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The Corydon 3 Demotarr. PUBLISHED BY AMIL W. BREWSTER. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1872. Democratic and Liberal Ticket. OF MISSOURI. Crawford County Delegate to the Louisville Convention—Read, Democrats. We have all along advised our friends that the Blanton-Duncan con vention at Louisville, was gotten up in the interest of Grant, and by the money of the Radicals at Washington City. They have sent out invitations to all Democrats who were reported as being opposed to Greeley. Hows Why under the frank of Morton and other Radical Congressmen. But how do they know who to send them to? Every Democrat in Harrison county who lias spoken against Gree ley has been reported to Washington by the Radical leaders of this county, and Radical epeehhes and documents have been sent to them. Yea, we only documents, but invitations to attend the Louisville convention and offers that their expenses would be paid by Morton Co. This is all done too, at the expense of the people. The convention will be controlled by Radicals and the persons they have bought. Every county will be and will be represented. In most instances in Indiana, they will be represented by Radicals. This is the case in Crawford county. That county is represented by LE. M. Tracewell one of the strong est Republicans in the county. He passed through this place yesterday en route for the convention. Who does E. M. Tracewell represent in that convention ?? Certainly not one demo cra, in Crawford county. He repre sents the Radical party in that county and goes there as hundreds of others will do, in the interest of Morton and Grant. Now is there a Democrat in Clarrison county so blind that he cannot see through this whole move ment. We know that there is not. Sneak ‘hick A certain sneak thief, not very far from this place, has been indulging in such phrases as ‘‘Auditorial Specu lator” and such like, hoping no doubt, to turn the eyes of the public from some of his recent dirty transactions. He is still smarting under our expose of his dirty, mean, dishonest partner ship in the attempt to collect public moneys and put into his own pocket, that ought to be paid into the county treasury, and when caught in it, had the dirty impudence of ‘to white-eyed wharf-rat’? alone, to tell the people and the securities of E. H. Richard to help themselves if they could, mean ing that he was going to get all he could, put it in his pocket, and the pubic might whistle for it. Now what is he whining about? Let us see. In 1871, he having a printing office, printed or had printed by Bra den Buford 6,200 assessor’s blanks for the county, and charged the coun ty, and got the money, the sum of $75. He furnished the money out of his own pocket four the blanks, paid Braden and Buford for them, and wai ted several months for his pay and then took county orders from the county. In consideration of the mo ney being paid down, Braden Bur ford printed blanks for less money than if they waited several months for their pay and then took county orders. There is also a rule among printing houses to furnish printed stationery cheaper to one another, than to indi viduals. In 1872, we furnished 6250 assessors’ blanks, and having a print ing office. We got them printed at the office of Braden Burford, just as the Republican did, and taking advantage of the rule, just as the Republican did, and paying our money for them, and then waiting several months for the county to pay us in county orders, just as the Republican did, we charged the county for them but 868. Here are the two bills, as they appear on record Uarrison County Dr. Yu Geo. W. Self, To 6,200) assessors” blanks... ... #7000 Harrison County Dr. Yo A. W., Brewster, To printing 6,250 assessors’ blanks... $6800 Now will this beautiful little pink of purity tell the people what he ob jects to? Does he want us to put our hands in our pockets and pay for the stationery of the county, build her jails, bridges, c., and then wait until the county can pay us in order to save money for the county? If so, why don’t he say so? He certainly could not ask us to do that. It is certainly not because we furnished them so much lower than he did. It cannot be because we furnished them a few dollars cheaper than any other house would furnish them for. It cannot be because we got them a few collars cheaper from Braden Burford, through the courtesy of printing houses, and on promise that we would not sell them at cost to one county and that we would not underbid their sell ing prices to the county, everybody knowing that we could ot print them at that price ourselves? Certainly not, for he did the very same thing. We charged at the rate of $76, we on ly $68. Now we ask you, little puri ty, if you are honest, will you return to the county treasury the $7, as dif ferrence or profit you made? Now whenever the public hears a fellow shout thief over such a matter as that, they may set that fellow down as the thief himself, and in this particular case they will be very certain to catch a very dirty one. The Political Prospects. Some of the Republicans of Har rison county think it useless to vote tor old, honest Horace Greeley from the fact that they have been assured by the great Ratical rights at Cory don, that Grant will be elected al though, they, the honest yeomanry of the county at heart, desire the election of Greeley. Now then for the benefit of these doubting men, let us look at the situation From the day that the nomination of Greeley and Brown by the Republican Conven tion at Cincinnnati was unanimously and enthusiastically indorsed by the Democratic National Covention at Baltimore there has not been the slighest doubt of their election. The Democratic party alone polls probably within five per cent of as many votes as the Republican, and it only would have required a change of a few thou sand vote in certain leading and impor tant States to have beaten Grant in 1868 when he was generally popular, and to have elected in his place Horatio Seymour. Mr. Seymour re ceived the votes of eight States, hav ing now, under the new apportion ment, eighty-nine electoral votes. A gain of the following number in popu lar votes would have secured these States addition: Pennsylvania... ...........14,000 29 Alabamia oo... 22... eee eee 2,500 qu California. oo... ceee. 200 ub Connecticut... 0... . ceee. 1,00 G Indiana ......55..eee eee. 5,000 15 Tennessee. oo. ee ceee eee eA, 00 12 Missouri. ..... hee hte daha Linley 13,000 Wh Virginia(not allowed to vote) ... . is Texas (not allowed to vote) ... 0. 8 West Virginian. ..... 0.4.2... 4,500 v ewes —_ 1 66,900 ii. The whole vote in the Union in 1868 was 5,750,000. A change of less than 67,000 votes in seven States would the have elected Horatio Sey mour over Grant. This is not one per cent, upon the vote of the Union. Is there anyone who doubts that the Liberal Republican element is not five per cent? We may say here that ‘Tennessee, Missouri, Virginia, West Virginia, ‘Pexas and Alabama, having sixty-one electoral votes, have been redeemed since 1868, and are now ab solutely certain for Horace Greeley by very large majorities. We have there fore to gain only 15,000 in Pennsyl vania, 100 in California, 1,600 in Con necticut and 5,000 in Indiana, Total 21,900—to give Greeley 211 Mars votes out of 3u7. But there are other depects in which the contest may be viewed. Grant received more than one half of the German vote in 1868 throughout the country. He will not now receive one-eighth of that vote. The change among the Germans alone is sufficient to defeat him. We consider that Grant's friends prac tically admit thei defeat as things now stand, by the extraordinary ef~ forts they are making to get up a meeting of persons secretly in their interests at Louisville, who shall pre tend to be Democrats, and shall put a third ticket in the field claiming to be Democratic, in the hope that it will tke votes couugh from Greeley to elect Grant. If their case was not desperate they would not resort to this pitiful expedient, easy to be seen through and well understood by the masses of the people. Of course the Grant organs keep up a great deal of Invise and affect to believe that he is “going to be chosen, but they know better. They know that their man is beaten—beaten by an immense majori ty—but as long as there is life there is hope is their motto, and they desire to make an impression upon ill in formed and unreflecting men on their boasts of what they will do in the Presidential contest! Let no man hesitate about going for Greeley, be cause, unless corruption blinds the eyes of the people, Honest Horace Greeley will be the next President, and old Harrison county will give him an overwhelming majority. Anthony Baker vs. William A. Peters and Samuel J. Wright. Judg ment for $229 80. Samuel Ramsey vs. James Walsh. Dimissed by Ramey. William S. Biggs vs. Sarah Curry. Suit on noe. Dismissed. William Wright vs. Irvin Reagan. Civil action. Dismissed. Ernest Bitner vs. James Welch. Cotinued. David Detrick vs. John Brewer. Suiten note Judgments r Gild 10. Mahala A Emily vs. Isaac Emily. Divorce Dismissed. Mary Byerley vs. Michael Byerley. Divorce. Decree granted and $500 alimony allowed. Henry Burton vs. Joseph D. Ott. Appeal. Continued at Ott’s cost. Samuel Ramsey vas. Lemuel W. Ar nold. Suit on note. Judgment for 87470. Jacob Richard vs. John Herter Petition to be released from bond. Prayer of petition granted. William Reuter vs. John B Elli otte. Foreclosure. Judgment for $109 31. Jonathan Rogers vs. Jease Toler. Foreclosure. Judgment for $46190 Mary Detrick vs. Joan Detrick Civil action. Dismissed each party paying half costs. Simon Haag vs. Samuel Smith. Dismissed. William A. Porter vs. Levi Mauck Judgment for plaintiff. William A. Porter vs. John Glenn Suit on note. Judgment for $467. William A. Porter vs. Ephraim Windell Suit on note. Judgment for $6275. Jacob M Siegva. Henry Zenor and James 8. King. Judgment for $298 66. Edward P. Croxwell vs. David M. Farneley. Judgment for $90. Jesse P. Marsh vs. Thomas Ridley. Suiton note. Judgment for $213 13 Stephen Stevens vs G. B. Sims. Dismissed, Bela C. Kentos. James M. Bean Suiton note. Judgment for $29656 William Blankenbaker vs. Dennis Kepler. Suiton note. Judgment for S12160. Henry Reed vs. Henry Watson. Judgment for $500. The Traitors and True Men. Every Liberal Republican, accord ing to the Radical jeaders in Corydon and the Radical organs and office holders, is in some way a person of bad character, whose departure from the organization is matter for con gratulation, and whose support of Mr. Greeley will be of no service. What a lot of disreputable men, then, the Republican party in the past must have had in its chief places! Thus: Speaker of the House of Represen tatives, XAXVIIth Congress, Gulusha A. Gryw of Pennsylvania, Speaker of the House of Represen tatives,NXITVth Congress, and Chairman “Foreign Relations Com mittee since, Nathaniel P. Banks of Massachusetts, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, United States Senate, for many years, Charles Sumner of Mas sachusetts. Chairman of the Judiciary, United States Senate, for many years, Lyman Trumbull of Mines. Chairman of Committee on Claims, House of Representatives, ex-Gov. Austin Blair of Michigan. Chairman of the Post Office Com mittee, House of Representatives, Gen. John F. Farnsworth of Minors. Chairman of the Committee of Manufactures, United States Senate, ex-Gov. William Sprague of Rhode Island, Member Foreign Relations Com mittee, United States Senate, and since 1860 one of the most successful and valued orators and editors of the Re publican party, Alas Gen. Carl Schurz, Chairman Public Lands Committee, House of Representatives, XXXVIIIth and XXXIXth Congress, George W. Julian of Indiana, father of the Home stead bill, original and life-long Abo litionist, son in law of Joshua K Gid dings, and one of the fathers of the Republican party. Chairman of the Judiciary Com mittee, House of Representatives, XXXVIIth and XXXVIIIth Congress, John Hickman of Pennsylvania, Governor of Illinois, and former Commander of the Fourteenth Army Corps, Gen. John M. Palmer. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, former Gov ernor of Ohio, Senator, and Secretary of the Treasury, Salmon P. Chase. Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, one of the Founders of the Re publican party of the West, David Davis of Inois. Finally, of the five Free-Soil Sena tors who helped organize the Repub lican party, one is for Grant, one is for Grant, one is taking no part in the c contest, and the other three are for Greeley ; of the Republican electors in the State of New York in 1868 over one-half are already declared for Gree ley; of the four surviving members of Abrahan Lincoln’s Coabinet, three ardently support the Liberal cause. ‘The people are asked to believe all these unien traitors to Republicanism of which they have been prophets, and to the Republican party which they founded and led. They are asked to accept instead of these traitors, as the only true men now, and the right ful Republican leaders, Roscoe Oopk ling, Simon Cameron, OV. P. Morton, Zachariah Chandler, and Matthew H. Carpenter.
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