Decatur Democrat, Volume 24, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 23 September 1880 — Page 4

rHE DEM OCR AT. BY S. KAY WILLIAMS Terms: $1.50 a Year in Advance. DECATUR. INDIANA, HURSDA Y. SEPT. 23. 1 SSI). I s t rMCTinnp A T-t* TiiC&fPT For President. Gg'V tt. *• IHWMK of Pennsylvania. For Vice President, !WV HU S 3. of Indiana. ADISASTROf DEPFAT. The thinking men of all parties now agree that the loss of Maine to the Republican party is an irreparable one. It was an inflexible Republican State. For twenty years it was the herald of Republican victories. Its September impetus was regarded as inestimable. Its twenty <3 thousand Republican majority strengthened the party throughout the Union beyond calculation. No matter how forlorn the prospects, a September victory in Maine was the signal of other victories soon to follow. But now all is lost. The audacious leader of the party, Mr. Blaine, sends a telegram through the associated press that the Republican party of Maine has met with great defeat. The country takes him at his word. The people have no desire to question his telegram. It means just what it says. There are no ifs or ands needed. There is no room for them. They would be wholly out of place. The defeat to many is a surprise; to a few it is no surprise. The causes for the defeat are apparent to those who have closely watched the course of the Republican party. It is known to all thinking men that the Republican party is not a party of the people. Its acts and policies are widely atfVariance with the letter and spirit of our constitution. For fifteen years it has been drifting away from Jeffersonian principles. It has legislated in favor of the few and against the many. It strives to make irrational, unpatriotic and false issues leading issues. It makes promises and never fulfills them. Its leaders no longer have the respect of the people. They are no longer the trusted agents of the people; they are the suspicious agents of the people. The party is not by any manner of means politically dead and played out; it is a powerful, aggressive, dangerous party. It is fighting for its existence. Lt is the most thorough political organization in the known world. It uses the most unscrupulous measures to accomplish its ends of any other political organization of ancient or modern times. But slowly, gradually and effectually are the people conquering it. Right will triumph over wrong. The policy of the Republican party is w rong; the diametrical opposite is right. The policy of the Democratic party, the only really national party in existence in this country. is diametrically opposed to the policy of the Republican party. The policy of the Democratic party is as broad as the Union. It is clearly defined. We believe that it is the constitutional duty of the government to protect the Mates in all their rights and independence. We believe in a Union. We

know no section. We believe in one j people. Our candidate for President j thus forcibly defines our position : “The war for the Union was successfully closed more than fifteen years age; all classes of our people must share alike the blessings of the Union, and are equally concerned in its perpetuity and in the proper administration of j public affairs. We are in a sta f e of profound peace: as one people we have common interests. As one people we have common interests. says General Hancock. How different is the policy of the Democratic party from that of the Republican party. Compare the broad and patriotic Thoughts of the Democratic candidate for President with the thoughts of the Republican candidate. James Garfield, their candidate, said, in bis place it: congress, on the 26th day of January, 186.), the following : ••I believe that the fame of Jefferson is waning and the fame of Hamilton waxing in the estimation of American people, and that we are gravitating towards a stronger government. lam glad that we are.” The fame of Jefferson waning 1 God have pity on this people if ever the principles of Alexander Hamilton are i enforced. There will be no free speech, no free press then. Our blood-bought liberties will be beyond our grasp. Gen oral Hancock will preserve our liberties. He holds our freedom of speech as a sacred blessing. General Garfield wants to tear these liberties from us, He wants to centralize the government. With us the individual is the unit. We govern by individuality The tendency of their system is to ignore the individual as a unit, and to govern the people fmm the top. Their election laws are the strongest kind of evidence of this fact. We want no strong government. Our candidate believes in a government of the people, for the people, by the people. General Hancock says : “This Union, comprising a general government with general powers, and State governments with State powers, for purposes local to the .States, is a polity the foundations of which were laid in the profoundest wisdom. This is the Union which our fathers made, and which has been so respected abroad and so beneficent at home.” Can any true friend of the Union j point out such union sentiments as hav--1 ing emanated from the Republican candidate ? The people of Maine have spoken; the people of Indiana will speak in October. —lt required nine days for the Fort Wayne Gazette children to figure out a Republican defeat in Maine. It took Jim Blaine about fifteen minutes. —John C. New, chairman of the Indiana Republican committee, telegraphed the National committee that unless they checked Blaine in his mad endeavors to thwart the will of the people of Maine by counting in Davis, the defeated candidate, it would have a very depressing effect on the party in this State. The committee told Blaine to stop and the Republican sheets of the pismire order no longer claim the election of Davis. —The Fort Wayne Gazette is ten- [ acious, if nothing else. It stuck to it that the defeat of the Republican party in Maine was not disastrous, but yesterday morning’s impression dropped down and acknowledged the corn. It says Plaisted is elected. Os course it was news, as every man in Indiana knew a week ago that Plaisted was elected. —No more unfortunate accident could befall a political party than has befallen the Republican party by its nomination of James A. Garfield for I President. The Republican party did not intend to nominate Mr. Garfield for President. His nomination was made in a moment of excitement. It was a moment of unfortunate excitement for the party he represents. At the time of his nomination the convention did not remember to have ever read his record. But in five minutes after it was known that he was actually

the nominee of the convention the sober, thinking men of the party were disheartened. They knew he had no record to run on for ITesi lent, and readily realized their unfortunate and. to them, humiliating situation. They were not disheartened at what their political opponets bad done, or what they would probably do; they were dishartencd at what they themselves had done. And what was the result ? In just forty-two minutes after Garfield was I nominated the Chicago Inter-Ocean, the leading Republican journal of the great Northwest, was printed and for sale on the streets of Chicago. But judge of the gall for those of Mr. Garfield’s friends and supporters who. when dancing over the Inter-Ocean s bright columns, found it to contain a labored editorial in defence of their candidate s record, and this at a time when no charges had been made. What prompted the editor of that paper to defend his candidate against whom no charges had as yet been made ? What looks reasonable and natural in the case ? Why simply that of all men in public life there are none handicapped with a more unsavory record than is Mr. James A. Garfield, and this fact was so patent to the editor of the Inter-Ocean that he knew and recognized the necessity of ••opening'' the battle on the defensive side. He knew it was as inevitable on the morrow as the rising of the morrow’s sun. But the defence continues and the longer it continues the more odious it becomes. That Mr. Garfield is officially corrupt and venal is apparent to every voter in the land. Neither the Democratic party nor the Democratic press made him so; he is corrupt and venal because he voluntarily made himself so. His record is made. It is before the country just as it was made. There is no change in it. It is a very bad one. It is a corrupt and venal one. We don’t say that because it is not; we say it because it is. It is the cold facts. There is no way of changing it. It is as fixed as Nature's laws. It is made and entered in the books. There is no vay by which it can be erased. The blot is there. His party press will indulge in silly and nonsensical subterbuge in his behalf, but still the fact remains that Mr. Garfield is the most corrupt man ever nominated fpr the high office of President. His press will deny his record and say the charges preferred are falsehoods, but the publishers of these papers do that out of a force of custom, and not out of the belief that what they say is true. It is expected of them that they deny his record, and the one making the ablest and most plausible denial is the one that receives the richest reward. It is an unfortunate thing for the Republican party that it has Mr. Garfield for its candidate They certainly can not expect, even in their sanguine moments, to elect him. JI Os K ATI f ETI XUt. General James R. Slack, our candidate for congress, will address the people of Decatur, at the court house on Monday evening, September 27th. He will speak at Pleasant Millson the 28th and at Kimsey school house, Blue Creek township, on the 29th. —Our esteemed contemporary at Lagrange, Ind., the Register, which for so long pursued a most commendable independent course, is now as radical and inconsistent in its support of the kidgloved Porter as the most radical Republican sheet in the State. We are sorry to know that the Register is supporting a man for governor of our State who is diametrically opposed to the legitimate wants of the .masses. We can hardly recognize it as the Lagrange Register any more. —The Republicans now regard Ohio as a doubtful State. The Democrats are making a close canvass, and with flattering prospects of success. —The Fort Wayne Gazettes heavy editorial writer is disgusted with politics since the disastrous Republican defeat in Maine and is now studying paronomasia. Political economy has no more charms for him. —People are wondering what on earth the Journal of this town was crowing over last week. It is, we believe, the first time we have heard of a near relative rejoicing at a funeral.

—The Chicago Times, which lias been friendly to Garfield, advises the Republican party to withdraw their Presidential candidate before it is too late. Calling' Off fh<* ok*. [I r .11 pol 8 I’rnple.'] The Republican organs are not vilifying Mr. English so much as they were. There has been, indeed, quite a cessation of hostilities. The Cincinnati Commercial, which was so especially violent? seems to have concluded that there can be too much of a dirty thing. The attack upon Mr English’s character re acted entirely in his favor with the people of Indiana, who have known him too long and too well to patiently sub mit to the misrepresentations and abuse which drunken and irresponsible scribblers sought to heap upon the fair name and fame of one who has, both in public and private life, proved himself so entirely worthy of the confidence of the voters of his native State. Their assaults, as a matter of fact, had the happy effect of revealing in a clearer light the virtues of the man and the good fortunes of the Democracy in selecting him for the second place upon the Presidential ticket. Down in the southern portion of the State, where 31 r. English was born, and in the district which he represented so ably in Congress for four successive terms, his okf constituents have been in a condition of the most irrepressible and continued enthusiam from the moment they learned of his nomination at Cincinnati. The slanders of the Republican penny-a-liners have only served to awaken the people to a full sense of their duty to .poll every Democratic vote in October and November. The result will be that in their determination to vindicate the man the Democrats will develop such a majority in the State next month as to demonstrate to a waiting and expectant world that Indiana is virtually and solidly Democratic when she is aroused to the necessities of things. The lie so industriously circulated in the Republican press that the leading Democrats of the State were disunited and inharmonious has been pretty thoroughly disproven by the long pull, strong pull, and pull altogether style with which everybody has gone to work. There is not a single Democrat of prominence in the State, not one of the old wheel-horses, who is not to day upon the stump, heartly, cheerfully and earnestly at work. So parent is this to the Republican managers that they have found it better, the last few days, to do less lying and more work. They have the disadvantage, however, of having stimulated the enemy to the utmost industry, and in the few remaining weeks of the campaign they can only seek to repair their shattered fortunes by devising schemes to corrupt the vote. 1 he Farmer* Eulogy. Os all persuits by man invented. The Farmer makes the best contented. His calling good, his profits high, And on his labors all rely. The corn and honey, milk and wheat, Are by his labors made complete; His wealth arises from his clod — His independence from his God. Since then the Plow supports the nation, And men of rank of every station, Let Kings to Farmers make a bow. Vnd every man procure a plow. S. W. I Yolice off 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 SOTICE. 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 Kirk- ■ land township, Adams county, ind. S. S. BofTENFIELD. Settlement Motlce. Persons knowing themselves indebted to me by note or book account, will please call and settle immediately, or I will be obliged to leave it for collection. Leopold Yager. Decatur Sept. 16th 1880. 2wa

Look ’ Look I! Look !’ ’ All persons knowing themselves inj debted to me, cither 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. 1. Str ass, The Clothier. Decatur, Aug 26, 80. ts. Wanted. To trade a buggy, wagon, or spring wagon, for a horse, a young horse prefered. Call on J. E. Ellsworth & Co.. Decatur, Ind. 4w LOSf. On Monday last the undersigned lost a pension draft, somewhere on the streets of Decatur. The draft calls for $30.00 payable to the loser. Any one finding it will greatly oblige the owner. P. O. address Decatur, Ind. Abel Johnson. Daily items. Never a day passes but we hear of some accident through the careless use of kerosene. Heads of families should caution their domestic about using it to start a fire with, and at the same time always keep a supply of Dr. Thomas' Electric Oil on hand, best cure for burns, cuts, wounds, etc. Sold by Dorwin & I olthouse. The Duke of Buckingham, now Governor of Madras is renowned in India as a skillful whip. He drives a pair of beautiful Arab ponies over bypaths and along precipices on the hills where men with very strong nerves and the quietest of brutes would hesitate to follow. His latest feat in this respect has been to drive the ponies to the top of Don- , abetta, the highest point in the Madras fresidency, and wnere no vehicle oi any description has ever Deen before. iJSF”J. W. Place has just received several new styles of candies. Call and see them. 80 Buggies and Meiglis. Taylors 25th sale at Sheldon, Allen county, Ind., Tuesday, Sept. 25th at 10 a. in. sharp. Carriages, Buggys, Side Bar, “Queen of the West” (a new style) and Spring Wagons. Also a lot of Buffalo Sleighs, (the finest.) All warranted. Sold on six months time. All invited. Music by the Hoagland Band. Organ and vocalist. Refreshments during the day, and closing with an entertainment in the evening. 2w, can get fresh oysters by the can or dish at J. W. Place’s. dissolution of E’artnersliip. The firm of Hoover & Auter, milliners and dressmaking, have this day dissolved by mutual consent, Mrs. Hoover retiring. Mrs. Auter will continue in business, having removed the stock of goods to the store room of Mr. Edington, immediatly opposite the old stand. Mrs. Auter herewith returns thanks to those who have favored her with their patronage and hopes, by fair dealing and good work, to receive a continuance of the same. Ihe dressmaking will be carried on as usual in a room on the second floor. Respectfully, Mrs. D. A. Auter. Decatur Sept. 14, ’BO. ts. tEsT’Fresh Oysters at J. W. Place’s. Xotice Important. All persons having an open account with I. Strass are hereby notified to call at the fancy store and settle the same. Mr. A. J. Hill has the accounts. Bw. I. Strass. Globe Telegraph College. W e guarantee to make a practical operator of every student.. Send for circtSars. -'I. C. McGUIRE, Manager. 3ws. Edgerton, Ohio. DECATUR MARKETS. CORRECTED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING. Eggs, 10 Chickens, 4. Butter, 12 Turkeys, 6. Lard, 6. Ducks, 5. 1 allow. 5. Geese 4 tV heat, 90 (aj 92. Timothv seed. f 1.50 Beeswax,2o Apples, greenj 30. Onionk 60 Apples, dried, 4 Honey 18@20. Wool. 35@38. Clover «eed, $3.50. Flax seed, sl.lO. Corn - 30 Rye, 50. 26 Hay, SB.OO. Hides, green, 7.