, 1872-10-15
POLITICAL.
Address of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee to the
People Of the United
States.
The State Liberal Committees
Appeal to the People
of New York.
Shanks, Radical Candidate,
Beaten in the Ninth In
diana District.
Congressional Nominati0ns---HIiscel-
Congressional K0minati0ns---nIisCel-
IaneOuS Items.

ADDRESS OF THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL
STATES.
New YoRR, Oct. 14,-The National Democratic
Committee have issued the following address to
the people Of the United States:
The October elections arc over. They enable
us to form tolerably accurate idea OF the true
political situation Of the country. In Georgia
We have to recount victory for the Liberal
ticket 80 nnexampled as to take her out OF the
list Of doubtful States, and practically to
E sast Is 1ea'' vaes in the b. s'fSa Electoral s
College. To this number it is only necessary to
add sixty votes to elect Greeley and Brown In
Pennsylyania the distinguished Chairman Of the
Liberal Committee has eloquently characterized
there was accomplished In Ohio, despite the
most unprecedented gains for the Liberal Demo-
cratic ticket, the Grant managers have carried
the election by 0 reduced majority, having
brought to the polls their entire reserve vote.
Had our Democratic friends in certain localities
Of that great Commonwealth shown the same
earnestness and activity, and enabled US, like
our enemies, to record our entire strength, they
would now be ,e1ultin!g over brilliant
yy yTiGtory; IN Indiana the Democratic and
success over the Pennsy1vanla tactics, most un-
scrupu1ouBly employed by the Administration
and its allies, showing thus that free people,
when aroused, know their rights, and dare main
that she can neither be bought nor bullied. Tho
moral Of these results Is that victory is still in
plain view for our national ticket and that en-
ergy and courage viii assure it; that victory
sutops 0n on Ills eonn5n we f1 naa
on Tuesday last, when considered in its
causes is the appalling political catastrophe
that has ever taken place in this country. Should
the system through which this catastrophe was
brought about Be condoned by tho people, and
foisted On the other States, it seals the doom Of
freedom in America. "a sad contest it ie surely,
that the city in which our Republic WIS born,
amid The be anthems tbs @ Of free te PsSp hs hGqS ns nov ="
bought people Of al tie States T to calmly i re- re-
view the fearful crime against suffrage in
PennBylvania, and to decide whether it shall be
time the system OF free government and the
sanctity OF the ballot are really on trial in the
United States. From this hour forward the pres
ereation OF the franchise in it's integrity dWarfs
all other Issues. Let our friends in each Of the
States catch inspiration from the heroic conduct
Of cur fellow-eitizens in Georgia, and in InGi-
ana, and from now till November let their strug-
gle be manful and nnceasing for liberty aud IN
antainted bal1ot-box; for reform and an honest
Aqin5stfsf'n Easd Of the eozS5aant scuzn,
Chairman Of the National Democratio mo ns-1 Com
n1itteo.
The Tribune makes the following comment:
1.-THE Democratic National Committee meets
tho situation with high courage and wisdom. The
admirable address Of Mr. gchell is the 1allying
CRY for the short, sharp, and decisive campaign
that remains. Wemay make it end in success il
We will The Democratic State Committee of
the victory there complete. Tho Liberal Be-
publicans, it says, gave them all the votes they
needed, and more, but they had not themselves
brought out their own vote The State Com
mittee Of Pennsylvania might truthfully
make q similar explanation There
is a large element of the Hartranft
majority directly traceab1e to apathetic or dis
contented Democrats. We were chented 10000
in Philadelphia. We lost 8 greater number Of
votes for which we hnd reason to look to the
party to which Charles R. Buckalew has been so
an ornament. We may trust it
for better work now that its leaders frankly
recognize the situation. Between now and No.
gember there will be some Of the hardest politi- |
al fighting ever seen in this country. The Lib |
3ra1 party is too well founded, and too nobly in
5pired, to be crushed by an engagement which
loses two States and secures one."