Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Volume 8, Number 14, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 November 1876 — Page 4

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Thursday, November *, 1870.

CONST/TUT/ON

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THE ELECTION IN INDIANA.

For some incomprehensible harm the returns from this state came. ii very slow. Not all the counties have as yet reported Enough is known however to show tha the state is carried for Tilden and Hendricks by an increased majority over the October vote, The following paper gives the majorities as far as yet received:

Governor.

COUNTIES.

Adam6 Allen Bartholomew Benton Blackford Boon Brown Carroll Cass Clarke Clay Clinton Crawford Daviess Dearborn Decatur DeKalb Delaware Dubois Elkhart Fayette Floyd Fountain Franklin Fulton Gibson Grant Greene Hamilton Hancock Harrison Hendricks Henry Howard Huntington Jackson Jasper Jay Jefferson Jennings Johnson Knox Kosciusko Lagrange Lake Lapoi te Lawrence Madison Marion Marshall Martin Miami Monroe Montgomery Morgan Newtown Noble Ohio Orange Owen Parke -g Perry Pike Porter Posey Pulaski Putnam Randolph Riplev Rush Scott ShelbySpencer Starke

Preside

H- S

126

1,202

196 127

1.555

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HIRAM Ulysses, Good bye,

228

459

294

611 2(£

St. Joseph Steuben Sullivan Switzerland Tippecanoe ... Tipton

500

288

830

1.371

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1.393

HI 219

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I'nion Vanderbug Vermillion Vitro

350

23S 76

*°5 34-3 24S

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Wabash U* W arren W arrick Washington Wavne Wells White Whitley

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1.185 048 xJfc ,,

4 I.272 7S°

4*5 707 .» 2.370 830

47s 126

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TILDEN, HENDRICKSand victory.

TILDEN, HENORICKS and reform.

His name is Samuel Jones Tilden.

THE "Old Guard" sells out and dyes.

ULYSSF.S make room for your. IJr.cle

SOUND the tocsin and fire the culver

IIANO out the banner wall.

WE have met 'OJrn."

Now look out for an improvement in the National credit.

WE have met the enemy and this time or a change, we are not his'n.

BEN BUTLER ought to have been, if he is not beaten. He is a dirty rogue.

SITTING BULL Morton may sit down now. The sands of his political life are running low.

THE credit of the nation has not been smashed to pieces by the election of Uncle Samtnv.

Bon Ingersol is wrong, there is a Lord. Bob should read the dispatches of to-day and be convinced.

GEORGE WASHINGTON Childs may have the contract for writing the obituary of the Republican partv.

HAVES has made too good a Governor to leave that congenial Gubernatorial chair. He may stay in Ohio.

WELL now we have got them But let us not misuse or abuse our victory. Let us treat them a "kindly and neighborly manner:"

Now we are in a good condition to enjoy a war in Europe. Carve the Turk and baste the Russian bear. Let Servia serve and'England pay the bill.

THE (J.\ ZF.TTF. is very sorry for its Republican friends, but really we couldn't help it. THe people wanted a change and one might as well have tried to dam up the Wabash with peanut shells as to stop them.

THE people have imitated the action of all large corporations when they go in great distress, and have employed 1he ablest lawv^r of the land to manage their case for the! next four years. His first name is Satfimy.

TILDEN'^ popular majority will overrun two hundred thousand. Our absurd electoral i^r.chines needs revising. It will be chained by Samuel Jones Tilden and the Democrats. Mark what we say. it will be chfenged.

The Indianapolis Journal's editorial page this morning is mainly devoted to the Centennial and life insurance. It has lost its grip on the "bloody shirt" and be* gins to loathe that unclean specimen of inner wearing apparel.

THE I. G. "old guard" not only surrenders and dies, but sells out and vamooses the ranche. History must be rewritten. The C. and C. Lyceum, should attend to this matter in one of their cheerful little debates.

THE Rebel war claims will not be paid and nobody expects them to be. Th..t fivi millions of dollars which was to Vino's portion, according to the Cam paign Mail, will not be required. The assertion that it would be, was only campaign pleasantry.

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KENTUCKY went for Tilden, just think of that

the enemv and he is

PETER COOPER may business.

stick to his glue

THE Cincinnati Commercial has miss

el fire again.

Now hurry up Thanksgiving and bring on the turkey.

Bob Ingcr-

PEORIA, the home of tol as he is called, gave an increased Dem ocratic majority. At his home they know that,,51 Bob's dream, which has been posted all over the •over the country was a nightmare pro. duced bv in overdose of whiskey/

TN the name of the Democratic party of Western It diana, the GAZETTE com" pliments and thanks the IndipendentGreenbackers for the efficient service their organization rendered to the cause ofTilden, Hendricks and Reform. They deserve the gratitude ot the people.

THE Pemocrats will be on their good behaviour during the next four years and it is reasonable to expect a good and economical administration of affairs. We expect a reduction of the annual expenditures of the Government,of twentyfive per cent, and shall not be satisfied with a cent less.

REPUBLICANS need not be afraid that he GAZETTE will be with thtm if every single promise, made by the Democrat ic_ party, of retrenchment and reform is not lived up to. But we believe those promises will be kept, for we know that thev were sincerely and honestly made, in some quarters at least.

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SAM RANDALL, of Cnairman cf the Committee on

priations of Congress, has been re-elected

AT this time it would seem as if nele Samuel Jones Tilden was the most eligible young bachelor in the marriage market. Comparatively young, in the ful! vigor of mature manhood, his nest toK-r* ablv well feathered, and a house rent free for four years in the capitil of the nation—what more could any woman

want.

ABOUT the middle of the day yesterday the Democrats got out a new lot of bogus tickets with the Republican head and Democratic electors on 'hem. It was a trick worthy of Democratic reform.—Indianapolis Journal.

How about 'hose several thousand bogus Democratic tickets issued by the Republicans in New York ri'y? And how about those bogus Independent ticket*, with Republican electors, issued in Ver million and Parke Counties by the Republicans? Were those tricks worthy of he Republicans.

THE GAZETTE is sorry to lose i.t sprightly little contemporary the Campaign Mail, but now that the election is over, and the contract, as to time at least, fulfilled, 'here is 110 further use for it. The election did not go its way and just at this writing with nothing before 11s it the election returns for October J'.ncl November, we cannot see that a li 'ary Republican officer can rise up in his place and say to the Campaign Mail thou didst it. This is perhaps cold comfortbut the GAZETTE can frankly sa\ tha without the Campaign Mail, we would ive carried the county by two or thrcc indred more votes. For the weai- side of the question and the bad cause it' had to defend it made a gallant fight. Of whom can more be said.

THE ELECTORALVOTE:

Readers cf the GAZETTE will find the following table convenient in figuring up the result of the election. The list -if Stales is given in the order of the votes and populations the greatest first:

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by a handsome majority. He deserves little consequence which of the gentleit. The reductions in annual expendi- men named is chosen. Both belong to one master The free vote which repu diates both will be the more important I

tures made by his committee, is the main reason for the triumph of yesterday. He [jlc

Electoral Population. Votes.

States. 1S76. New York Pennsylvania Ohio Illinois issouri Indiana Massachusetts Kentucky Tennessee Virginia Iowa Georgia Michigan North Carolina Wisconsin Alabama New Jersey Mississippi Texas Maryland Louisiana South Carolina Maine California Connecticut Arkansas West Virginia Minnesota Kansas Vermont New Hampshire Rhode Island Florida Delaware Nebraska 1 Oregon Nevada Colorado

Census of 1S70. 4-3S2-759 3'5-I,79I 2,665,260 -l.S39iI9s .1,721.295 1,686,637 57-351 1,^21,Oil 1,258.520 1,225,163 1,191,702 1,184,1091 '1,184,059 1,071,361 1,054 670 996.992 906,096 827,922 818,579 780,89*4 726,915 705,606 626.915 560,244 537-454 484,471 442,014. 439.706 364.399 330-551 •118.300 317.353

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6 6 5 S 5 5 5 4

187,748

1.55,015 122.993 90.923 42.491 39.864

Total electorial vote 369 Majority 185 According to the Constitution, a candidate to run, must have a majority of the total electoral vote. A majority of onlv those counted, if any should be rejected, will not do. It must be a majority of the total electoral vote.

The states in doubt at this writing, are California, Florida, Louisiana, Nevada Oregon, and South Carolina. Tilden is undoub'edl elected.

If one had not had the benefit of per onal acquaintance with some of the members of this "old guaid" whose "free votes" are to do such prodigious th ngs he might imagine that a new and super ior race lad been born here on the banks of the Wabash. One needs to know an "old guard" and hear him discuss finance, and declare that the amount of labor ex pended in mining the precious rretal makes no element in their value, to prop erly appreciate one of these "seeds of genuine reform." "The moral revolu ticn" that the "old guard" will win will be something unique. Nevertheless we arc glad "the weak the mercenary and the politic have all (alien off"J We had an idea that a new batch would sell oat todiy. as they sold out a few davs ago in New York. But -they have all fallen off That is good. We shall wait for the. VVaterlro of this seedy "Old Guard, .vhich nay die, but will not surrender' hough it has sold out in individual chunks

CAMPAIGN HIGHFALUTIN. The following article appeared doubl eaded in the Express of this morning. It makes interesting reading. It reads

V,*--'? v' r** „THE FREE VOTE "The culmination has come, and the icsue will be decided to-day. Jf the American people were really free, if men

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Pennsylvania, had the moral courage to vote for their convictions, it is c"oubtfil »hat either Mr.

ilayesor Mr. Tilden would be tnechuicc

tf,e country. In the long run it is o'

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must be kept at the head of the same and better it is the promise of a mora committee, and we expect from him some revol .tion it indicates the awakene thought and quickened conscience ot th good work. people it is the seed of genuine reform

it represents something highe

The free votes for Peter Cooper are th only ballots that will not be throwi away, for they alone are cast again* extortion nrf robbery and oppression.

The free vote will not be Inrge Th little army has passed through a hard campaign into which it entered wis I inferior organization and poor munitions It has met in the open field the disciplin ed armies an trained generals of a dzen campaigns. Every method of att'acV and species of strategy known to po'it cal warfare has been used to decimate and destroy it, and in the later weeks the conflict each individual voter I been the object of persistent assaultopen and crafty. The weak, the HUMcenarv and the politic have all f.illen The voters for Peter Cooper to-day wi! be the Old Guard of the coming arinitwarring for the liberation of labor. 1 may die, but it will not surrender. It a good privilege to be one of the Old Guard to-day. It is a .service which wi give the satisfaction always of duty doi

and will bring a high reward in the fu ture gratitude of the people."

'.HE DOUBTFUL STATES.

At the present writing the s.tate about which there is any doubt are tin following states. The numbers give after each state indicate the elcctoriai vote of thnt state. California, 6, Florida, 4, Louisana, 8, Nevada, 3, North Carolina, 10, Oregon, 3, Soifth Carolina, 7 Wisconsin, 10. The total ele:toral vote of these eight state*aggregate 51 vote.s. These include

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the states about which there is a shadow of a doubt. The former votes of the.e states arc as follows:

California gave Grant 13,302 majority in 1S75 there were three candidates for Governor. The Democratic plurality was 30.1S7.

Florida, in 1S70, in the congressional election, went Democratic by a majorty ot 222 votes. In 1S72 the Republican majority for Governor was 1,599. In 1874, the Republican majority for Congress was 1,054.

Louisiana in 1S72, accoiding to the return of one board, gave Greeley a maj rity of 6,492, according to the other Grant's majority was 14,624

In 1S73, the Democratic majority for Treasurer of state, was 2,939. Nevada gave the Democratic candidate forGovcrnoa in 1S70, a majority ol 1,052. In 1872, Grant's majority was ,177. In the 1S74, the Democratic cand date for Governorreceived a majority a 2,584

South Carolina's Republican majority in 1S70 was 33,534. In 1S72, the Repub lican majority for Governor was 33,305 In 1874, the Republican majority fo Governor was 11,589. The Democrat had no candidates in the field. The majorities are those received by the regular over the voting Republican^ Candidates

Oregon in 1872 gave.Grant a majority of 4,065. In 1S75 the Democratic plurality was 267

North Carolina in 1870 gave the Re* publican candidate for Governor a ma jority of 1899. Grants majority was 23 904. In 1874, the Democratic majority in a 6tate election was 14,036.

Wisconsin in 1S72 gave Grant a ma ority of 18,575. In 1873, the Democratic majority for Governor was 15,411. In 1875, the Republican majority for Gov ernor was 811.

Tildens vote without.pointing any these states is 174.

THE CAMPAIGN CLOSED.

Before the GAZETTE reaches its reader, and is read, the election will be over and ended. The ballot* that are to decide this important canvass will have been cast and the result, so far as it rests wiLh the people, will have betn decided, fore our voice can find an attentive ear. It remains now merely to await the counting of the ballots. What the people can do has bctn done, and we trust vvisely done.

The contest has been an exciting one Much bitterness haa been evoked, arid we regret to say, not a. little robust lying has been done It has been prpe-minen ly a campaign of slander. The characers of the two leaders of the opposing parties have been th6 shining marks at which the shafts ofcaluii ny have been mainly leveled.

It must be conceded for 0 the record reads, ihat the Republicans began the campaign of mud slinging. yV defenccfor this, may, perhaps be found in the fact that the Democratic Congrass of last winter and the Democratic and Independent press, for the past four years, have been bitterly assailing the Republican administration and the loftiest leaders of that party in national affairs.

Whether that fierce Democratic criticismwas deserved, or in every case just it is not our present purpose to cii«cu No more shall we stop to inquire whethe. it was a justification for the Republicans to begin personal villification of Mr. Tilden. The fact is patent that the Repub:icans did begirt this campa.gn by pers nal abuse of Mr. Tilden.

He has been denounced as a thief, branded a liar, accused of swindling, arraigned as a cheat, had the crime of perjurv flung in his teeth, and, generally been pictured as a man, for whom a life sentence in the penitentiory would be a

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guilty, in along life wholly devoted to the •oncocHon and practicing of fraud. And now what manner of creature is this person, who, according to partisan pictures, is a libel on a man,—a monstrosity.—a huge and enormous personification of all the vice?

He is a man of-mall stature, but well built and well proportioned. In a long and active life, for he is sixty, two years of acre," he has never been inlicted for a single crime.

He passes for a gentleman ofrarecul'ure and refinement among the best people of his own citv and state. If he should come here, to nnrrow. he would be considered a welcome, and would be treated as an honored guest by the most polished people of our place. At any time during his lave been true,

old and honest familv of sturdy gentle f)lk. lie has gained for himself a repution as a iawver, which has out-run t' li nits of his city and state, and is as wide

is the land. Wh'-rever great interes's! doubted bis nerve, not his honestv.

hvve been imperiled, Rnd great questions orlaw, involving important trusts, been in litigation, he has frequently found -liexts, for, whatever may have bten id of him within the last few months of his candidacy for President, he has borne the reputation a great and an honest man.

According to Charles O'Connor, an minentpractioner at the New York ,ar, who was the paid attorney for the c'ty, Mr. Tilden rendered invaliable aid wc know it was unpurchased assistance, in the trial which rcsultin the convictioi. of Tweed i'his assistance was rendered against ras•alsofhisown political party, and all the New York papers were loud, in their ^raises of him.

Thrcc years ago he was elected Goverrnor of the state of New York by an immense majority, defeating Gen. Dix who had made a popular Governor, and ind been elected to the office at the pre* eding electlo 1 by a vast popular vote.

He has filled the great office of Govrnor of the Empire State of our union vith such rare ability, that the bitterest riticism of his enemies has admitted his minent service to the state, but charged hat his reforms were the trick of a poliician, bidding for popular applause Would to God that all our officers would )lay such tricks upon the people, that he measure of popular gratitude f^r em nent services might be the guage of politicians popularity

More than this, Gov. Tilden is a kind lv and a generous man." He is royally rood company, if those who have enjov •d his personrl acquaintance can be believed. He is sociable md a line talker. He is charitable and ew paupeis pass his d»or unaided.

And yet this man, with all these characteristics by common consent, ifhebe discussed outside of politics, has been nost shamelessly traduced, and had a character given him which the meanest -coundrel in our States prison would object tors unfair, if applied to himself All this is the bitter fruit of our American politics.

But how fares it with Gov. Hayes? He has buffered nearly, if not quite as much Democrats could not afford, so they said to fight a defensive campaign, which wa* in itself a confession of weakness. And so, imitating the tactics ol their .' adversaries, they met. accusation with counter accusation and crimination with recrimination

Haves was transformed. From the quiet, brave and unassuming soldier for the unon, which he really was, he became, un-

ler the pens of artists of' blackwash, robber of soldiers, and the graceless appropriator of trust ^funds given him by dying comrades

He has always hitherto passed for a good and an honest citizen among the people ofOhio.over which Statcjhe has thrice orpsided as Governor, and yet it appears in this canvass that he was a hardened falsifier of his tax returns, and, as such utterly unfit even to be allowed a larger liberty than the walls of a state prison afford. -Gov. Hayes has always been supposed to (lave been a kind husband, an indul gent father and a good victim for his poor relatives, and vet it has been made to appear, by the artists in charcoal, that he never knew a relative but to fleece him-Tv^*

To fiutn u{ a word, boft &rtdidatcs have been most shamelessly villified, both

been made to appear the very worst men in their respective parties, when the fact is patent that they are among, if not the very best men in those parties,and certainly vastly superior to

the average. What the effect of this diet of calumn^ has been upon the great American citizen, we do not know. If it has not nauseated him, then he has the stomach of

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in ostrich and the nostrils of a ^lov^r of limburger. .• .-*fEvidently the political managers and he Columbian orators, and the able ed itors, who have at once set the pattern for and taken it from the others, have one and all, made up their minds that the ivernge citizen is in egregious ass, a sort of monstrous compound of ignoran* and malice. Perhaps they have been wrong, „hould

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small punishment, considering the encr- definitely, for *.106 both sides had the --MS rrim« had h,-en same opinion o'"him, and bo'h plied him with the same doses, he could go nowhere unless it was ciazy, and that plainly was to rush right into the open arms of the

very persons from whom he was trying to escape. But the campaign is over, and for one the GAZETTE is bevond measure glad of it We have been earnestly and h«-ncstl in favoi of Tildeu's election. For several months we have been giving our reason* for the faith that was in us, and need noi now particularize further than to say hit, all thing* considered, he and the party of which he is the honored heac held out the best and the fairest promises to our thinking of that reform, which, al good citizens will admit. Grant's admlnis tration and the shameless prostitution 0 the public service permitted if not pushc

whole life this would by him, has demonstrated to be the crvin for he comes from an heed of the hour.

We have never thought Haves woult willingly permit the contin uance of Grantism. Wc hax only feared that he mi^ht bj havj

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fear was a great argument witn us foj Tilden, just as the natural distrust oi Republicans of the Democratic party mide them support Hayes.

But the matter is over and »ndj ed now. The GAZETTE proi poses to be happy whichever it elected. There are a great many bad things in this country, but with all iti faults it is a dear land, and wc love if, anj intend to stay in it. The meanest Re'* publican is better than the best outsii'er and we can fairly assert that we really think them a much cleverer set than W* have been quite willing tfl allow any time these pasj three months. And if we have beatenj them at the polls, as we sinceiely trust we have, wc promise to use cur besti endeavors to give them an administration!

national affairs during the next four^ ear which will make them rise out of lied at night and call us blessed. Wej can't pi omise them the Post office or| gaugerships, but we can give them a na. tional administration of which they may proud. That we will do.

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CENTENNIAL—CLOSING GRAMME. Philadelphia Press. The programme of the closing exercises on Friday, Nov., 10, is still in the hands of the special com 11 ttee of the Commission charged with its preparation, and on Saturday was read and digcussed by the Commission in executive session. The features of the celebration, so far as they have yet been supplied, cover the delivery of brief addresses upsn the various branches of the work, by Mr. Morrill, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Commi.-sioni President Welsh, for the Board of Finance Director Gen. Goshorn.and President Haw ley, with vocal and instrumcn tal music by a volunteer body composed of some of the best singers aud musicans of Philadelphia, under the direction of Theodore Thomas, nearly all the choral societies of Philadelphia being represented in the choruses, which will be rendered by probably one thousand voices. The exercises will be held in the afternoon cf1 Thursday, in the center of the Main Bui'ding, the music stand being fitted up as the platform, with rows of seats to the number of 3.500, running north to the great organ, and in easterly and westerly directions along »he aisles. A chorus will be stationed in the organ loft, and an orchestra near the stand. The singing of "America" by the entire assemblage, the "Hallelujah" shorus and "Doxology" will be a part of the musical exercises." The Presjdent of the United States will be present, and make the formal declaration that the Exhibition is closed. It has not yet been decided whether the Centennial authoritis, with the invited guests, will proceed in a cody to Machinery Hall, there stop the great engine at an appointed hour, and then proceed to the main shaft, or whether the engine will be stooped by a telegraphic signal from the stand durj ing the exercises. During the 10th artillery salutes will be fired in the morning, at noon and at dusk bv vessels at the Navy-vard and a buttery on George^ Hill.

On the evening before the close of the Exhibition, a grand formal dinner will be iven in honor of the Foreign Commissioners by the Centennial Commissi! tnd Board of Finance. The dinner will be entirely of an official character, arid he number of guest-, limited to about 200. A grand display of fireworks is appointed for the same evening on George'# Hill.

SWAPPING HORSES IN PENNSYLVANIA. "From the Washington Reporter.

Yesterday a bevy of ladies drove int» town wi'h two horses, and, as th-y proposed going shopping, took their horsew from the wagon and hitched one oi them to a post on the street, and were looV ng for a place to fasten the other animal. At hismoment Mr. E. K. Rogershappened ilong, and kindly volunteered to fir.d a. place for the horse in the yard attached to Warrick's grocery—and did so. A umber of other animals were hitched in the yard. After doing their shopping the ladie went to the vard, took out a horse, fastened him with the other one, and drove off home. Some time after they had gone, Mr. David Bane of Lone Pine, who had hitched his horses in the same yard, proposed starting home. One horse he rec ognized as his own, but the other one didn't t-eem to look right. It wasn't his, and the ladies were

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body was tound who knew them. Ihc only information that could be gained was that thev drove out on the National road toward Hillsboro. Finally Mr.

concluded to take the. horse left in the

yard,

and drove home.

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reveal the fact that when the ladic reached home, the men folks discovered the exchange of horses with surprise, and the animals were returned to their respective ai'd should this

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thcr e«-1 .fher party will have been cheated

timate of the mental make up of the afore-(much, as the animnls exchanged were

voter. No one can ever te» about the same value.

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