The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-10-24
STAND TO YOUR GUNS.
address Of the Liberal Republican Erecu-
tiUe Committee of Indiana.
To the Liberals OF Indiana:

To the Liberals OF Indiana:
The recent elections were but the skirm-
ish before the final contest. 1t was drawn
battle. Compared with the elections OF
1868, it was a defeat to the old Republican
party.
Pennsylvania, in 1868, gave Gen. Grant a
majority of over 10000. Now, by IA system
of fraudulent voting surprising the ballot
ing Of the Massachusetts, troops in Indian
apOlis in 1S64-utterly infamous indeed--the
Grant candidate for Governor is elected,
but by majority largely reduced.
Ohio, in 1868, gave the candidate of the
Republican party majority of nearly 90
600 Now that party succeeds by less than
10000.
Thomas A. Hendricks was declared de-
feated in Indiana in 1865 by 93l votes.
Now he is elected by a majority nearly as
large.
There is nothing in the recent elections to
discourage us, despite the Boosting Of the
Grant party. 1t was the same party that
thought to sheer down the Cincinnati Con-
vention, that was jubilant over its frightful
and fatal losses in North Carolina, that was
pleased with its large reductions in Maine
and Vermont, and utterly suppressed all
mention of the election of Georgia last
week that gave us fifty thousand ma jority.
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 an election
since Horace Greeley was nominated 1t
has only saved itself from desperate defeat
by desperate efforts. 1t has had the Secre-
tary of the Treasury, and the Treasury
ITSELF at work upon the stump and at the
polls. Every device that mendacity and
money could devise has been employ ed.
The meager results to the Grant party of
such lavish outlay is rebuke more power
full than a more conclusive defeat under an
honorable canvass. To succeed as we have
against such opposition is a victory indeed.
A few weeks yet remains in which we
must labor with even more tireless effort.
The people of India il believe in the mission
of the Liberal Il publican party. They
accept its platform as the wisest and best
ever presented bV a party. 1t has every
principle of the old party worth preserving
expressed with rugged force, and it adds a
principle that the canvass from the begin
ming of the State Conventions to the pres
ent time has justified, that the President of
the United States should not be a candidate
for reelection The evils and dangers of
having an army of 10000 officeholders and
200 coo serviceable subOrdinates under pay
of the government attempting to control
nominations and elections, so as to keep
themselves in place, have been fully dem
onstrated
The vital difference between the plat
forms is something grander than tariffs or
the commonplace utterance of parties. We
seek the universal equality of men. Free
dom and the ballO& for the white man with
the black. We seek a substantial peace, /
hearty determination of North and South /
and pure civil service. For this we fight !
and by this sign we shall conquer. Our
efforts has been and must be to show the |
people that we can better secure these |
beneficial 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 inn
perative and honorable as that to which |
we responded when the country needed us I
as soldiers. Let us cOnscientiously give |
ourselves to the labor before us, without /
bitterness, without attempting to follow |
the leaders of the old party in their disrep-
utable course. They may do their worst /
abusing Liberal Republicans and Liberal /
Their venom is harmless. /
We are fighting for principle that sooner
or later must succeed. Let us bear our
selves so that we shall deserve success.
They who win success unfairly. or will
struggle only when success is assured, are
alike unworthy TO succeed.
A noble cause demands our service. 1t is
the cause humanity and patriotism. Our
principles are patriotic and unseltish Our
Horace Greeley, is the type of
man America delights to honor-the honest
representative man. Forward.
then. men of Indiana. With proper effort
we shall win victory nobleF than that of
bloody fields, and more enduring than mon
amentS. JOHN a FINCH,
Chairman.