Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-07-27
How to Make Republican votes.

NOW 10 wake republican Votes.
How to make Republican votes, is mat
ter of concern with some Republican jour-
nails. AS the campaign progresses they
will find it of more concern yet. The San
dasky Register has INDUCED in discourse
upon it. 1t has come to the conclusion
that they are to be made through an exten-
sive circulation of Republican papers
There is consciousness on the part of Re-
publican editors that something must be
done in the way of making voters for the
Republican party, or that party will realize
an overwhelming defeat in October and in
November. Pitiable, indeed, is the condi-
tion to which the party has been reduced,
when we take into consideration the mag
nificent majorities by which the. elected
their Presidential candidate in 1S64-four
years ago only. r,..f. IL anvil SER. i
Then the Democrats were SO crushingly
defeated that scarcely hope was enter
tanned by many that theparty would again
arise in sufficient strength to contest fOI
supremacy with the Republican party
Look at the towering majorities that were
given to the Republican Presidential can
didate in that year. California gave him
Is 29S; Connecticut gave him 2406; Illinoi;
gave him 80, 766; Indiana gave him 20,1s9
Iowa gave him 39,479; Kansas gave him
l2,75O; Maine. gave him 2l,122; Maryland
gave him 7,4l4; Massachusetts gave him
n, 997; Michigan gave him 16,9l7; Mime
sofa gave him 1855; Missouri gave him
4l,072; Nevada gave him 8, ,232; New Hamp-
shire gave him 3,529; New York gave him
6,749; Ohio gave him 59,5s6 Oregon gave
him 1s431; Pennsylvania gave him 20,075
Vermont gave him 29,09s; West Virgins
gave him 127l4; Wisconsin gave him IL.
574; while the Democratic candidate haC
majorities in only three States: 612 in Del.
aware, Sc, 5l5 in Kentucky and z 1901 in New
Jersey. nfaiidgqe e-4 g sYfh hs1
z So triumphant four years ago and yei
to-day so distrustful as to success! 1, I
How comes it? Why this drumming fol-
recruits-this attempted devising of ways
and means to secure Republican success?
For this there would be no necessity, had
the Republican party, through its leader;
in Congress, and in official positions, beer
true to the Constitution, and in all things
mindful of the fact that they were
simply the stewards, and not the masters
of the people. j SO c9 -a2' p .... -.
Could their friends truthfully say fol
them, that they had not perverted the OBJ.
jects of the war that they had not viola
ted the Constitution for the purpose of pro-
noting what they believed their partisan
ch fhof hnnocfy
bndstri economy had characterized every
department of Government; could they
convince the people that they were in IA
vor of equal taxation, and of one currency
alike for all the people; they would moi
have cause to fear that the people will vote
them out Of power. ..,v ia r..
1t is because 10 all these things the lead
ers of the Republican party have been false
and faithless, that the party is doomed to
defeat. Connecticut, California, New
York, Oregon and Pennsylvania have al
ready enrolled themselves on the Demo-
cratic side, and enough additional States
will do so between now and November to
make Democratic success certain.
The widespread circulation of Republi-
can papers, as the Sandusky Register sug-
gests, will not avail the Republican party
Their persistent declarations that the
Bondholder must be paid in coin, while
other people must content themselves with
deprecated currency, and their: swearing
and scofing at the idea that this is a white
mans Government, and should be admin
istered by white men for the benefit OF
white men, will do them infinitely more
harm than good. o.. = ,-t9c.tr Er-5 si7