The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1866-10-25
address Of the Democratic
State Committee.
DEMOCRATIC STATE COMMITTEE !
Rooms Phila., Oct. II, 1866. 7

Rooms Phila., Oct. II, 1866,
To Me Democracy Of Pennsylvania:
In the poll of more than six hundred
aud ten thousand votes, you are beaten
less than three per cent. on the whole.
a change Of one ard half per cent.
would have given you the State. You
have reduced the majority of your op-
pononts, and polled nearly twenty thou
sand more votes than ever before Up.
on the aggregate of the Congressional
vote, still greater force is shown.
In this contest you have proven your
devotion to principle, have demonstra-
ted the strength of your organization,
and yield to your enemy a dearly bought
victory.
You are "defeated, but not dismay-
ed" Buoyancy and hope everywhere
pcrvade your ranks, whilst chagrin and
dsmay mark the visages of your oppo.
neutS.
They judge you rightly; for, in the
light of this exhibition of your stern
devotion to the doctrines of the Consti-
tuition, to the perpetuity of your Union,
and to the supremacy of your race, they
read their coming defeat.
For the first time since the final dis
bandment Of our armies, you have met
the forces Of the Republican orgauiza.
tion. They fought for the lite Of their
party; they concentrated against you
the influence of almost every manufac-
turer, corporation and bank; they had
at their command large preponder-
ance Of the public press Of the State,
speakers without number, al! the money
that a dynasty of contractors-to whom
the publ, treasury has been a mine Of
wealth could furnish memories of the
war still fresh enough to be the means
of exciting hatred laws enacted with
view to the their own political ascen-
dancy a well-dicip,ined organization,
a nd all the advantages that the posses
sion of municipal and State power
could bring them; and yet, unaided
and sell,dependent, you have combated
this powerful combination, and almost
carried the State.
All honor and praise to the Demo
cracy of the keystone, for this most
gallant fight.
a band of men, who, in 1868, can
poll for their candidate 254.000 votes !;
in 1864, $4,000 votes, and in 1866,
295,000 votes; who plant themselves
upon principles that are eternal who
,cW not despair of the Republic, and
who possess tie physical power and the
moral courage to maintain their opin-
ions and preserve their liberties, must
eventually be the ruling power in the
State.
Implicit belief in the justice and
truth Of the great doctrines that lie at
the base of our form of government,
aversion to its Capitalization, and con.
fdcuce in the efficiency Of the Cousti
tuition for the preservation of your hber,
ties, have ever distinguished you
These are the magnets around which
you have gathered in many hard
fought contest, and to them you will
be true as the needle of the pole.
Opinions Of individuals may change
but, in the future as in the past, come
victory or defeat, as party you will
ever be found rallying to these princi-
pies as the leading tencts of your po.
litical faith.
Hope, confidence and courage should
be gathered from the remembrance
that twothirds of the white Ereemeu
Of the Republic think as you do upon
these subjects, and that, on every field
on which they are staked, your united
action will overcome all opposing for,
ces.
We ask sou to pcrscvere in the work
so auspiciously begun. From this hour
let us determine to go forward. Let
us have done with spasmodic efforts
and move onward with uuAaggiug Gu
ergy.
The thorough and cffectual dissent
nation OF truth, is the proper mems t,
your eventual triumph and organiza
tion, discipline, systematic effort and
individual exertion, are the avenue,
that lead to victory. Will you rursu,
them? United, disc plined and deter
mined, you will be irresistible.
; Ey ordcr of the Democratic Stat
Committee.
WILLIAM y. WALLACE,