Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1880 — Eight Years Ignored. [ARTICLE]

Eight Years Ignored.

The men who are running Grant for a third term and an empire present the record of their candidate’s career in two chapters. The first begins with Vicksburg and ends with Appomattox. It deals with his military operations in the field. The second chapter begins with Grant’s departure by Red Star steamer from Philadelphia in 1877, and contains the history of his wanderings over the face of the earth down to date. It records the honors said to have been paid him abroad, follows him around the globe, and enters minutely into the particulars of his appearance, behavior and conversation in Europe, Africa, Asia and the West Indies. The third-term men would like to have the country believe that their record in two chapters is complete. But there is another and a very important chapter which they leave untold. From 1869 to 1877 Gen. Grant was President of the United States. What sort of a President did he make ? Did he turn his opportunities to good purposes or to bad ? Was his administration honest or dishonest? Did he call around him honorable men or scoundrels? Was the history of the eight years during which Grant held the office of President a history upon which good men dwell with pride or with shame ? The third-term shouters are silent about these eight years. But the people have not forgotten them.— New York Sun. ______ The Chances in Ohio. Ex-Gov. Bishop, of Ohio, arrived here to-day. He is not at all willing to concede Ohio to the Republicans next fall. He says that the status of the State has not yet been precisely determined. “It can be considered,” he said, “ fair fighting ground for all parties. The politics of the State for the last seven years demonstrates the correctness of my views. In 1873 Allen carried the State by 800 majority. Up to that time it had been unbrokenly Republican for fifteen years. In 1874 the State was carried by the Democracy by 17,000. Then, next year (1875) Hayes was made a candidate for Governor against Allen, and was elected after one of the hardest-fought contests ever had in the State, by something over 3,000. In 1876, the Presidential year, the Republican State ticket was elected by about 6,000, and Hayes received the same majority. In the following year Bishop was elected by 22,000. In 1878 the Republicans recovered the State by about 3,000, and in 1879 Foster carried it. In these seven years the Democrats have had one majority which goes ahead of anything the Republicans have had. A majority of 800 made a gain of about 20,000 votes.” These figures, Mr. Bishop said, induced him to believe that there was nothing reliable about the State, and that, with a good ticket that will harmonize all conflicting elements and proper zeal and work, the State can be carried by the Democracy.— Washington Cor. Chicago Times.