Year: 1876

The man on the fence in Ohio and Indiana is
having warm time of it now Both parties are shaking
his roost violently enough TO jerk his head OF


There will undoubtedly be revival of the


aper manufacturing interest in the West after the
paen Is over There win be old paper enough from the


Ilden documents TO start half dozen mills The whole
section is shagled with them now


WHY don't the Democrats induce Mr.. Charles
Fyanois Adams take the stump in Indanat II would
Oe sight worth going miles to witness II he could speak
from the same platform with Uncle Jimmy Blue Jeans.


Gen. Mcclellan has consented to deliver one
speech the Democrats in Ohio, and will speak at
Mansfield on Oct 9. Ex-senator Trum'ln viii speak
from the same platform with MIN.


One of the longest things about "Longn John
wentworth Of Chicago his memory His recent speech
was made up largely Of reeoecons told In his dry and
iptelestng manner and among them the fOllowing
There are some bold men, laxative men, who say No.
You 20 away and you say wait till he eOols off and
viii try him again But when you see man who is
mild and he says no. you generally think he means IT.
oh, yes Now Hayes is jast one Of that KIND OF men,
Somebody into oce the other day. ana Wanted
70 look up his record He said, Wentworth, didn't you
oppose that Northern Pacific Railroad scealP Yes
said L sdon't oppose all steals3 know what you are
after. You are hunting up something about HayeS
can tell you Whenever there waS sseS @ ~ oS po
one of those railroad Jobs ever got bis Vote.'


There is undoubtedly good deal of politics
70 the square Indiana about this time so that the
following picture from The Ke0A tbany Ledger Standard
does not seem to be overdrawn i" matters political
within the next weeks increase in ealorc In as great


ratio as has been the during the past fortnight
he'll itself will be comfortable compared with the
groat Commonwealth of Indiana Every legal vote In
the State is pOed and Illegal votes are invited
and expected present from distance on the day o
the election Every masculine face Is counted
whether t be black white red blue pug sharp GreoiaD
or Roman II stranger goes into any part Of the state
he IA locked uOn with suspicion, especially he be of
the colored persuasion To-day few enthuslaste Demo
many old Democrats were diving close 10 the cleo
ton, and the wonder was why an old or even middle
aged Republican couldn't die occasionally just to equal
ise things"


Mr., ]. w. De Forest, who has passed a
good deal Of time the South has written thoughtful
letter to The Notion the present political situation
BE thinks necessary to put in the Democrats to
get rid Of the rascaes Of the carpetbaggers and the
evils they caused because the end of that period of
misrue has nearly reached now, and i5 sure to
come of its own accord BE says he has at times been
moved by the nwisdom and corruption Of Republican
demagogues TO saw Let the Democrats come in and let
the exConiederaes rule, but the time approaches
when such thing may be he shrinks from IL with in-
ereasng alarm. He fears that with return Of the
South to power would Come a payment of Southern
claims paper money, and repudiaton Of more or
less OF the public debt He adds But there is another
and even graver reflection. It loyalty TO
eur nobest convictions and sacrifices and deeds 1t con-
our reverence for the memory OF paOe leauers
and Of the innumerabe brave men who followed them
on TO death or victory 1t respect for the
consistency and dignity of nation which but few
years since sowed the South with graves rather than
bend to it. not waving the bloody shirt have
no hostility toward the whose bcrosm have seen
on the battlefield aud whose gracious, noble personal
traits studied in the purity Of their own homes


wish them pr spoiy peace, ana the ordering OF thef
own affairs with all my heart But cannot help DC
Heyng and earnestly feeling that the patriotic North
should not hasten to aOdicae in favor OF pariOncd
rebellion wheh st seeks TO retain ITS political UNITY ana
has ever such deed OF sefabncgation and sell,
condemnation; people, as fear could do such deed
without having neesness abused and without being
taught under the lash the wisdom of selfrespect"