Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-19
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'a' The result of the Maine election has, in
it, effects on the West, been contrary to
Radical expectations. They vainly sup
p ,sed that if they could increase their ma
s'jority over last year, they would overawe
the West into voting for GRANT and COL
!, FAX. The Republicans say that the reason
that their vote was not all out last year,
was because the Legislature Of their State
had passed an unpopular Liquor and Con-
stabulary law. Will not laws that
are Objectionable and oppressive to
the West, cause the Western peo-
pie to vote and manifest their dis
appreciation, just as the Republicans of
Maine last year testified their disapproba-
tion of their Liquor and Constabulary
law? g - = ~.-@
OF the Republicans of Maine, every
fourth voter is Bondholder. He wants the
principal of these Bonds paid in Gold he is
opposed to their paym according to con-
tract-in Greenbacks; he is opposed to the
toiling millions of the West to toll and
stint and drudge, that he may draw big
interest aud take life easy.
In the West this is looked upon as un-
popular. Its wrong and iDj ustice are felt.
The mass of the people, without regard to
party, are realizing that the Republican
politicians are selling the West out to the
q NJ, u r.Ia Do lho16 nd Mo
turers. They bear no ill-win to the East
ern Bondholders and Manufacturers but
they are finding out that they owe duty
to themselves and their families, and that
that duty forbids their voting for GRANT,
who was put In nomination at the instance
of A. T. STEWART, of New York, who is
one of the largest Bondholders in the
limited States. i lstfa .srslsEa7a
- This is evident from the four monster
Democratic meetings held In the West on
the 18th. The meeting held that day at
Springfield, Illinois, which was addressed
by Hon. GEORGE 81. PENDLETON, is said to
have numbered thirty-fve thousand and to
have overfowed with enthusiasm. The
meeting at Wheeling, West Virginia, at
which Judge THURMAN and other distin-
guished gentlemen spoke, is represented to
have numbered thirty thousand1 and was
the greatest political demonstration ever
held in that portion of the country. On the
same day Hon. c. L. L.VALLANDIGHAM had
meetiug 2 of fifteen thousand at Jackson y.
H., in this State, where the widest enthu-
siasmpreyailed, and at Hamilton, O., on the
night of that day, there was the greatest
night meeting ever held in that place. A
special to the Cincinnati Commercial says
that the Democrats claim that the meeting
numbered ten thousand but that he thinks
that five thousand is nearer the number;
that the people after the speaking was
over became perfectly wild, and shouted
for SEYMOUR, BLAIR and sVALLANDIGHAM
with an enthusiasm that beggars descrip-
ton. THOMAS o. LOWE, the son of Colonel
LOWE. of the Union army, who lost his lite
invest Virginia, and General CUMMINGS,
formerly of CRITTENDEN's corps, were the
speakers, who set their hearers wild with
enthusiasm. 80 49,
r These monster meetings in the West on
the same day, and after the Maine election,
show that the people Of the West are de-
termined to look after their own interests,
and not to entrust t:.em to the Bondhold-
ers and Manufacturers of the East who
seek to grind them down into u condition
of abject servitude. As these parties in
New England refuse to be generous to the
West inasmuch as, SHYLocK like, they will
will not listen to reason, but insist upon
pound of flesh, to be cut from nearest the
heart although it is not nominated in the
Bond, they will vote into office men who
will be true to Western interests, and who
are not purchasable by the money of the
Bondholder and the Manufacturer. -ih
Since the Maine election, the West has
raised higher and carries with firmer
grasp the Banner of Greenbacks and Bond
Taxation, of E E,onomy and Reform.
Gov. HAYES, in his Cincinnati speech at
Al. n-I< ,;r,. f;r do io inf.