Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1880-10-26
POLITICAL NOTES.

fOl4l INils w 10.
They parted with words of nate
And Kisses and bitter jccrs,
They met in periious strait,
AFTER some twenty years
Met rs old Democrats meet,
Plotting the spon- TO divide.
Thinking how best they might cheat
The people. and profit their siiv.
They chai,cd ofthis and that
And whis,lcd the same oil tunes,
lie throwing no "bricks" from hi, hat
And they not abiding to spoons.
Al. what comedy thi- j.
Neither was changed in the least.
lie had forgotten the Kisses,
And they had forgiven "thc Bcast"'
Ben liill SAYS that IL was BayardS
financial speech and Wade liampton's
Stauu'on. Va. speech that lost Indiana 10
the Democracy
"A party which has no traditions but
those Of folly, and no prestige hut that OF
failure" i the Springfield RpuhiiodHS
Characterization OF the Democracy.
An the counties in Indiana have been
heard from, and the plurality for Judge
Porter footS up 7liI. which i about 1900
more than the Republicans have hereto
fore claimed
The Charlotte y. G.. Democrat sup
poses "lIaucnck has 10 talk against rebel
claims To satisfy the t>hy and unreliable
Democrats OF the North, FOR whom we
have very little respect.
The death-knell OF FuSiouism la Maine
was SOUNDED In the West on Tuesday II
seems even the Grceuhack Fusion State
Committee has grown cold. and has already
begun 10 swear AZ the old BourbOus.
Well put by Haryer's Weekly: why
should the Democratic party, which has
been steadily wrong upon every great is
sue for twenty years, because 1t now con
fe>>cS that it was wrong, be called 10 adj
minister the government;
John Jacob Aston Joins ex-sec'y Hugh
McCulloch IN thinking that no change is
needed. Their opinion upon the business
aspects OF the approaching election is
worth that Of a thousand professional pol.
iuciaus Nor l0ri EreRiag Post.
Sensible Democrats in the Finh Maine
District must De ashamed OF the fellow
MUrch whom they have reelected 20 Con-
.rc>>. In "a speech at Augusta, the other
evening. hc declared that American gold
coin would not purchase goods in England.
No apter illustration has been used in
this campaign than Mr.. EvertS likcuing
the Democratic outcry about free bal
lot" accompanying the frauds Of the Alaba-
ma election 10 the performance of the
man who broke his wife's head with the
framed motto God Bless our Home Sc.
A Connecticut inquirer propounds the
puzzliDg question why Sen. Eaton, in 1861,
10 place his dead body in the
way of the Massachusetts soldiers hurry
Ing To Washington 10 save the National
Capital from capture by the rebels if il was
a fact. n he now asserts, that a majority
OF the Union soldiers We're Democrats.
-Iu speaking OF counting the votes for
Governor in this State, the Concord Non
iipr says In view OF the attitude OF the
Fusion thieys today in claiming an iudorse-
ment of their kuavery by the people in the
recent election, II il not to be supposed
OF its way 10 place in the Governors chair
4 tool of those thieves.
In q time Ct peace the Buchanan Adj
ministratiOn increased the public debt
nearly $50 900. 600. And vet there are
DemOC ratio managers who would have the
country believe that change which would
return the same class OF Democratic poll
ticianS 10 the control OF the Government as
made up Buchanan Administration is
demanded by the sober sense of the coun-
try.
-Cha's Theodore Russell in his letter
accepting the Democratic nomination for
Congress in Eight District, charges that
the Republicans have attempted Ito limit
and obStruct suffrage" We wonder if Mr..
Russell has ever heard that the Democrat
ic party opposed giving the ballot 10 a mil
lion men, and that its leaders, by violence.
have wrested free suffrage from half mil
lion of men in States which they control.
There is not a precinct in this vast ma
ton where Democrat cannot cast his bal
lot aud have IL counted as cast, no matter
what predominance of the opposite party.
He can proclaim his political opinions,
even if he is among thousands, without
fear and without prescription on account
Of his opinions. There are fourteen States.
and localities in some others, where Repub-
licanS have not this privilege. This is
one reason why AIN Il Republican,. S.
Grant.
The thoroushness with which the In |
diana Republicans did their work may be |
Inferred from despatch dated Richmond |
IN that State, which says, Every voter in |
Wayne county has deposited his vote, and |
he indications now are that the Republic |
carried the county by about 5000, gain of
co.. Here is an example for the Republi- |
cans of Maine To initiate. OF what large |
own or city in the State is 1t likely to be |
'aid, Every voter has deposited his vote:" |
Wayne county, Ind, gives about 10000 |
'otes.
Two weeks ago the Democratic Wash
ngton Post said las we understand the
Republican managers, they propose TO
make Indiana the Presidential battle
ground. Ii Is TO be left 10 Democratic |
state TO decide between Hancock and Gar
ield. We accept the proposition and its
attendant consequences. If Indiana goes
republican two weeks from today we will
i've the election up. fit goes Democrat
C the Republicans OF course will do the
anne Now let us hear from Indiana"
We have heard. How about that PROPOSE
ion.
Notice change of time on Grand