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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-05-06
Horatio Seymour's Career.


Is it neces sary that man should be
a candidate in order to be nominated for
the Presidency? Has the Office sunk so
low that no man is to be considered
available for it unless he has put ma
chine in operation to capture it? Horatio
Seymour was never candidate for any.
thing. Every Office he has held came to
him unsought. AS far back as 1S45, he
was talked of for Speakerof the Assembly.
Silas Wright was Governor. Mr.. Sey-
mour went to him and said: "My name
has been mentioned for Speaker. If it
the slightest degree to have me occupy
the place, or if for any reason you prefer
that another candidate should be chosen,
just say the word and | will retire from
the field" But Wright did not say the
word and Seymour was elected. In 1850,
when the two hostile wings of the Demo-
cracy came toge' her in the State, Sey-
mour was nominated for Governor. But
he was not candidate then. In 1852
he was renominated AMI elected, but
without an effort on his own part, and
hardly with his own consent. In 1854
he was very anxious to retire. but was
driven into running again. The only
time that he ever desired an office (even
if he did then), was in 1862 He saw
| and appreciated the necessity of leading
the party in the right direction on the
war issue. He was Union man, and h :
| was resolved that the Democracy of
New York should be Union PAL ty,
whatever it cost. He ran willingly and
was elected. But in 1S64he unqualifedly
refused a denomination. 1t was only
when McClellan's friends peremptorily
| demanded that he should sacrifice all
personal considerations to the good OF
the cause, that he consented to stand.
No man who followed the course of
| events in 1868 needs to be told that
Governor Seymour was not then a candi-
date for the Presidency. The nomina-
ton was forced upon him in way that
admitted of no honorable withdrawal,
and he consented to run. He will not
now engage in scramble for the Presi-
Dental nomination. If others want the
place, they can have it for all of him.
He meets all overtures with the frank
and truthful statement that he is not a
candidate. But if the convention nomi-
mates him, he will not decline. That il
his position, as defined bv Senator
Herman and others whose relations with
him are most intimate, and who have
never yet been mistaken in regard to his
true position. He is indisputably the
strongest man in the party. For thirty
years he was the friend and associate oi
Tilden. There has never been a differ.
ence between them on questions of public
policy. He supported Tilden in hi,
fight against Tweed and in his war or
the Canal ring. With the exception Of
little knot of personal followers, Til
den's friends are his friends. Moreover
he can unite in his support the entir,
Democraticparty. Dissemination woult
be 30 wise that unless Mr. Tilden is ben
on sacrificing success to his grievances
it will come about in the natural orde
of events.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-05-06
The Deluded Black Man.

The regulation colored man from the
South now turns up with the periodical
precision of that intimate political and
near personal friend of Grant," to tell
how the whites of the South do little or
nothing else than gun fer the blacks and
main or kill them as q matter of daily
amusement. The colored brother is
generally found lettering about in con-
genial idleness waiting for something to
turn up, and he is utilized as a martyr
or hero before the Exodus Committee of
the Senate. 1t is mewhat remarkable
that these regulation sable witnesses are
seldom heard of after they testify or fur
nish the materials for newspaper article
in modern organ, unless as starvelings
seeking aims from those who don't make
politics trade. Whenever the story is
obtained from the hopeful colored
refugee, his usefulness is ended with
those who tempt him to falsehood with
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-05-06
Printing Under Difficulties.
New York Herald,l


The WI Of the People is the title of
the organ of the Nihilists in Russia. 1t
appears in the most extraordinary way
in unexpected corners and when least
looked for. They say it is constantly
to be found on The toilet table of the EN-
peror and under the pillows of states
men and generals. The manner in
which this curious organ is printed is
described at length by the St. Petersburg
correspondent of tae Manchester Guar
dian. The Office is gloomy, miserable
room at the top of house in poor To-
cality. On the door is the announce
ment of some fictit Gus trade. The room
is occupied by poor wretch, formerly
a student; it is wretchedly furnished.
The bed occupies pretty nearly the en-
tire room. Everything is mean and
squalid. The owner of the apartment
is editor, compositor, reporter, printer
and publisher. Under the mattress of
the miserable bed the type is hidden.
Thence, when occasion offers, it is trans
ferred to the multitudinons pockets of
his great coat. lie goes out into the
street with diminutive note book,
hangs about public buildings, glares at
people in authority, whom he would
kill if glance could murder, writes
his "leaders" in secluded corner of a
park, and rolls each page into pill to
be swallowed on the approach of po-
liceman. As soon as tie work is finished
he steals home, locks and barricades the
door, gets out his type aud sets up the
paper, which he afterwards prints in a
primitive manner, and distributes
through the streets and in cafes, and by
all other means known to conspirators
This account of the difficult, dangerous
and painful duty which that poor, patient
scribe performs under the direction Of
an inexorable committee, from whom he
receives little help, may or may not be
in accordance with truth; but there re
mains the undeniable fact that under
the very pose of the terrible Third Sec
ton, despite all the vigilance of the po
lice, a sheet is printed, published anc
circulated, and no man can put his hanc
upon those who thus contribute to tn,
literature of revolution.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-05-06
The Republican Party and the Super.
vision Of Elections.
New York Nation.

It is not denied and cannot be denied
that the present mode of appointing
deputy marshals on election day has
been marked by gross abuses. The law
under which they are appointed applies
only to cities of over 0,000 inhabitants,
and by far the larger number of such
cities are to be found at the North. The
United States Marshals who appoint
these deputies for service on election
day are always strong partisans, and, in
fact, generally receive their own places
for strong partisanship. 1t has been
proved that in very large number Of
cases the deputies selected by them have
been persons of the worst character, who
do the dirty work of ward politics
keepers of grog-shops, and of houses OF
prostitution, pugiists, gamblers, and in
many instances, discharged convicts and
drunkards. If these men on election
day were held together as police force
under a commanding officer with dis
ciplinary powers, it might, perhaps, be
said that their moral character and an
tecedents were of no consequence, but
they are not, when on duty, under any
body's control. The authority of the
marshal over them, even if he could
look after them, is merely nominal, for
they are only hired for the day, and the
only penalty that could be inflicted on
them is dismissal. They stand around
the polls virtually as independent agents,
and actually have lthe right of arresting
without warrant any man whom they
choose to accuse of offering fraudu-
lent vote, and carrying him off in Gus
tody. Now, even if this power had
never been abused-and even il
it be power which ought to be lodged
in some officer present at the polls, it il
against natural justice to lodge it in the
hands of partisan, no matter how good
his character, and grossly indecent to
lodge in the hands of partisan of nc
character at all. 1t may be that the
Democratic plan of having these men
appointed by the judges of the Circuit
Court, is, as Mr.. Edmunds pointed out
a faulty one, and it may be that the
phrase good moral character ought te
acter of the deputy marshals, as it ha.
able to say what constitutes really
good man, but every one knows that {
thief or keeper of house of ill-fame
or drunkard or gambler, is, ipso facto
unfit to hold Office under Christian
government even for day, and unfit tt
exercise the power of arresting any mar
without warrant, and that the machin
cry which puts such men in Office need
alteration. The notion which seems t.
have run through Mr.. Edmund's speech
that machinery of this kind, howeve
bad as it may be, is good enough for th'
Democrats, is one which, useful as i
may sometimes prove in sweetening tn,
malignity of private quarrel, has nj
| place in craftsmanship.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-05-06
The Peruvian Dictator.
TCalloa Correspondence.l


Don Nicolas Pierola was born in
Camana, in the department of Arequipa
in 1910. His father was noted Peru
Wan naturalist and companion of
Humboldt in his researches on this
coast. He received good education,
and at one time was destined for clerical
orders, but being of an aggressive dis
position his parents considered the army
the most fitting profession to place him
in. At the age of twenty-five he re-
ceived commission in the army, but
after serving few years without hav-
ing a trial of active service, he resigned,
having become disgusted with the mill
tary service. He then turned his atten-
ton to politics, occupying various posi-
tions under the Government, Until he
was brought into prominence by his ap-
pointment as Minister of Finance by
President Balta; this occurred in 1868.
1t was during his tenure of that Office
that the railway contracts, which at
that time seemed to promise SO much
advancement and prosperity to Peru,
were negotiated with Henry Meiggs aud
others. To meet the obligations Of the
Government under the above contracts,
Pierola negotiated in Europe loans
amounting 10 the sum of $50, 900, 900,
bonding the guano revenues for the
same. Everything for while was
"fush," money being more plentiful
than it was in the States during the
war;. Soon a reaction came: railway
construction was suspended, and the
country was on the verge of fnancia
ruin. AS somebody must suffer for the
disaster to the prosperity of the country,
Pierola, with the other members of Bal
ta's cabinet, were impeached by The
Prado Government, which had ascended
to power. Tried by hostile Congress,
Pierolo, with the other Ministers, was
acquitted. From this dates his hos
tility to the Prado party.
During the present war Plerola has
proved himself staunch patriot. Yet
while abroad, an exile, he wrote letters
to La Patra, pointing out the dangers
which would beset Perm in the event OF
her becoming an ally of Bolivia, which
predictions have been fulfilled. How
ever, since the war was decided upon
and since his return to Peru, he has
given the late administration his un
qualified support. As one disaster
after another befel Peru, and tc
meet the wishes of the people
Pierola was asked by Gen. La
Puerta, First Vice President and Act
ing President, to form Cabinet. Ht
declined, and a few weeks ago pub
lished an open letter in the press giving
his reasons therefor, and in very plaiI
Language intimated that nothing shor
of resignation of all the administra
tive officers, from the President down
would save the country in its presen
trial, or prevent domestic violence. 1t j
the settled opinion of thinking mel
that Pierola is the only man in Per-
to-day able to handle the reiDs of Gov
ernment with abilities sufficient t
carry on vigorous war. or conclude a.
honorable peace.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-05-06
Mrs. Partington at the Sociable.
TB. P. shillaber in the Cambridge Avenue.I

lB Z. Shlllaber in the Cambridge Ayenue.l
There was no mistaking the costume,
and the fact that the venerable dame
led small boy by the hand confirmed
the impression that Mrs. Partington
was indeed in the assemblage. There
was momentary lull in the conversa-
ton, and the party gathered around the
new conner, eager to shake her by the
hand. 'Bless mep said she, with q
beamipg smile, which played over her
face like sunshine over lake. Bless
mel how salutery you all are!-just as
you ought to be at Il time like this,
when, nothing harmonious SHOULD be al
lowed to- disturb your hostilities. You
are very kind, Pm sure, and am glad
to see you trying to enjoy yourselves.
We had no church sociables in my
young days, but we had husin' bees and
| quiltin' bees aud apple bees and"
"Bumble bees" said Ike, breaking in
like a boy on thin ice-tsand though we
had go)d times, and sociables enough,
goodness knows, when the read ears
were found, they were nothing to the
superfuity of this"
There was slight disturbance in the
circle, as Ike in his restlessness placed
his heel on a circumjacent toe. but it
was stilIed as the mas er of ceremonies
came up to introduce the minister.
"Glad to see you, madam said the
minister, 81 hope you may find the
hour spent with us happy one." "I
know shall, she replied, "fer happiness
depends very much On how we enjoy
ourselves, and enough of anything al
ways satisfies me. How could l. help
enjoying myself in a scene of such life
and animosity as this? And then
| the lights, blazing like CONSERVATION,
and the music and flowers make it seem
J Ike Pharaoh land"
The minister was called away, and
the master of ceremonies asked Mrs. P.
if she would like can ice," which sne
family heard. GA nice-?D she re-
piled, looking at him and han ling On to
the long, as if it were the top bar OF
the gate; OIL very" A rush by the
contestants in the game here broke in
between them, the band gavc crash
that seemed to start the roof, the mass
of people waved to and fro, Ike started
off with some new crony in quest oi
some suggested peanuts, and Mrs. Part
ington backed into seat. She looked
pleasantly at the moving spectacle
through her own parabolas, her fngerl
beat time to the music, and her oil-fac
tories inhaled the breath of flowers anc
the smell of coffee from an adiacen
room, till she was becoming 'lost, whel
she realized that figure was standin,
before her, and cold spoon was beinl
thrust into her right hand. 1t was tn
attentive manager again, with an ice
cream, which he invited her to take
"You are very surprising, sir" SAT-
, she, smiling. "I was unconscionabl
at the moment. Thank you; / will
am very partially fond of ice-cream
, and this is MANILA, too, which is m
. favorite." She ate with a sense of er
| joyment, caught from the scene, an
went away soon after, when Ike ha
joined her, with plethoric pockets
bidding the manager convey a gooc
night nom her to tie party, saying sh
! had enjoyed real sociable time.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-05-06
A Fifty Cent Swear.

There is su Anti-Swearing Society in
New York. A fine of fifty cents is i'm
posed upon the utterance of an oath
and instant payment is required. On
great occasions a member of this asso-
citation would be obliged for economy's
sake to follow the example of the Quaker
whose hat blew off in a high wind. He
watched it for moment whirling along
the street at rate that defed pursuit
and then turned to the boy who was
grinning at his discontinue. Art thou
a profane YOUTH" he asked. The boy
modestly replied that he did little in
that line sometimes. "Well, then,"
said the Quaker, butting his hand in
his pocket. "Damn yon fleeing tile
fifty cents worth"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-05-06

The Joy had gone out of her life and
thick darkness was aro and about her.
And SO half year passed. One day
the postman left a letter at the door.
The hand of the superseription was
familiar, Mrs. Walsh tore it open end
glanced her eyes over the contents.
Oh, joyl Oh, rapture! Her boy lived,
was well, and was on his way home to
her.
When DIR. Walsh entered the room he
found his wife fainting, with the letter
clutched tight in her nerveless grasp.
BY and by, when the great surge had
passed, husband and wife rat down and
read the letter uuderstapGingly.
"Thank Godr' found true friend,
or l should say true friend found me, >
wrote Philip, after he hao tolc of his
safety and his whereabouts. "But for
the coming of this friend should have
died ere this He heard of me by name,
and when he learned that was from
Ellsworth, and was the son of Silas and
Mary Walsh, he bent all bis energies
for my release. He spent thousands of
dollars in enlisting and equipping men
for the work, and with his own hand
struck down my savage captor and took
me henceforth under his care and pro-
lection. God bless him! And be you
ready, both, to bless him, for he's COM
ing home with mes
Upon their bended knees that night
the rejoicing parents thanked God for
all his goodness, and called down bles-
sings upon the head of the unknown
preserver of their son.
And in due time, radiant and strong,
their Philip came home to them-came
home bold and innocent man-ftted
for the battle of life-came home know
ing enough of life's vicissitudes, and
prepared to appret late its blessings.
And with Philip came man of mid
die age-a strong, frank-faced, handsome
man. with grey eyes and curling hair.
"This," said the son, when he had
been released from the mothers raptur-
Gus embrace, is my preserver. Do you
know him!"
The doctor looked and shook his head.
He did not know him.
But the little woman observed more
keenly- Upon her the light broke over
poweringly.
ais it herr she whispered, putting
forth her hands-'tis it James Ammer-
toni"
"Yes,' said the mana stranger now
no more. "I am James Ammerton! and
I thank God who has given me an op-
portunity thus to show how gratefully
remember all your kindness to me, my
more than mother"
And he held her hands and pressed
them so his lips, and blessed her again
and again, telling her, with streaming
eyes, that she, of ali the world, had lifted
him up and saved him.
That evening Mrs. Walsh, sitting by
her husbands side and holding one OF
his hands, said to him.
"Once upon a time, a pebble was
kicked about in the waste sand. A lap.
idary saw it, aud when he had brushed
away the dirt from the surface, he ap.
piled his chisel, and broke through the
crust. and behold-a diamond pure and
brightr'
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-05-06
A Coming Comet.

The Astronomer Royal of England in
forms the Washington astronomers that
comet has been seen from the Observa-
tory at Care Town. South Africa. The
question naturally arises whether this
is the great comet whose appearance
was announced by DIR. Gould of the
Cordoba Observatory in South America.
The fact that Cordoba ard Cape Town
are both in the Southern Hemisphere,
and in nearly the same latitude, is an
argument in favor Of that supposition
but, on the other hand, there seems 10
he an irreconcilable variance in the ac-
cou, of the comets motions. DR..
Gould described his comet as moving
northward, while Gill, the South African
OF server, r. ports that the comet he sees
is moving southwark. Neither of these
comets, if there be two, has yet been
seen from any American OBJ ervatory.
We are yet ignorant whether the COM
ing comet is merely telescope, like that
of last year. or one of these stupendous
naked-eye fellows that in the ages of
superstition were dreaded as portending
grest wars. The belief in the bellicose
significance of comets is not yet extin-
guished.. Probably the majority of un-
educated persons regarded the comet of
1911 as forerunner of the war of 1872
in this country, ard of the three tre-
mendous closing struggles by which
Europe finally shook of the grip of Ma
poleou. The great comet of 1S43 was
near enough to the Mexican war to be
regarded by the superstitious as celes
tial prognosticatien and who does not
remember how direful appeared the un-
! paralleled comet of 1858, in the days
when the possibility of civil war was on
every tongue The comet of 1861, nearly
as hugh as its predecessors, seemed to
the superstitious a second sign of the
great fratricidal struggle. So the comet
of 1875 did not fail to find believers
who connect it with the rumblings OF
| coming war in the East, and when, two
OF three years later, Russia's army
marched upon Constantinople, such be
levers were assured that the prophecy
of the comet had come true. This super.
stition will probably always linger in the
human mind, and, should the comet
that is now visible in the southern heav
ems sweep into it's perihelion passage
around the sun with train of light
stretching half way across the sky, there
will not be wanting persons to point a
the now augmentfng armament of thu
great powers of Europe, and to predic
a great clash of arms. In this they viii
have the support of the astrologers. Ii
an astrological almanac published il
London, and of great authority among
its patrons, there is pictorial prophec.
for the year 1880, in which helmetet
woman, armed with a sword, dominate
over a field filled with tramping armies
The publisher prudently postpones th'
letter-press explanation OF this formida
BILE picture 70 next years almanac.
In the meantime, those of US who ar
not superstitious may expect the come
with equanimity, and fearlessly hop
that it belongs to the largest and mos
brilliant species.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-05-06
What Schurz Says.
cleveland Leader tDem.,I

cleveland Leader (Dem.U
Schurz's political views are somewhat
indefinite and hard to get at, but he
makes no concealment of the fact that
he is opposed to Grant, and if he is
nominated will Oppose him on the
stump.
am opposed to third term for any
BODY said the Secretary, "and am OPP
posed to Grant for any term"
"Why are you opposed to Grant?"
"I have nothing against him person.
ally, but he represents all that is bad
and corrupt in the Republican party.
His election would be great misfor-
tune"
dow do Germans regard his nom-
inationP As
"I have no authority to speak for
anybody but myself, but have no idea
that the Germans as a class will ever
favor anything SO destructive to our in
stitutions as that would be-"
I" You think, then, the nomination of
Grant for third term would be bad for
the country f' s...a. .,s---z-z---
IT would be a national calamity" /"
said the secretary, emphatically.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-05-06

THE relative status of the chief coffee
consuming countries ranges as follows:
First, the United States, consuming
323, 100000 pounds; next, Germany,
which takes 21S, 900, 900; next, France,
with 110,0O0,000; next, Austria Hun
gary, with S2,O00,000; then Holland
with 6S,00O,O0O; and finally Belgium
with 48,000,000 pounds. These coun
tries take 80 per cent. of the whole
product of the world. England ranks
among the third-rate consumers, ano
Russia, with her eighty millions of peo
pie, consumes only one.fifth of a pound
per capita.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-05-06

FwEoUENTLY thought, in fact aw
had partially wesoIved, that would
nevah bothah myself about getting
marwied. To considerable extent it
is gweat baw to have to tasten ones
self to a female cweachah verwy pwob-
ably faw the wemainder of ones exist
ence. A fellaw weally ought not to do
it, unless he is Desperately in love.
But that sort of thing has almost gone
out of fashion, except among the lowah
classes and barbarwians, or inhawbi-
tants in recently discovered countwies,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-05-06
The Only Present Grant Ever Returned.

The Mexicans are telling all sorts of
stories about the meanness of General
Grant. When the party arrived al the
charming mountain town of Orizaba, a
coeadero, or twisting of bulls tails. was
given in honor of the ex-President.
Among the performers was a woman,
who, mounted on fine mustang, per-
formed many surprising feats of horse
manship. Gen. Grant expressed his ad-
miration of her proves and praised the
horse. In the usual Spanish style, the
latter was at once offered to the General,
who accepted it. 1t was, however,
pointed out to him that he must make
some present in return, and rather than
do 50, he sent the horse back.