Decatur Democrat, Volume 24, Number 24, Decatur, Adams County, 16 September 1880 — Page 4

[ H E D E M OCR AT. BY S. RAY WIEEIAMS. Terms: $1.50 a Year in Advance. DECAT UR. INDIA NA, i hursday, Sept. 16, 1880. I > '<■ A' 4 SB ■ wSBBbT ' ■- Ml / DEMOCRATIC TICKET. For President. <«*?!*. W. *. HANCOCK, of Pennsylvania. For Vice President, HON WJI 11. ENGLISH of Indiana. —Gov. Hendricks has raised a wonderful buzz in the republican camp. The old Governor was quiet until John C. New dared to question his veracity. This aroused all the fire in the courageous old stager, and the way he attacked the republican party in general, and General Garfield in particular, was enough to stir them up. No idle words did Gov. Hendricks use, but documentary evidence, and sworn testimony he produced, and he fastened his charges on Garfield so firmly that, the republican candidate felt the weight of his iniquity bearing him down, and he employed an attorney, Gen. Harrison, to defend him. Frantically the paid lawyer rushed to the defence, and endeavored to clear his client’s skirts of the charges made. It was of no use. Hendricks made not one idle remark. He used no word that he did not prove its truth. And the result of John C. News’s art icle in the Journal is that , such a fire has been kindled as will en-| velop the entire republican party in its I flames. T«H4 APOSTLE JULIAN. The Marion Chronicle heads a two column article “The Apostate Julian." and begins its third paragraph with •“The ex Hon. George." The Democrat never yet devoted two columns to a ipan destitute of honor, more especially if that man be a private citizen. But in order to show the course of the republican press in general we will devote a small space to the editor of The Chronicle. “George W. Julian voluntarily went with the thieves kicked out of the Rebublican party.” Hon. Charles Sumner and Horace Greely, and Carl Schurz, and Lyman Trumbull, and scores of others were thieves. All of the great ones who were disgusted with Grantism and left the party were thieves. Oh, yes: and Belknap, Robeson, Leet. Stocking, Williams, Babcock and Richardson. remained and were honest, honoraablc men. The Chronicle says all honest men of the South who accepted the results of the war were ostracised. In the same paragraph it calls Mr. Julian an infamous apostate —for what ? Forsooth he dared to leave the Rrepublican party and become a Democrat. This paper calls Julian an infamous man—is not this an attempt at ostracism? The Chronicle says the colored people are awaiting the result of the election, and if the bull dozer's candidate, Hancock, is elected, a general movement of colored people for the north will commence. This we call a falsehood. and the Chronicle knows it to be false. Every southern state has a Democratic governor. Every local office of importance is filled by a Democrat, and the election of Hancodk will not e fleet the social condition or standing of the colored people. No movement is in contemplation such as the Marion paper talks of. Personally we care nothing for Julian. He is at perfect liberty to go back to the Republican party, if his convictions lead him there, and this paper will not call him an “apostate.” nor charge him with “infamy.”

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LIAISE. For our Democratic readers we this week have good and glorious news. It is good because of its being so wholly unexpected; it is glorious because it is the dawning of a new and brighter day for the lovers of constitutional liberty. It is news that indisputably indicates the near approach of the day when the government shall pass into the hands of those who know no North, no South, no East and no West; who know but one indissoluble Union, the sub-struct-ure of which is free and independent States. It is the voice of justice crying out in thunder tones against the perpetrators of an infamous crime, and it is an admonition to those vfrho with hitherto unheard of audacity ask the American people to elevate to the high office of President a man confessedly corrupt and venal. It carries with it the voice of prosperity, the voice of good feeling and brotherly love between the people of the North and the people of the South. It is news that tells us the falsehoods of the Republican press and of the Republican orators have been trampled with the dust, where they belong. It is news that will inspire the heart of every patriot in the land. It is news that tells us the friend of labor, the people s candidate, Franklin Landers, will be elected governor in October, and it is news that tells us the gallant, illustrious, heroic soldier, Gen. Hancock, is marching triumphantly. under the banner of peace. : with his sword at his side and the constitution of his country high in his right j hand, to cross the threshhold of the i White House. For weeks the Republicans of Maine, lead on by the most audacious political manipulator in their party, James G. Blaine, had contested every inch of i debatable territory within the borders jof their State. The prejudices of the people were appealed to as they had j never been before. The cry of the “bloody shirt, ’of the “rebel debt, of “blood and shotguns” was heard from the frescoed halls of cities to the mud-bedaubed school-houses of hamlets. Money was spent without stint. Government employes, from the hearty and robust man to the poor decrepit widow, for whose fatherless children she daily labors, were assessed and made to contribute of their earnings to the fund that was to keep the inflexible Republican State of Maine in the Republican column. But the people have spoken, and the State of Maine, for the first time in twenty-six years, takes her place in the 1 pyramid of Democratic States. Plaisted, the candidate of the people, is elected by about one thousand majority, a Democratic gain of ' about eighteen thousand since 1876. Three out of the five congressmen are i elected by the Democrats, a gain of one congressman. The victory is a decisive one. There I can be no mistake as to what it means. What does it mean ? It means that the party now in power by force and j fraud and theft must surrender the government to the hands of those who believe that upon the enforcement of ! the principles proclaimed long years ; ago by Thomas Jefferson depends the perpetuity of the Union. It means that the federal election laws which ! have been gradually wresting from the I people their constitutional right of suf- : frage must be wipe forever from the ! statute books. It means that the Republican party has proven false to the people. It means that an illustrious Union soldier, whose record is as pure and spotless as the perpetual snow of the Alpine mountains, lives in the heart* of the American people. It

means the election of Winfield S. Hancock. It is a result over which we may i ■well rejoice, but we here remind you, | fellow Democrats, that the work has only begun. The opposition are determined and aggressive. It is a matter of political life or death with them. Their Hamiltonian ideas of govern- I ment arc soon to be again buried in the, grave dug for them by Thomas Jefferson, but they will stubbornly contest ; every inch of ground in their retreat, and the last intrenchment of tyranny and puritanical despotism will be their grave. But the Democracy of Maine , send greeting to the Democracy of Indiana. Let us work from now on with i double vigor and earnestness so that. when the ballots shall have been count- • ed we can say to our brothers on the eastern coast, “We maintain our place in the Democratic column by defeating corruption money and buck negroes by twenty thousand majority. It is a glorious day for Democracy, let us make it more glorious in October. —An esteemed Republican contemporary points with pride to the fact that many of the so-called religious newspapers are advocating the elec- j tion of Garfield. As these publications are conducted.,by clergymen, our illogical contemporary infers, from the support given to Garfield by these rever- \ end politicians, that Garfield must be a good man. Mathew Arnold recently had occa- j sion to quote Clarendon’s bitter saying ■ about the English clergy—that they “understand the least, and take the ■worst measure of human affairs, of all mankind that can write and read.” We should be sorry to think that so severe and sweeping a judgment could be justly passed upon our American clergymen as a body. But it must be owned that they do not appear to the best advantage as partisan politicians, and that the zeal with which some of them are now denying without examining the proved facts in Garfield's case is a zeal not according to knowl-1 edge or to decency. We commend the foregoing remarks, copied from a late number of the New York Sun, to the attention of those clergymen, in Adams and adjoining counties, who contemplate voting for Garfield for the highest office in the gift of the American people. How a minister of the gospel or professor of religion can honestly support a man found guilty of perjury and bribe taking by a committee of his peers, a majority of whom were his political friends, is beyond our comprehension, unless their fidelity to party is stronger than their obligations to God and morality. With the fate of Ananias and Sapphira staring them in the face, how can they reconcile their conduct in striving to make a convicted perjurer and receipient of bribes the Chief Executive of ! the United States, with their duties as ministers and members of the church of the living, and true God ? Can any thing be more hurtful to the cause of religion than the course pursued by these men, who are looked up to as exemplars of honesty and truthfulness ? Such open and avowed infidels as- Bob Ingersoll are insignificant obstacles in the way of Christianity, when contrasted with the deleterious effects of the followers of Christ openly and zealously supporting a man for so important an office as the Presidency of the United States, when it is found that with ’ uplifted hand before God and his fellowmen he took a false oath. Elect Garfield instead of the exceptionally pure and chivalrous Hancock, and the cause of religion and morality will have received a wound from which it can scarcely recover in less than a century, if ever. Think of this, Chris tian ministers and Church members, show your consistency by either not voting at all, or by voting for Hancock and English. This kind of sentiment must have pervaded the mind and conscience of the good people of Maine, as exemplified in their manner of voting on Monday last, when a change of seventeen thousand or more appears against the party which has assumed, all along, to have a monopoly of learning, morality and religion.

-The Journal of this town last week*printed from a wood-cut what ; purported to be a cut of a rebel flag, iOf course such infamous conduct is 1 characteristic of the asinine brain at the head of that sheet, but imagine his surprise and discomfiture when he peruses this impression of The Democrat. It casts his rebel flag business to the four winds and makes him ap- ! pear smaller than ever. He says the ■ Telegraph, published at Hot Springs, Ark., hoisted the flag on the occasion !of a Democratic barbecue, but in reference to that matter the editor of the Telegraph, who was as good a union i soldier as ever handled a musket, and who fought to perpetuate the enforcement of the constitution which the Journal is trying to destroy, says this: “This is our statement: Yesterday ’ was a very busy day about this office. I The editor of this paper was preparing Ito run out a pretty, genuine United I States bunting flag—store made—presented to him by some young gentlemen find Democrats of this city. Also he was preparing to make a full report of the great Democratic barbecue, held yesterday; also preparing copy for the composing room, and also attending to the routine duties of the business of the office. Among other things, he instructed the foreman of the composing loom to hunt from among the stock for a cut of a cannon, to be used to display the account of the barbecue. The foreman returned and reported that there was no cut of | I a cannon, but there was one of au Americ.l) flag. This he was instructed to use, without a thought being had j that it was other than the genuine j ! stars and stripes, the good old flag of Washington, Jefferson and Jackson. I No further attention was given to the subject until about dark, when the j Rads “read proof close, as they are in i the habit of doing now-a-days, and caught us with the wrong flag up in the paper, buj the genuine old time red, white and blue one over our door. It is well to mention that in the Telegraph office there is much material that belongs to old offices of the Valley and bought by former owners. In looking it over this morning we find we are richei< than we knew, that we have not only Confederate flags but cuts of fine stallions, eminent men, uniting bonds, etc. That old cut was among this lot of rubbish." —The Decatur D mocrat, each week, devotes about a quarter of its not yery valuable space to the Gazette. It must be interesting reading to the patrons of the sheet, and is certainly a small advertisement for this paper. Fire away. — Fort Wayne Gazette. We will please the cheerful idiot of the Gazette by giving his abortive ati tempt at sarcasm a place in The Democrat. If we didn’t but few people would see it. We must, however, refrain from spanking the Gazette this week for its wholesale lying as our time is too much taken up with other and more important work, as for instance reading the glorious returns coming from Maine. —The Fort Wayne Gazette's expla- , nation of the disastrous Republican defeat in Maine bears evidence of a very i muddled brain. ; ; —The Gazette's report of the Maine election was to Republicans discouragingly meagre. EDITORIAL. SSREEFsi. > The southern Ohio fair opened at j Dayton on Monday. i President Hayes and his fellow junk- - eters inspected Chinatown, in San Fran- ' cisco, yesterday. Maud S. is expected to lower St. JuL lien's wonderful time of 2:11|. She will make the trial at Chicago to-day. Hall, the defaulting treasurer of Toledo. has returned. The city will lose j nothing, as his assets will cover the deficit. The yellow fever and the small pox I are both abroad in Havana. There t were twenty four deaths from the two causes during the last week. Peter Cooper presided over a greent back meeting in New York, on last - Monday night, while Weaver spoke to t about 3000 persons. C. L. Cole, a wealthy farmer and jus--5 tice of the peace in Genesee Co., Mich., ' has been arrested in company with one - Goodrich, for passing counterfeit mon--5 ey. I The editor of the Van Wert Bulletin > received a present of a basket of pumpkins. The present would have been

aeceptaole, only the pumpkins were green. The great Methodist divine, Bishpp Simpson, was carried from the pulpit to his bed, in San Francisco, on last Sunday. He was taken with a congestive chill. Kate Fitzgerald, an old Irish woman was run over and killed on the street in Dayton last Sunday. She lived alone, and was considered poor. On searching her house $1,500 in money were found hidden. The Hancock Republican Club, composed of republicans who intend to vote and labor for the election of Hancock, now number 3000 members. Gen. David Butterfield. Asst. Treasurer of the U. S., and Gen. Jones, formerly post master of New York City, are among the leading members. notice of Settlement. All parties knowing themselves indebted to M. Burns are hereby notified that settlement must be made immediately. M. Burns. Decatur Ind., Sept. 9, 1880. 4w. TAKE NOTICE. All persons are hereby warned to not haul from, or in any manner cut or destroy any timber on my land, situated near J. D. Hoffman’s, in Kirkland township, Adams county, ind. 3ws. S. S. Bottenfield. Look I Look !! Look I! I All persons knowing themselves indebted to me, either by note or book account, are hereby notified to call and settle the same immediately. I am going to close up business here and must have a settlement. I. Strass, The Clothier. Decatur, Aug 26, ’BO. ts.

I'M ENT OF EXEC UTOR Notice is hereby given, that the undersigned has been appointed Executor with the Will annexed of the estate of Eli Berry late of Adams county, deceased The estate is probably solvent SAMUEL D. BEAVERS. Sept 9th, l«8u Executor. Und.crtaKiiis. j HISKEY & SPANGLER UNDERTAKERS i Opposite Adams County Bank, I Call the attention of the public generally to a large and comblete line of BURIAL CASKETS AND COFFINS, And to the fact that ‘hey are using the I M. &L. ANTI-SEPTIC FLUID, I For Embalming, Mummifying, Disinfecting and Purfuming the flesh of the dead, and of Preserving the Features in a natural state. I A fine line of SHROUDS I Are also kept on hand. In addition to their undertaking establishment they have the largest and most complete stock of FMTffl * Ever offered to the people of Adams County. Dot’t purchase one dollar’s worth of Furniture Cfore examining their Btoo < &ad prices. HISKEY & SPANGLER.. Decatur, Lnd., Sept 9, ’BO ly.