The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-10-08

United States treasury Surely II theeo
things have passed from the good Senasors
the Returning Board for he was one OF the
SO we'll Illustrated that grand old maxim OK
Republican policy in the Sodth:
"He shall take who has the power.
And he shall keep who can"
Now a State is impotent to govern Its own
elections. Then the fraudulent seal OF STATE
was omnipoteut to consecratc the fraud It
REBELS ON TOP.
But the great Senator says the rebels are
Did he not sit in the Cabinet of Hayes with
the rebel General Key? And did not the
eest eeosi 1 se Cabnes az Grant But
crates represent the country abroad undes
the present Confederate administrators!
Governor we Orr Minister to Russia and tho
Republican ruler And Iongstreet and scores
licans. Hut perhaps necessity knows no
law, and after the most notorious OF the
country for their extortions. frauds and rob.
berries, respectable Republicans enough
could no. be found in the South to NJ the
Federal Offices. and Confederates had to be
taken! Why, every man, though his rebel
sins were as scarlet was patriot as soon as
hs had 80 swon 1sa aegsnde to Je
! Davis ard Bob Toombs would have been
| made President and Vice PresideIs ny Inc une
|
lease of power!
the e. farcs ar y folloWs fol @ % the tragedy, and sherman
has adhered to the rule. After his thunders
of denurciation come the gentle flashes OF
| his hum or-grim humor it is true, but still
humor. He says that the Republican party
''is composed of the great body Of the Union
who sage6 the sbaf eIn ,s
| ness is forg often. The deliberate insult to
gallant Democrat soldiers is lost in its ab, 70
the Union army were Democrats. though
| some of them apostatized from the faith 10
the feryor of civil war ss Or to win fsvos s from
Hooker, iHe % Mcpoweii, Hiii Thomas. Buell.. Logan
lone of the last stars Of the constel-
SO far as they % had % any politics at all.
were Democrats: And Franklin, Sicklest
Butler. slocum, sigel and % scores OF others 5
well as soldiers And in Ohio we had Morgan.
Steedman, the McCooks, Lytle,. LeFevre.
long tn at the very recital would be resome.
We did not ask the politics OF our gallans
comrades. In the ranks we have no means
are significant. A majority OF the Colonels
of the first twenty regiments that took the
field were Democrats and the northwest, the
Gibraltar of the party, furnished moro
soldiers in proportion to the population than
any region of the State.
plus ultra of the ludicrous is reached Sher-
man, great in statistics, burst out with this,
s:of the active intelligent and business men
of the and, of the great body of the farmers
! and laborers whose industry is the founda.
: the active. intelligent and business menY''
Let us give him credit for meaning "the
39dy Of the ned ae staaees or
! page 1,356 flor we must be statisticap, will
show the grimness of the Senator's humor.
classes, farmers, manufacturers and me.
chanlcs, traders and transporters, profes
sional men and laborers, and amount in the
millions. This includes all industrial male
population over ten years old, about two.
q @som the
| licans. This leaves to the Democratic party
, few scattering ',active, Intelligent and
: surely they must be included as active
and Intelligent, and few few t' scattterins
Ss srsat ana osed 81 ss
Democratic party, therefore, comprising
, at least half the people, according 70 the
{ humorous statistics of Sherman, consists OF
criminals, tram2s, bummers and beggers
Let the curtain drop.
3 from all i this % baderdash! I + The % great masse.
> of the working, wealth producing, rulinf
: classes want aud will have repose from tht
: Senator threatens between the sections will
. not be- made. No State has violated the Four
t teenth amendment. Not statute has bee,
: which contravenes this amendment BY deny
g ing or abridgng the right of any. tizen @
s the United States to vote at any, election. j
l. violence has occurred anywhere at the polls
4 SO far as its own officers are concerned. eacl
= State has ample power and the only consti
g tutional power to correct the abuse. And II
8 in electing Representatives to Congress, an.
!. frauds, violence or Irregularities occur Cob
y gress is the judge of the election. return
t and qualifications of its own members, an,
It can right every wrong by seating or unseaf
y ing any member as law and justice may re
j. quire But the Federal Government can no
d reduce the representation of State on th'
l. floor of Congress when her statutes conform
q to the Fourteenth amendment. The Sena
? tors assumption that it can, is like all tn
d rest cf his arguments, if it can be dignife
s by that name, a bold defiance of the Who'll
l. Constitution and of the whole nature an
# character of our institutions Men of Ohio
IS stand inheXibly by the Union, the States an
d the Constitution Stand by the rights of tn
n people, the equality of the masses. th
d progress of humanity Stand reverently D.
@ the memory of the fathers, earnestly by tn
needs of the present hour, and hopefully
the Democratic future of AmericaI