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Year: 1870

We, the Union Republican candid
ates of Polk county, wish through this
circular to express to the voters of the
county our political positions and to
vindicate ourselves against certain SLAM
ders which are intended to affect Us in
the coming election and are being pubs
licly circulated by the Democratic can
didates, who are now making what they
call canvass, asking the voters of the
county to support them.


Accompanying them is one John 0.
Shelton, who pretends to know great
deal about the use Of money by Holla-
day & Co., to carry the county in the
interest Of Williams


We will notice the afilavits which
appear in the Salem Daily Press. The
second and .hird are part Of batch
published in that paper Of the 18th
ult., in which it is claimed that Mr.
Boone desired to hire hands to 20 aud
work for tie Government, and amounts
TO nothing if trpe All we have to say
in reply is that those afiidavits do not
charge us with anything.


The affidavit of Hartman does not
charge us with anything, and SO far as
it duplicates anyone, it certainly does
not amount to much when he now comes
out in another affidavit and says that ho
made the one which appears IN the Press
under duress.


The affidavit OF John j.. Shelton
charges us with nothing, aud all that he
pretends to know was learned from
John O. Shelton, who seems to be the
great leading light of the party, towards
whom all eyes are turned and all ears
are opened to see statesman and hear
the eloquenee of his tongue.


So far as John O. Shelton testimony
is concerned, We suppose he has told ali
be pretends to know, and cannot again
take the stand He says that be re-
ceived all his information in regard to
money from Boone and Lafollett Not
one OF the men on our ticket is enumer-
ated as having dollar of money for
the purpose of carrying the election
Shelton says that he was employed by
members of the Republican party, as
agent of that party, to carry the county
In the interest of the Republicans. He
don't say that anyone offered him mon,
ey. or that he ever had dollar of the
mooey which he says was in the hands
of these men.


His statement is certainly very vague
and uncertain, and shows very conclu
sigely that he knew but little abou
what he was swearing, and cares mucl
less about what he is doing SO long al
he makes his bread and butter.


We append to this address affidavit
and statements of men who, to say th
least, stand as high in the communit,
in which they live as those who hav'
signed and sworn to the statement
above referred to. We ask the candle
mind to take the testimony and proof
and render verdict accordingly.


The charge has been made by the op
position candidates that money has beer
and IS being used by the Republican
party to corrupt the voters of this coun
ty for the purpose of eleeting the lie
gislative and county ticket If such i
Year: 1870

the case, it is without our knowledge
and consent, and we hereby denounce
the whole thing false so far as we are
concerned. The opposition cannot deny
the use of money by them for election.
eering purposes unless they deny the
truth.


They charge that We were afraid to
meet them and discuss the issues Of the
day. There are several reasons which
prompted us to this course. 1st, The
voters of the county are informed upon
the issues of the dag and we are 10th to
believe that any efforts of ours or of the
opposition would have the effect to
change the vote of single man. I'd,
1t is L very busy time of year and peo-
pie generally do not like to leave their
various vocations, when it is improbable
that any possible good could result
therefrom. Sd, The two parties have
made platforms and it is fair to presume
that the candidates upon each ticket
stand by the declaration of principles
contained therein, aud which are herein
set forth.


With this short address to our fellow.
citizens, we now appeal to them to give
us their support, trusting that our long
residence in the county will be suffi
cient guarantee that, if we should be
elected, we will, to the utmost of our
ability, perform the various duties to
which your sufrages shall have called
Year: 1870

EDITOR REPUBLICAN:


Dear Sri understand that it has
been said, by certain man who is can
vassing for the Democratic ticket, in
this county, that-at a certain time and
place, in the town of Dallas, and in my
presence Republican offered him
$500 not to expose certain frauds which
he claims to exist in the Republican
party. in this county Now, all have
to say about that statement is, that il is
a lie. made OF whole cloth. No man
in the Republican party ever made
any such proposition in my presence,
at any time or place.


During conversation, however, be-
tween said canvasser myself and an
other Republican. when said canvasser
still proicssed to be Republican, and
while the Salem Press was abusing him
as Republican, he stated that the De-
mocracy had offered him big money to
canvass for them, and that Tol. Savery
wo, take him around in buggy Tor
that purpose.
Year: 1870

Let no spade or mattock ever hereafter dis
turb the soil that vegetables so luxuriantly over
their ashes. The time is coming-is already
at hand, when history shall present to the liv-
ing the actions of these venerable dead, and
posterity will glory in deriving their descent
from the Settlers of the Valley of Virginia.
In answer to the question which coming time
will make" Where are their graves 2" shall
posterity answer s'Ue cannot teuP' Shall the
inhabitant of the far West, as he rambles over
the beautiful scenes of the labors of the emil
grants in their infan. settlement, look around
in vain for a monument that shall point to the
resting place of such men as John Preston, the
Shipmaster of Dublin? -rev- VIATOR.
Year: 1870

their dead. -aar.r5r C4te
) 1t was good thought in the conception, and
will be patriotic in the execution, to use here,
in the midst of these crowded mounds, pillar
as simple and unadorned as the manners of that
age-as beautiful and enduring in its simplicity
as the principles that peopled and have gov
erned this valley.


SACRED TO THE MEMORY
Year: 1870

TVyH Z ACCOUNTS of j. A. & Y. M. Bick-
I lie are drawn off and ready for settlement
Persons knowing themselves indebted to this
firm will please call and settle without further
trouble as all must be settled promptly.


da6-
Year: 1870

q N. GILES has reduced the tariff on all
y. of his goods. Now is the time to get bar
gains TWENTY PER CENT LESS than they can be
bought for ANYWHERE. Come and save your
money inauImosH 81 135aHHg de20
Year: 1870

II has doubtless been known through Yor K
county. that the torn Of Lebanon has had a
very poor Town House and very uncomfortable
place to do their business In, having no way to
heat the house, other than by placing a stove
near window And running the funnel through
q square Of glass Last spring, while having
meetings for railroad purposes, some OF the more
considerste portions Of the voters, conceived the
idea that Il would be more TO their credit 10 re
pair their house than to vote to per cent Of
their valuation to the Portland & Rochester X.
II. They therefore by small majority voted TO
repair. and under the direction Of Isaac ii. Fall
and Asel W. Rogers they have thoroughly ne
psirei and finished their house, outside and in.
and they now feel proud In saying that they
now have as good q town ball As there Is in
York county; also an Office for their Selectmen
to do business in. So much for the good judg-
ment and proper decision Of old Lebanon.


A TAX PAYER.
Year: 1870

THE DEATH PENALTY IN PRUSSIA. tele-
gram from Berlin informs us that the death
penalty, which for some time past has been
under discussion In the Reichstag, had been
voted upon, and that majority Of thirty
seven had gone in favor Of abolition. Count
Bismarck spoke against it, but all the influence
Of the Count could not seriously affect the
vote. Prussia, we suppose, has not had the
experience Of New York. This is sufficient
explanation. The opposition Of Count Bis
marck gives us good reason to believe that the
veto in this particular case may be applied.
It is not our opinion that in Prussia the old
theory, can eye for an eye, tooth for q
tooth, /" is yet played out.
Year: 1870

A SATISFACTORY ExPLANATIoN.-We ere
happy to hear from Mr.. S. s. Cox, on the floor
of the House, that he Is not the man who ap-
pointed cadet from Ohio, and equally happy
to hear that when he has an appointment to
make he will make it from the district he repre-
sents In Congress. As it was broadly stated
in q Boston paper, we believe-that q New
York member had made his appointment from
Ohio, and as we we're desrous that Mr..
Cox should not be unjustly suspected we aimed
the little word ''sunset" with view to call
him out, and give him chance ia air his vir-
tuous purposes on the floor or in print. VIZ
trust he il as grateful as he Is honest.
Year: 1870




The unrealities of the stage arc not confined
to the footlights alone, but extend to the box
office and managers room also. There sue
cess such as crowded house every night may
lead theatre-goers to regard as genuine is
analyzed and turns out to be a disastrous fail
ure, If the non payment Of salaries be taken
as criterion. This popularity OF manage
ment has developed itself this season at some
of our theatres, and its origin may be easily
traced. When striplings and experienced
sharpers (the term is severe, but just), take
theatre and inaugurate q musical or theatrical
entertainment with the express, although, OF
course, not avowed, intention of pocketing
every dollar that comes into the treasury and
letting their liabilities take care of themselves,
we can only regret that music and the drama
should fall so low as to be entrusted to their
care. Yet this season has developed persons
Of this kind as recent failures in management
will show The public suffer to lamentable
extent from such peculiar manner of transact
ing business, but the poor employees of the
theatre in which those gentlemen" play the
role of manager suffer more than the
public are aware Of We know in
stances in which not person connected
with theatre, with the exception Of a
star or two, who could be put off under any
pretence has received dollar for his services,
although the house was crowded every night.
Such system of business, OF course, cannot last
long; but yet we find 1t tried, and successfully,
too, over and over and over again. There are
many respectable and responsible managers in
this city, and we are happy to say that they are
in the majority also. In view of the insult
offered to their profession by charlatans, we
think it only an act Of justice to themselves
to unite in denouncing such palpable swindles.
We have every sympathy for an unfortunate
manager whose we'll meant efforts are unsuc-
cessful, but we can have nothing but indig-
nation and contempt for those who enter the
business with the express intention Of cheating,
and regarding the receipts as assets alone.
The loss falls principally on poor, hard work
ing men and women, who have nothing but
their scanty salaries to depend on for living.
We trust for the honor of stage that all those
charlatans will be banished from ii for the
future.
Year: 1870

GENERAL LOGAN is incorporating In his
investigation Of the trade in cadesships, expel-
ling alike guilty friends or foes so far he mas
elected two radicals and one democrat, and it
"a probable that Butler, another radical, Will
be the next victim. If he keeps up such
searching and effective investigation the radi-
cal party may in time lose its majority.
Year: 1870

has not reached, haye given promise Of JOY
and future SUCCESS to the demqcrecy Of the
State, the vote In the more influential points,
like the cities Of Utica and Troy, are showing
that democratic preponderance in the State is
becoming endangered. What will save the
democracy Of the Unionif tho Empire State
does not remain firm
Year: 1870

THE INCOME TAx.-The income tax is to be
reduced to three per cent, and there is 3
probability that two thousand dollars will be
exempted. That is just what the people want.
It will take the tax off the shoulders of all who
feel it ss an oppression, and make it begin
just where its payment Is not taken out of the
little comforts of careful families.
Year: 1870

LATER ABOUT LoPEz.-Judging by the latest
news from Paraguay, Lopez is not in SO bad
plight as former despatch would imply. We
are now told that he still holds his own against
the Brazilians. Be this as it may, however, Of
one thing we feel satisfied, that whether the
news be false or true, it will be contradicted by
s'still later news from Paraguay"
Year: 1870

WEST POINT AND THE WAR.-At intervals
since the rebellion there have been aurries
made in Congress over the alleged disloyal
tendency of West Point. Some extremely
radical members have even urged that the
Academy should be abolished in order that it
shall rear and educate no more Davises or
Lees; but they forget that in that case 1t could
no longer rear any more Grants, Shermans,
Sheridans or Thomases. A correspondent
furnishes us with statistics showing that Of the
living graduates in and out Of the army when
the rebellion commenced twenty-five per cent
went to the Confederacy, thirty-three per cent
of tho whole having been appointed from the
slave States This is a good enough showing
and we doubt il Yale or Harvard could do
better, especially when we remember that
some Of the veteran radicals themselves at the
commencement Of the rebellion favored letting
the ''erring sisters slide," although they did
not 20 to the rebellion themselves,
Year: 1870

DowLING WIDE AwAKE.AThe use Of the
pistol is becoming SO common and has such
alarming consequences that no opportunity to
punish 1t should be lost, and therefore the
policeman who arrested man charged with
an assault with pistol did well but Judge
Bowling did = great deal better when he
nipped in the bud an arrangement by which
the policeman made himself go-between
from the accused person to the citizen making
the proposition that the latter should with
draw his charge. We are pleased to see that
the Judge believes that there Is public
interested in the punishment Of these ARRAYS.
Year: 1870

The CASE OF GEoRGIA.-The Senate Judi


ciary Committee has made report declaring
the present Legislature Of Georgia, which was
convened and organized under the radical
dspensation putting the State back under a
military government, to be good deal worse
than the old one, which upset all radical
expectations by the rejection of the colored
members. The committee, like the old man
who found himself in predcament where he
could not even swear for vexation, despair of
doing the subject justice. They think no
further steps need be taken towards recon-
structing Georgia. They prefer to let her go
to the bad her own way If she must go. They


are tired of showing her the true path, and,
like an abstruse conundrum, they give her up.
Year: 1870

THE SUPREME BENCH NOMINATION. Brad
ley is not yet confirmed as Judge of the
Supreme Bench, the Senate having yester-
day deferred further consideration of his
appointment. Tie main objection to him is
his being Northern man and the South
claiming representative on the. Bench. Is
there not little of the old State rights
sectionalism in this? President Grant, we
think, has shown desire to discountenance
this sectional feeling by~various appointments,
such as two Cabinet members from Massachu-
sets, like Hoar and Boutwell,, and other MEM
bers from democratic States, like Fish and
Robeson. The President most likely is trying
to instil broad national idea into Congress
and the people--one knowing no South or
North, but comprehending that the glory Of ono
section is the glory Of all.
Year: 1870

WHERE WAS THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR P
Another instance of the want Of public prose-
cution has led to the escape Of the criminal in
case of homicide. Hartnett operated on
Hermann's head with hatchet in December.
Hermann rightly enough, perhaps, did not
consider his head of much account and refused
to make charge, but Hartnett was held
until Hermann left the hospital apparently
well and then was given his liberty. Her.
mann returned to the hospital little while later
and died, but Hartnett was gone. All this is
done as if there was no such thing as the
public peace to be cared for-as if chopping
heads was entirely private matter.
Year: 1870

THE ONEIDA DISASTER conduct of tho
captain of the steamer Bombay, which ran
down the Oneida, looks all the worse the moro
we see of it. He must be very careful and
attentive captain who knows so little OF what
happens to his ship that he can collide with
another with such force as to drive timber
completely through the side of his own snip AZ
the water line, and hardly be aware OF tne Cur
cumstance. But we believe this captains
ignorance of the collision and his haste to
leave the scene of the occurrence has another
explanation. In case of such a collision at
sea the owners Of his ship might become liable
for damage done to the other ship, and the
captain ran away from the accident in the hope
to escape neutrality-suspicious., let us hope,
not thinking that such fearful loss of life might
ensue. This explanation does not say much
for the captains manly spirit, but it is the only
one consistent with his sobriety.
Year: 1870

THE CENSUS OF 1S0.-In the Senate to-day
Mr.. Conkling, from the Special Committee re-
ported substitute for the census bill as it
passed the House. The substitute directs the
secretary of the Interior so to change the
schedule and blanks to be used in enumerating
the inhabitants Of the United States in 1870 as to
make the same conform to the constitution of
tire United States. Under this bill the census
must be taken on the old plan under direction of
the United States Marshals.
Year: 1870

The importers of British and French goods
are arranging for early spring trade, and seem
to have a confident feeling OF fair business.
The amount Of goodson the market iss0mething
in excess Of last seasons supply; and the low
their goods for consumption, instead OF sending
them to bonded warehouse. The importations
are not heavy, but they rather exceed the
quantity received at the corresponding period
last year.-N. j. Independent, 2oth inst.
Year: 1870

The New York money market worked easily
yesterday with the larger number Of loans
at six per cent. Only about SlOO, 900 of the
two millions of United States bonds DUR
chased by the Assistant Treasurer were sent
Yesterday. The payment for these bonds will be
three Quarters In legal tenders and one quarter
in national bank notes.
Year: 1870

The BALTIMORE AND POTOMAC RAILROAD
Mr. Scott introduced in the Senate to-day bill
to extend the time for the completion of she
lateral branch of the Baltimore and Potomac
Railroad, and to change the location in the CITY
of Washington along the bank of the canal 1t
extends the time for the completion of the road
from February 5th, 1871, to February 1st, 1875
The company is authorized to adopt a line in
the city of Washington from south Fourth street
curving to the right either to the north or sOuth
bank OF the canal northwestwardly to Virginia
avenue. Referred to the Committee on the
District Of Columbia.
Year: 1870

THE EXPEDITION to the Isthmus of Darien
that was to have sailed from New York to-mor-
row. will now be delayed for two weeks or more,
on account Of an accident which befell the flag
slip, the Nipsic. She was run into by the
steamer John Bell, in New York harbor, during
the prevalence Of a fog, and was badly dam
aged, and has been sent over to the Brooklyn
Navy Yard for repairs.
Year: 1870

A Coop RiDpANcG. The Ant-Slavery
Society has gone out of existence, and tn e
world is well rid of noisy nuisance. This
society lays itself down to die because of the
end of slavery. II was in existence and
clamorng abolition at the time when the folly
OF The Southern men compelled the nation, in
order to save ITSELF to destroy slavery. There
fore the abolition screamers fancy they did it,
Just rs the fly on The wheel of tho wagon
thought he was making splendid uproar aud
kicking up an awful dust.
Year: 1870

decked hisportly person all over with gold lace
as Admiral Of the Sound Fleet; but his uni
form then was an insubstantial fabric, which
had not the sanction Of any usage custom or
commission. 1t was not satisfactory, and so
ne became Colonel of the Ninth regiment,
where he wears as caudy uniform, sports a
sword, and has usage and the Governors COM
mission to back him. We suppose he is now
happy Fisk
Year: 1870

Az ANrl-RgNr REVOLUTION IN PARIS
The revolutionary elements in Paris have hit
on a novel plan TO secure a revolution among
the workingmen. They have posted placards
about the city urging them to refuse TO pay
their rent and be elected by their landlords.
We hardly think it likely that even in rcvolu-
tionary Paris men are going to have their
families put into the streets merely for the fun
Of having street fight with <he soldiers.
Year: 1870

to. get tho regular wages. No doubt the poor
fellow would have taken higher wages IL he
could have got them; but it is doubtful il
he could have got the situation IL he had in
sisted on it. As 1t was there was no choice
between taking what he could get and lctting
his family 60 destitute
Year: 1870

A HARD CAsE.A poor fellow, who had
been ont of work six weeks, and whose family


in consequence were in destitute condition,
accepted employment recently at an iron
foundry on Centre street, at the best wages he
could get. which, it seems, were less than
those paid to the other workmen. For this he
was assaulted aud severely beaten Ivy two Of
his follow woramea who were fortunate enough
Year: 1870

SUBSIDY SoRAMBLEs.-ln the Senate they
are astonishcd at the rapid increase Of appli-
cations for subsidized lines Of steamers" We
are not astonished at this Increase 1t is only
a natural result of the fact that Congress has
appeared disposed to listen with some favor to
such appeals. If il may give one subsidy it
may give five hundred, and the needy will not
lose chance for the want of asking. 1t is
refreshing to see how many lines of steamers
we may have on the pauper plan.
Year: 1870

VINO SHALL MEND Our WAYS Some
time ago the city OF Brooklyn had to pay
Twelve thousand dollars damages for Injuries
done to a man through bad condition OF the
street pavement. But the city had previously
shifted the duty of keeping the pavement in
repair at that place 10 the shoulders Of q rail-
road company. The company had bound
itself to keep the pavement in repair for a
certain width Of the street, and the accident
occurred within that width. The company
therefore was sued for the reimbursement of
the money. and Judgment against it has been
rendered after long litigation. Perhaps the
company will now see that il is good
economy to live up 20 its contracts.