The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1844-10-25
ADDRESS,.
TO THE DEMOCRACY OF OHIO.

last Tuesdays contest invites you to renewed ex-
both by the history of times past and by the lessons
ofthe present day, we know to be identified with
the prosperity and the glory of the Republic.
In 1910, we were overwhelmed in Ohio by pop
nlar majority against of more than twenty three
thousand, out of two hundred and seyenty-two
thousand votes.
Over three hundred thousand votes have been
cast at our late election, and we have against US
only the nieagre plurality Of probably One thOus-
and!
Before the election, our opponents vanntingly
assured their confederates, throughout the Union,
that they would have from fifteen to twenty thous-
and majority. 1t is in vain that they now endeav-
or to conceal their disappointment at the result or
to deny their fears of the future. However loudly
they may boast of their victory, they know full
well that it has left them upon the very brink of
defeat.
In the strife for Bdrtiey, and for a Wing Legis-
lature in this State they were struggling for State
spoils, and for the plunder which they hope to de-
rive from State Legislation
Not by their own strength, but by unwiSe divi-
sons among our friends, they have Won those spoiIs
and they will control that Legislation. However
much we may deprecate those divisions, original
ing merely in local difficulties, which have given
to the Wings the ascendancy in our State councils
still we do not complain; and we are prepared to
wait with patient confidence the hour in which
their accustomed abuse of power shall bring upon
them the just rebuke of free people.
In the battle which occurs on the 1st of Novem-
ber, we meet our opponents upon national issues
alone, and have to decide whether Henry Clay Or
JAMS K. Polk shall receive ohio's vote for the
Presidency.
The yeomanry of Ohio have no interest in Henry
Cloy's schemes Of unequal and oppressive taxa
ton;they have no interest In helping him to rivet
upon themselves the chains of Eastern niotoposts;
they have no interest in his Fifty Million Bank
project, for they know, by their experience of the
last United States Bank, how false it is that Ma.
tional Bank can contribute to their prosperity
and they have also, hearts too purely American to
cherish any attachment to the man who bids them
follow the examples Of that British government
which their fathers wisely repudiated. It is not
the people, but it is the selfish Wing politicians,
of Ohio, who ask that her vote shall be given to
Henry Clay
Since the nomination Of JAMES X. POLK,
Twelve States, besides Ohio have held elections,
the results Of which are now known. In only
Five of them have majorities of the popular vote
been cast for the Wings. These Five are KEN
TucKY, NORTH CAROLINA, VERMONT, Ma
nYLAND and New JERSEY, which give but 4s
Electoral votes. In the contest of lS4D, they gave
an aggregate Wing majority of above 60 900: now
they have given only 10000 Whig majority, and
that too, in the fullest vote they ever cast. Three
of them, namely, NORTH CAROLINA, MARY
LAND and New JERSEY, give tfiajorines amount
ing, in all, to less than 5000, and are therefore
still doubtful in the Presidential contest.
LOUISIANA, INDIANA and MAINE, which in
1910 gave an aggregate Wing majority of about
10000, have now been nobly redeemed, and give
a Democratic majority Of $4,000.
| ALABAMA, ILLINOIS and MISSOURI proudly
maintain their former positions, with an aggregate
Democratic majority of 100000
| PENNSYLVANIA, too, has spoken, and that in
manner worthy the State which has been aptly
called "the Keystone of the Arch" She voted
for Harrison in 1910, but now, in spite of despair
ing Whiggery and Native Amercanlsm combined,
she announces to US Democratic majority of
| 5000, which assures her 26 Electoral votes for
POLK and DALLAS, with absolute certainty.
These signs are not to be mistaken, and the late
result in OHIO does but add to their force.
Every where, in the East and In the West, in
the North and in the South, the current of popular
opinion has been precisely the same. Future re-
suits are made known to US by the past That
VIRGINIA will stand where she stood in 1910, and
that New York will follow the examples of
MAINE and PENNSYLVANIA, can no longer ad-
mt of shadow Of doubt.
Hhat shall be done by the Empire State Of the
Wesa This is now the question for her embod-
ed Democracy to answer. If they will do their
whole duty. they will find il an easy task to give
the vote of the State to JAMES X. POLK.
If, on the first day of November, each county in
the State will exhibit, as compared with the late
result, democratic gain of 10 votes, it will be
enough.
If each township in the State will exhibit Dem
ocratic gain OF but ONE vote, it will be enough.
Are there not many counties that can give us
gain of hundreds'
Are there not many townships which can give
us gain often, Of tsoeaty, or even Of fifty votes
We know that some, among our political oppo-
nents entertain the foolish fancy that their nation
al ticket is stronger than their State tickets This
they have pretended in Kentucky, in Maryland, in
North Carolina, in Indiana, In Maine, and in Penn
sylvania, and this they now pretend in Ohio But
they are strangely and greatly mistaken. They are
not only blind to the signs Of the times, but they
forget the records of the past.
Mfr. Clay has always besn weight upon his
party.
He was the lowest OF four candidates ia 1924.
His cause was identified with the Adams adj |