Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 October 1880 — Page 1

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ADMINISTRATORS'

ESTATE.

8ALK OF REAL

N«tice is hereby given that we will sell at public sale on Haturday, the 6th day of No- .. vember 1880. at2o'clock p. M., at the do.irof th« Court Hotwe of Vigo County Iul., the following described real estate, belonging to toe estate of Jamen B. Armstrong deceased: 1—Lot No. 8 in Waller and Wein'n sub division of 41.(10 acres as per recorded plat ttjereof, In Terre Haute, Indiana. 2.—50 feet off the east end of original In-lot

Wo. 148 in the city ofTerro Haute Ind. X—Lot No. 5 in Barton place, said place being sub-division of lot No. 1 in Chase «tib-UlTi*lon of 100 acres off the north end of the northeast quarter of section 22, I. north,of range# west. 4.—TheN. K. or. of the 8. W.qr of sec. 21 In T. 13, N. Of It. 8 W. f».-5 acres in sec. «3, T. 12 N. of R.!) W. lying W. of the Vincerines Road, and N. of a tract of land once owned by Mr. Ntoum,

W. 0 links, also aneln\ three feet in diameter, S. 03" W., 19 links, thence oast ii.20 chains to said VlncenneH Road to an iron

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from which bears a hickory tree 9 inches in diameter, N. 44,Vj E. 12 links, til en ce 8. along the \V. side of said Road, I chains and 87 linksto thq plane of beginning, upou the following

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One fourth of the purchase money shall be paid in hand, antl the balance in three equal installment*, due 6,12 and 18 months after the day of sale, the purchaser giving notes secured according to law.

PRIVATE SALE.

Any or all of said real estate mav be sold at private sale any time after the 21st of Oct. 1880, but any parcel of said real estate, the HppralSvd value whereof does not exceed $l,io0,iM« may bo sold at any time, at the offlco of the auditor of said eonnty, upon the same terms as at public sale. 2flth Sept. 1880. w"illiam P. Armstrong,

Andukw Grimes, Administrators Est, James B. Armstrong, dec. A. M. Black. Atty. _____

NOTICE OF ATTACHMENT AND GARNISHEE.

oSS TowU.p yjgo County Indiana. David FltjweraUn Attachment

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Michael Madd«n. Garnishee

Whereas, David Fitzgerald has taken out a Whereas, David Fitzgerald has taken out a writ of attachment and garnishee against the goods chattels, credits, and eflccts of Michael Madden '.and whereas return has been made on the summons issued tlierin of not found, the said Michael Madden is not found, the said Mienaci Munueu i* hereby notified of the pcndcncy of said proceedings and the same has been set down for hearing on the 19th day of October 1880 at 9 o'clock A. M, at my oinee in Harrison TownKhip Vigo Couuty Indiana, when said cause wirt be heard and decision rendered.

Witness my hand and seal this 2oth day of August 1880.

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O. F. Cookerly, ustlce of the Peace-

SHERIFF'S HALE.

By virtue of an order of sale Issued from the Vigo Circuit Court, to me directed and delivered, in favor of John II. Brownlee and against UeonroC, Duy, Lucy G. Dwy, Joseph B. Cheadle, Harlow 0. Thompson, Marietta Grover, Tlioodore Hulman Jr. Elizabeth 8. Newton, James McClure McClure executors of the estate of James McCaw, deceased. I am ordered to sell the following described Real Estate, situated In Vigo County, Indiana., to-wlt*

Lots number six (8) and seven (7) in block In Tnell and Usher's subof the southeast quarter

number four (4) In division of part flft« (15) Township twelve (12) north, range nine (.») west In Vigo County

of section fifteen

^rUIlf)AY, THE 18th DAY OF OCTOBER 1880 between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clok p. m. of said day, at the court house door In Terre Haute, I will offfer the rent* and profits of the above described real estate, together with all privileges and appurtenances to the same Belonging, for a term not exceeding seven years, to the highest bidder for cash, and upon failure to realise a sum sufficient to satisfy said order of-sale and costs, I will then and there offer the fee simple, in and to said real estate, to the highest bidder foi cash to satUfy the same.

This 22nd day of September 1880. LOUIS HAY, Sheriff. A. M. BLACK

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DISCOVERY BY ApCIDINT. vhlch rappUea a want men of eminent ability have devoted yean of study and experiment to elite for disease* or the Kid-

find—a specific ... •eyft. Bladder, Urinary Organs and Ntrroni Hyitem—and from the time of 1U discovery has rapidly increased In favor, gaining the approval and confidence of medical men and those whp have used it it hu become a favorite with ail classes and wherever Introduced has superseded all other treatments.

D18EASES OF THE KIDNEYS are the most prevalent, dangerous and fatal amotions that afflict mankind, and so varied and insidious in their character, that persons often •offer for along time before knowing what ailB them The most characteristic symptoms are sradnal wasting away of tho wholo body, pain in Seback, side or loins a weak, feeble, exhausted feeling loss of appetito and dread of exercise •canty and painful discharge of variously colored urine inability to retain or expel the urine minute shreda or casts in tho urine and. when the disease la of long duration, there is m«ch emaciation and general nervous prostration.

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Sidney disease. It is the best remedy yet discov©rod for this complaint, and more cflfectual in its operation than any other treatment. By using faithfully and persistently no case will be found so inreterate as not to yield to its powerful remedial virtues.

IS STRONGLY ENDORSED. We have the most unequivocal testimony to Its curative powers from many persons of high character, intelligence and responsibility. Our book. «How a Lin was Savad,* giving the history of this new discovery, and a large record of moat xemarkable cures, sent free, write fcr it.

DAY'S K1DTIEYPADS are soldbydruggista.

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ginningnt the N. E. cor. of said Nicuift land on a line with the west side of said Koad, thence W. (var. 0° and 10") 24.0b chains to a post, being the N. W. cor. of the N I cu land, from which a fed bud tree 9 inches in 11ameu?r bears N. 2° E. 5% links, thence N. 2.03chains to an iron peg, from which bears a hickory tree one foot lh diameter N. 2J^

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REPENTANCE.

This was the Theme of Bfcv Henderson's Sermon

At the Baptist Church Last Night.

A Sermon Abounding in Practical Points-

Text, 1'rov. XXII, 3. and Gal. VI 7-8.

Our text declares the law of cause anil etfect to hold in morals as in physics: what a man sows that shall he reap:—he and not another. We believe in the doctrine of repentance, and preach divine fogivenes3 through Crrist with great delight. A free gospel is song in the night: music to a sinner's ears. But the Bible declares a limit to the efficacy of repentance. The offers held out to the returning are worthy of a divine giver and forgiver. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return unto the Lord he will have mercy, he will abundantly pardon. This turning to God from Ihe wrong is the condition of pardon. When the evil-doer turns toward God, he finds that God has already turned toward him. The father sees the prodigal while yet a great ways off. Peace, hope and a reconciliation with God are consequent upon repentance. This of itself is good cheer to one struggling to regain a position lost by unworthy conduct. Brother, if you are discouraged from noble effort by the cold suspicion of man, commit thy way to God. He kuows thou art sincere, and his approval is above the the plaudit of mankind.

A return to God makes a limit to the causative action of evil. When some wintry night you return to find the wet Bnow arilting through a door carelessly left open, your first (bought is to close the door and stop the cause of mischief. You cannot undo the past, but you can save something from absolute destruction. The man who repents, by that act shuts the door against the storm. It is not so good to Uoat on a fragment of the wreck in ice-cold billows and be cast on the rocky shore lacerated and half dead, as to enter the harbor on the deck of a staunch steamer, but it is better than to drown. Hepentance is now our only hope, without it d'?atli is sure.

It is well for all men to bo aware, however, that the law of cause and effect, though counteracted by divine remedies, is not- .suspended. This law modifies and limits the efllcacy of repentance. By ignoring this principle many a man has made utter shipwreck. The tendency of any moral wrong is to cause distrust in the minds of our fellow men. This consequence is rooted in nature. Society must protect itself, and expAience teaches us to be wary of mere professions of reform. Once lose caste by a dishonorable deed, and one must serve anew apprenticeship for confidence. The law seems harsh, and often society treads too heavily on the neck of a man who is down. But guided by reason the instinct of self-preservation is a useful one. The individual has no reason to complain thai the general interest demands that he wait patiently and serve faithfully for the esteem which he has forfeited.

Worse, however, than the lo?s of the confidence of others is the loss of selfrespect and personal courage. A man who has made a mistake at a certain place is long after afraid of himself at that place. The hour of weakness

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membered. Repentance may comc "itut the man fears a returns of the old temptation. It is well for us to feel our dependence on God, but we are not authorized to commit sin on purpose to see our helplessness and try the Divine power to rescue. JSschylus records an old Greek saying that "the Gods desert a captured citythe meaning was that deities offer no" premiums for cowardice, and leave suppliants to perish at the altars when they havo forsaken weapons and ramparts. God does not encourage us by any promises to make .any such trial of his good help.

Any single wrong leaves its scar in the soul, People who have been good for years are reaping in regrets, premature age, pains, disease and domestic grief seed sown in ayouth of impropriety. Body and soul keep the results of evil. These differences are carried over into the eternal world. The renowned theologian Athanesius was asked his opinion about "deathbed" repentance and he answered, "an angel came to my predecessor and said 'Peter (the door-keeper of heaven) wants to know why you send me these sac (wind-bags) carefully sealed up withnovning whatever inside." A soul may by* the grace of Heaven reach the blessed home, "saved so as by fire," and yet enter

joy almost empty. Even if the conseq enter heaven, regard ought to be had for the future of this life.

Sven if the consequences of sin did not

Repentance from tresspases is the conl dition of happiness in this life. Measure the weary miles you are yet to traverse. Here is one who in a careless convivia moment shoots away his right hand and for forty years goes maimed and crippled at a disadvantage through life. Here is one who in one winter's night for an hours' mad joy lay drunk in the cold and lost his foot another who in youth started life with sore lungs from an imprudence and another who sold the possibility of domestic joy for a night's illicit pleasure, and another who while young was extravagant and in middle life became through fever or sunstroke an object of charity, a beggar —repentance came to all these but it came too late to serve the noblest purposes in this life.

It is difficult to induce men to learn by observation. Fools learn from their own experience the prudent man foresees the evil and learns from the experience of others. In the noble arts of medicine and surgery the wisest of the craft make experiments on the lower animals by vivisection, electric appliances, and trials of drugs, so that man, the no­

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bler animal may be spar the pangs. Hear a legend of Alexander. The queen of the North had brought up a daughter and nourished her on a poison which caused her to attract all who saw her and to kill all who touched her with a horrible death. The Queen of the North sent this daughter to Alexander for a wife, and he was caught in the snare when he saw her he vehemently desired to possess her. But a wise man by his side counselled him to wait. A malefactor was brought before them ami the touch of her hand communicated the poison to him pains seized him and writhing in agony he perished before their eyes. Then Alexader was greatfc! to his adviser who taught him to escape b* seeing the result of error in the person of-the condemned criminal.

And once more the efficac of,repentance is limited by the lapse of time and the power of habit. There are men who must go through life at a great disadvantage lec»usf they failed to learn a trade in youth before a fsmily became dependant on them. In business, in education, in all life the time comes when men say "It is too late I cannot learn now." Years are passing on noiseless wings and time moves on sandals shod with wool. The child is father of the man. Conclusions. Save the children. To exterminate the brood of vipers find the young. To save your locust trees find when the eggs are laid by the destroying insects. The fold is especially for the lambs and the ehurcn is specially for the children. Do not send your children to Sunday school bring them. If you are intending to repent do it now The law of causation is at work in you every day you neglect great salvation you lose the confidence of man, and selfconfidence you bringdown accumulated miseries on yourself and §by delay you diminish the probability of repentance. Therefore come to Christ, the Holy one now. Speedily permit the blood of anew and better life to enter your soul. Desperate is your case, and more desperate with each hour. Miracles ot mercy arc prepared for those who turn to him who is merciful but by a law which daily experience compels you to recognize you are, if barely nigligent, moving away with the certainty of fate but by the abuse of free will to a state of soul where you will say "It is too late." Avert that hour the past is beyond recall, but the future may yet be bright with divine Ge'pel light.

HORTICULTURAL.'

Meeting of tlie Vigo Horticultural Society at the Eesidence of Mr. and Mrs- C- W. Ear-

A More Than Usually Interesting Session.

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Saturday was not the regular day for meeting of the Horticultural society, but as it was an anniversary in the married life of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Barbour of Sugar Creek township the meeting day was anticipated a few days. It was a very large meeting. Mr. and Mrs. Barbour have reputation far and wide for hospitality and always succeed in making their guests'enjoy themselves.

After routine business had been transacted Hon. H. D. Scott read an essay on Landscape Gardening. Mr. S. has a taste for this subject at which he is practically a success and his observations were listened to with attention.

At dinner the host and hostess wer, presented with a beautiful silver pitcher goblet, bowl and server, a very elegan and beautiful gift.

Hon. Wm. Mack made the presentation speech and finished by reciting that heart stirring old poem "John Anderson My Jo John." "The Pedigree of the English People" was the title of an essay by Mr. N. G. Buff. "Sixty years, or we are growing old", a very pretty original poem was read by Msr. J. O. Jones.

The discussion soon was on the subject "Can the present school system be im-. proved Mr. Mack decidedly thought. it could. He thought the methods too mechanical.

Prcst. Jones replied with the argument that the evils indicated couM be remedied by more and.better teachers.

Prof. Greenawalt was present and replied to Mr. Mack.

BE wise in time and procure Dr. Bull Cough Syrup, which always cures Coughs and Colds, and prevents consumption. Price 25 cent* a bottle.

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A Mysterious Murder, and How the Perpetrators Were Caught, ST. Louis, Oct. 4.—A dead body was found a week ago in a hazel thicket four miles from Poplar Bluff, Mo., with two bullet holes in the head and the pockets of the clothes turned inside out. Th$ body was much decomposed, having lain where found for about two weeks but was recognized bv clothing as that of Daniel Hinkle. Circumstances led to the beliefthat three men named Dunn, Frank and Shamblin, and known as reckless and desperate charactcrs, knew something about the death of Hinkle. Two of these, Frank and Shamblin were arrested in northern Aakansas and being hard pressed acknowledged that they, with Dunn, killed Hinkle and divided his money and other effects taken from the body. Dunn is in jail at Corning, Arkansas, for horse stealing and will be brought back to Poplar Bluff on a requisition. Hinkle did not bear a veiy good reputation, and the whole party it is believed have been connected with a band of horse thieves who have been operating in Illinois, Missouri and Arkansas for several years past The preliminary examination of Frank and Shamblin is now proceeding at Poplar Bluff, and it is believed the evidence

AN ETCHING AT CARLISLE I ND -a#'

The Democrats Awake—Capt. Helms Treats the People to a Grand .Torch-Light Procession-

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The Democrats of lladdon township had a lively time at Carlisle, in old Sullivan county last Saturday eveuing. TI12 meeting was held in the public square and after a brilliant parade by the guards the meeting was called to order by Dr. II. JN. Helms one of the oldibt citizens and most influential Democrats of the county. The Doctor in a very appropriate speech intro duced Cal. Taylor wh6 spoke in substance as follows:

Fellow citizens: It gives me great pleasure to meet so many of my old frinnds here and enjoy with you the pleasantries and good fellowship which for so'many years has always been extended to me by you good people. We have been known to each other tor more than a decade and-a-half and bound together in one hearty effort to restore our common country to the control lof the old Democratic party of the constitution, and bring about again peace and good feeling among the entire people of our common country. We are now within ten days of our state election, the result of which, is to bear so much of good fruit in the great contestinthecomingNovember. Give that kind of cheer to our sister states which will move their hearts and strengthen their arms for the contest which is- to bring, in its gloriouj results, so much enduring benefit to all the institutions of this great country. You have heard argued, by speakers of great prominence and wide information, almost every phase which this contest can possibly present. You have, doubtless, read extended and learned commentaries on the political issues of the day. It will not bo possiblie therefore for me to present any more new arguments, or do any more than lend my voice in aid of the volume of inspiration which is bearing us all onward and helping to write new and greater and and better history for the future of our homes and our country. \ou old men who surround me, and with whom it has been my good fortune to be associated in the great contests of the past in a common effort to rescue the control of our country from the hands of the leaders of thc^iepublican party, know more of, and can better appreciate the magnitude of the present contest and the greatness of the cause for which this contest is waged than those who are younger in the history of the great struggles so scon to culminate in one of those important victories, which through all the ages to come, will give tone, and vigor, and strength, and energy, liberty and life to human thought ana human government. The Republican party has been given continuously a greater and longer lease of undisputed power and control in political affairs, thau is presented in the history of any other party over which the people have ever attempted to exercise any jurisdiction. The Republican party has made more bad history for itself and for the country than any party which has been assigned a place in the annels of history. With more extended opportunities to accomplish greatness and glory for itself, and secure results tending to produce prosperity in the country and among the lople, it hai gathered to itself a more juntiful harvest of infamy, and succeeded in scattering more universally intense cussedness and unparalleled hate than any combination of men, for any purpose, ever organized since the world began. It is treating the Republican party with more leniency than it deserves, and greater magnanimity than the circumstances justify, to say that it has professed more and done less than any party which has had a name or place among men. Its claims are of that universal character which reaches out and demands to itself everything that results in good, while it as readily seeks to deny and disinherit its own offspring when failing to come up to the standara claimed for it before birth. To-day, my friends, the Republican party would have beer, complfi and hopelessly stranded up

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osition' which it advanced, and now stands rut1 and shapeless before the A a trican people, was it not that the gracious hand of the Democratic party has humanly taken hold of the monster and assisted it out of difficulty and pave its way through rough places.

Take the history of the Republican party since its advent into power and if there is' any crime which has not a living example as fruit of its organization and which stands out in bold relief defying to be placed in comparison with any similar one, and challenging the calendar for exceeding perfectness in meanness and grandeur of conception in human degradation and cupidity, then let some Republican leader point it out so that a monument may he erected to memoralize its place ana name forever.

We cannot go over the catalogue of baseness and bad faith which the Kepub lican partv has made, it would take too long and liold up to review a scene too sickening and distasteful for the contemplation of true loyally and genuine patriotism. It would seem to the ordinary mind, that the accomplishment of the grandest feat in wickedness, and the most masterly conception of base, action and gigantic fraud in the election of November 1876, would have fully glutted the ambition of the leaders of the Republican party for notoriety in producing hell's grana Carnival in political action— but it was not. That party must strain a point' We mutt call upon its rank and file to make another grand leap James A. Garfield, one of the most infamously notable of the eight jurors who the voice of a quarter a million majority of the freemen of this country and a majority of ninteen of the electors

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ot the sovereign states of the Union, a,ust be canonized once and forever. The Republicans of the rank and file must succumb at the behest of their wicked leaders and take this man with his inlamous record or go back upon the

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1 desire to go no farther into the record of this man Garfield than the above. It is sufficient. I want you Republicans, if there are any nerc, iv i^u*ou»plate the deep disgrace to which your party leaders are attempting to subject you when they desire you to vote for James A. Garfield for President of the United States. This is a question which addresses itself to Republicans alone. They have to answer once and for all time to their consciousness of right and justice. The record which Mr. Garfield carries upon bis person in this contest is not one which should recommend him even to the most radical of his own party. Republican? could not consistently elect rich man justice of the peace in a ownship where they might hold a decided majority. You all know that these things are facts. I am glad to know that there are many Republicans in the county of Sullivan that will not so stullify themselves as to follow their leaders after tsuch a man as Garfield and I believe tha there is much of the same spirit among Republicans in all the country. The Republicans in the state of Maine have set a salutary and consistent example in their recent state election worthy to be followed and patterned after by their brethren throughout the whole Union. While the claims made by the leaders of the Republican party aie almost boundless—the party has accomplished absolutely nothing resulting in any permanent good only when forced and assisted by the Democratic party. Why, my Republican friends, what pledge made to the people by the leaders of your party have they re deemed Not one. The leaders ot the Republican party claim the paternity and patronage of tbe greenback dollar and boast loudly of the great things they have made it accomplish. They bring It out in this campaign and press it across their hands and say that it stands side by side with gold. Now the truth is that the greenback dollar never was during its entire history ever worth one hundred cents until made so by the wise legislation of the Democratic party. The Republican party claim that they restored the Union of the states, when the truth of the history is that they would not permit any states down soutn until, for the privilege of inaugurating a President and Vice President that never was elected, tliey granted to the people of the south just what was claimed as their rights under the Constitution by the Democratic party. This was the only good result which flowed to the people of the whole country from the result of the contest of 1876. It is true that- the complications which resulted to the iWpublicnn party were quite disastrious to its organization, but. thank God, whatever tends »to disorganize and disrupt the Republican party as now constituted must tend to build up the country and cause the whole people to become prosperous and happy. 1 or years and years, the -Republican 'party have claitced that.their party alone fought down and conquered the rebellion. The Republican party, in fact, would not suf fer this claim to be contested or disputed. It has been held an act of treason to doubt even, the sacredness of this claim. Well, thank God, the truth has finally asserted itself duringj the fpresent glorious campaign. It stands out in the forefront of the contest and will not down.

The Democrats of this country took a reater part and had a larger shore in fighting down resistence to the compacts of the constitution than the Republicans did. "Timefmakes all thingsjeven," and thus you see that this, the last and "afore time" the greatest claim ot the Republican party to popular favor has si{ failed'them. The great ruler of our univerjshe as so wisely ordered all things that sins and shortcomings in great parties and societies as well as among the individual members of society meet with rebukes and sooner or later receive Just punishmened Four years ago the Democratic party won a grand victory and achieved a success which will be remembered as long as popular government shall be recognized among men. It was not then permitted that the leaders of that day should assume the places designated for them by the people, yet, it aid not and has not failed in the great moral effect produced. A majority of over 1,000,000 of tbe free men of this country through their representatives assembled in convention at Cincinnati, Ohio, last June called upon Major General Winfield S. Hancock, to reaffirm and restore to its home in the hearts of the American people the great and fundamental truth that in- this country the decisions of the people under the forms of tbe constitution must hereafter he respected. Hancock was a marked man for the leadership in this contest and seems to fully come up to the demands of the hour. The American people demand a leader who will serve them and man tain inviolate the £rand decision of a free ballot and a fair count. In Hancock the people have found what they hoped for and the results are being felt all along the line. The Democratic hosts are in full line of march. The roll of the drums and the regular and? steady steps of the mighty army of determined men going to dutyjat the ballot boxes of the country bearfto the ear no uncertain sound. The enemy are already weakening and their lines waver. No army of men can be found on this continent capable of withstanding the charge to be made in November under the leadership of that grandest and bravest union soldier—Winfield Scott Hancock. My friends, who is there to be found among brave and gallant men of either pajty, that is not proud of the record of this man Hancock Candor compels it to be said that as a brave soldier and a humane commander history does not record his superior in all the ages. Hie (acts of history equally charge everyone with tbe duty of, proclaiming that a citiQen be is entitled to large praise* for the willingness with which he cast aside authority and did everything in his power to restore and make permanent the majesty of the civil law. When attempted to be used by men for

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bad purposes he pointed to the authority of the civil power and compelled all to be governed by its mandates. The magnitude of the achievements of this man in war and the grandness of his acts in peace have so endeared him to the Democrats of this country that every man is marching forward to deposit their ballots in favor of the cause lead by him. When this much is said victory is pronouueed in favor of the Democratic party, for harmony in our ranks now means victory from one end of the land to the other." Wo sometimes seek to institute comparisons between opposing candidates, but in this case my friends no comparison is possible.

The candidate of the Democratic party "rises up so grandly to meet the demanda

car: tion a grave question among the le whether a fraud of this Kind per boxes of Indiana. There is a sentiment in

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ish scheme to rob the honest masses of a free ballot and a fair count in Indiana, is the only hope, on God's earth, which the Republicans have of carrying this state. It is to be hoped that better and pr leaders of the Republican party and that

wiser councils will prevail among the

they will not attempt to perpetrate a fraud upon the free men of Indiana. These things have been repeated quite often enough and an attempt of tho kind may not betaken kindly

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of the hour that all competitors arc closed out. The first race is won at its begining and in this assertion tho future historian will completely and fully justify me.

Now. mv friends, let us look at the position of Indiaua and see how stands her Democratic ticket in the contest to be decided on the 12th, inst. Indiana, you all know, has been a common battlefield in former contests and although for a nuinlier of years her offices have been held by a plurality vote and not a majority of the whole vote cast.

The only occasion, for some years, of a majority of the electors of Indianabeing fully in harmony upon any proposition is to be found cast in favor of the Senators and Representatives elected to the grand assembly of 1879, who cast their votes for Hon. D. W. Voorhees, for the United States Senate. An examina tion of the results of the election of 1878, will develope the fact that a majority of quite 20,000 of the poplar vote of Indiana at that election was cast for the Senators and Representative who voted for Mr. Voorhees for the Sen ate. There has, however, been quite a large and decided majority in the state in opposition to the Republican party, and experience has taught the Republican party that with the resident voters of the state there is no possibility of revising that majority or appropriating any great portion of its members to the ranks of that party. To meet this exigency and overcome this difficulty in the way of success the leaders of the Republican party have attempted to supply their deficiency from the unemployed colored voters of North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, etc. It is thought that Indiana has to-day—and there is a strong belief that they are still coming—imported into her borders for the above purpose quite sufficient of these ignorant negroes to anticipate the Democratic plurality of 1876, should the vote stand about tho same for this year. It is claimed, and with great reason, that the large majority of these persons 1iave not acquired the right to vote, not having been sufficiently long in the state. This, however, is the fair and true statement of the position now upon this question. It is a despeiate game, even among the' most desperate character of partizans. To carry it through successfully demands the perfection of partizan malignity, cruelty, fraud and meanness. The leaders of the Republican party will not hesitate to attempt to carry out the scheme if they can assure themselves of success in rying the state and winning the eleca. It is

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The candidates on our

state ticket are not the class of men who deserve to have their elections contested at the ballot boxes by imported voters handled by the tools of an administration which has, perhaps, already shown too slight regaru tor the wishes of the people. There never was a contest in Indiana where it stood the Democratic party to so closely and certainly pool every vota and guard well the ballot boxes of the state. Our candidates are all worthy of support and taken together present a most formidable tiucet Our candidate for governor is a man of the people, entirely worthy of the hearty ana ^undivided support of you farmers. He is himself a fanner and a good one too. It will be pardoned by you people gladly that 1 digress a moment to pay a tribute to one man on our ticket who is to Indiana, in in a great degree,whatHancock is to Pennsylvania, One who never found it necessary to desert his party, in order to serve his country, who was among the first to go to Mexico at the call of his country and fight her battles who was early in the ranks at the breaking out of the rebellion and never came home until the "boys in blue" had triumphed over the "boys in gray," who in all the storms of war ana amid the fierce conflicts of battle proved true to hie Democratic principles a grand patriot in war, a true citizen in peace and such Gen. Mahlen D. Manson has ever proved himself under peculiarly favorable circumstances and rather magniflcently lead the people of Indiana and is today preparing a grand result for this election. There is to be one of the most signal defeats to the Republican party in Indiana which has ever been witnessed. It will be a stunner to the oldest inhabitant and until a very few days since I had concluded that a thing so well known and soagreeably accepted was going to be permited to go along peaceably and as a matter of course.

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the Republican party, the men who lov peace and good order and are in tavor the majority ruling are all satisfied as what the result of this election wil^ and are content to see it come. Then

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