Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-05-11
The People demand RefOrm-HOn.
George N. PendleIOn.

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Dental nomination. The Patriot and Union,
In calling attention to this communication,
takes occasion to say:
80 far as we have observed, the Dem
ocracY of the Western States have become
strikingly unanimous upon the Pendleton
theory of paying the five-twenty Govern
ment bonds in currency-the same money
which is paid as bounties and pensions to
soldiers and soldiers widows and orphans;
as wages to workingmen and to farmers
and manufacturers for all that they pro-
duce. The natural sequence to this unan-
unity is the selection of the author or chief
promulgator of the measure-Hon. George
II. PendletOn-as their choice of candi-
dates for the Presidency. We may say,
further, that tEis theory or projec'
party in the Western States and
includes among its advocates
large number of the Radical men,
bersbip. The Radical State Convention Of
Indiana lately took the Pendleton ground.
precisely, in its resolutions. 1t is not
probable nor even possible, however, for
the Crosby Opera House National Conven-
ton at Chicago to take this position, hence
all the Radicals of the Western States will
be either sent adrift upon the bond and
currency question, or bound down to poll
cy diametrically opposite-i.e. to payment
of the bonds in gold. These facts make it
evident that the great question in the Great
West is that of the Currency, and the fact
cannot be disguised that upon it will hinge.
to an extraordinary degre e, the fate OF the
Presidential candidates"
The writer of the communication to
which attention is called says, with exact
truthfulness:
"The people demand reform; that string
ent economy shall take the place of eX-
travagance; the enormous expenses of our
State and general governments be reduced,
and our mountain load of public debt be
discharged at the earliest possible period.
These are some of the points that will be
discussed in the press and on the rostrum
in the coming canvas, and on the decision
of which so much depends. "Justtce or
REPUTATION" is already the political war
cry of thousands ofmen of all parties, who
are borne down by onerOus, crushing tax
alton; they demand instant and immediate
relief. There is but one way to avoid this
terrible issue which will destroy not only
the Democratic, but all other parties; if
parties claiming to be conservative and to
act with the Democracy are wise, they will
accept the views and principles advanced
by Hon. GEORGE ii. PENDLETON,
the Presidency. Since the days of Gener-
al Andrew Jackson, there has been no
such uprising of the VOTING masses in ia
vOr of any man as is now manifested in ia
vor of Mr.. Pendleton. He is, beyond all
question, the choice of vast majority of
all the Democratic voters of the land; it
would be ignorance and stupidity for any
one to attempt to ignore the ability and
craftsmanship of this distinguished gen.
tleman. He is to-day the ablest liv-
ing statesman in the Union, while he is the
advocate of the Democratic principles of
the immortal Jefferson, man loved by the
people, who is true, tried and trusted. Pen
dleton's nomination is the signal for victory
and triumph-the re-establishment of DEM
ocratic institutions-the payment of oul
great public debt within period of ten to
thirteen years, the preservation of the ma
tional credit and honor, our release from
the heavy taxation forced on us by Radical
ism and its adherents, and freedom from the
dangers of centraliZatiOn, negro equality,
despotism and monarchy. 1t is believed by
well posted politicians that Mr.. Pendleton
can carry every Western State, and, if NOM
mated, he certainly will carry Ohio, Indi-
ana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Nevada,
California and Oregon, and it is believed by
many that he can carry even Iowa, Min
nesota and Michigan, on the greenback issue.
Now this CANNOT be done with other aspir-
ants, who are all known to be in the bond
holding ring. Neither of these States at this
their uotes the Democracy eotH be HoPELEssLY
DEFEATED"
The people do demand reform, and they
have it in their power to enforce it. For
seven years they have tried the Republican
party. Contrary to their wishes the lead
ers of that party, to ''save the Republican
party from rupture" allowed the country to
be precipitated into War, and thencefor-
ward until its close, they bungled and pro-
crastinated the War to subserve the inter-
ests of the Repu blican leaders. While
these men have realized handsomely, the
great mass of the people have been affiict-
ed with intense hardship. The scoundrels
through whom the War was inflicted upon
the country, for the most part escaped ex-
posure to its hardships, its privations, its
and killing. The poor men-the
mass of the people-had to bear the brunt
of War, caused by set of Goddess and
Christless politicians. Faith was broken
with the poor men who were seduced
into doing the fighting. And every
man who is looking for political place,
who was a party to the infliction
"a oAS vol pun buO ICCOuutSy dS u !
thing to be proud of, what he did towards |
poor men into the war, and |
seems to think it meritorious that he did |
help to pervert the war. Every violation |
Of the Constitution-every argument in ia |
voc of abolition-during the war, was an
outrageous crime, because it gave to JEFF.
DAVIS the means with which to silence the |
voice in favor of the Union in the South,
and to compact the sentiment in favor of
the war, and thus was he enabled to pro-
long and embitter it. When the war broke
put, by Republican authority alone, it is
susceptible of proof that the Union feeling
among the whites was predominant, but
The Secessionists were in power, they hav-
ing secured control of the respective
State Governments when that question was
not in issue. The Federal administration
20 managed the war, and the elections. as
70 render the Union feeling Insignificant
and powerless in the South. ALEXANDER
H. STEPHENS testifies that had McCLEL-
Lam been elected President in 1864, the war
would have speedily terminated, not
BY separation, but on the basis
If the maintenance of the Union that his
triumph would have given such invigora-
ion to the Union feeling as to have depos-
I'd JEFF. DAVIS and those in power with
him; that JEFF. DAVIS was specially solic-
tous that LINCOLN and not MCCLELLAN
should be elected in 1864. LINCOLN was
JEFF. DAVIS candidate in 1864. Even were
this not so, will any man, in his sober senses
pretend, that by any conceivable circum-
stance the country would to-day be in
worse condition, had MCCLELLAN been
elected President in 1864. Early in 1865,
all the Confederate armies capitulated, and |