The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-11-02

the distinguished gentlemen over whose
signatures it appears. We commend it
to the attention OF Democrats in West
Virginia:
Brother Democrats Of Ohiot The
returns Of the October election chow
that the Democrats might have carried
the State; but that they staid away
from the polls in numbers sufficient to
leave to our opponents the victory.
The Radical majority is thirteen thoa-
sand seven hundred and t,osnb-one. In
forty.niue counties the vote ofthe Demo-
Gratis and Liberal Republicans COM
bined falls short of the Democratic
vote of 1868 seuea thousand five hundred
and seventyeigM votes; and the belief
seems we'll founded, that tVenty thousand
Democrats who usually vote were absent
from the polls. Our greatest losses are
in our strongest Democratic counties
in Butler, Crawford, Fairfield, Franklin,
Holmes, Mercer, Monroe; while we
have made great gains in the strongest
Republican counties-Ashtabula, Cuys.
hoga, Erie. Hamilton, Lucas, Portage.
Wherever we increased our vote, we
increased our majority; wherever We
lost on our vote we lost on our majority
also.
"The Radicals were organized, vigil
liant, enthusiastic, and polled larger
proportion Of their entire vote than
ever they have done before, They can
poll no more in November.
"These facts must startie and mortify
every honest and sincere Democrat
For years our party has been brave and
constant and faithful. Time-servers
aud placement have deserted it; timid
men have counseled it's abandonment;
indolent men have advised that it post
pone all effort until the Radical party
should break under its own weight; but
amid disaster and defeat for twelve long
years, believing that it held in keeping
the safety Of the country, it has put be-
hind it the suggestions of treachery or
timidity or Incidence, and with rare
fidelity has maintained its organization
and renewed the contest.
But now at the last moment, when
victory is within its grasp, Democrats
fal,er and fail and allow it to be defeat
ed. Do these men believe their profess
sions? Do they believe our success es-
sential to the country? Do they love
our country? Have they pride in our
noble State?~
"The past we cannot redeem. The
future is all our own. The Democrats
can carry the State in November. We have
determined to make the effort. We
will spare neither time nor exertion.
We will labor by day and by night to
secure this result We ask you to aid
us. We know your zeal, your activity,
your prudence, your influence. We
beg YOU to exert them all. Look to
your own vicinity Bring Out every
voter in your county. See that no
Democrat remains away from the polls.
Stimulate the vigorous; encourage the
desponding aid the active; strengthen
the wavering, the indolent, the indiffer.
ent. Exhort them all by their love of
country, by their devotion to Liberty, by
their hopes of good government, by their
pride in our State, by their pride in our
grand heroic party-so deserving and
so dear to us-by the memory Of their
own constsncy in the hour OF danger
and darkness-to make this one effort
for their country and their faith. Let
the old men remember Jefferson and
Jackson, and be animated by their zeal.
Let the middle-aged men remember the
victories OF 80 and Sc, and emulate
their results. Let the young men re
fleet, that so lorg as there is Repub-
lie there will be Democratic party, and
whenever they shall have power there
will be Peace and Liberty and Union.
The contest to-day is between Paciica-
ton, HoneSty-and Disuniou, Animosi-
ty. Corruption.
"If the Democrats will poll as many
votes as they did in 1868, We will carry
Ohio; will elect our President; will
secure to our whole country the bless
ings OF Peace, Reconciliation, and
honest Administration
Democrats help us to your utmost
to accomplish this grand result!
"a. G. THURMAN,
&c. II. PBNpLEToN,
THOMAS EwING,