Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-11-12
POLITICAL BREVITIEs.

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B6y~Mr. Barnum will now turn SOM
ersaults, break the furniture, smash the
crockery, and yell fraud until the next
Presidential election.
BsS-We heard a great deal Of the
"Democratic still hunt in Indiana" but
we rather guess they won't "still hunt
for the hole in Bill English's barrel.
B1-There are about 43, 900 Post-oflices
in the United States and 10000 per-
sons employed in them, which is cal
culated to increase the Democratic
agony.
Bdy= It had been supposed that Mr..
English had exhausted the public capa.
bility of contempt But almost every
day some new page in the mans life
opens which makes us think that the
half has not been told us.--NetO York
Tribune.
B1y" The New York Mail denounces
General Hancock as "silent partner
in forgery and lying and asks: "Will
any one tell us why this powerful bene-
ficiary of a crime is less guilty than its
supporters and abettors? What is the
fine metaphysical distinction between
the candidate who silently allows his
! political managers TO cover the land
with forged letters in furtherance of his
candidacy, and the justly-despised Bar
NUM-" We give it up.
Bs5y@ The Democratic politician thinks
that the State is greater than the Ma
tion; that a part is greater than the
whole; that one is more than thirty
eight; that Rhode Island is greater than
the United States; that a pony engine
alone is more important than big loco
motive and thirty-eight cars that a
velocipede ridden by Wade Hampton
| is bigger than a coach and four driven
by Hayes. He believes that a State
may overthrow the Nation, may an
initiate the ballot-boX, may set up a
despotism, may paralyze human rights.
BsSa The melancholy days of Novem-
ber, so feelingly referred to by Gar
| field, are here.-St. Louis Post Dispatch
just so, Joseph, As you sail up Salt
River, mark the falling leaves, drop
| ping, never more to hang in green and
| golden colors upon the boughs. They
are emblematic of the dead old party
that was wounded in a vital place
twenty years, but fingered in agony and
misery until 1880. Millions of loyal
men will pray that its grave is dug so
deep and tramped down so solid that
nothing but its ghost shall haunt the
spots it has dishonored.
RaFn We rather like the square way
in which the Cincinnati Enquirer comes
down. Here are its head lines; Beaten
The Solid North responds to the Solid
South" The Melancholy Days of No
vember" Sadly Anticipated by the Bit
ter Blasts of October-New York Gone,
Connecticut Gone, Maine Gone, Indiana
Gone, New Jersey Gone, Everything
Gone But the Solid Southland the
Eever-Dying Principles of the Grand
Old Democratic Party-Here Are a Few
of the Astounding Majorties Claimed
by the Impudent Republicans-New
York 40, 900, Pennsylvania 10000, Ohio
| $4,000, Indiana 5000, Connecticut
5000, Massachusetts $4,000, New Jer-
sey 1000, and So On to an Unlimited
and Disgusting Extent-The Figures
May Fall Short of their Claims, But
They Are Quite Sufficient to Render an
Electoral Commission Unnecessary" y
Chicago Inter Ocean.
B3-It seems that the "affair'' be.
bNOth Illb llOlls w lNC AAdlllplOl ullh
the Hon. John Sherman was conducted
according to the old-fashioned South.
ern rules of the code. The Secretary
was waited upon in his office by
a stranger, who had announced that he
had message to deliver. The Secre,
tary supposed it was somebody who
wanted to present some papers in sup
port of claim for office, or something
of that sort, and asked him to sit down
till he could attend to the matter
The stranger remained standing, how
ever and explained that he had mes.
sage to deliver from Senator Hampton
"And DESIRE" he added, ''to call YOU
attention to the fact that l deliver the
communication unseated." The Secle
tary broke the seal of the mysterious
document, glanced it over, smiled anC
told the formal messenger that he woulc
attend to it. "But what reply shall
carry to General Hampton?n asked the
stranger "Tell him you have done
your duty" said the Secretary, "and
will do mine"