The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-10-17

Chairman Democratic State Com.
A. K. MCCLURE,
Chairman Lib. Rep State Com.
Address OF the Liberal State Com.
Dittee. .7'
The following is the address to the
Liberal Republicans of the State OF New
York
"HsADQRs New YORK
LIB REP STATE COMMITTEE,
ST. NICHOLAS HOTEL, October IA.
"The results % the October elections
have not fulfilled our just exuect atoms,
though Indiana is tied, with Liberal
Governor and Superintendent OF Edu-
cation chosen by a. decided majority.
While Ohio has 40 far reduced the ad
verse majority that our brethren in that
State confidently hope to be successful
at the coming election; while Georgia
declared for us by majority which ln-
sures the choice of Greeley and Brown
Electors in nearly every Southern State,
yet the enormous majority counted
against us in Pennsylvania has given
our adversaries assurance that by like
lavish disbursement and fraudulent
practices the may carry almost
any State they choose. includ-
ing even New York. There Is
no intelligent citizen OF whatever
party who does not realize that. the
thirty-five thousand majority scored up
in that State for Hartranit over Bucka.
lew represents, not the convictions
Of the voters, but the vast sums
whereby those convictions have been
overborne; and that this majority could
have just as easily been given to either
OF the two undoubted, gigantic specu--
lators who were pardoned out OF felons
cells, where they had spent but few
months, in order that their testimony
might smooth the way to Hartranfts
election. A contest is now forced upon
us between money and manhood. All
the expenditures o. all parties in former
Presidential elections do not equal In
their aggregate the vast sums with
which every contested State Is sulced,
in order to make them seem to desire
and contest to the retention OF the pres
ept rule at Washington. Not only are
office holders, land grant Jobbers, sub
siiv mongers and Government contrac.
tors of ali kinds assessed and reassessed
to promote the reelection Of General
Grant, but we are well assured that
European bondholders and fund mong-
era who never saw this country,
whose rights lare never questioned,
whose interests are never assailed, have
been induced to subscribe and contrib
ute bounteously to the same end: we
cannot raise dimes to meet the dollars
thus poured out against us. No Credit
Mobilier has dextrously transferred
millions to our pockets and fastened a
corresp pouding debt upon the industry
and property OF the toiling masses NO
Secretary of the Treasury stands ready
to help us fill our pockets or our cam
paign chest by stock gambling, In Which
he loads the dice 30 as to make 1t Ger
tain he shall win. In short we have
but the few dollars offered us by those
who have honestly earned them, ana
we must make thereuith the best tisht
We can. while the veusl, the sordld, the
rapacious, eagerly supply their tens OF
thousands to our antagonists, confident
Iv expecting their return with large
usury through legislation and Jobbery'
whereby the few are enriched at the
cost of the many. =.
"Ot course, these are all shouting
in chorus that We are already beaten
but we are not-not beaten. There are
twenty States. casting nearly two nun,
dred electoral votes, that we can stlii
carry If we only will.
awe are in danger Of defeat manly
because some faint hearts are dlscour
aged. A large majority of the Amer'-
can people realize that we stand on the
right platform, and they, at least, desire
onr success. They desire, as We do, q
nerfect national reconciliation, on the
basis of universal amnesty aud impair.
tisl liberty. They desire also national
purification and a genuine civil service
reform. whereby the freedom OF election
sball be shielded and protected from
the enormous corrupting patronage OF
the Federal EXECUTIVE. If We shall oe
overborne ia this election, it will oe
generally conceded within year thai
the reforms for which we struggled were
senuine and necessary. In every con
test between money and manhood the
latter is certain OF ultimate if not In
slant success.
Our country has too much at stake on DO
the issue OF this contest Resolve with
us, this day, that BY your s;eai heart, rs
and strong arms the Liberal cause and
candidates shall be resistlessly borne
onward to q decisive. benshcent 'fi'
umph. ,,.,,;,s,
State Committee, "a >, I,
.1ouu CocuR ANE Chairman.