Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1880-10-12
POLITICAL NOTES.

Hancock and Shylock" is the way the
Buffalo Express puts ii.
John Jacob Astor will preside at
great Republican meeting In New YORK,
Wednesday evening, and Edward Pierre
pont will speak.
If Lincoln, Sumner and Fesscnden
were alive they would vote for Garfield, as
Lee and Jackson, were they living, would
vote for Hancock. We all know for whom
JEFF Davis would vote IL he could.
We are hearing much about Demo
cratic negroes in the South, but the Rich
mond (Va.) Dispatch, which ought TO
know, says bluntly that the negroes are all
enemies of the National Democratic party
and of Gen. Hancock.
Capt. Brownell, who shot the assassin
of Col. Ellsworth at Alexandria, Va,
when the Union troops took possession of
that town. was the first man 10 call atten-
ton 10 the Southern school history and Is
using the work effectively on the stump In
Indiana.
A Southern Democrat, writing North
says that 1--WE (the South do not banker
after Hancock and his Yankee shoulder
straps. He is CROW TO us. Wait until
1854. Then il will be our turn To ladle
out CROW To our Northern brethren. 1t
will be labeled Lamar.
What does free trade meany II means
the closing up of American factories and
workshops. IL means that English capital
and its pauper labor may get into America
and pauperizc our mechanics. II means
that where three dollars a day Is now paid
To a machinist, he would get oue-third Of
IL.
After all the comparison which Gen.
Anderson so pcrsistently draws between
Henry of Navarro and Hancock is not so
absurd as ii first appears. The Bourbon
prince fought for the Protestant faith and
against the Catholic church aul won the
Highland then went over 10 the Catholics.
Press.
A Democrat said to a Republican I;
..You see how splcndidly Gen. Hancock
fought ut GettySburg:" The hero OF the
day. Whipped the rebels. Won the bat
tie. Yes. my dear fellow" said the Re
publican. 'but thought you said the war
WAS over ultttt NthtN AZ NHN N"-'N ''NN
% De revived " u Herald
The Journal does not feel called upon
10 SAY what sort OF a man Boss Shepherd
i. The Democratic press, however has
devoted columns - publishing his wicked
ness Now that he has added II his other
alleged sins the real one OF being Demo
crat, we trust that vilifying press will give
him bit OF respite. - Boston Journal.
-Thurlow Weed knows the state of
New York thoroughly. lie says that Il i
Republican beyond doubt, with an honest
count With the State and national ma
chiuerv awaiting use hy the Republicans.
the cheating In the city OF New FORK ~ the
next election ought to he kept down % the
minimum. johnny Davenport has the
name OF every bona-fide inhabitant OF the
metropolis.
- George William Curtis says: For
twenty years, remember, In every con-
test We have been victor>. We have
seen i've OF those great contests. We have
elected five residents, and every time the
man that we have nominated has gone into
the White House; and he has gone there
because he has, among the coutcuding can
Lidatcs. more truly represented The viii,
the wish, the resolution. the Intelligence
and the love OF Justice OF the American
people.
The South asks no bold and unfair
thin. when she demands her rightlul com
pensation for homes destroyed, farms laid
waste and pillagcd, property stolen and
slave, released by the Yankee plunderers
who lived upon Us aud then refused Us
bounty. And IL i time that the whole
North should understand this. II is time
that the North should understand that II
must atone, a. far a. It can, for all the
South has suffered In body, pocket and
soul. our time is coming, boys, and the
long pursatnry that we have gone through
will only make our paradise the brighter
when We .ct there iaii-d States >sHdipr
Irace uf NDr,h CIr,liad.
But YOU say Cant YOU trust General
Hancock" | know him quite well. and |
entertain the highest respect for him per
soually. Trust him." Yes. fhe was lead
IN: Union army, | would trust him.
Applause But he j. not az the head of
the friends Of the Union. II Gen. Han
cock could rehabititate, rccreate, rebegct
the Democratic party | would believe In
him But one ortwo things must happen,
either he will have 10 change his party. or
that the party will change him. | never
knew a Democratic President who didn't
do the bidding of his party. Did your
Il. :. Nlttherrs of Maryland, at albany.
A Fort Motto, South Carolina, tele-
gram 10 the Charleston Ne'rS says: AT a
projected Radical jubilee at this place to-
day. the Democrats met Mr.. +. w. VI.
Mackey. Tan. Boliver and the lesser lights,
demanded division of time, which was
fatty refused. They then formed in a
solid body. approached their stand and
forced them 10 reluctantly divide time. "
If Republicans in one OF their Northern
strongholds should 20 to a Democratic
meeting aud compel the managers TO "d-
vide the time" and even allow the Republl-
can orators To speak first. how the Demo-
cratic press would be indignant with full
face type and sulphurous epithet.
Hon. Robert c. Winthrop thinks that
the North should take the initiative In an
attempt 10 destroy sectiOnaliSm. 4 little
missionary work down South would not be
inappropriate IN view of the fact that Re
publican voters are bulldoZed 10 such an
extent that free ballot i m impossibllity.
In eleven Southern counties, where there
is a large colored population. at the last
Presidential election Mr.. Hayes had y
votes counted for him 1--WE do not know
how many were cast. aud in the same
counties Mr.. Tildeu received 1888. OF
course this l. specimen OF a free ballot,
| full vote and fair count, which General
Hancock talks about.
The New York Herald dem. returns
| TO its task of admonishing the South of the