The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-10-18
Ringing Address from tho Indiana
Liberal Republican State Committee.

Liberal Republican State Committee.
To THE LIBERALS OF INDIANA: The
recent elections we're but the skirmish
before the final contest. It was drawn
battle. Compared with the elections of
1868. it was defeat to the old Republi-
can party. Pennsylvania in 1868 gave
Gen. Grant majority Of over 10000.
Now, by system of fraudulent voting,
surprising the balloting of the Massa-
chusetts troops in indianapolis in 1861
utterly infamous, indeed--the Grant
candidate for Governor is elected, but by
q majority largely reduced. Ohio in
1868 gave the candidate of the Kepubli-
can purity majority Of nearly 20, 600.
Now that party succeeds by less than
10000. Thomas A. IInndriclis was do
olared defeated in Indiana in 1868 by
96l votes. Now he is elected by IL mn-
jority nearly as large There is nothing
i'll the recent elections to discourage us.
despite the Boosting Of the Grant party.
It was tho same party that thought To
sneer down the Cincinnati Convention,
that was jubilant over it's frightful and
fatal losses in North Carolina, that was
pleased with its large reductions in
Maine and Vermont, aud utterly sup
pressed all mention of the election Of
0COI&ld WCCh tauV b0f6 us OOIOOO
majority. We simply need to gain as
we have in those States, and in Ohio and
Indiana, and the battle is ours.
The old organization has lost in every
State in which there has been IN cleo
tion sinco Horace Greeley was nomi-
mated. 1t has only saved itself from
desperate defeat by desperate efforts.
1t has had the Secretary of the Treasury,
aud the Treasury itself, at work upon
tho stump and at the polls. Every de-
vice that menducity and money could
devise has been employed. The moagre
results to the Grant party Of suoh lavish
outlay is rebuke moro powerful than
more conclusive defeat under an honor
able canvass. To succeed as we have
against such opposition is victory in
deed.
A few weeks yet remain in which We
must labor with even moro tireless ef-
fort The people Of Indiana believe in
the mission OF the Liberal Republican
party. They accept its platform ns the
wisest and best ever presented by party.
1t has every principle of the old party
worth preserving expressed with rugged
force, and it adds principle that the
canvass from the beginning of the State
Conventions to the present time has JUS
tilted, that the President of the United
States should not be candidate for re-
election. The evils and dangers of huv-
ing an army of 10000 Office holders and
100000 serviceable subordinates under
pay of the Government attempting to
control nominations and elections 30 as
to keep themselves in place, have been
fully demonstrated.
The vital difference between the plat
forms is something grander than tariffs
or the common. place utterance of parties.
We seek the universal equality of men.
Freedom and the ballot for the white
man with the black. We seek sub.
stantial peace, q hearty determination Of
North and South, and pure civil SER
vice. For this we fight, and by this sign
we shall conquer. Our effort has been
and must be to show the people that we
can better secure these bencficent results
than can the old party, burdened with
barnacles, fostering with corruption and
permeated with barbarous prejudices.
The duty to Which We are called is as
imperative and honorable rs that to
Which we responded when the country
| needed US as soldiers. Let Us consclen
tiously give ourselves to the labor before
us, without bitterness, without attempt
ing to follow the leaders of the old
party in their disreputable course. They
may do their worst abusing Liberal Re-
pnblicans and Liberal Republicanism.
Their venom is harmless.
We are fighting for principle that.
sooner or later, must succeed. Let US
bear ourselves so that we shall deserve
success. They who win success unfairly,
or will struggle only when success is as
sured, are alike unworthy to succeed. A
noble cause demands our service. It is
the cause of humanity and patriotism.
Onr principles are patriotic and unselfish.
Our candidate. Horace Greeley, is the
type of man America delights to honor
the honest, self-made, representative
man. Forward, then, men of Indianal
With proper effort we shall win victory
nobler than that OF bloody fields, and
more enduring than monuments
JOHN A. FINCH, Chairman.
Pom CARrOTrA The and1osf evant