"How will the Democracy escape
from the ridiculous situation ro which
they are now held by the absurdity
and absolute illegality of their propos
ed investigation of tbe Electoral vote
of 1S7G, with a view to ousting Hayes
from tbe Presidency ? All tbe great
lawyers of tbe etiwtry on both side of
politics pronounce the propositions in
tbo Potter movement revolutionary.
It is not the way to proceed against a
President who is alleged to bave com
mitted a fraud, fla ought to be im
peached, and then the facts as alleged
brought out, but for a committee of
one Hoe of Congress to proceed as
Potter's conclave it now proeeeding is,
ia tbe judgment of the ablest men of
Congress, revolutionary. How, then,
can the Democracy escape from, tbe
I ridiculous feature of their present
1 course
Mr. Stephens taiks freely about tbe
fraud business. lid ssy be isn't try
ing to start a new party, but to prevent
a smash-cp.
Hurrah f Hurrah ! ! Hurrah f ! ! Tbe
House bas just knocked tbe head off
Fernando Wood's free trade bill by a
vote of 134- to 120. For this the peo
ple may thank the Republican members
of Copgress.
The Franklin county Republicans
have nominated tbe following ticket :
Congress Thad. M- Mabon ; President
Jad?e, Judge Rowe ; Legislature, E.
W Washabaugb, ti. C. Greenawalt and
William Burgess; Prothonotary, R. J.
Boyd ; Register, J. S. Salenberger;
Clerk of the Courts, Van L. Uaulman.
