
of w. H. Tower, Clerk of the Circuit
Court for Garrett county, for the
week ending October 6:
Joseph r. Anderson and wife to
Samuel Jones, part of "Republic,
containing 105 acres $500.
Joshua nj. Friend and wife I'll d.
A. Friend, part of Resurvey on
Blooming Rose" containing acres /;
SIG.
Joshua NJ. Friend and wife to d.
A. Friend, part of "Grim's Point"
containing 100 acres s475.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-09

We have received large specimens
of apples from Noah Pysell, of the
Flat Woods settlement, this county,
measuring 49, inches in ciirlmfer
ence and weighing II ounces. These
specimens were of the King of
Thomkins county variety.
Also, from Henry Feigh, near Ac-
cident, specimens of the Northern
Spy and other varieties. of the same
size and weight, and from Samuel
Crane, Of Hutton's Switch, a very
fine specimen.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-09

mo period since the republic was
formed has offered such boundless as
surances of success to thrift as the
present and it would be the widest
folly to disturb the magnificent pros
pect by entrusting the government to
a party that has no defined ideas of
legislation in either finance or com
merce." This is very sensible
paragraph contained in the address of
the Michigan State Republican Com
nittee.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-09
Rebel Claims.

~-NN~-~~O'
The Mason Mich Ne,eS of Sept.
9, 1880, says: ''In the Grand Rapids
Weekly Democrat, of August 10, APP
peared review of a recent speech of
Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, in
which the Senator spoke strongly OF
the danger of the allowance of rebel
Claims, amounting to millions of dol
lars. in case of Hancock election
The Democrat article cited the fourth
section of the XIVth Amendment
to the Constitution as interposing an
insuperahle barrier to the payment
of rebel claims, and claimed
that Senator Edmunds delivered the
speech in question, well knowing the
fact. We cut out the article and en-
closed it with short letter to Mr..
Edmunds, and promptly received the
following reply:
BURLINGTON, VT, Aug. so, 1880.
"DEAR SIR:-Yours of the 18th
came just as | was going out of town.
| fear the editor of the Grand RQD,ds
Democrat is not very hungry to find
out exactly what the 4th section of
XIVth Amendment covers in point
of law.
"The Rebel claims referred to are
not claims of rehelS for aiding the
rebellion, but for property, amount.
ing altogether to hundreds, and prob.
ably thousands of millions, taken or
destroyed by armies of the United
States, and therefore the moment the
test of loyalty of any claimant is re-
pealed the claim of the Rebel stands
exactly like the claim of any other
citizen of the Government on &C.
count of its action, and not 0niac-
count of the action Of the rebel au-
thorities.
1.-THE Democrats in Congress have
tried time after time to repeal the
distinction in respect of claims of
loyal and disloyal persons. and they
have hills now pending i'm the SEN
ate to effect that object, and they will
effect it by solid or nearly solid
DtiDucTdllc NOie lne moment tney
get possession of all the departments
of the Government.
GAS to rebel pensions, the editor of
the Democrat, if he will reflect lit
tie, will, am sure, agree that pen
sion does not in any case fall within
the description of amy debt or obi
CATION and if so, it is not within the
prohibition of XIVth Amendment.
A pension is and always has been
granted upon the ground or bounty
of gratitude and not of legal obliga-
tiGn. 1t is perfectly clear, therefore,
that the constitution does not stand
in the way of Congress pensioning
every rebel soldier or soldiers widow
and children, or. indeed, every other
rebel, if it pleases.
81 will not reciprocate the epithets
of this worthy editor.
Very truly yours,
GEO. f. EDMUNDs.
Nv. J. TEFFT, ESQ.,, Mason, Ing
ham Co., Mich.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-09

The Sturdebakers', proprIetors of
immense wagon manufactures at
South Bend, and the DE Pauws of
plate glass works, who have hereto
fore been Democrats, come out in
public letters declaring their inten-
ton to vote and use their influence
for Garfield at the next election. A
tariff for revenue alone, such as the
Democratic platform calls for, will
be so rulnous to the manufacturing
interests of the country, that they
feel themselves compelled to wage
war-against the party with which
they were formerly identified.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-09

cial pulse of opposition shows. This
mammoth, twelve-fold consolidation
with its six acres of patent French
waterproof Pavilions, brilliantly
illuminated day and night, above
the brightness of the sun, with
$4,000 Electric Light; its colossal
museum, menagerie, aquarium and
classic circus; its twenty posed per-
forming elephants, including the gil
gantic war elephant Empress, nearly
twelve feet high and one hundred
and thirty-one years old also Theos
dCrus, the white elephant Zula
Kafre Giants, eight feet high j; its
two hundred Arabian ring horses;
its monster group of twenty Sea-
Lions and Sea Elephants a circus of
one hundred of the worlds great ar
fists its $4,000 troupe of educated
dogs; its $4,000 stud of educated
stations, troupe of royal Egyptian
iugglers, fifty famous athletes, fifty
brilliant acrobats, City of the best
male and female riders known to the
profession; its three great chariot
Bands Of forty uniformed musicians,
and in fact its thousands of attrac-
tons and scores of the most celebra
ted equestrians known to the arena,
will all be exhibited in Oakland, on
Thursday, October 18th, on which
occasion, we have no doubt, there
will he in attendance the largest
crowd ever seen in any show since
the war.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-09
Democratic Predictions.

They predicted that secession sure
y would be peaceable.
They predicted that the States
would not respond to President Lin
coins call for militia.
They predicted that the militia
would refuse to cross the Potomac
and in wade Virginia.
They predicted that money could
not be raised in order to sustain the
army.
They predicted that the people
would not take the greenback.
They predicted that the greenback
dollar would be valueless as rags.
They predicted that grass would
grew in the streets of New York.
They predicted that France and
England would form an alliance with
the South in order to secure cotton.
They predicted that a poverty
sticken people in the North would
compel the government to terminate
the war.
They predicted that Grant would
not capture Richmond.
They predicted that the war for the
Union would be a failure.
They predicted that the Confeder-
acv would never be Overthrown.
They predicted that the people
would never consent to emancipation.
They predicted that the people
would never ratify the amendments
to the Constitution.
They predicted that the freed me-
groes would surely become race of
paupers.
They predicted that the people
would never permit black men at the
ballot box.
They predicted that the war would
terminate in a vast standing army
and military dictator.
They predicted that the child was
unborn who would live to see gold or
silver returned to the currency of the
country.
They predicted that the interest on
the vast public debt could never be
paid.
They predicted that specie pay.
ments would not be resumed on the
LIST of January, 1879.
They predicted that the RESUMPTION
of specie payments would bring uni-
versal disaster and ruin upon the
business and mercantile industries of
the country.-N. Y. Commercial.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-09

OF the Democratic party on this sub
ject is old and consistent. Jefferson
opposed Military men for Presidents.
So did all of our revolutionary
fathers. Washington was only a
Volunteer General. The Democrats
have never elected a Regular Army
General President; and we never
voted for but one and that was Me-
Clcllan and unless we become fools
and false to liberty and to our Eri,a-
cipLes we will neUer vote for another.
Look at our Democratic Presidents !:
Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson,
Van Buren,. Polk, Pierce ard Buch-
ana. Only two generals among them,
Jackson and Pierce, and both Of
these were volunteers, with large ex-
perlence as statesmen, and small
experience as soldiers.
| warn this free land ofours against
any man educated at West Point.
West Point is the School of Iyrdnts.
1t is a School where men are trained
to he Masters. 1t Is a School where
arbitrary and absolute despOtjsm is
the chfef lac. To elect West Point
soldier President is like going into q
lions den. Grant was first Colonel,
then Brigadier General, then Major
General, then Lieutenant General,
and then full General, and then Presi-
dent, and now he wants 10 he Presi-
dent a second term and now warn
you, if you elect him again. you will
never have chance to vote for an
Ither President. Grant is bound to
be King.
No nation that wor+hips baHitary
UNIFORM can long remain free. No
nation that kisses bloody sword can
live long without a King. God gave
the lsraelites Il King As a punish
ment. He may punish us for our
crimes by making Grant a King.
Let us take warning. The Damo.
crafts offer you statesman. The Re.
publicans offer you "A man whose only
claim to greatness is the number of
fields he ha8 filed with human
cOrpses, and these corpses his own
coIntrymen. Grants victories were
won over his fellow Americans. No
such man can be- trusted.
Beware of West Point. Beware of
the Regular Army. Beware of Mill
tary Heroes. Through these agencies
all the free nations of the past lost
their liberties.
If you are tired of being free, and
tired of voting for President. and
want to have master, vote for mill.
fdry men; hut if you love freedom
vote for "A States nun
This was Democratic talk in 1872.
Only change the names, and it will
suit the present campaign very well,
SO far as we are concerned. Odd
EeitOar
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-09
What the Democrats Thought of a
Military President.

just now the Democratic party
profess great love for Generals, and a
profound respect for military men as
candidates for President. 1t was not
always 80. and would not be SO now,
if it was not for the fact that they
are running one at the head of their
ticket, and are exceedingly anxious
to elect him. II Is only another proof
of their total lack of principle and
that they are are all things to all men
for the sake OF the spoils of Office.
There is no principle with them in
their canvass f: it it only a hungering
after change-a change of place from
that of waiting outside to that of
filling their empty maws at the ex-
pense of the government.
Here are few specimens of the
kind of talk they used to make eight
years ago:
Grant is not fit to be the President
of a free people. No military man
Is. The customs of the regular army
are the customs of tyrd,lts. No peo>
pie can remain free who allow mill
tary heroes to become their rulers.
Grant is nothing but what war has
made him. He has had no civil ex-
perience never was 50 much as a
constable. For a free people to
make him President is as unwise as
for Christian people to elect an
atheist as their preacher. War is
murder, robbery and arson. This is
the profession of military men. Sol
diers are necessary evils in the time
of war, and unnecessary eUits IN time
of peace. rt.era
No, the election ola Regular army
General as President of Free PEG
pie is an act of insanity. The record
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-09
ORDER NISI.

c. f. Hetzel and Jno. G. Bauer. VS.. George
Percy and Alice K. Percy.
No. 1876 Equity. In the Circuit Court for Gar
rett county.
1t is hereby ordered this 9th day of Octo-
ber 1880, that the sale made and reported by
C. f. Hetzel and John G. Bauer, NOR gagees,
of the real estate described in the above
cause he ratified and confirmed unless cause
to the contrary thereof be shown on or be-
fore the 9Th day of November next F; provided
a copy of this order be inserted in some
newspaper printed at Oakland, Md, once in
each of three successive weeks before the 9th
day of November next.
The report states the amount of sales to be
$500.
w. H. TOWER,
Clerk Circuit Court for Garre, county.
True copy-Test-
oc9-3w w. II. TOWER, Clerk.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-09
A Good Farm Gate.

William FaherIy has on exhibit
ton in Oakland, one of the celebra.
ted Brown Farm Gates. for which he
is acting as agent for this county.
This IS one of the mCst convenient
and inexpensive gates we have ever
seen. Call and see it W hen you
come to town.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-09

The hungry, starving Democratic
party is crying out. IA change ;give
us a change"
A busy and prosperous and cohten-
ted country, NV hat for?
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-09
LOCAL, N Ewa.
Read our new advertisements.


Large quantities of chestnuts are
being shipped from this place.
Miss III. M. Robinson has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. E. E. Ison.
-Messrs. r. w. Crane and James
Deberry started for Creston, Iowa,
Monday morning.
Mrs. E. f. Chisholm and sister
have returned from visit to Bloom
ingtoh.
DIR. J. Lee McComas offers for
sale young Cotswold Buck. Price
$40.
"A military company has been
formed at LonscOning, call the "Wat-
kins Rifles" This makes three com
panies for Allegany county.
Hog cholera is prevailing along
The Savage river III this county. and
is especially fatal in the Broadwater
settlement.
Don't forget it. VIM. P. Totten's
Cheap Cash Store is the place to get
the highest cash price for sheep
skins. IA am
"A large number of the citizens
of Oakland Will visit the Baltimore
SeSqui- Centennial next week. The
Oakland Cornet Band will probably
90.
H. Wheeler Combs, Esq, left
Oakland Wednesday for Cumber-
land, where he will join Mr.. Urner
in his campaign through this and
Allegany counties.
Mr.. Henry Feigh. residing near
Accident, informed us few days
since, that he had raised few years
ago stalk of buck wheat which
yielded 1854 grains.
Mr.. b. f. Crane left at this Of
flee specimens of the "20 ounce" or
"Red Streak d Apple" weighing
Is ounces and measuring ID inches
III circumference.
--Baiiff Chisholm has put up a
substantial new railing and side walk
on the North side of the railroad cut.
from the Smouse building to the
Democrat building.
Persons attending the big show
next ThurSd ", should call and see
Messr-. BelPs new Spddlery and
harness manufactory, lin the old Otfutt
building. They guarantee their ma
terial and workmanship to be equal
to any in the State, and superior to
any in Oakland.
ALL soldiers of the late war, re
siding in this county, who propose
to support Garfield and Arthur, will
please send their name, rank and reg
iment to Mr.. A. G.. Sturglss. We de-
sire to publish a list of the same be
fore the election, and wish to have it
as complete as possible.
The Comfy Commissioners held
session Monday and Tuesday. The
only business transacted of general
interest was the appointment of j.
Z, Browning, return judge for dis
trict No. l, vice John Riley, deceas-
ed, and the disappointment of David
Chambers janitor of the court house,
at $3.50 per NOR tn.
Died-At the residence of her hus,
band, in Oakland, Sunday, October
81, Mrs. Phoebe Delawder, aged A
years, 5 months ard "a days. The
remains We're Inferred Tuesday, the
burial services being conducted by
Revs. B. Ison and John M. Davis.
Deceased was highly respected in this
community. A husband and four
children are left to mourn the loss OF
an affectionate wife and mother.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-09
Republican Rally in No. s.

There will be Republican meet
Ing at Calvert's Shook Shop, in Ry.
ans Glades, Saturday evening, DC.
tober 10Th, at 7 O'Clock. Thos. j..
Peddicord, Esq, will address the
meeting.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-09
ORDER NISI.

Thomas B. Wiley and others, VS.. Mariah
Wilbur and others.
In the Circuit Court for Garrett county. No.
1856. Equity.
ORDERED, by the Circuit Court for Gar
rett county, in equity, this 18th day of Sep
tember A. D.. 1880, that the sale made and
reported in the above entitled cause by Thos.
j. Peddicord and II. Wheeler Combs, trus-
tees. be ratified and confirmed unless cause
to- the contrary thereof be shown IN or before
the 3Oth day of October, A. d., 1880, provided,
a copy of this order be inserted In some news
paper published in the town OF Oakland once
"A week for three successive weeks prior to the
2sth day Of October, A. ID. 1880
The report states the amount OF sales TO be
eight hundred and twenty five dollars.
w. II. TOWER,
Clerk Circuit Court.
True copy-Test-
oc2-8w w. II. TOWER, Clerk.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-09
Church Seryiccs--Sunday.

M. +. Church. preaching in the
morning at 104 O'clock, by Rev. Ii.
G. Sanford.
Stone Misunderstanding IN the
evening at y O'Clock, by the pastor.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-09

Garfield, Arthur, Urner
and Victory I!
Grand Republican
NJ A SS-M l B 7 IN GS
For Garrett county,
will be held as follows
Bloomington, Oct. 9, 2 p. m.
Oakland, Oct. 18th, 2 p. m.
These meetings will be adj
dressed by Hon. Milton G..
Urner, candidate for Con-
gress, II. Wheeler Combs,
candidate for Presidential
Elector, Thos. j. Peddicord,
ESQ.,. and others.
Let there be a grand rally
at each of the above meet
ings. All friends of "good
times" ''honest money"
national integrity and our
country's prosperity arr earn
estly invited to attend.
The district committees of
the several districts will please
make all necessary arrange
ments for the meetings in
their respective districts.
Meetings at other points
in the county will be an
nounced as soon as arrange
ments are completed.
By order
A. G. STURG1ss,
Chairman State Central
Committee for Garrett Co.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-09

AGENTS WANTED for the Best Book to SELL
THE HISTORY Of the BIBLE.
SPLENDID STEEL ENGRAvtNG[2 X % inches.l
FREE TO every subscriber. Agents are max.
ing S2i to SlV0 per week. send for special
terms to
rs. lsI7 HENRY BILL PUBLISHING Co.,
NORWICH, CONN. s2o-4W
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-09
Containing 696 l-2 Acres,

more or less, of timber land, situated on
Keysers Ridge. in Garrett county, Maryland
contiguous to Mason and DiXon's line, and
near the National Turnpike road. being part
of a tract of land formerly owned by John
villages of Grantsvile and Petersburgh, ad :
joining the lands of John Bender Thomas
Hammond's heirs, Michael KNIGHT, Peter
Camp, Samuel Ii chiel and others This tract
of land is heavily timbered with finest sugar
and maple timber, red oak, white oak spruce
chestnut. poplar, DC.
TERMS OF SALE LIBERAL.
Apply to z. S. Claggett and Geo. W. Smith,
trustees, Hagerstown, Md. oc9-4w
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-09
Notice to Poultry Raisers

The undersign ed has for sale q very fine lot
of Mammoth Bronze Turkeys. Prices reas-
enable. Address, s. u. YoDER.
o9-4 Grantsville, Garrett county. Md.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-09
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
Important to Farmers.

will exchange furniture for all kinds of
gra and marketable produce. have now
furniture, mattresses, carpets, &C., &c.
oct Off JOHN SHATZER.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-09
Valuable Real Estate
AT
PRIVATE SALE,

BY virtue of a decree of the Circuit Court
for Washington county, as Court OF Equity,
the undersigned as trustees, will sell at pri-
vate sale, all that valuable real estate of
which Hezekiah Clagett died seized,
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-08-31
SCHOOL DIRECTORY.

DARENTS In search of schools for their children
will find prospectuses of the best in the country
in
Pinckney's School and College Direc-
tory for 1880.
At Office FREE: by mail, SIX CENTS. Special
Catalogues Of the best schools furnished gratis. I.
COTESW ORTIZ PINCKNEY' s Agency for schools
and teachers Broadway and 18th street.. New York