Reconstruction reforms and Southern influence in a national convention
A column argues for reform to prevent corruption in state and municipal legislatures and calls for a reconstruction of representative powers. It discusses limiting payoffs, exposing private interests, and the North–South Democratic alignment to secure a durable platform and electable candidates amid a forthcoming national convention. A concluding anecdote shows a Brooklyn mother and her daughter in a humorous exchange about a suitor.
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Philadelphia
Hero Minalin
Wade Hampton
D. H. Hill
South
Wbalaia
Hay
Nalwohdat
Damocracy
Cockport Academy Exhibition Praises Local Trustees
A Cookport visitor writes of the Cookport Academy closing exercises held at the Baptist church. The article commends Prof Alexander and the school’s 15 performers, notes financial deficits were aided by trustees, and urges Pine Flats and Cherry Tree participants to support sister institutions. It also praises music by Prof Creery and Gardener, and calls for better audience management and earlier openings.
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Borron
Cookport
Cookport Academy
Thursdy
Baptist Church
Alexander
Principas
Cockport Academy
Jiard Times
Pine Flats
Cherrytree College
D. J. Satterfield
Walker
Cockport
Philanthrophists
Lnns
Indiana County
Solags
Viasa
A.M. Creery
Gardner
Pine Flats Academy
Cherrytres
Democratic Contrasts in Pennsylvania 1869 and 1871
The piece contrasts 1869 Harrisburg convention actions backing Asa Packer and anti negro suffrage rhetoric with 1871 Democratic shifts hoping to win black voters. It cites Richard Vaux and a Heathsburg 1869 platform opposing negro voting, argues the party remains white-supremacist, and predicts Republican gains and voter abstention. It ends noting a Fort Wayne patent for a new gallows, as the era’s sensational note.
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Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Asa Packer
Tha
Olls
United States
Heathsburg
Democratic Party of
Spon
Congress
Richard Vaux
Eny
Philadelphia
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