Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 October 1880 — Page 4
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than strangers to our people. It is an outrage on the people of Vigo county to have persons other than her own citizens acting under any authority other than that proceeding from the county itself,] take any charge whatever of her election of lier own county officers, who tend to her
business, collect and expend her money. It is a species of centralization: a kind of federal intervention that is simply intolerable. If repeated it is revolution, for it is a radical change in our laws. It Han cock is elected, and it is the chiefest reason why he should be elected, the fedci'al government will be restrained in the exercise of authority which it was never intended it shoul dpossess and which it ousht not to have. &
ON file in Washington and in the hands of Agents at the Capitol are twen-ty-live hundred millions of dollars of Southern claims. When, four years ago, Governor Tilden was candidate for the Presidency, he declared his hostility to these claims. In view of the immensity of this class of claims, Gen. Hancock has been appealed to, and has refused to say that he will not favor their payment. Gen. Hancock does not do it, He owes his nomination to the expectant thieves and traitors who hope to first plunder, and then divide the country."
The above is taken from the San Fran cisco Argonaut a day or two before Han cock's letter to Theodore Cooke on their claims was published. Republican papers a week old are a curiosity.
DEMOCRATS must not be unmindful of the fact that the next Legislature will choose a successor to Senator McDonald and that on our carrying the Legislature and electing a Democrat may depend the he complexion of the United States Sen ate. Let us do the fair thing by Presi dent Hancock and give him a Congress tn both branches Democratic so that he and the party may be held entirely re. sponsible for everything that is done. If it is good, all right if it is bad there will bo IJO dodtriii'.' the record.
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AT a Republican rally in Sullivan last week the inscription on one of the banners bore this, scandalous falshhood: •'Winfield Scott Hancock—the modern Benedict Arnold." This was borne about bv a woman in the procession. How do soldiers like that sort of thing? a
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the city, or Bent by mail, postage prepaid,11 Baltimore variety of "blood-tub" swarms subscribers in any pnrt of the Union, on the like l)ees. Both varieties resemble revolt following terms
GAZKTTE
Nos. 23 and South Fifth Street Terre Iliano
TIL HEE TWENTY-NINE.
Wiiat. was It tnat from Ames I took, Stowed snugly in my pocketbook, And then resumed my saintly look? 320.
What was it when the act was known, That made my pious spiritjgroan Till I would have It called a loan? 329.
Wliat, when my case seemed very bad, Did I in sol emu tones and'sad Swear that 1 never, nevermind? 329.
"What did Ames have in black and white That showed inc up in my true light, And left inc in a sorry plight? 320.
What were thus proved beyond a doubt The figures for which I sold out, And which I since have lied about? 320.
What, more than any other thing— Than salary grab and paving Ring— My downfall at the polls shall bring? 320.
TJ. S. Deputy Marshals.
For the first time in the history of Terre Haute strangers to our people, actng under the authority of the Federal Government as U. S. Deputy Marshals, are placed at our polls. It is an insult to our people to suppose they do not •wish to and cannot protect the ballot box. It is an insult to them to sup pose they are not better able to do this
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THE Democrat's of Vigo county can do •, several hundred votes better next morth for Hancock than they did on Tuesday for the state and county ticket
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'Blood-Tubs
Mow that the campaign is practically
indrovcs and that the Democratic
vers or
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THE SATIKMAV JA'/ETTE On Haturday tiio GAZEITK, in addition to the usual features of the daily paper, will contain full reviews of all local events the week, Dramatic, Religious, Sporting, Literary. Musical, etc., making it essentially a paper Tor the home and family. BUBHCKIITION TO THE SAT Wit DAY GAZETTE Bingle copies 05 One year 1^0
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cents for repeating. Both varieties seem to lie endowed with a capacity for voting like men, but like rascals vote where they have no riglii and with a frequency which is always criminal. Now what is a 'blood-tub?" In its component parts we understand the phrase. Blood is a good
Anglo-Saxon word but there is no hint of suffrage hidden in its meaning A blooded horse to be run is one which can get over more miles in less time than a horse which is not blooded but facility in making the rounds of polling places and casting more illegal votes in more precincts has not hitherto been consider ed a symbol of a blooded man or of blue blood, as the latter is sometimes called. The word "tub" is still more obscure. There is no flavor of citizenship as there is of soap-suds about a tub. Blood and tub are both inanimate things and how taken together they come to mean a sort of gatling gun animated with supernatural energy in the way of tiring ballots, and endowed with the capacity of swarming and going in drives is more than we can comprehend Is a tub full of blood a "blood-tub" and if so why so?
DOUBTLESS a very great many people are glad that the election is over—for it will be practically over before the gentle reader shall have eaten his supper and seated himself for .his customary re freshmcnt on the news of the day. It is very much to be doubted if among all the readers of the GAZETTE any one will be mere rejoiced that the 12th of October is about to be numbered with the past than the writer of these lines.
An Outrage
Some scoundrel or scoundrels, fo there may have been more than one, broke into the GAZETTE composing room last
night. The type forms, left standing on the imposing stones very nearly in the condition they were when yesterday's paper was printed from them, were knocked into a bewildering confusion of
useless metal. The work of vandalism did not stop with this. Pi was also made of four pages of type from which the weekly edition would have been printed to night. Nor was this all.
The type in the cases from which to day's paper was to be set up was mixed up very badly, and several galleys full of type were thrown together and rendered unavailable for present uses, The hands that did this rascally business worked hurriedly but effectually to do a very great dealof damages.
There is no reason to suppose that more than two persons were engaged in it and who they were or what their particular cause of spite may have been, we do no know, but hope to ascertain. To tliis end a a reward of $25.00 is offered by the GAZETTE for the arrest of the person or persons who perpetrated this outrage. The full penalties of the law will be invoked to punish the guilty parties. We rely with confidence on every law-abiding citizen giving us any information touch ing it which may in any way have come into his possession.
Rumors to the effect that it was the result of political proscription or of spite upon the part of printers, which have been circulated on the street, are without foundation and do not emanate from this office. So far as such rumors indicate that any party, as a party or any consider able number of men in any trade would do a thing of this kind, the circulation of the rumor is aa outrage greater than that which converted this office this morning into a wilderness of type. If the managers of the GAZETTE thought it had been so conducted that any considerable class of citizens, politi cal, trade or social would do anything of this kind, or would not feel indignant at an outrage of this kind, we should be at no pains to clean up the ollice and go on with our work. As a matter of fact the whole business was hatched in the devilish
brain of one person or possibly two, and indicates nothing but that this paper has incurred the enmity of one or two scoun
drels. We trust we have earned the enm ty of every rascal who selects the darkness of night to do miserable work.-
There is compensation in all thing But for this piece of vandalism we should not have known, as we now do, how
many really good people there .' Terre Haute, from luanv or whom we have received warm express
over, we desire to enquire what :"l,lood-tub" is. According to the Indi j.onsof regard, ami who have mmgleUtHei anapolis Sentinel the Republicans have anathemas v.'itli our en
'brought divers of "blood-tubs" to thcjity AVc have received offers of assist state" from Philadelphia. According to i• nee from the E-tnn** and }f ril ana sevthe Indianapolis Journal the Democrats
have imported from Baltimore a swarm of "blood-tubs." It will be observed tha the Republican '-blood-tubs from Phila dclphia arc transported as hogs
material borrowed from
TLLK OLD AND NEW (APPORTIONMENTS. FIRST DISTRICT. Rep. Dem. Nat. Old apportionment 12,928 13,099 1395 New apportionment 15,188 14,750 2073
SECOND DISTRICT.
Old apportionment 12,032 17,317 2103 New apportionment 12,993 TIIRITD DISTRICT. Old apportionment 9,399 New apportionment 10,480
EIGHTH DISTRIBT.
Old apportionment 12,124 13,164 4929 New apportionment 13,714 NINTN DISTRICT. Old apportionment 15,608 New apportionment 14,486
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would have
scarcely been able to get out a paper at
ali to-day. By to-morrow or the day after
the damage will have been repaired.
We deny in advance a report which
may gain credence that the election news
knocked our type into pi J'
The Congressional Fight in Indian In estimating the vote for congressmen in this state, this year, it must not be for gotten that, since the election of 1878, a new apportionment has been made and that the character of the several dtstrict has thus been somewhat altered. To show the effect of the change a table is given below exhibiting the vote for mem bcrs of Congrsss in 1878. The first line under each districts shows the actual vote of that district as it then existed, and the second line the vote cast in the counties composing the distnc as it now stands. A comparison of the two sets of figures will disclose the extent of the alterations and the gains and losses of the respective parlies by the "new deal."
17,842 2310
FOURTH DISTRICT.
Old apportionment 14,055 15,14G New apportionment 13,917 16,994 FIFTH DISTRICT. Old apportionment 23,776 12,936 New apportionment 13,739 17,184
13,865 8239
15,510 4571 14.729 3493
TENTH DISTRICT.
Old apportionment 15,365 13,408 5252 New apportionment 13,849 11,507 6464 ELEVENTH DISTRICT. Old apportionment 15,547 13,102 4266 New appointment 15,519 16,998 1084
TWELFTH DISTRICT.
Old apporiionment 9,712 17,067 .r.. Mew apportionment 11,960 14,779 1607 TIIIRLEENTn DISTRICT. Old apportionment 13,184 13,523 3462 New apportionment 14,363 13,931 2830
*Dc La Matyr was the nominee of both Democrats and Nationals.
Caricature.
"Suppose," says the New York World "a pictorial journal published in Savan nah should every week contain a carica turc of the traditional Yankee in some offensive aspect or position Would not a general outcry be raised against the persistent hate of the South from the bailiwick of William Henry Smith even unto the haunts of Hannibal Hamlin?
When a Northern pictorial
paper, therefore, persistently, for week after week, depicts the American of the South as a gaunt, hungry, murderous ruffian, pistol in belt and knife in hand bent on bloodshed and brutality, is it no plain that such a publication is a moral 'weather-breeder' and a social and political enemy of the peace, concord and prosperity of the Union
Harper's Weekly has been conducted in such fashion as to make it richly deserve this sharp criticism That so-called "journal of civilization" is, so far as its caricatures are concerned, a relic of polit ical barbarism. Beginning its pictorial career by abusing Abraham Lincoln, it swung round with the popular current, and for nearly twenty years has assailed
with persistent vindictiveness everything nearly or remotely counted
mocracy. As the majority of Irishmen are Democrats and Catholics, they and their church have been held up to popular ridicule b}' every device the genius of a hireling artist could suggest. As Horace Greeley was accepted as a Democratic candidate for the Presidency, as honest and honorable a man and as true and earnest a philanthropist as ever lived, he was literally -hunted into a lunatic's grave by these hounds of the pencil. As the South and the Southern people are Democratic, they are the favorite mark for this caricaturing malignity to shoot at. Every English hisloi lan has condemned the caricatures of the first Napoleon and the French, circulated in England during the war which involved all Europe. But the
art in war may be urged as an excuse for thes shameful pictures. The French and their emperor were foreigners and enemies, and the war threatened the very existence of
England. The South is our own countiy the Southern people are our own country men and women, the rebellion ended fif teen years ago and perfect peace prevails between the two sections. Yet week after week, month after month, year after year, the South and the Southern people are pelted with Mr. NAST'S mud, and in suited and outraged by him and his mas ters in every conceivable and inconceiva ble fashion.
We presume the proprietors of liar, per',* Weekly consider themselves pious and patriotic citizens. The political weapons they use are as far removed from patriotism and piety as the poisoned arrows of South American savages or the oderous bombshells of the Chinese. For no other purpose than to make money by ctearing to partisan and sectional prejudice, they delibtrately feed the worst and most dangerous element in American politics and bring disgrace upon the American name and nation. Money they undoubtedly make, but in that making they certainly lose what, in the opinion of the decent portion of the comunity, is much greater value.
MYSTERIOUS FIGURES
The Whole American Nation vulsedWith Laughter.
Post
329
15,074 1588 15,186 1625
796
1226
SIXTH DISTRICT.
Old apportionment 15,548 16,167 2043 New apportionment 17,669 11,699 1342 SEVENTH DISTRICT. Old apportionment 17,881 *18,720 New apportionment 14,110 16,320 468
Con-
The Symbolic 329 Appearing North South. East and West.
Some Singular Facts and Rumors,
of the G. A. R. will be dis.
banded. .. Gen. Dan Butterfield saw the figures 329.
and came out tor Hancock. Dr. Van Valzah wants to bet
199 226
$329
that Garfield won't be elected. No corps, division, or brigade flag in the army bore the figures 329-
Justice Cookcrly suggests that Garfield clubs limit their membership to 329Councilman McCutcheon is looking for the fellow who chalked 329
on his hat
It is reported that Dr. Richardson rubbed 329
from his office door this morning-
It is suggested that the Republican headquarters be removed to 329
Main
street. John E. Lamb says that there are
329
reasons why Garfield should not be elected. Somebody chalked the figures £329 on the back of Postmaster Filbeck yesterday afternoon.
E. M. Walmsley, a Garfield merchant, received 329
letters yesterday, and pre
served his temper. It is said that there is a standing order in the office of the Express against printing the figures 329.
Chester A. Arthur haa not openly expressed his opinion concerning the figures 329-
Indianapolis Republicans are aghast. Soap and water are useless, because black paint was used.
A rumor that Garfield men will fire 329
guns when Grant comes home in October is doubtless unfounded. We hear that Samuel McKeen and George Farrington are carrying scrubbing brushes.
It would be important for any gentle man to chalk the figures 329
on
a A a
Assistant
It is said that the Republican tena'nts at 329
Water street threaten to move
unless the number of the building is changed. No gentleman with a proper apprecia tion of his personal welfare would adorn the caot tail of Col. Bob Hudson with the figures 329
Pat Stack has lxught five pounds of chalk for missionary work in the Fifth ward. The market for mops continues steady.
Senator Conkling is great on figures He used the 3, 2
and
9
but not collec
tively. They are too suggestive. When attorney Wm. Eggleston found 329
chalked on his boots early this morning he made several vigorous references to a very warm place.
Editor McNeeley, of the Express, came up Fifth street last night with tha figures 329
chalked on his back. He threatens to make the fellow who did it apologize. An indignant Republican street hawker threatened to whip the City Clerk yesterday because his license was numbered 329-
Justice Denehie threatenes to commit for contempt of court any man who is found in his court room with apiece of chalk. ''Another Democratic outrage" was perpetrated in this city yesterday. Mayor Hayens committed a Garfield man who
Courteous Democrats, in writing letters the Republicans, should invarably stamp the figures 329
on the corner of the en
velope. There is no truth in the report that
329
vice-Presidents will be chosen at the next Republican demonstration in this city.
A dog owned by a prominent Republican of this city came tearing up Sixth street with those mysterious figures painted in blood-red on his back.
The figures
329
are soaped on the
large mirrors in many first-class resturants. A paradox in the rule of three As 8: is to 7. so is 3 2 9$329
is Garfield's price $300 is wha
they pay Carl Schurz for a speech. Secor Robberson laugh? at 329-
figures are much higher.
His
Women as Pedestrians..
Walking long distances, even miles, is common to English womeu and those in other parts of Europe, but is almost un known in America. In Europe large parties are made up to take their sum mer outing in this way, and it's not only the young people who go, but the husband and wife, parents and children brothers and sisters, or a group of pleas ant acquaintances. They make a pedestrian trip through some chosen bit of their own or some other county, stop, ping at wayside inns for a longer or shorter time, climbing hills and explor ing valleys, mixing with the people through which their paths lie, and gatli ering at once fresh health, new life, keen perceptions and a knowledge of the manners and customs of the country that they could not possibly have gotten otherwise. Through Germany, France, Italy, England, Ireland and Scotland one is constantly meeting these jolly and bright people. These parties equip themselves with little expense and trouble. A stout knapsack is strapped upon each individual's back, whatever the sex a heavy cane, strong shoes, with thick soles, a short flannel costume, broad hat and a cheerful and merry disposition are the essentials and though in our country a party like this might be looked upon as tramps, the country people would soon grow accustomed to the sight of these pilgrims, and the weak, slight American become as stout as their English brothers and sisters.
A SAN FRANCISCO paper of recent dat takes occasion to pay its respects to Tftfe mage and his tergiversations in a manner which is vigorous if not altogether po lite. It says: "The last reverend worshiper of the golden calf who displayed his fantastic literary gymnastics in our pulpits, at one dollar admittance, has returned to his Eastern home with his bronchial tubes so much improved that he has been able to resume his business of misrepresenting the Pacific Coast and its people. We quote from an Eastern journal: 'The Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage made a warm 'defense of the Chinese in his evening address in New York on the 19th of September, and said that when he saw the 'anti-Chinese plank in the Republican 'platform he wondered if the sceptrc 'were not departing.' Wc comment leni ently upon this clerical mountebank, lest we hurt the feelings of some good people in this city who still have faith in this pious fraud. This blatant and fantastic pulpit ciown came to San Francisco for a speculation. He was billed and advertised like a prestidigitator. He was taken up by certain very good men, and in aid of his money-making scheme— as an advertising dodge—pushed himsel into at least one respectable pulpit in this city. Finding that his repertoire of stale old lectures would not draw,he precipitated himself one night into the slums of he Chinese quarter, and came out with one dollar's "worth of ready-made advice as to how to cleanse the nasty spot. He made an out-and-out anti-Chinese speech It is true that it was senseless and absurd it contained no germ of original thought it was the flippant utterance of an emptyheaded adventurer in search of coin. Th question he did not understand. All who oppose Chinese immigration admit that it is a two-sided question, and one upon which, from certain standpoints, a strong argument may be made in favor of Chinese presence among us. Talmage did not grasp the idea, and advanced no argument upon the subject, but, in a sort of Tom-fool way, catered to the anti Chinese sentiment of the Sand-lot as expressed in the brutal formula, "the Chinese must go." WTien he returns to Brooklyn he becomes, all of a flop, a Chinese advocate, and finds in them virtues never denied them. Such business as this is a crime, and it must not be exposed the less because it is a crime of the pulpit. A class of itineran quack preachers are spreading themse lve abroad in the land who are a reproach to their calling. Theirs is a sensational, clap-trap method of money-getting. We find but little favor tor the traveling revivalist. We question whether any permanent?« good 4 comes from the excitation of the sensational evangelist who goes up and down the land with song and shout to preach and pray. But, leaving this question an open one till Moody and Sankcy demand out notice, we do not hesitate to denounc such men as the Rev. DeWitt Talmage as hurtful. We say this, not in hostility to the pulpit, nor in disregard of the claims of those earnest, pious, and godly men who have consccrated their lives to the preaching of the gospel. In the political parson, the renting sensat iosalis and the traveling showman of the church we find nothing to o..nmend
A RETURK issued by the German post master-general shows the number of pos-tal-cards used in Europe in the year 1878 to have been 342,000,000. Of that number 111,455,000 were posted in the United Kingdom, 108,741,000 in Germany and 31,422,000 in France. In the United States during 1878, 246,000,000 cards were dispatched by the postoffice, and it is estimated that during 1880 the figure will rise to 300,000,000. The German postal authorities estimate the number of cards in use throughout the postal union at 7000,000,000. ....
Tub tie: tion Tu csday was one of the quietest on rivord. Absolute sercnity reigned, not only lure but all over the State. It is a sharp an4 effectual criti. cism of the statements of the reckless partisans that there was danger of serious trouble. The Indianapolis fiivnitip j\~cms pays its compliments to the Journal of that city in the following fashion "The Journal this morning reiterates its charge that there was a secret democratic organization in this city,embracing several hundred men, and that it was the intention to furnish them arms, precipitate a riot, and then call them out under pretense of suppressing riots, but with the real purpose of capturing the polls, and destroying the ballot-boxes in some of the strong Republican wards.' We ask in the name of our common civilization why the Journal does not produce some proof of this. It is a serious matter and should be sifted to the bottom. If several hundred citizens of this place conspired together to break the peace, break the law and in cold blood shoot down their fellow-citizens we ought to know it. If Indianapolis has within her borders under the guise of law abid. ing citizens, men who were ready to mnrder their fellow men, it can not be known too soon or too well. Such a charge is a horrible damning one. It puts a blood red stain upon this city's name. In the name of truth and honor let it be substantiated or withdrawn. The event certainly goes to give it the lie. The daywas unspotted by the slightest disgraceful thing, saving here and there the arrest of a would-be repeater. A half million of men in this great state met as became men, and quietly recorded their decision, in good fellowship. It is an encomium upon free institutions, a high tribute to the sturdy honesty and honor of Indiana, a sight for a world to behold, a ringing pledge to future generations of ihc stability of self-government. The awful accusation that in the midst of all this was a bauu of citizens ready to break the law and murder their fellow citizens should be established beyond doubt or withdrawn without qualification. We ask the accuser to do the one or the other."
AT the expiration of the fiscal year there were 104 free delivery postal offices, employing 2,087 carriers, in operation in the United States. The total number of pieces of mail matter handled at these 104 offices was 932,121,843, an increase of 122, 267,778 over the previous year total cost of the free delivery services, including the pay of special agents, $2,363,693 amount of postage on local matter, $3 068,7a7. There were delivered during the year. 316,159,657 letters and 89,00" 505postal cards collected 280,469,190 letters and 79,280.480 postal cards 122,316,076 newspapers were delivered, aud 43.022,530 collected.
HANCOCK is anywhere from five to ten thousang votes stronger in Indiana than the Democratic State ticket. If the Stato and presidential elections had occured to getlier on the Second of November this fact would have been clearly manifested Whether or not it will show itself now is a question which time alone can answer. The Democrats now have as much reason for hope of carrying Indiana in Novem ber as the Republicans had fo carrying the election of Tuesday one month ago. The result is a surprise bu no more of a surprise than Maine, and whereas the Republicans could not afford to lose Maine the Democrats can afford to lose Indiana and still elect Hancock New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and he Solid South will elect Haucock and here is Ma's%,New Hampshire, Califor. and Nevada gain votes in Bender. Hancock Cin carrv Indiana.
Two able bodied roosters are" held in reserve in the GAZETTE offico for the back townships to be heard from. Among the hills and rocks where virtue thrives amid poverty and honesty goes hand in hand with labor there Democracy flourishes in all its pristine glory. Returns from those precincts may be slow iu com in gin for they have not got counting down to a fine point but we have faith to believe they will come in at last all right.
A great many Nationals on Tuesday voted with the party whose financial legislation called the National organization into existence. It is only natural to assume that such persons did not mean what they said when they were fighting the Republicans so bitterly.
GENERAL Harrison is already looming up as a Senatorial candidate.—Eipremt. If the Republicans secure the Legislature Col. Thompson ought to be elected Senator. He is the strong man of the Reoublican party in this state.
NOTWITHSTANDING the weather was so pleasant there seems to have been very consileraJble of a freshet on Tuesday.
WE begin to appreciate now how t& Republicans felt when Maine fell a thm.e -t
IIc.RRAiifor Ilaueock. mmmammmmmmmmtm The President. SAN FRANCTSCO. October 1 J.—A f'ort Townsend dispatch says: The Preadential pnrty left Seattle and visited Po Blakely and Post Gamble, when they were enthusiastically received henc proceeded to Port "Townsend. Abou four miles from the port a steimboa' came alongside with the comm.t tee reception on board. The boat 1 aided a five o'clock. Salutes were fired fiom th battery and fully fifteen liundrec peopl were assembled on the docks, and as th steamer came along repeated cheers wer given for the President, Secretary Ra sey, Gen. Sherman and Gen. Howarc The party was driven, immediately upo arrival, to the hotel, where, after an a press of welcome, brief responses wei made bv the President and others.