The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-10-06
PALMYRA,


The Portage Go. Republican stated
in its last issue that Palmyra got
considerable excited last week." &c.
Now if it is possible for any town to
get more excited than did the composer
of that article, We say - God pity it,"
for scarcely an incident narrated was
founded on fact.
Whenever a statement is made con-
corning rural town, and especially
when personalities are indulged in,
whether right or wrong is done, COM
mon courtesy demands that justice be
done. Will the enlightened editor of
the Republican please inform the peo-
pie OF Palnly~a who constitutes the
" Democratic Committee" in that town
that was ordered to take down the flag?
Orrin Stevens never ordered the flag
taken down, but this is a true state
ment of the affair : The Democratic
flag was used to show how we felt the
Nations loss. Wednesday evening,
the flag, suspended at half-mast,
drOoped so low over the street that peo-
pie could not drive under it. Orrin
Stevens, who had the flag i'll charge,
told some parties (nOt the Dem. Com. }
that something must be done with the
flag or it would have to be taken down.
and he who says he was actuated by
any unpatriotic principles is as great a
traitor at heart as Guiteau himself. A
President of the United States is OF
vastly more consequence to such men
as Orrin Stevens than to any who has
so charged him with disloyalty, and
! he, no doubt, felt Garfeld's loss more
deeply than they, and if the Republi
can will publish the names of its con-
selors we are confident that in the opin-
ion of the public we are right. Why,
we ask, don't that paper do it?
The Democratic managers" listen
ed to no complaint, for there was none
made of such nature as was stated.
That paper says the Hancack pole was
cut down "as natural result" Com
ing from such standpoint we agree
but We did suppose that in such an
hour of universal grief, no patriotic
man would be moved by prejudice OF
spiteful motive. Hancock and his lie.
gion of followers paid more regard to
the Nations woe during that week OF
sorrow that the Republican party could
do, were it so disposed, during its life
And what is their gratitude? The day
after the body of our lamented dead
was laid away in his last home, when
We supposed that all envy and malice
and bitter rivalry were alike buried
did the Republican press all over oul
nation bring up old aninosities, fol
party effect, and charge man who
hereafter dared to be Democrat as al
enemy to Garfield and to the nation
and even intimated that he was liz
league with such as Garfield's assassin
There was no Memorial Service 81
Sunday, as was stated, but the service
was held on Monday. The article il
as false in dates as in sentiment. Al
the memorial service all united in ex
pressioDs of grief at the great loss we
all sustained. The public school, con
trolled by Democratic Board and in
charge of Democrat, was closed, the
latter being one of the speakers on the
occasion. And now we ask if in such
times as these we cannot lay aside oul
prejudices and stand in solid phalan1
as nation not divided, but with tn.
same principles as our guide, the same
banner above our heads, and with al
army fifty millions strong, treadins
the same pathway of freedom, the1
when will that time come? IfGuiteal
had spared our President and taken In
his stead some party demagogues anC
stified the meanness of the Republican
press, we would applaud him as tn,
greatest refOrmer of the age.
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