The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-10-29
f0 81 71s4IT.iE 7 E1EE1fl rs At LARGE
REEHs p. RANNEY, of Cuyahoga,
q DemocFats. To Your Postssi

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70 Next Tuesday the great Prssiden.
tiai Contest comes or in so much o.
the toHntry as ci5f permitted iby the
Radical Congress participates ia that
great pstfdggle. aIt is d contest second
fnqiufp5ft&nce to none that has taken
place Since our Union has had an ex.
listence !; It Is 8one ION theI result 1oi
which hangs the fate Of The nation and
the prosperity Of the people! IL The
'qfestiois involved are not as to what
IiaH Of meno SHAH Hold the refnstof
a6ovefnmeHh eHht 1-wKetkear Grant and Col
fax,of Seeyf1oaf and Blair Shall stand
at the head Of the executive depart
inent Of tie Republiea Itifscnot to
decide whether the one has, ,beenaa
great General IN agood sahsey and the
other 4 great statesman and d pure pa
trf6t. esofI .l9Yf3ono3 I9Ys rafniea
These and the aold questions Of
h2Q1. se14s.Si b tsss;;aGss as-s.sssrs s.eaaie
by idw3indle into utter insignifoanee
iii. compafison witha those which
now demand the attention Of, the
American people The people must
now decide whether the policy, prfhd-
lcip1es and measures of the Radical
party, the policy which for the last
three and a half years has lost us the
fruits of a four years bloody war, by
keeping the States estrahged from one
another; and the Unionsdivided the
policy which has burdened the 5eoun-
try with an fneonputable national
debt; the policy (which creates AIDE
pfeciated curfeucy for the iaboring.
wealth producing millions, and pro-
vides fof paying the favored few in
gold; the policy which oppresses the
many With unbearable taxation and
creates privileged order, exempt
fromtaxation, to eIWhomi the oppressed
people are required to pay tribute
the policy which proposes to Continue
this state Of affairs for thirty to forty
years: the policy Of making the intel
Hgent white men the subjects Of ignoS-
rant, semi-barbarous negroes; the pol
icy which, disregards the rights, inter
ests and expressed viii of the people |
of ten States and substitutes its
own, arbitrary viii, and establish
es, 'iifYh in defiance dof the ConstitauI-
ton and the wishes of the people,
military despotislns over them; OF,
whether the doctrine Of the Demo-
cratic parttyy7that the Union is indis-
soluble that the Constitution On is the
bond Of our Union, the measure Of our
authority, and the rule Of our action; l
that the Government in the language
Of the most gifted Of our statesmen,
md the purest of our patriots was
made BY white men, men, f for r White men mneinf
ind should be ruled BY White men; n >
that the States are equal and that che che
lights of the people are Z I equal aal !; that
taxation shall be equal that there
lshan lshl,a be one, currency for tie bond.
iolder and the 'plow- holder, and that
10 nobility, aristocFacyyl cc;ylf or privileged pii
'rder shall be built Up BY law in il this {
air land of ours, These are the a Sqauies- !
ions which the people are called upon u1pptoG
o decide on next Tuesday. There
'ught to be no question or doubt as
9 the result of such a contest. But |
hose who oppose US resort to every every i
rtifiee and employ every means to
ompass, their ends. Fraud, misrep-
esentation, money, base ISLANDERS and (
letraction are resorted to for that pur- /
,ose. Observation-Disclosures, shall these l
e e.! allowed to prevail by reason Of a
our apathy? You know your cause
just; you know il. ought to triumph. !
hen let it not be said that It failed I
ecause Of your neglect to do a
our whole, duty. Go, to work n
oow, and from this time till the l;
Iose I19' e. Of the polls on the Sd. of No a
ember, leave no work undone that t
layy '1.yy serve TO promote the triumph q Of L
raf lat eau cause S which n is the cause Of the
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