Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-10-08
why Can't You Vote the Demo

of the Government are not,
and have not for some time been, as they
should be.
You must be satisfied, if you have
watched matters with becoming interest,
that there has been unjustiiable wasteful-
ness and proaigacy In the administration of
the Government. A large portion of the
Republican press, at almost every stage of
the proceedings OF Congress, have de-
nounced their leading partisan measures as
outrageously wrong-so wrong that they
could not be defended
Certainly you can not be a truer patriot
than Hon. THOMAS EWING, Sr. He is
man of vigorous mind-has always been
one of the foremost men, intellectually and
as a lawyer, in the United States. Hither-
to, he always opposed the Democratic
party. He has no ambition to serve. At
most his days on earth are few. Thought
fully has he looked over the situation OF
political affairs. When the country was
in need of men and money for the War, he
went out among the people and eloquently
plead with them to furnish men and money,
and they did. so. Now, he calls upon them
to vote the Democratic Ticket-a thing
which he for the first time in long life
time proposes to do. To his mind, it is
clear that the future safety and perpetuity
of our Republican institutions and the pros
perity of the country depends upon the sue
cess of the Democratic party. Were it not
thus clear, he would not call upon the
no. fo 20 g.
he can forget his lifelong prejudices
against the Democratic party, surely you
can and ought to do so. 11ie-
Hon. HENRY STANBERY, one of the first
lawyers in the United States, who in the
days of the Whig party was prominent
Whig, then a Republican and an infexible
advocate of the War, throws to one side his
prejudiees against the Democratic party
and not only proposes to vote the Demo-
cratic Ticket, but he earnestly calls upon
the people to do likewise, being convinced
that the only hope for tie future of this
country is in the success of the Democratic
party this fall. -<5- 80 ~ pa. ..s-..
Be man, too, discard your prejudices,
and array yourself on the Democratic side
this election. a SIS % 5i'fl ? t,' ji
Judge BRIaGs, of Fayette county, man
in the prime of life, with clear and vigor-
Gus intellect, always hitherto acted in op-
position to the Democratic party. Through
no pique, to subserve no ambitious aspira-
ton, has he left the Republican party. Be-
lievIng that the policy and the legislation OF
the Republican party In Congress is calcu-
lated to work untold injury to the interests
of the country, he has taken the stump and
calls upon the people to rally with him un-
der the banner of the Democratic party, to
the end that the Union shall be indissolu-
bly, cemented, the Constitution maintained,
corruption driven out of high places and
the. Taxes of the people reduced. 81
Judge BACKUs was the Republican cam
didate for Supreme Judge in Ohio in 1862.
He, too, has been all along strong oppo-
nent of the Democratic party. He shrunk
from the idea of being called a Democrat.
The very name was distasteful to him.
Now, he holds it to be his. duty and the
duty of every man who loves his country,
to sink all prejudice andi vote the Demo-
cratic Ticket. From the stump he appeals
earnestly to the people to do so. - '.''
Why should you hesitate, when he throws
to one side, as beneath the dignity of true
manhood to be longer worn, his prejudices
against the Democratic party +? ~ ....l s.
General A. SANDERS PIATT, man who
went into the War at its beginning and
and bravely served to its close
a gentleman who has always been Re-
on the stump, calling upon the
people to do as ne called upon them to do
when the War broke QUITO rally to save
the Constitution and the Union, and to drive
corruption out of power. The way to do
this now, he holds, is to vote the Demo-
cratic Ticket.a a--sie"i $S-J s.if -an p.
Surely, if he considers this the. duty of
Patriots, you ought not to hesitate about
voting the Democratic Ticket. .....5 =.
Hon. T.sJ. MAGINNIs, of Zauesville, for
merly Republican State Senator from Mus
kingum, recently went down into the South
and saw for himself the operations of the
Reconstruction policy. 1t
satisfied him that it was pernicious-ut-
terly and indefensibly outrageous. The
scales of Radicalism fell from his eyes, and
he is now on the stump calling on the peo-
pie to rally to the support of the Demo-
cratic party, as the only means for the po-
litical salvation of the country. He had
prejudices to overcome. AS man he has
overcome them. ~ -e-
Why can not you do as he has done,
and vote the Democratic Ticket? a
Judge PATRICK, of Urbana, man who
was a soldier in the War of 1912. always
bitterly opposed to the Democratic party.
and one of the best citizens of Urbana,
has Just written letter, calling upon the
people to vote for the Democratic Ticket.
He gives it as his opinion. that if General
GRANT shall be elected, it will be the last
Presidential election that will take place
in this country Prejudiees as strong as
any man can possibly entertain against
the Democratic party, he has overcome, !,
and will now for the first time vote the
Democratic Ticket. .t M. +.
Why can not you, too, overcome your
prejudices and vote the Democratic Ticket?
Among the leading Union Generals who
did great service in the late War between
the North and the South, the following are
some who will vote the Democratic Ticket:
Geo. B. Mcclellan, Don Carlos Buell., w.
S. Rosecrans, Henry w. Slocum, VIM. B.
Franklin, w. S. Hancock, Tom Ewing, Jr.,
James B. Steedman, L. 81. Rousseau, Ger
shom Mott, J. R. McClernand. G. w. Gus
ter, Geo. W. Morgan, Robert c. Buchanan.
If these patriotic Generals conceive that
their duty to the Constitution and the
Union demands that they should vote the
Democratic Ticket, a... s.. e.
Why will you allow miserable prejudice
or nd hot and fl,o