The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-08-26
August 25th, 1850.


ULTRA freetrade Democrats are appre.
hensive that Senator Wallace is about
to go over to protection bag and bag
gage. Gentlemen can dismiss their
fears on that score. The Senator has
just been raking among the ashes of Il
dead past and has fished up the old
dodge of Polk, Dallas and the tariff
'52.' He imagines that it is q new
dodge, and is making the most of it.
He will never get out of sight of the
Democratic camp"
Dispatches and reports from all
parts of Indiana, received at Cincin-
natl, represents the political outlook
as better for the Republicans. The
people are not unduly excited, nor are
they aroused in the rural districts as
much as in the towns, but there is
good strong feeling, and whenever n
speaker of recognized ability is an
nounced it is easy to get up Il large
meeting. County organizations are
thorough, as rule, and the August
poll is nearly completed. In the larger
Republican counties majority of
from 5000 to 10000 in the State is con-
fidently claimed.
Troy Times: "Wade Hampton is
very careful not to say he did not ut
ter the portions Of the Staunton speech
which he now eliminates from the re-
port. What he does is simply to
issue version Of the speech which
has received his personal indorsc-
ment.' In this he falls between two
millstones. The North, knowing
that he did utter the sentiments con-
tanned in the report, will not think
any the more of him for his evasions
and the South, seeing that he now
tries to disOwn his Endorsement of the
"principles' of Lee and Jackson and
their relations to the Democratic
party, will look upon him with some
thing of the contempt which he de
serves"
Chalmers, the Fort Pillow butcher
who sits upon the Democratic side OF
the house of representatives to misre-
present a Republican district in Mis-
sippi, is reported as saying that "Han.
cock will have the solid vote of the
south and will receive such majority
in Mississippi as will make all the
radicals open their eyes with amaze
ment." Chalmers cannot surprise Us
by rolling up any majority in his
state, however large. Where major.
tiles are obtained by absolute sup,
preston of an entire political party
and by counting ballots that were
never voted, even stupendous figures
cannot cause amaZement. We have
no doubt Mississippi will be carried
by the Democrats by vast majority,
as we'll as several other southern states.
AS long as paper can be procured tC
print tissue ballots the Democrats o
the South do not propose to bt
beaten -Williamsport q. & b,
New York Times: "Letters re
ceived by the Times from thirty-fouI
of the fifty-eight counties in this State
outside of New York and Kings, pre-
sent strikingly impartial review O
the political situation. The correspon
dents from whom these come are
gentlemen who are capable of forming
accurate opinions of the events of the
day as they observe them. Many o
these gentlemen are prominent mem
bers of the communities in which they
live, and some have reputation
throughout the State. That they have
given fair and unprejudiced state
ment of the sentiment in their respec
tive neighborh0ods no one who reads
their letters will doubt. The lOuC
boast of the Democrats that Genera
Hancock would capture the soldier
vote is refuted in every instance, anC
it is made evident that the large ma
jority of political converts this yea
will be accessions to the Republi
can ranks. In all the counties from
which returns have come large vott
is expected, and from all comes the
prediction that Garfield and Arthur
will receive much more solid suppor
and larger majorities than did Hayes
and Wheeler in,lS76.n