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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-03

The Civil Service clause in the
Virginia Democratic State platform
is we'll worth reproducing:
eve ~reiterate ON advocacy of such
Civil Service reform as will mike
character aud fitness tests of official
preference and exclude the loathsome
system of the Republican party, which
has become the scandal of the country /;
but we hold, at the same time that an
administration charged with the SOL
emn responsibilities of Government
and needing the relations of con1i-
its subordinates to secure efficiency
should not be unduly hampered by
having obnoxious officials forced into
or continued in service. No efficacious
system can be established that does
not work in accord with the will and
aspirations of the people under an
Executive head, untramn.eled i'll the
exercise of official power, and the fun
damental principles of free govern.
ments exact that the powers of the
Executive shall not be shackled by the
usurpation of q Commission or other
official power unknown to the Consti-
tuition"
Those old Virginia Democrats,
rebels as the are or were, have a ring
of honesty about them that is re-
freshing 10 see in these times OF
political degenerscy.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-03

thinking he had struck a bonanza, but
two years later he was a striker for
higher wages. The home laborer,
whom he had crowded out, had been
a mild striker compared to the foreign
striker and rioter.
The danger has no compensations.
The manufacturer inflicted it upon
American laborers and American gov
eminent without being in any man
ner himself permanently benefited.
His situation has grown more desper.
ate. The demands for his goods has
grown less,and less, and his prices
have been forced lower and lower.
His idle machinery and piled up man.
u%factures are bankrupting him. Re.
ducing wages, importing cheap labor,
and keeping up the tariff, has been ut.
terly disappointing and destructive &c
all concerned.
AS to prices of manufacturers, they
are now below a free trade basis, but
with no freedom of trade, or trade of
any kind, as an outlet fer enterprise
There remains, therefore, but one
thing to be done as a remedy, and
that is to greatly reduce the tariff, and
thus open up foreign markets tor the
surplus products of our soil and oul
manufacturing establishments.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-03

The idea Of an intelligent commu
nifty piling ten thousand dollars on
the vault of a dead man., is simply
too foolish to think about. This is
the amount the Grant Monument
Committee of New York City have
fixed upon for the erection of a mem
orial in honor of Gen. Grant. To-
ward this large sun not quite sixty
one thousand dollars has been con.
tributcd. We believe with a cotem.
porary, that if the people of this
country refuse to put a million OF
dollars of their money into a pile OF
stone, OF a metal casting, for the pur-
pose of erecting an object that can do
no living person q particle of good,
they will manifest excellent sense
and Judgment.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-03
Wages in 1880.

The condition of the wage class of
that day may we'll be examined. 1t
is full CONSTRUCTION to social agitators.
In the great cities unskilled workmen
were hired by the day, bought their
own food and found their own lodg-
ings. Butin the country, On the farms,
or wherever a hand vas employed on
some public work, they were fed and
lodged by the employer, and given a
few dollars a month. On the Penn
sylvania canals the diggers ate the
coarsest diet, were housed in the rud-
est sheds, and paid six dollars a month
from May to November, and five dol
lars a month from November to May.
Hold carriers and mortar mixers, dig
gers and choppers, who from 1892 to
1900 labored on the public buildings
8nd cut tue streets and avenues Of
Washington City, received seventy
dollars a year or, ifthey wished, six
ty dollars for all the work they could
perform from March l to December
20. The hours of work were iDvaria-
bly, from sunrise to sunset. Wages at
Albany and New York were three
shillings, or, as money then went, forty
cents a day at Lancaster eight 10 ten
dollars a month elsewhere in Penn
sylvania, workmen were c%ontented
with six dollars in summer and five
in winter. AT Baltimore men were
glad to be hired at eighteen pence a
day. None by the month asked more
than six dollars. AT fredericksburg
the price of labor was fiom five to
seven dollars. In Virginia, white meu
employed by the year were given
sixteen pounds currency slaves when
hired were clothed and their masters
paid one pound a month. A pound
of Virginia money was in Federal
money three dollars and thirty-thrce
cents. The average rate of wages the
land over was, therefore, sixty-five
dollars a year, with food and perhap:
lodging. Out Of this small sun the
workman must, with his wife's help,
maintain his family.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-03

The fearful ravages of cholera in
Spain continue undated. The hos
pitfalls Of the country are crowded to
overlooking, and all the public build
ings that can be used as retreats for
the afflicted are being freely given for
that purpose by the officials. The
state of affairs brought about by the
daily mortality is indescribable. In
some districts whole families have
died from the scourge; in others on
ly a small child, or an old grandma
Their or father live to bear the name
of a once large and pow erful connec
ton. The long continuance of the
disease is attributed to the fact that
the authorities did not attempt to
adopt strict sanitary measures until
they were forced to do SO by the
frightful presence of death at their
own doors.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-03
The progress of business develop.

The progress of business develop
ment is illustrated by the fact that
in the seven months ending with
July, the bank clearings of the
United States we're % per cent. less
in the aggregate than in the CORES.
ponding period in 1884, while in
July alone, the last month of the
seven, the aggregate was 81 per cent,
greater than in July, 1884. The ag-
gregate of July, 1885, exceeded tina.
of July, 1884, by $271,O33,OO and
also exceeded the maximum month.
ly clearings of the year by $163, OOO,.
900. In the seven months there
were only three cities west of the
Pacific Slope in which the clearings
equaled those of last year, but in
July the number was exactly four.
fold greater.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-03

The Cleveland Plain Dealer says
there have enoughAacts come to light
here to justify the belief that a cor
rupt ring of clerks and higher officials
in the pension Office have been robb-
ing the government for many years
past. Walter A. Shuckers, the new
superintendent of the pension build
ing, is the man who should have the
credit for the discovery of this ring.
The whole matter is in the hands of
the city detective force and they are
making most strenuous efforts to get
at the bottom of the charges
Enough has already been ascertain
ed to send several of the suspected
parties to the pe%nitentiary, unless
some legal technicality is erected to
shield them.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-03
The Ohio towns and cit

The Ohio towns and cities which
come under the operations of the
new postal law providing for the
immediate delivery of letters by plac-
ing a ten cent stamp. designed for
the purpose, on the letter so desired
to be delivered, are as follows: Ak
ron, Alliance, Ashtabula, Bellaire,
Canton, Chillicothe, Cincinnati, Cir
c%leville, Columbus, Dayton, Defiance,
Delaware, East Liverpool, Elyria.
Findlay, Fremont, Gallon, Gallipolis,
Hamilton, Ironton, Lancaster, Lima,
Mansfield, Mariette, Massilon, Mt.
Vernon, Middletown, Newark, Piqua,
Pomery, Portsmouth, Salem, San
dusky, Springfield, Steubenville,
Tiffil, Toledo, Urbana, Van Vert,
Warren, Wooster, Xenia and lanes
vile.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-03

The "bloody shirt" shriekers will
be greatly disappointed and set back
by seeing such sentiments as the fol-
lowing, taken from the Richmond,
(Va.) Dispatch, n of the leading
journals of the South. In speaking
of Grants death the Dispatch says:
crest in peace, great warrior
Thou hast no longer enemies. None
but friends can be found in either
in the north or in the south. The
confederate soldier will lay wrea.hs
upon the hero's grave and mourn
with the millions that will mourn
wherever the flag of a restored union
waves"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-03
The Carlisle Pa volunteer says

The Carlisle Pa Volunteer says
there is already strong talk of the re
moyal of Gen. Grants remains to
Washington, where they ought to
have. gone in the first place. The
residence CT the Grants in New York
was disastrous to them, and if they
had been blessed with the ordinary
sensihilities of mankind they would
have carried the Generals dead
body away and shaken the dust of
the city off their shoes forever. They
are a dull set, with no ambition be
You'd that of an ordinary mendicant.
Mrs. Graft is disappointed be-
cause the Mayor informed her she
could not be given a deed to a plot
of ground surrounding the Generals
tomb. The promoters Of the sub
scription for a monument are disap.
pointed also, because the moneyed
men of the city have not responded.
Neither the Astors, nor the Wander
bilts, nor Gould, nor any of the very
wealthy citizens who were counted
on for heavy subscriptions, haze
made any reply to the appeals made
to them.
The threatened failure of the New
York monument has brought out a
proposition to emove the Generals
remains to Washington and apply
to Congress for an appropriation Of
one million dollars for q monument
at the national capital. Congress
would do well to keep its hands out
of this business. II is too much in
the habit of appropriating money tc
purposes not authorized by the Con
stitution and it is time to call a halt
General Washington had been dead
more than eighty years before a mon
ument TO his memory was finished al
the national capital and there is nc
need of haste in Gen. Grants case.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-03

1t is now reported that Ben But
ler is coming out publicly in support
of President Cleveland. New Eng
land politicians say in doing this The
old gentleman is making a virtue of
necessity and that there is absolute
ly no other way in which he can
have any future political> relations
with anybody. He is now TEN
porarily in an humble mood and is
laying his plans to resume his re-
lations with the Democracy in Mass
achusetts. He has about $4,000
red hot followers in that State, and
with them at his back and with pro.
fessions of friendship for the admin
istration on his lips, he calculates
that he can succeed in resuming his
control of the organization in that
State.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-03

moment he entered the public life.
1t was because he was thus stronger
that his party nominated him for
President. He was not the most pop
ular candidate among the Demo
Gratis. far from it, but he was chosen
as their candidate because of his
strength with the people. That
strength was due to a popular faith
in him as a champion of the very
principles which he has been carry
ing out since his arrival in Wash.
ington.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-03
uor,or,s WeeH1u has heen ;nros

Harper's Weekly has been investi-
eating the results of prohibition in
Iowa and notes as the result OF its
inquiries that in the cities and lar
ger towns it appears that the liquor
traffic is openly or secretly carried on.
The whole number of saloons in %
of such cities and towns is reported
to be GIG, as against ITO before the
law was in operation; and the in
crease is most decided in the larger
cities. The old revenue from the sale
in such cites is not now received, of
course, although the number Of sell
ling places is greatly increased. But
it is stated that some local authori-
ties sell licenses for illegal drinks
with an understanding that illegal
drinks may be sold. Naturally the
authorities Of the chief cities think
that a license law is preferable in
every way to a prohibition law. The
Weekly Their goes on to say;
The trouble with a %prohibitory law
is that it is a kind which can never
be enforced against public sentiment
and the sentiment of towns and CT
ties is against prohibition. Until
therefore, the moral appeal of The
temperance movement has matured
a sentiment in such communities
which will enforce prohibition, the
actual evils of intemperance will b.
more effectually diminished by
stringent regulation which the pub
lie sentiment will enforce.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-03
The Disease and the Remedy,
Louisville Democrat.

The tariff protected manufacturers
who, two or three years ago, imported
foreign laborers to take the place of
American l%aborers, who refused 10
work at the wages then offered them,
have had an unusual bitter experience
with their new employees this year.
In nearly every case they became
strikers and rioters of the most turbu-
lent sort. The strikes that called out
police and military protection at
Cleveland and other places were in
a%ugurated and led to the point OF vio-
lence by these foreign imported labor
ers.
The result took nc one by surprise
who has looked into the tariff and la
Dor problems with any degree of
Judgment. Manufacturers who can
not pay American laborers decent
wages have but two prudent and COM
mon sense courses open to them-to
quit the losing business, or else dis
cover and remove the cause that press
es their business below the point of
profitable pursuit. The importation
of foreign laborers at less wages was
an act of desperation and folly. 1t
| Clulll piofC ohll o tSiipoho ~
to the manufacturers, and that at the
expense of the society i'll which they
live. This was selfish and wicked,
perverse, stupid, and unpatriotic, en-
%dangering the prosperity and peace Ut
the Commonwealth.
Years ago these manufacturers
made enormous profits under the then
stimulating effects of q high tariff
The cupidity thus excited and nutur-
ed led to the investment of too much
money in manufactures, and the thing
has been overdone-over-production
and too much machinery led to q cut
in prices of the tariff protected goods
in the home markets. This led TO a
reduction of wages time and again,
and that led to strikes time and again.
Prices were continually pushed
downward as well as wages. Thus
manufacturers and their employees
have come to a state where there is no
money in the tariff protected indus
tries. The tariff closed the foreign
markets against this country. We can
only trade Oh equal terms with the
outside world. If we put up a tariff
to keep their products out of this
land they will not take our products
when they can help it.
At first the tariff did make high
wages and high manufactured goods
in this market, but it was an outrage
then on the general home consumer.
One violation of rights leads to an
Other: So the tariff protection out
rage has, at length, reacted on the
manufacturer and the laborers in the
shops. They have been at war fol
years. The manufacturer trying tC
save himself by cutting the wages OF
the laborer, and the laborers striking
to save themselves from starvation
wages. This is the result of the frs
wrong-the high tariff intoxicant
which was promised to make every.
body rich and happy, but which has
ruined the prosperity of all exceptth
enormously rich, who by smartness OIL
born fortune are beyond the reach OF
labor at all.
The importation of foreign cheap
laborers resulted, like the tariff pro.
lection" disasterously for all. 1t die
mot protect. The cheap labvrer came
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-03

The Senate of the Forty-Ninth
Congress will contain forty-two Re
publicans aad thirty-four Democrats,
that is if a Republican is appointed
or elected from Oregon. This will
leave the Republicans a majority of
eight. To overcome this majority
the Democrats will hsve to hold their
present number and gain four adj
ditional Senators; this would make q
tie, but with the casting vote of Vice
President Hendricks party measures
could be carried through.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-03

Our friend Joseph G.. Huffman.
Esq, of New Lexington, Perry coun.
ty, has been unanimously nominal.
ed as the Democratic candidate for
Representative of that county. JOE
has carried Perry several times be
fore for Prosecuting Attorney, and
will do it for Representative. He is
the right kind of a person to nomi.
nate for Representative-honest and
capable, he will represent the inter.
ests of his constituents instead of his
own POCKET.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-03
The coal oil doodle. hummer ele.

The coal-oil-" doodle hummer ele-
ment of Dayton gathered over at
New Lebanon on Tuesday last, and
without a single authorized delegate
from Preble county. proceeded and
nominated "boodle" Brenner for his
second term to mis- represent this
Senatorial District. If he "sticks,"
he will be beaten anywhere from
1900 to 5000! No such a bald faced
corruptionist a get an endorse
ment from the honest Democracy of
Preble county.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-03

Senator Colquitt has furnished the
first instance on the history of Geor.
gia where father and son represented
the State in the Senate of the United
States. Such occurrences are very
rare. There are only three on record.
They are those of Senator Bayard,
Don Cameron and Colquitt. The
Bayards have represented Delaware
in the Senate without interruption
for three generations. Don Cameron
took his fathers seat. There was
thirty years between Walter I. Col
quit and his son in the Senate.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-03

1t is said that four of Charley An
derson's appointments from the Day
ton Home, have already been dis
missed and sent back from Wash
:ngton. Anderst ms fault is that he
pays but little attention to the char
acters of the men he recommends fol
public positions. The hummer ele.
ment seems to strike him the mos,
forcibly.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-03

During this campaign the DEMO
Graf proposes 20 adhere strictly to
facts and to give them without color
ing, no difference which party it
hurts. If an unfit Democrat is nomi-
mated through fraud and corruption,
it will oppose his election. The Dem.
ocRAT believes the Democratic party
ought to prevail, but with honest
men and through honest methods.
Nothing more or less. Any body
object?
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-03
Each additional report from sout]

Each additional report from South.
ern crops gives the outlook as un-
precedented, and the outlook fol-
business in the near future is remark
ably good. The acreage Of the cot.
ton, corr and tobacco crops is un.
usually large, and the unanimous re
port is made that the yield will be
the largest ever secured. In fact all
crops, except wheat, r above the
average, if lot the best ever produc-
ed. Another feature Of the already
cheerful outlook is that these crops
are produced at a much less cost than
in previous years, and also that the
money advanced to farmers by mer.
chants and bankers is less than
usual. The U. S. Commissioner OF
Agriculture says that the yield in
corn will not be less than fifty mill
ion bushels in excess of last year,
while the cotton crop is expected to
be from one to one and a half mill
ion bales more than last year. OF
sugar the estimates are far above
those of last year, and indications
are favorable for its having a better
market. The outlook for rice is
Splendid" while of tobacco, fruits
and vegetables there has never been
known such excellent crops, either
in quantity or quality. Business in
that section has already began to i'm
prove, and we may look for an un
usually brisk movement. during the
fall and winter.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-03

Senator Gable, of Miami County,
denies on paper of being coal oiled
in the election of Payne as U. S. Sen
ator last winter. He may not have
been, but we would want the solemn
affidavit Of every member charged
with the disgrace before we would
believe him, because we know some
who are vehemently denying it thai
were "coaI- diled'' oil over.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-03

The New York Evening Post has
its OWE opinion as to the u of the
strength Of the present administra
ticn and discusses the relative
strength of the President and bis
party in the following terms:
There are signs Of war on the Ad
ministration or Of a rupture in the
party over the question of spoils in
these accounts. They show that the
support of the President is much
more eagerly sought by his party
than the support of the party is
sought by the President. He can get
along well enough without them but
their only hope of a future lies in a
hearty union with him. Nobody
knows better than these party mana
gers the absurdity of the talk about
whether the President is stronger
than his party. He has always been
| stro. ger than his party from the
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-03

The following extract which we
take from Governor Hoadly's speech
before the Columbus Convention &C
cepting his nomination for Governor,
shows exactly where he stands on
the liquor question, and the position
be takes is the position of the Dem
o~cratic party:
"There is n political error l have
never committed and don't propose
ever to begin, now that 1 am sixty
years of age. l conceal 20 opinions
l dodge nc issues; sEirk no respon.
sibilities. There is no fence in Ohio
that propose to straddle. l am
mot for nor against license" 1 am
against prohibition and for license.
Everybody in Ohio knows that.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-03

The glove fight ofthe two bruisers,
John Sullivan and Pat McCaffie y,
which came off near Cincinnati last
Saturday, was what might be plainly
put q thin affair and q fraud.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-03

Durbin is no longer the Ward of the Demo
cracy. The orphan in old age wandered aim.
lessly in the streets of Columbus yesterday
(Aug. 2O). A limp and nerveless arm, bear.
ing scared autograph of a Democratic bullet
is no passport to favor now. The leaden sig
nature was written by the wrong side.-.Sid-
neg Journal.
Yes, and ifDurbin had been nomi.
mated for Governor by the Demo
Gratis, no foul abuse would have been
found low enough to. express your
opposition to him! Git out, ye hypo-
critic!
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-03

The conversion to Democracy OF
Bowling the Republican post master
at Toledo, is too thin to make politi-
cal soup of any account. All he wants
is to be kept in office. "Turn the
rascal out!m
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-03

Texas is reported to have 2,O0O,-
900 bales of cotton from which it is
expected to derive about $4,000, 900,
but some of it will come North to ex-
change fer provisions, as they are
hungry, also in need of agricultural
implements.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-03

The d%efalcation of Joseph Ensign,
Clerk of the Police Board of Dayton,
amounts to So, 1885, SO. Ensign was a
democrat who could have had any
place within the gift of the party of
Montgomery county.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-03

The Ell Paso Times says: The
assertion that Texas is oyerstocked
with cattle cannot be substantiated,
on the contrary the state has over
40, 1000, 600 acres on the market to
lease to cattlemen in any quantity
desired, for a term of n 20 six years.
The railroads have as much more,
while private parties have over one
million acres.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-03

R. S. Thompson, Chairman of the
Prohibition State executive commit
tee, has sent a challenge to Governor
Hoadly to a debate with DIR. Leon
ard. Probably Hoadly will accept
and probably he will not.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-03

The Buffalo Telegraph has quiet
ly died after sinking some $4,000.
This was the paper which brought
out the scandal about President
Cleveland.