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Newspaper
Democratic Enquirer
Location
Mcarthur, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1870
Page
1
The issue highlights the Fort Campaign with calls for voter information and subscription offers for the Enquirer, arguing for democratic ascendancy and labor rights. It criticizes John T. Wilson and endorses Leete Hides, condemning tariff and bondholder policies. It also lists local names and committees involved in organizing the campaign.
A contemporaneous appeal condemns waste in tax collection and urges radical reform. It warns that revenues fund office holders rather than public benefit and pressures laborers and farmers to vote for Leete to reduce levies.
A partisan appeal argues Republicans find John T. Wilson unworthy after defying party wishes and being deemed unacceptable for a third term. It claims radicals and officials approve of Wilson, urging voters to back Leete instead.
A political attack claims Ohio residents pay heavy internal revenue and tariff taxes benefiting New England monopolists. It accuses Congressman John I. Wilson of enriching himself while aiding the poor, urging voters to elect Ralph Leete and accusing Wilson of neglecting poor families and supporting detrimental policies. The piece frames race as a divisive factor in voting.
Under the last Democratic Legislature state tax was thirty five cents per hundred. The Radical Legislature raised it to forty cents per hundred, increasing five hundred thousand dollars in total. This claims economy and retrenchment. Vote Leete and the full Democratic ticket without scratch for a sane remedy. Ayot's Aguo Cure never Vollée.
Sixty Cents. Don Pratt warns Democrats will carry Ohio by 40000 in the fall. The Radical party wanes under bankers and officers while Honest men leave. Ralph Leete is nominated for Congress by Democrats in Ohio aiming to defeat John T. Wilson. A Dollar or Two urges timely payments for subscriptions and ads, with Cyanus W. Anams to collect.
An office advertises a complete assortment of blanks for sale including printed Justices Dockets and blank books. It mentions availability for Attornoya, Justices of the Peace, Constables and others.
A garbled 19th century ad promotes Hovelty and Oroide Gold Fountain Pens with claims of high daily returns and circulars from Tawny Gimson & Co New York Box 8901. The text references prices commissions and various pen models including Stages like Patent Corn musker and Latter Opener.
Notice by Joan P. Kiveran of Hamden Vinton County Ohio that his entire furniture stock has been sold to Tnaac B. Kiveran of Washington County Ohio, shop to continue with a complete stock of furniture and coffins. includes an advertisement for Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Reviver promising hair restoration.
A Prohibition Party platform outlines the party's aims for personal security and private property, denounces intoxicating liquor trade, and calls for national prohibition. J N Honn of Adams resigns as Central Committee chair, criticizing tariffs, railroads, banks, Chinese labor, and political rings, urging reform and revenue-focused policy.
The Ohio Prohibition Party’s Executive Committee announces its state ticket with chairman 4 T. Stewart and listed nominees spanning Summit, Muskingum, and Geauga counties. Details appear in the party slate from Cleveland to Zanes.
A partial OCR list shows numerous names and places linked to the National Prohibition Party central committee. Mentions include Joe Museell Chateman Detroit and Hon. James Wark Lancaster Pennsylvania with other scattered city and state references across Indiana Illinois California Maine and Washington DC.
A radical faction in Adams County led by J. N. Prook and Barnett Hook announces withdrawal from the party amid accusations of corruption and “hooking” of public lands. Noor defends leaving the party while questioning its integrity and urging others to renounce the “thieving” ring. The piece then mocks the party’s alleged internal rooks and hooks across Adams and Vinton counties.
A damaged excerpt discusses impurity of the blood as a cause of many pains, touting Wayne's Dimretic Elixir to restore kidney function and health. It also mentions Nature's Hair Restorative, and asks readers to send names and ages of county’s oldest settlers. A note on stock hog prices appears, listing 10 and 12 cents per pound.
The article describes workingmen leaving the Radical party for the Democracy in protest of high tariffs and labor policies. In the 17th district they reject J. A. Rimbler, nominating Col. B. E. Ball of Canton who pledges re construction, equal taxation, protection to labor, free trade with revenue, and active pursuit of reform and punishment for corruption.
This ad claims chronic indigestion can be cured and nerves renewed. It touts Hoofland's German Bittere and Hoofland's German Tonic as the required remedies, asserting the tonic contains Santa Cruz Rum and that both products are guaranteed to help. Sold by all druggists.
Arrivy, the meeting at Hamden set for Thursday Oct 6. Porta mouth population 10553 with 9010 white 945 colored 1984 foreigners. Ohio counties with no fair orgs include Ashland Pike Jefferson Scioto Vinton. Forest, Ohio reports rising thefts prompting talks of a vigilance committee. Springfield notes young lady pall bearers in pure white and claim to be filling. The N Y Tribune cites that Democratic members in the last Congress voted against any tax or expenditure increase.
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