The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-22
The Duke ofAmerica should be spelled


The Duke fAmerica should be spelled
with big D.
The New York Herald says: "The
third term boom is shutting up like an
accordion"
/ WHAT is Butterworth7 Can't tell till
after the fall election. Washington
Republican.
politicians for the Presidential nonlina-
tion, where, o! where is George Francis
Train3
The Democratic party was cheated in
1877, not Mr.. 1ilden. Its to the Demo
cratic party, not to Mr.. Tilden, that re-
partition is to be made Memphis
Appeal.
WE know of one man who thinks
Roscoe Conkling the greatest statesman
In the world. That man is Roscoe
Conkling.
RoBEsoN's celebrated four million war
ship which won't float would make an
excellent third term platform for the
Grant party.
LET the Democracy win the Presiden-
tial election and the Republicans will be
eager for the repeal of the Federal cleo
ton laws.-[ Virginia City Chronicle.
GEN. SsERMAN says he is going to re-
tire to private life next year. And then
that amusing little toad, Phil. Sheridan,
will be the General of the Army. This
is too much Atlanta Constitution
Mr.. w. s. GRoEsBEcK, of Cincinnati,
writes to his admiring friends in New
York that if the Democratic party wants
him for the Presidency it can have him,
but that he doesn't intend to bother it.
GRANT, it is said, wants to be Presi-
dent again in order to improve his civil
record. Should he be elected he would
decline to give up the Office on the
ground that his whole life would be
needed for the mighty task.
So far as the next Presidency is con-
cer1ed, the Republican party might as
well select secluded spot and disem-
bowel itself at once as 10 nominate
Grant.-[ Cincinnati Commercial. Or any
O:her man, we may say
BLAINE has drawn first blood from
Sherman in Ohio. The Jefferson County
Convention, the first held in the State,
declared for Blaine. The sherman
fences seem to be in bad repair out that
way Philadelphia Times.
HUGH J. JEwETT is not 80 much of q
dark horse as he war. 1t is worth meh-
tioning that he has no past bad record
that he need cipher out of sight and as
for money his bari is bigger than old
Tilden's.-[Wheeling Leader.
THERE seems still to be some anxiety
about what the Duke of America will
do for living unless he is elected to the
Presidency for third term. Travelling
around seems to agree with his health
about as well as anything, and he might
make it a permanent business.
IF the democrats want to win, and
KANT moth ng else, they have got the
game in their own hand. There is no
better name for President than Ham
cock the name which stands first on the
list of the signature to the Declaration
of A American lndependence.- Brooklyn
Eagle.
GARFIELD is accused of a lukevarm.
ness amounting to positive indifference
in the candidacy of Sherman. This is
not phenomenal. The same economic
principle that forbids the medication of
dead horse prevents Garfield from
getting excited over Mr.. Sherman's al
legged boom. >.
life, that he cannot settle down to an
easy-going, uneventful life of small
town. He might IS well accustom him.
self to it, for he will never occupy the
White House again. If he had accepted
the Bulgarian throne the Nihilists would
have made it lively for him. Philadel.
phia inquirer.
ANOTHER Presidential candidate from
Ohio is in the field. A letter was writ
ten to the Hon. VIM. 8. Groesbeck from
New York, asking him if he would &C.
cept the Democratic nomination for the
Presidency. Mr.Groesbeck says that he
| would. The Democratic party might &C
great deal further and fare worse il
the selection of a nominee.
IT is pretty hard to get any kind oI
idea about who is the favorite son oi
Massachusetts,. A powerful effort is nov
making by a few men who have unselfshi
spent lifetime in public Office to stal
up some Grant sentiment. Grant sent
ment comes pretty high in some place
but they must have it. Philadelphi
Times.
"NEITHER Grant nor Sherman wi
ever be President again." says th
Ritchie Democrat. Correct child; br
it is sad to reflect that Sherman wi
never be President again. That is, -
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down four flights of stairs and has ju
been taken to the city hospital, on
shutter.-[ Wheeling Leader.
GRANT and a strong government 1
! Chicago means Grant and usurpation
| Washington The dagger of the assassi
| undid the work of the pletorian gual
at Rome. Let the half million bll
, coats install Grant after q subsidizt
judiciary has stiHed the voice of Il
people. The cure-all lies in one strol
, arm, guided by living principle.-Cl
Crosse Democrat.
THE Thousands of circulars and doc
. ments being sent over the country
the Sherman bureau are sent for Il
purpose of pointing out Mr.. Sherman
: qualifications for the Presidency" ~
motive is proper one. There neV
was a candidate whose qualifcatio
: needed "pointing out" more than b
And even with all this pointing out
the people do not see them.-[ WashiI
l ton Post.
The Georgia Constitution, heretofe
| strong, very strong, Tilden paper, b
dropped its candidate and declares
favor of Hugh ]. Jewett, whose nomir
tion it advocates with great vigor. T
( Constitution insists that Jewett is
2 only man whose nomination would pla
L Democratic success beyond doubt, a
0 the Constitution is right. Jewett is I
t man to lead the Democracy to certs
victory Toledo Democrat.
r VANDERBILT will give $3.50, 900, c
n Tom Scott will give 100000. and Jo
It w. Garrett another 100000 to
Democratic campaign fund, if Jew
It should be nominated for Preside
g Besides this, Jewett hiu self is rich, q
+ can easily give 100000 for the sa
nurnosA. That would make un a flu