Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1880 — MoCABE VS- ORTH. [ARTICLE]

MoCABE VS- ORTH.

Thomas Meagher, who lives near Colfax, lad., who was in the city last week, says that a lot of men were taken from Indianapolis into Montgomery county, in the fall of 1878, for the ostensible purpose of working on gravel roads, but were all voted for Orili aud against McCabe. A Republican neighbor of Mr. Meagher swore in several of the votes, and becoming somewhat fearful that he might be prosecuted, Meagher $lO to swear in three more. The evidence is overwhelming that Mr. McCabe was elected to tile seat in Congress which Mr Orth now occupies. Indianapolis (Sentinel. - The Harrisburg Patriot says occasionally an “old line Whig” like Toombs or the descendant of an ancient Federalist emerges in the South to express the opinion than republi can government in this country is a failure. But im such sentiment flnds encouragement among the Democracy of the South The Washington Post savs that interviews with disabled soldiers in the voiuuteer homes show a decided aversion to Grant as a candidate. The fact that. President. Grant, who approved tije Gill doubling his own saint y, prepared a veto to be hurled at the ( fluidization of bounties bill is not forgotten by the veteraus. Senator elect. Gorman, of Maryland, began life as a page in the United States Senate, by appointment of Stephen A. Douglas, and rose to be postmaster of that body. During the war he was a Republican, but went oit of that party under Andrew Johnson The New York Sun states it accurately when it says Grant is “the candidat of all the u <o ivicted plum - er-r« and default rs.” But this fact gives him a pretty strong backing in the Republican party, had he nothing else to rely upon.