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"Vol. II.
:No. 41.
Blaine Disgusted.
T?e grand Republican campaign
?demonstration in Philadelphia reocn -
ly was very lively in some respects
The torchlight procession was really
taagnifiocnt, and the Tun began in the
?crown of 18,000 when Rlnine was in
troduced. According to an accouut
in a local paper the plumed knight
oaid :
"If it were possible to elect Gen.
Hancock President, bis success would
mean not merely a change of admin
istration, but a change of dynasty. It
would be a political revolution of this
government of the most startling
character, for to place the rebels of
the South in command of the nation
is quite as radical a change as would
b? occasioned in England by unseat
ing the House of Hanover and re
storing the House of Stuart." At
this moment the crowd before the
speaker swayed violently in the di
rection of the platform and the police
had gre.st trouble to prevent the ropes
from being overthrown. The agita
tion was so great that the speaker
did not resume for about two min
utes. "My old friend, Colonel For*
ncy," continued Senator Blnine, anfid
groans and some cheers, "desires to
use General Hancock, who aided in
J8C3 to keep them out of the govern
ment, to bring the rebels back in
J880." (Loud and lurnultuons cheers
for Hancock on the right of the I
stand.) "All honor to Hancock for
his couduct in 18G3, say I."' Here
followed a prolonged intcrruprion and
wild shouts for Hancock, at the end
of which Senator Blaine said: "This,
audience is too vast for any one
man's voice to reach even a small
part thereof. The election between
Generals Hancock and GarQcld is
also too vast." Here the speaker
was again interruptod, and ceased
talking for nearly one minute. "So
far as the candidates arc concerned,"
resumed the Senator from Maine,
"more than mere confidence in the
two men are demanded, for both are
individually honorable. If it were a
mere eouflict between Gnrflcld and
Hancock, to use an old English ex
pression, I should not care a iocs up
which man was chosen. So far as
tho country's interests are concern
ed." (Shouts for Garficld and for
Hancock.) "If we cannot cr.rry Una
discussion beyond personal friendship
there is little to be said." (Wild
cheers for Hancock.)
Mr. Blaine turned from the audi
ence depairingly, with an "aside" to
the League ollicials: "I never saw
anything like this boforo in all my
speech making experience."
"Go on," was the reply, "Go on
for the newspapers."
Mr. Blaine continued"; "Cheer for
him as a military man and I am with
you, but I say to you as Pennsyvan
ians that the great question for you
to consider is whether the industrial
system of the United States shall be
tampered with by new and untried
bauds, who get their inspiration from
(he same enemies to this land who
built and launched the Alabama. I
do not say it of my own knowledge,
but I am assured that British free
trade ideas are being pushed in Ibis
land with all the might of British
gold. Now my fellow-citizens, the
only thought that I have traveled 500
miles to impress on the minds of the
people of Pensylvania, in whom I
have pride and honor of birthright, is
that the election of Hancock is a me
nanco, if not the destruction of the
great commerce of their magnificent
commonwealth. With Ibis idea in
your mind you will give a large ma
jority for Garfield in November.
(Cries of "Go on," "Tell us about
Maine," "How did it happen?" &c.)
J will now retire, realizing the inade
quacy of my voice."
Mr. Blaine was followed by TliQB.
M- Marshal, of Pittaburg, but his
speech was only heard by the report*
ers and was very brief.
B. Stockei t Matthews next tried to
address the surging and screaming
Crowd of human being in front of
the stand. He atarted out to show
that "the reason tho De me rut a chose
Hancock was .not because his white
Nnvarrc4iko plume was seen on every
battle field, but that despite his pure
personal character, they recognized
in him one who would be subservient
to their wishes."
"Three cheers for Hancock 1" was
shouted near the stand and respond
ed to by hundreds.
"You'd better take out your cheers
for Hancock," shouted Hie speaker,
ouly to get a response in the charac
ter of renewed cheers for Hancock,
without any counteraction from Re
publican throats.
"Suppose you hurrah now for JefF
Davis," Mr. Matthews sarcastically
suggest, when the Hancock cheering
had subsided. This was followed by
roars of laughter?"or Robert B.
JLice," continued the speaker, in the
same strain. "Me was a soldier and
as good a oue as Hancock."
The crowd laughed again, and then
the cheers for Hancock were renswed
as if in defiance, although the people
seemed good naturcd. Finally Gar
field's name was shouted by sumo one
near the League Building, and three
hearty cheers were given.
"Bad manners," resumed Mr. Mat
thews, in undisguised disgust, "can
always gel ahead of me, and this is
more than I can stand. The men
who made those call5 for Hancock, if
they had the power, would sweep you
Republicans out of the streets. Jt is
cowardly I" shouted Mr. Matthews,
and as he was about to speak further
cheers for Hancock were started again
taken up for n distance of half n
square. "I had supposed," resumed
the speaker, "that in Pennsylvania,
in Philadelphia, free speech would be
tolerated. Now, with your permis
sion, I will go on."
"Go on. go on;" shouted the
crowd.
Mr. Matthews attempted to do so,
but finally gave up the efifort in de
spair.
Tin: Republican party feels that it
is now fighting in the last ditch.
When men are pressed to the very
wall they will make desperate efforts
for safety. It is now suggested by
some leading papers that the Rcpub.
licans carry the campaign into the
South. Their last hope is based on
carrying Virginia, South Carolina and
Louisiana. Before the middle of
October it would not suprise us to see
the negroes of this Stale rallied by
the party cry to the court houses and
churches, and canvassers sent from
the North to harrangue them. This
policy has been urged lime nnd again.
Forewarned is forearmed. We should
go to* work and prepare to meet such
a stale ofallairs. ThiB can be done
by earnest, enthusiastic work. If any
campaign is waged by the Republi
cans it will be done the last twenty
days preceding the election. It will
be too late for us to organize and
meet such an effort then. Now is the
time to prepare for it.? Carolina
Spartan.
Tiik Georgia Republicans have de
termined to shut up shop and retire
from business. The hopelessness of
further efforts has at last besome ap
parent to them, and they have wisely
concluded to save their lungs and
money from further campaign duty.
At the late convention tho colored
chairman formally announced the
j dissolution of tho party in Georgia,
and after congratulating himself that
he had the honor to preside over the
j last Republican convention that ever
j would he held in the State, he declar
:cd it adjourned forever.
I The Washington Post is full of
mysterious conundrums. It now
! wants to know why "is it that James
! B. Weaver, the alleged Greenback
: candidate for the Presidency, finds it
necessary evory time he comes thero
to have a threo hours' interview with
t.Ir. Iliibboll, the principal manager
j of the Republican Congressional Com
Itnittcc?" It further wants to know
why they go into back rqpmsand lock
. U\C dour.
I Women Who Endorse Wiokedness.
It is probable that women think as
litl?c as do men of the responsibilities
imposed upon them by mero exist
ence. This responsibility in the wo
man is very much increased when sho
happens to be particularly handsome
or otherwise attractive; and whereas
the man if bad can only extend his
evil influence through u very limited
circle, a woman can go through life
inflicting evil on nearly every man
she meets and, by an exquisite sar
ensm of results, promote sin by obey
ing the pure impulse of her tender,
womanly heart. From this very im
pulse comes partially the toleration
and the active sympathy for wicked
ness, which is a tremendous power of
its encouragement. We say "par
tially," for it is a fact too patent for
dispute, that the piquant flavor of sin
in men ia exceedingly enjoyed by some
women. Whichever of the two may
be the cause in individual cases, it
is certain liiut with the vast majority
of women, a man with the "spice of
'he Devil in him," is greatly prefera
ble to him who diligently lives up to
the ten commandments, and walks in
the narrow path prescribed in the
New Testament. This is practically
an oncourugemen to tho acquiring of
the "spice" referred to, and invites
the callow youth to seek the reputa
tion for "wildness" that will secure
him the favor, or pity that amounts to
the same of the other sex. The true
meaning of these tcims, "spice of the
devil," and "wildness," it is not
dilllcult to define. But when the de
finition is given it should remove the
romance and attraction most effectu
ally. No man can possess eithei
quality without doing things that are
repugnant to morality, and abhorrent
to respectable people. But this re
pugnance and abhorrence are not
shown to shame tho evil doer. Many
a young man is at some pains to let
it.be known-among his lady friends
that ho ia an adept in draw poker, a
wise discriminator of mixed drinks,
and even occasional antagonist of
the delusive nnd destructive "tiger,"
because he knows by experience nud
observation thut the worst conse
quences to ensue will be a confiden
tial, imploring little talk?and few
things are moro pleaBant nnd tickling
to a man's vanity than a lengthy
moral lecture from a handsome wo
man. This evil is practical, and its
consequences horribly so. Many a
man has sought "wildness" under
the brilliant light and amid the spark
ling decanters and roaring good fel
lowship of the saloon, and the luxuri
ous surroundings of the gambling
room, and only csenped from it in the
darkness and desolation of a dishon
ored grave. Seeking it to gain smiles
from fresh, sweet lips, and pitying
tenderness from bright eyes, he finds
ruin, and horrors that no writing can
tell of. The remedy is less charity
for sin. With all His superhuman
tenderness and love, tho Saviour of
men lashed the open violators of de
cency and morality from the temple.
The profane, the lewd, the gamulers
and the incipient or developed drunk
ards should be drivon from parlors,
consecrated by the presence of daugh
ters, wives and sisters. We ndvocate
the most unwearied effort to reclaim
the erring and redeem the lost, but
young women are not the proper ones
to do that work except by the dis
couragement of evil. That is the
utmost limit to which they can go
without accomplishing far moro harm
than good. When they let it be un
derstood that a reputation for "wild
ness" secures banishment from their
presence nnd loss of their favor men
will lack a temptation now existing
to stray away in the vulgarly broad
path in which Prince ami plowman
walk together, and there will be a
vast diminution in the number of
broken hearts, ruined lives and lost
souls.r?Greenville News.
The Marl borough Democracy gave
a cordial greeting to tho State canvas
sers, and turned out 0,000 strong.
Tho mounted procession was nearly a
mile long. Speeches were mada by
Hagood, Kennedy, Sims, J. S. Rich
ardson and G. W. Dargan,
The Southern Census.
Washington, September 26?
When the ccQSUG enumeration had
progressed far enough in South Caro
lina to show that there would be a
startling increase over the census
enumera'ion of 1870, thero was a
simultaneous assault made ou the cor
rectness of the South Carolina census
for political effect. It was charged
that there must be fraud, as it could
not be prctended that there was
an increase of nearly forty pel cent,
in a State that bad no manufacturing
or other catmes to multiply population
beyond the ordinary increase.
Superintendent Walker and Secre
tary Schurz give the matter careful
attention. They did not heed the
partisan elicits, but they were in
earnest to have the census taken as
nearly correct as possible. They de
cided not to take any public cogniz
ance of the political complaints
against the State, but to attain the
most careful verification of the re
turns. They did not formally sus
pend any of the Southern returns,
but as they could not pay all the
enumerators for some weeks they
bavc paid in their order such as had
no complaints of any kind against the
work and delayed numerous returns
from both the South and the North
for exhaustive inquiry.
-That inquiry has been progressing
most thoroughly while the undisputed
returns were being paid for, and the
work in South Carol nn has been vig
orously prosecuted by going back to
the actual field ot the enumerators and
subjecting their returns to various
tests which will prove their accuracy
or expose their errors or frauds.
Superintendent Walker has had j
this work of examination done in
the most thorough manner, and
although not yet entirely complete,
enough is known at the Census Bureau
to prove that the census enumeration
an 1870 was grossly-defective by rea
son of corrupt or ignorant enumera
tors, and that the most critical revis
ion of the bona fide population of
South Carolina will make it about
what the Times reported several
weeks ago. When the work shall
have been comp'eted the decision of
the Census Bureau will be made pub"
lie, and there is now no doubt that
the carefully revised enumeration will
give South Carolina close to 50,000
inhabitants.?New York Times.
A 3'ourig mau whose nfllanced went
back on him and broke off the engage
ment received a note from her asking
him to return the lock of hair which
he had. He looked over his trank,
collected a heap of tresses culled
from various sources during his love
making career, and forwarded thorn
in a buddle to bis late ?ady love, in
closing a note to the effect that
ho had forgotten which wao hers,
but she n ight select it from those for
warded, and return the rest at her
earliest convenience. The story got
out, and the neighborhood felt so
warm for her that she went on a pro
longed visit to her oountry cousins.
John W. Forney telegraphed on
Saturday from Pittshnrg the Gibraltar
of Pennsylvania Radicalism, that the
largest mass-meeting in Western
Pennsylvania since 1840 was then as
sembled for Hancock. Ben. Butler
wns speaking and be was to follow,
The chairman was Mai shall Swartz
welder, oho of the most influential
Republicans in the West, and ihcre
were one hundred and thirty Repub
lican vice-presidents. According to
Forney, Western Pennsylvania is
ablaze fur conciliation and Hancock.
"What are we here for, but to get
office?" said Flanagan, of Texas, in
the Cbicago-Garlicld Convention. It
begins to look very much like Mr.
Flanagan and his colleaguos were in
the wrong markot,
Now is the timo for a young man
who has been traveling, and is finan
cially reduced, to have bis linen dus
ter dyed black, ornamented with a fur
collar and prepare for the overcoat
season.
Mart Gary to the Front. j
The old Bald Eagle of Edgefieid
won't take any Independent nomina
tion- Some party in Charleston
made up a ticket some time ago
which has been running regularly in
the columns of the Charleston Mer
cury, with General Gary's name at
the head as an Independent candi
date for Governor. Hear tho old
straigidout:
Oakley Park. September 25,1860.
Editor of the Clurrleston Mercury.
Dear Sir : I returned on yesterday
from the While Sulphur Springs, of
West, Virginia. A friend lias just
shown inc a copy of your paper, in
which is my nomination as an Inde
pendent candidate for the office of
Governor of this Stute. My position
in regard to the mode and manner of
the nomination of the present Demo*
cratic State ticket is a matter of re
cord. Also my determination not to
run as an Independent Democrat un
der any circumstances. I therefore
rcspectfuly decline the nomination.
I am the same blraightout Democrat
I have always been, and each day
confn ms me more and more in the cor
rectness of my position.
Your obedient servant,
M. W Gary.
A Girl's Fatal Infatuation.
Three weeks ago Anna Chaplin a
daughter of a director of the First Na
tional Bank at Warsaw, Ind., presen
ted a check for $8,000, sighed by her
lather, which was paid. Ho discov
ered it was a forgery and put his
daugeter in jail, refusing to bail her
out. In three days she confessed
that the real forger was G. L. Smith,
a sewing-machine agent. Smith was
also arrested but was admitted to ball.
On Wednesday afternoon Smith cal
led at the jail and was' allowed to
walk with Miss Chaplin in the back
yard. They had not been there long
before four pistol shots were heard,
and when the Jailer's family reached
the yard the dead bodies of Miss
Chaplin and Smith were discovered
lying side by side, the revolver
smoking, still remaining in Smith's
hand. Smith had a wife and two chil
dren, and had been trying to procure
a divorce.
Five Radical Candidates.
The Republican Congressional
Convention of tho Fourth District
was held in Chester on Friday last,
and Absalom Blythe, the Greenville
soalawag, was nominated by acclama
tion. This completes the set. In
the First District, they have nom
inated Sam Lee, the Sumter, the
mulatto; in the Second, E. W. M.
Mackey ; in the Third, the carpet bag
ger Stolbrand ; in the Fourth, Blythe;
in tho Fifth, the negro Smalls.
Therefore, Democrats, be on your
guard. Sec to it that you secure the
Electoral Vole of South Carolina for
Hancock, and allow no Radical mem
ber to creep into Congress from our
State.
There have been misapprehensions
and mistakes concerning the date of
tho election to be held in Colorado,
Most of the politcal manuals for 1880
announce that the State officers and
members of Congress are to be chosen
on October C. Doubt having arose
in regard to the matter, Chairman
! Barnum, of the Democratic National
Committee, telegraphed to Mr. J. F.
j Wclborn, Chairman of the Deinocrat
| ic Slate Central Committee of Colora
do, who responded, "We havo no
election in October. It is November
2." So Georgia will be Urn first
Slate to vote in October, the State
election there taking place on the Gth
of that month.
Senator Rhone accounts for tho vo
snlt in Maine by charging that after
he had got things fixed, by the use of
$100,000, more or less, of campaign
funds, the wicked Democrats slipped
in behind him and bought up six or
seven hundred voles with about 830,
000. What a nice lot Iho average
Maine Republican voters must be if
this chargo is true \
WordtioThjt?Of.
Work ia no dishonor, and nodis
credit to any one. It I? good to have
good wages; but half pay lb better
than nothing and working for nothing
is belter then idleness and vj^o.
There is no true manhood without
independence. He whose individual*
ity 16 swallowed up by fashion, folly*
or society, has lost that which be may
never regain, and without which Ilia
life must be a vain one. He who re*
strains himself from luxury may help
others in necessity. He who helps
others may look to God to help fata.
Difficulties are placed ia aw tkvjp
that we may overcome them and patt
through conflicts to victories, and
from victories to triumphs. Pride
goea before destruction, bat honor
and nobleness and independence of
soul are approved of God, and are
profitable to man.
"Six Shot Bull Dozer."
We notice au advertizmcnt in the
A. li. Presbyterian which rather as
tonishes us: "A six shot bull dozer
only sixty cents. Boye no* hi year
chance to own ? splendid revolver/*
That is the way it reads. Mow we
don't mean to say that the low-price
is astonishing but that the advertise
ment in such a paper published ia
such a moral community, is astonish
ing. We had no Idea that the boys
up there were indulging in each a
dangerous practice at carrying ?'ball
doxers and six shots.*" We remem*
ber very distinctly that we got about
six stripes for borrowing an old -pep
per box and shooting it with pesler
matches, during the war.
A fair proporiioo of the ladies of
America are intelligent, and some of
them evince mach spirit,' hat ia Ike
affairs of fashion they snbmit unccfn
plaingly to a tyranny of the most
heartless character. Those sr&oee
sesae of propriety would induce Utejo
to resist the arrogance of French
manufacturers, dressmakers and sail*
liners, have not the courage to Eefose.
to accept the "latest style*/* If
Paris says a lady mast carry a "tfwef
garden or an aviary upon her bead no*
one will dare to refuse obedience to*
her command.
Old Ben Butler has coma oa t for
Hancock? and the parity of hit mo
tives are qoorftoasjd. It fa wseefted
that he has some aelflstf object in
view. His case Is somewhat similar
to that of the old darkey who was
caught in a stable at midnight oaty*
ing a horse. He raised up hl? hand
land ejaculated: ?Ts* dona S?st my
jbet. I bet Brudder Gardiner die
heah boss was a roan, and now I sees
he is a bay.** All Batiar wants It to
examine the horses.
The - Boston Post, alluding to' the
census returns, adds:' The booth
has been shewn to have prospered
and increased to much faster ander
Democratic rule than Ohio and Wis
consin have ander Republican sale,
that the radicals dsnhnno* the Sos*g?
made by their own appointees' as a
fraud; and desire to.recount and count
out the southern Inhabitants, as they
did southern electors when they stole
the Presidency in 1876.
Tiik New York New* gives the fol
lowing reasons for thinking that Han -
cock will bo eleated President: 44Wa
don't hear of one man who voted for
Tilden that will not voto for Han
cock. We hear of thousands who did
not vote for Tilden that will vote for
Hancock. And Tilden was fairly
elected. It does not take mach of an
arithmetician to come to a conclusion
as to the roBiilt."
A Republican organ says that "it
is onrrenton Wall street that tho
head of a well known metcofitilehotiaa
of New York has subscribed flay
thousand dollars to the Hancock
fund,** and that a very Urge 'ftaftxp
cratlo fund has been raised from'ban
kers. This seems" to indicate that
business and capital are* not vary
much alarmed with the prospect of
Hancock's success,

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