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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-09-29

We regret to see that any person in
this County uses the action of the State
in e1punging the fraudulent portion of
its debt as an argument in favor of indi-
yiduals readjusting their contracts. The
Republicans did readjust the debt, but
their action could hardly be attributed 90
the people of South Carolina, and can
not be justified. We referred the validi-
ty of the debt as We found it to the
Courts to separate the genuine from the
fraudulent, with the assurance that the
genuine was to be paid, and no one dared
advocate the repudiation Of the honest
debt. If our correspondent, in favoring
resdjuatment of private debts, means to
say that only such contracts as we're
made ahall be paid and any fraudulent
claims refused by debtors, he is right;
but if he means that citizens should re-
pudiate their ju5t obligations, or any
portion OF them, he is advocating doc
trine which 10 morally wrong. His refer
ence to bankruptcy is not happy one,
for there is no bankrupt Law now, and,
even when there was, men who availed
themselves of its provisions had 20 sur.
render all Of their property to the pay
ment of their debts except the homestead
allowance. We are surprised at our
correspondent thus committing himself
to the doctrines of readjustment 40 fatty
and unreservedly. He is ahead of the
Savannah resolutions. The members OF
the meeting which passed them say they
do not fayor read;"..mon., "hiio our cor.
respondent claims that it is right and
proper. There is at least one man in
Anderson County who cannot consistent
ly condemn Malone. We trust there
Lie not many others.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-09-29

necessary to secure it. This was mat
ter to be arranged between the debtor
and his creditor, and not by the debtors
independent of the creditors.
The meeting was, we shink, an unfor-
tunate one, and we tried by o courteous
and candid statement Of our views to
prevent its resolutions from being gene
rally adopted for we believed they would
work mischief. We know the citizens
ofSavannah Township, and know them
to be higb!toped, honorable men, but
THE does Not prevent them from making
6 mistake. and the consequences Of q
mistake on their part is likely to be all
the moro injurious from their influence
and position. They see the impression
IL has created abroad. Public sentiment
condemns their action. One OF our
merchants was shown copy OF the
INTELAIaENORR in New York by lead
ing house there, who wanted to know
what kind Of people passed those resolu-
lions. Another merchant received o
copy of tho resolutions, clipped from the
Nescs and C6urier, and GENT to him by q
Northern business firm for Information.
Another merchant ordered a lot Of guano
for the Fa,' aud Winter trade, and the
company, yyrote him that they did not
care to ship fertilizers to An5emop Spsil
better spirit about paying for them
prevailed. g4f ll ''.' r
There haye been o great many eyldan-
oss that the resolutions Of our friends Ia
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-07

An event little less startling than
the assassination of President LIN
COLIN, and hardly less momentous in
its possible results, occurred in the
waiting room Of the Baltimore and
Potomac railway station in the city
of Washington, on Saturday morning
last. President GARFIELD had gone
there for the purpose of taking the
morning train to join his family at
Long Branch, when he was shot
twice by a person standing in the
crowd at the depot. We give a syn
opsis in this weeks paper of the de-
plorable and unfortunate event,
which has plunged a nation into sad
and grave misgivings for its future
welfare. It is all that we are able to
give from the mass of dispatches in
regard to the event since its occur
renee. The fate of the President at
this writing, TUESDAY morning, )iis
still uncertain, with ample grounds
for the most serious results.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-07

The Anseiger, German Rapubli-
can, of Cincinnati, and which has so
large a control in firing the political
sentiments of the. Germans of Ham
ilton county, in a recent number
gives vent to its feelings. 1t says:
"When the Republican party cleans
out of it's ranks the "Reyerends" and
the Methodists, it will be cleansed of
ar element that has constantly blu
sled itself in stirring up discord,
that has driven the party to take a
thousand false steps, and estranged
from it thousands of warm friends.
Another and a freer air will sweep
through the Republican camp as soon
as the cold water brigade takes itself
off. The departure of the tempe
ranceites will bring into the party
thousands of voters who sympathize
with its aims, but we have I'm uncon
querable repugnance to the intolera-
BILE zealots who lose no opportunity
to push themselves to the foreground.
The Republicans of Ohio once con-
WINGED that they a get on very
well without the votes of the tempe
ranceites, the whole temperance and
Sunday legislation will be swept
aside into the lumber-room, and no
hinderance will be left in the way of
reasonable and progressive laws
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-07
Let Him Speak.
New York Sun.

The following has been extensively
published on the authority of the
Hon. Lewis Lawrence of Utica. 1t
was about the time of the decision
in favor of the Louisiana fraud by
the Electoral Commission:
"One night 1 was with him in his
room silently smoking while Conk-
ling walked up and down like a rag
ing lion. At last he broke GU Law
renee, 1 can't keep company with this
riff raft any longer. They are rotten
with corruption, and, after having
taken everything else, they are bound
to steal the Presidency. Sherman
reeks with plumber. Wheeler is a
virtuous log roller. Stanley Matthews
would sell his soul for office. AS for
Hayes, he is simply a pious sneak,
ready to give money to be President,
and to drop on his knees in tears if
caught at il. 1 have a great mind to
get up in the Senate and denounce
the whole thing Tomorrow, and call
ON honest Republicans to give the
election TO Tilden, to whom you, as
we'll as 1, know it belongs I told
him it would drive him into the DEM
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-07

"The mills of the gods grind slow
ly, but they grind exceeding small"
Thus sung Shakespeare. For TWEEN
ty long years the Republican party
has carried a high hand in govern
mental affairs; robbed and plumber
ed the people at will; corruption has
entered every department of govern
ment; they have corrupted the com.
mon people. No use to try to reform
it. The reform would kill it. The
gods have. now taken hold Of the mat
ter; the crunching of dry bones can
be heard in the land. The sooner
the grisI is ground the better for the
country.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-07

BRADY, the man who has gained a
good deal Of notoriety of late in con-
nection with the Star Route mail SER
vice, is a good Republican. The will
lingness evinced by him to have the
investigation proceed - not coaclu-
sive that his hands are not stained
with corruption, but there are others
in the scheme who stand higher and
less known. BRADY is of opinion it
isn't fair he should stand all the
brunt, and cal Is loudly to let none
escape. At the same time a sudden
and queer turn of the Attorney Gen
erals mind prevails that the investi-
CATION had better be stopped for the
present-until after the November
election in New York.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-07

One of the financial puzzles of the
day is to discover where all the gold
is going. The Philadelphia mint is
coming gold into five and ten dollar
pieces at the rate of five mil lions a
month, md when this is paid out to
the owners of bullion it rapidly dis
appears, very little of it finding its
way into the banks. The most plau-
sible explanation of this very sim
gular condition Of affairs is that it is
absorbed by the working class, who
prefer to retain it in their own hands
rather than deposit it.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-07
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, D. c.,
June %. 1881.


At meeting of the Republican
State Committee of Virginia yester-
day, there seems to have been about
an equal division of members upon
the policy of uniting with the Ma
hone Democratic boilers at the State
election this fall. The subject is
one CT special interest here, because
the President is solicited by both
the straight and half breed Repub
licans in favor of their respective
sides in the campaign, and what he
says, if anything, will considerable
effect. But, anyway, the Republican
party in Virginia is in a hard place.
If it runs a ticket of its own it will
be beaten, ifi:joins the Malone men
it will be beaten, probably, and, even
if successful, viii be swindled by it's
allies. Malone is an intensely
Southern man, and has been rs pro-
scriptive as any one, and he cares
for Republicans, black or white, only
so far as they can be rade useful to
him. So far the President has made
no definite sign.
Considerable interest was felt here
last night on the subject of the in
dictment of Senator Sessions at AL
bany. Probably no one doubted the
payment of money by Sessions to
Bradley after Sessions had given his
own testimony before the investigat-
ing Committee. That testimony was
to this effect: l have been all my life
successful in a business in which the
payment of money to Legislators is a
prerequisite to success. Yet Ihave
never paid money to legislators. 1
was more interested in defeating
Conkling than in anything else. l
even undertook, yet l did not pay
money to defeat him. 1t is a mis-
fortune the administration will never
recover from the fact that its active
supporters in New York are of this
class, and that, if its efforts to rid
the party Of 'boss" Conkling shall
succeed, the party in the State will
thereafter be governed by the most
corrupt men in our politics.
1 talked yesterday with a Maine
Democrat who is here upon business
with the Departments. He says the
Republicans in the Pine Tree State
will not hold their own this fall in
more than three counties, if any.
One of the reasons he gives for this
is the general disgust felt by decent
people over the New York squabble.
Generally, Republicans there stand
by the administration, because it is
understood that the fight is. Blaine's
fight, and Blaine has a heavy hand
on the party organization there. But
III every village, he says, are more or
less Republicans whose sympathies
are the other way. He gives the
State to the opposition hereafter if
judicious nominations are made.
Another reason is the increasing
lack of cordiality between Senators
Frye and Hale.
The administration, too, is remov-
ing Grant men from office in the West
and South, and widening a breach
which was threatening enough at
first. DEM.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-07

ocratic partyl and he said, Let it
drive there are more gentlemen and
fewer hogs than with u.s. These were
just his words"
If these were Mr.. Conkling's sem
timents, and there a be no doubt
of it, whether this particular incident
occurred or not, why did he not cast
himself loose from the evils and cor
rupt fellowship? Why did he faiter
and go back when his feet we're fairly
over the party line, and his best
friends were advised that he was
ready to rise in his place, denounce
the electoral fraud and lay bare the
~villainy opposing the declaration of
Samuel j. Tilden's election? Mr..
Lawrence attributes his failure to an
influence which we shall not men
ton, because we do not believe that
Mr.. Conkling's intellect vas ever
controlled by it.. But that "pious
sneak, Hayes" has very recently de-
clared that the late Senator Morton,
being alarmed by Senator Conkling's
threat to review the Infamous judg-
ment, and knowing we'll that it could
stand no such test, found out a way
to drive Conkling from his purpose
and force him to smother his convic-
tions.
What was that? Morton was one
of the coarsets of the coarse leaders
in that monstrous fraud, whom MI.
Conkling spoke of to Lawrence as q
drove of raveneus "hogs;" who had
stolen everything else they could
reach, and were then about to steal
the Presidency. What special pow
er could such a man have had over
the proud and elegant Senator from
New York?
Mr.. Conkling owes it to his fame
to reopen that mysterious chapter in
our history and let the country know
why, when he had both the power
and the inclination, he did not save
it from the shame of a Fraudulent
President. He. has no longer any
decent excuse for silence. He has
been read out of the Republican
party as at present constituted" In
the nation and in the state it is
waging a relentless warfare upon
him, and it is no less his duty to do
now what he failed so singularly to
do in February, 1877, namely, to "de-
nounce the whole thing" and "call on
honest Republicans" to sustain him
against a party which has fulfilled
its mission. lost its true leaders, dis
carded its principles, and is ''rctten
with corruption"
When Mr.. Conkling sees fit 10 dc
this, he will find an audience as wide
as the United States. Men viii for;
get the petty strife at Albany and
hear with attention that which deep
ly concerns every American citizen.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-07

Woman's suffrage propositions
have been defeated this year by the
legislatures of Connecticut, Massa-
chusetts, Indiana Kansas and Maine.
Missouri has taken a step in favor of
it, Lut.no law has been enacted. The
New York Assembly has one pend
ing. Wisconsin has been consider
ing a bill to compel women to decide
by vote the question if they want the
suffrage like the men.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-07

An order has been issued by the
Postmaster General to abolish all
that portion of the Star Rout from
Vinita, Indian Territory, to Los We
gas, New Mexico, a distance of 366
miles, which extends through an un-
inhabited region of country. This
is one of the routes that many thou
sands of dollars were expended to
keep up by the system of 'expe-
diting" that has been robbing the
treasury.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-07

The Star route ringsters are chuck
ling owe the postponement of the
prosecution against them. They do
not BELIEF e they will ever come to
grief, and they are probably right in
that assumption. The Washington
Republican-Brady's paper, of which
George c. Gorham is editor-thus
ridicules Attorney General Mac
Veagh:
With a vindictiveness which would
have befitted a public prosecutor be-
fore the Bloody Assizes in England's
wickedest reign, the Attorney-Gen en-
eral whetted the public appetite for
vengeance upon those who had been
marked for victims by his infamous
tools. The theatre is lighted; the
spectators fill the seats; the orches-
ira has performed the overture. The
curtain has been rung up. The stage
waits. Where be the players? A
lacquey comes forward and announc-
es that the performance is to be post
poned.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-07

Tie nuisance of clipped coin had
become so serious in California that
the business community, as one man,
suddenly resolved to take no more
of them. and coin that are in the
slightest degree mutilated can only
be disposed of there now to the
brokers. The people of this part of
the country will be driven to adopt
a similar resolution if the clipping
is not ahated. 1t is a serious evil
and will have to be dealt with in a
summary and effective manner,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-07

JOHN W. BooKwALTER, who is men
toned prominently in connection
with the Democratic nomination for
Governor, is about 40, full of physi-
cal and mental vigor; a ripe scholar
in literature, science, art and politi-
cal economy; a man of spotless char
acter, genteel, kind and sociable, of
remarkable business capacity; hav
ing risen from a poor boy to the head
of one of the greatest manufacturing
concerns in the country.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-07

The steady decrease of the popula-
tfon of Ireland is the strongest posi-
BILE proof of bad government. There
is no land on earth that would not be
ruined by the policy in vogue there.
The earnings of Irish industry is ex-
pended on non-residents, out of the
country. This drain would exhaust
the most fertile region that the sun
ever shone upon. There can be no
permanent peace in Ireland while
this abuse exists.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-07

As counter to the charge that
Blaine is a member of the Star route
ring the supporters of the admins
tration at Washington assert that
Vice President Arthur was at the
bottom of the opposition which Post
master General James encountered
when he first began his investigation
of Brady. The Washington CORES
pondent of the New York Tribune
says further that the Vice President
did all in his power to avert the i'm
pending disclosures against Dorsey
"with the full knowledge, if not ap
prevail of Mr.. Conkling." So the
factions are even. The stalwarts as
sert that Blaine is in the Star route
ring, anil the "half breeds" retort
that Conkling wanted to stop the in
vestigation of Dorsey.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-07

R. L. Stanton, D. D., has printed
in the Independent, the great relig-
ious newspaper of New York, a three.
column article OF Temperance and
Politics in Ohio in which this learn
ed doctor of laws predicts the defeat
of Governor Foster next October by
many thousands of a majority. He
cites many facts tending to support
his prediction, and writes from a
radical Republican standpoint. iggf
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-07

Judge WIN. j. GILMORE is sspoken
of as the probable Democratic can
dinate for Governor. A Columbus
correspondent of the Cincinnati En-
quire, Gays: "There is disposition
among the friends of Judge Gilmore,
late of the Supreme Bench, to bring
him out as a candidate for Governor
on the Democratic ticket. His fine
record, ability and wide acquain-
lance over the State are the main
points advanced in his favor"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-07

The Ashland Ky. correspondent
of the Columbus Journal writes as
follows:
If you happen to visit Huntington,
and wish to buy a ticket you will be
waited on by a little dumpy man
gray hair, and wearing a round top,
fiat trimmed hat-and his name is
John G. Breslin. Mr.. Breslin has
been ticket agent here for years, and
l understand is held very highly in
the estimation of the principal men
of the company,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-07

Captain Richards, the Republican
nominee for Lieutenant Governor,
explains that the temperance people
are disposed to make trouble, but
that they have been "deluded." The
temperance people agree with Cap
tain Richards. They have been "de
luded" by the Republican party
about as often rs they can stand.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-07

The temperance people of Preble
County have begun to organize for
the fall campaign. They have ap-
pointed delegates to a State Conven-
tion of their party, and decided on
running an Independent ticket
There are no Temperance" people in
Montgomery County of this sort
They are all of the talkee talkee sort,
who swear at the saloon keepers Tin
a pious way and vote the Republican
ticket with great regularity, and es
pecially in a crisis.-Doyton Demo
crdt.
That has been usually the way it
was done in Preble county, but il
looks as if the temperance element
would make a departure this year.
and vote as they preach.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-07

The Holmes County Farmer,
whose editor was a member of the
late Republican Legislature, says
"Forty-three acts of the lately ad
journed Legislature have been de-
clared unconstitutional by the Su-
preme Court, and now some Repub-
licans have the cheek to blame it on
the Democratic members just as
though fifteen Democrats in the
Senate could out vote twenty two
Republicans, and forty-ive Demo
Gratis in the house get away with
s%ixty-nine Republicans.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-07

The Cleveland PIaindealer, refer
ring to the platform of the Cleveland
Convention. says:
The third resolution embodies q lie
1t claims that Governor Fosters ad-
ministration reduced the expendi-
lures of the State, and reduced the
State debt over a million and a quar-
ter dollars, and refunded the balance
at three and one-fourth per cent
In fact there has been no such reduc-
ton of expenses, and the n and a
quarter million dollars paid on the
State debt were in the treasury when
Governor Fosters administration be-
gan, and the steps necessary to re-
fund the debt were taken by the last
Democratic legislature.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-07

We want Mr.. SHEPPARD to open
the campaign in Eaton. There is
trouble here between the "stalwart''
and "half breed temperance wing
of his party, and if he can "strad-
de it his sailing will be compare
lively smooth.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-07

The Democratic soldiers at the
National Home near Dayton, resolv-
ed not to send delegates to the Coun
ty Convention, and to keep out of
the coming election. They are mad
over the appointment and tyranny
of Gov. Patrick, who is ruling them
with an iron rod.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-07

The total number of business fail
ures during the first half of the pres
ent year was 2,s62 against 2,497 for
the same period lest year, aud 4,01S
in 1879. The total liabilities of the
failing firms this year were $40, 0OO,-
600. last year $50, O0O, 900 and in 1879
S65. 600 600.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-07

The Democrats never said so many
unpleasant things about the Repub-
licans as the latter are now saying
about them selves. The leaders of
the two factions in New York apply
to each other all the opprobrious
terms which they invent, and seem
willing to prove all they say. They
have supplied Democrats with all the
campaign documents they will need
for some time to come.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-07

That story that ConkliDg intends
to come to Ohio to help elect Foster
in order to show his "magnamimity''
is absurd. Conkling is not such a
preposterous fool as that, and "mag
nanimity" is not Mr.. Conkling's
style. If he interferes in Ohio pol
itics a. all it will be to assist his
friend General beatty to knife Eos
ter.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-07

The "Three great Lanes" all from
Indiana, all officers in the Mexican
war and all active in politics-name-
", General Joe Lane, of Oregon,
General James Lane, of Kansas, and
Colonel Henry S. Lane-are now
dead.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-07

Ex-Congressman Warner, of Mari
eta, is most prominently named in
connection with the Craftsmanship of
the State Central Committee. Ex
Congressman W. D.. Hill is also men
toned.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-07

Ike MILLER, OF Cincinnati, wants
the nomination for Governor on the
Democratic ticket. If that should
occur we are ready for the tail of the
comet to strike the State of Ohio.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-07

We advise the Republican candi
date for Representative to summer
at Cedar Springs. He will have an
unhealthy and troublesome cam
paign.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-07

The colored vote of this county
could defeat every nominee of the
party, yet they don't get a smell OF
the offices! Howdo the colored voters
like it?
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-07

There seems to be a general de-
msnd for a County Commissioner
from Eaton. It would be a swindle
to have three from the southern sec
ton of the county.