The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1880-09-15


"A full line of plain and fancy stationery
at Central Drug Store, Al N. Union st, i 2
! THE STATE HOUSE R1N0. Inquiries hav
| been made of iis why the State House Rim,
/ pressed and secured Mr.. Ludlow's nomina
/ ton, despite the fact that he was saddled b,
! his votes on the labor ques tion. The answe
4 il not far TO seek. They 60 in for their owl
| interest first, last and all the time, aud til,
Trenton State Gazette says Mr.. Ludlow yutet
to sustain THE State House Ring 10 their ennr
nous emolunents, when attacked by the Re-
publican measures to redace the amount Of
these emouments. The taxpayers thought
that these officials should not get for services
hardly more than clerical, pay many times
larger than that of Governor, tile Supreme
Court Judges, or other officials who did inf.
nitely more responsible work. The State Ga
zette states that his was the only negative
vote on the bill to reduce by one-third the
enormous incomes of the Clerk in Chancery
and Clerk of the Supreme Court. So long as
this great fund flows out of the treasury to
these gentlemen, just so long Democrats will
ind their conventions manipulated Just as the
last one was 1t becomes very serious cues
ton with them, therefore, whether this ring
shall be kept perpetually in power to ride ov.
er the rest of the party Elizabeth Journal.
WHAT A DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMAN SAYS.
The Ocean County Times says "Those
Union soldiers of this and other sections of
the county who have been almost gorged of
late with Democratic taffy to the effect that
If they vote for Hancock. they will in a few
months be the recipients of handsome pen
sions from the Government, will find the fol-
lowing letter from Pennsylvania Democrat
ic Congressman to one of his constituents in
teresting reading. 1t neutralizes the Demo-
cratic pension taffy, and shows Union veterans
that their friends don't train in the Hancock
party, while at the same time showing the
power of the Rebel Brigadiers in Congress
over their Northern allies -
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,, WASHING
TON, ID. G., April 90, 1880. Dear Sir Your
favor was received. Iwould most cheerfully
introduce and urge the passage of bill such
as you suggest but With the present Demo-
cratic House pension bills do not have much
favor. 1t has become almost impossible to
get consideration of such bill at all, aud
when considered its chance of passing the
House is4veIy remote, and the Rebel General
who is at the head of the Pension Committee
in the Senate is still more averse to allowing
any such bills to pass. 1t would not be at all
probable, therefore, that the bill will be
got through. Very truly,
F. Z. BELTzHoovER.
HONESTY AS Policy. -Northern papers
have been accused by the South of inventing
Southern outrages, or at least of giving to
them an ear too ready TO hear The Charles
ton News and Courier win not be suspected
of making this mistake, aud what it says will
be more significant. 1t asserted lately that,
" whatever the voting, the Democratic candi-
dates are sure to be GU top when the counting
is finished Here is an admission of fraud
ulent electoral practices which will weigh
more with a class of readers than columns of
Republican statements, however true they
may be. It goes on TO say that reliance on
irregular methods IN the conduct of elections
will infalliby destroy the Democracy" In
stead of opposing the election laws it ought
to rejoice at their enforcement that these
" irregular methods which disgust and re-
pei quiet non partisan voters may be dis
used, and the Democracy saved. II the frauds
OF partisan leaders decide elections, disgrace
and disaster will fall upon their government.
Honesty is the best policy 10 elections, as 10
all else. This eternal trath tue South seems
slow to practice.
"A full line of Family Dye Colors, com.
prising Star Dyes Leamon's Aniline Dyes
Howe & Stevens Family Dyes, Handy Pack
age Dyes, &C.. at Central Drug Store, Al N.
Union st. j. 20.
CENSUS FRAUDS. Investigations at
the Census Office in regard TO the South Car
olina returns are now held to show the exist
enee of great frauds. In some localities the
returns are made TO show an Increase of 1850
per cent. 4 and at the same time nearly all the
names entered are set down as natives of the
State. An agent of the Census Office has
been despatched to South Carolina to go over
some of the work on the spot, and for this
purpose he has been furnished with transcripts
of some of the returns which have the most
suspicious look. The only theory advanced
in the Census Office to account for the in
crease now reported Is that possibly the CEN
sus of 1870 was defective. But there is little
disposition to accept this theory, since this
census also was taken under General Walker
Another fact which bears strongly against
this theory is that from 1880 to and including
1870 the census returns for each decade bore
such relation to the one preceding as to ex-
cite no suspicion of general incorrectness
The Meridian, Miss, Mercury sharply re-
Dukes the chairman of the Democratic COM
mittee of that place for declaring that
/" secession was revolutionary folly" 1t
pronounces this insultingly false, and declares
that no true Southerner will acknowledge any
thing of the sort. The same paper tries to
explain away the damaging record of Hancock
from the rebel standpoint-as Union SOL
dier. by declaring that che marched aoith
neSe sotutefS 0gutWst eHe oetteF yudgngent ana
better heart of the father, but he was a soldier
by profession and obeyed orders from disci-
pine and habit. If he hadn't been soldier,
no doubt, he mould haze been the son Of his
fother." The father was one of the rankest
old Copperheads of Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia becoming quite as much
beer-drnking city as Berlin or Vienna. On
streets where there are a succession of beer
houses, the edor of the beverage permeates
the air, and this silent snggester causes many
passer.by to !" drop in = and indulge. From