The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-10-01


of the white voters Of the State, while al the
cOlored voters were Allowed the ballot They
were then quite wlIg to see e Large pro
we're system of registration. but Will not now
consent to legislation to prevent man from
How dare you. then, Mr.. Sherman, in the
face of this misconduct of your party-this
by whch the sna mo, Of
vented from passing registration law for
the protection of honest voters, and against
claim that the white man Of the South pre-.
vents the ooiored man from voting, when 1t
seS .ns s
claim of your party upon this snbtect fs an
an imposition and fraud 1t is an imposi.
try to oP make @ believe that eIeections at Ro
South are not fair, and IT is q fraud upon the
people Of the South
to secure the benefits of corrupt elections
You refer to my signature for the pardon
onH tba a ae% but IN
person to the President and solicited the
pardon. ;! also wrote g letter asking M.
his vacation, which am glad he did. am
proud, not ashamed, of the stand took in
contributed to Muilen's pardon Undoubf.
edly there were eight or ten legal voters in
the crowd which VI M Mullen captured At At Hog.
dives along the river in Cincinnati. He was
notified by telephone from the police OF Gov
IuSIOu InaI III INVASION OIL OnlO Oy k6utucky
Republicans was in progress. In his anxiety
to defeat II he took in a few too many-a few
sad and r rgat to ssTs s
that he plead guilty and served for eight
months in the Hamilton county Jail on
oficer of good character sober habits and
experience, and thought that the term of
service which he had already passed in jail
the possible offense he might have committed
in not more carefully discriminating between
md
from Ohio whom he gathered in-for. Mr..
sherman, these were scamps from Ohio
the he whS sSa the
scamps in the Republican attempt, of which
Lot Wright was the nominal chief, to corrupt
| trial that John venable, better known as
"Hoghead John" offered to sell the votes of
to 6 s Ter s se
piled very promptly that he would not give
seventy.hys cents for the lot. The house
that means, Mr. shermanS I do not: but
se ee
some of your friends may have been at his
house house and seen z, the game in progress, and
and in the nature of low gambling. twas in
proof in the Mullen case that from the room
confined By Mullen they could have emerged
without any diMculty, 1t being basement
of tramps who have taken refuge there some.
times to the number Of two hundred and ifty
at time. with no lock on the door and M,
against frauds of this kind against the
| frauds of the party of "Hoghcad john" In
and he the If o
passed. Mt. Sherman, or are you sorry, Or
tion?" If you are glad it was passed, pray
the people of that State pass similar law:
|
nor against registration then keep on
bly,, as you have been doing.
You complain that can not see 9 differ
ence between the Ku.Klux-Klau and Key
na doan Have You @ Sorsotten sg that eSS David N.
Key pretended to be a Tilden-Democrat !?
Have you forgotten that this was true. even
at so late day as that on which he was con.
! firlned as Postmaster General? Have you
forgotten. you cetainly knew it then, for he
against as the Ru-Kiu1-Kian. that he never sIos be.
member oil the de facto Presidents cabinet.
that taking this pseudo Democrat into the
Cabinet was one one Of n Mr. Hayes patents, OF
the white people Of the South into
his support, and the revival of tho
Senate, and of the Cabinet of Rutherford &.
Hayes. with David n. Key. Don't parade
Pile as a regenerated Confederate, when,
what regenerated him. If anything, was
ception of its profits. L do not doubt but
that you could make fully twenty cabinets
with ex-Confederates like Mosby, Chalmers
Longstreet & Co, on these terms, but for
tunately for the people the sceptre of power
has departed from the Republican party.
vited into the Cabinet on the condition OF
advocating in the United States Senate.
\
Judge Foraker s speech at Portsmouth. but
l am told that in addition to the Chatham az
legged outrage in Georgia, which, in my opiE.
tries to make much of the circular issued
during the late campaign by Messrs McPher-
SON and Coon. in which it was asserted that
the defalcations and shortages under a Re-
publican administration were SO small as to
be almost too infnitesimalt nit @ to caiculats Its per
has forgotten that this lying statement had
hardly come before the public when IL was
gressman Post.who showed conclusively that
the defalcations during Arthur's admfnistra-
ton alone were % more re than han mil, million & &doliars
reports of the Republican officers of the
Treasury. Mr.. Post proved BY the docu-
June 3Oth, 1883, 1.-THE defalcations of the Re-
publican officials amounted to $50 592 SIS ex-
elusive Of the amounts collected Ct bonds
ports of the Solicitor of the Treasury. based
on the official transcripts of the First Comp.
|
publican officials during the three years Of
Arthurs administration was SLIGO. 733. u.
which less s1s,ss3l5 80 the amount collected
G government of 1850. .s03.27.
MIR. Posts examination of the records OF
the Government OF the United states a.
cations alone during the twenty-five years OF
, Republican administration down to 1855, ex,
ceeded by the sum of S1SO0O, 900 the total
amount OF defalcations and steaiings during
| all administrations from Washington to Blu.
,, ehanan, beth incl9siye: The result OF = Mt. =,
: lence any further discussion by Messrs: Nc
Pherson ard Coon, and they have not beer
3 rected them, probably in total ignorance OF
the effectual reply made to their false state
mentS.
l had not been fully informed as to the his
, tory of the action of the Committee on Reso
+ upon the pending constitutional amendment
to make Ohio a November instead of an DC
!, tober State. Therefore speculatively sug
l adoption of this amendment to the C0nst;tu
7 ton was the result of one of three causes
either, first they forgot; or secondly :
!, they concluded it unsafe to recommend thu
. amendment, because they M ght find it difli
Y cult to say why they did not recommend o.
i'm order to defeat the amendment, flor
= silent vote is a negative vote under the Con
g stitution) SO as to create necessity, b!
Il keeping Ohio as pivotal State, for Johl
= Sherman as a Presidential candidate, thu
l. leaving a possible vacancy in the Senate TO
IS our dear Foster / have now the highes
IS authority for saying that the first of thes
, suggestions cannot be maintained. The sub
o iect was not forgotten A DISTINGUISHES
G amendment, but his motion was vote,
y down, upon. the pretext, so far q
y avowed in the committee, that the plat
n form was already long enough. OF cours
r this was a mere preteXt. The voting 1t dow
J. is to be accounted for on either the secon
5, or third suggestion made by me,--in m
!, opinion most probably upon the third.
ls However, / am glad to be able to say
II was voted down by only one majorit,
e which gives us reason to hope that ther
4 will be enough Republican support to rende
- the adoption of this just and peccssar
9 measure BY a very large majority absolutel
III certain.
~ The Prohibition candidate TO
70 | Cararnor insists that the fi0ht in OH