The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-10-22
nnmNcrniic Rally.
CHAIRMAN WRIGHT SOUNDS THE PENNsYl-
NAN1A BuGLE

CHAIRMAN WRIGHT SOUNDS THE PENNsHl-
VANGA BuGLE
DGMocRAric COMMITTEE Rooms, PnILA-
DELpnIA, October IS, 1872 o'clock, A. NJ
10 the pcopic Of Pennsylvania: The indica-
tions are that the friends of reform are de-
feated in Ohio. 1t has been q gallant and
bold fight by the people of that State against
the money of the Federal Treasury and the
money of the banking institutions of the
country. 1t has been an issue between the
honor and integrity of the masses against
official power. We sympathize with the
men who have fallen in defense of those sa-
cred rights guaranteed to them by the
Constitutional laws of the country. BY the
power of their own money, raised from them
by oppressive taxation, they have fallen.
But the issues presented in the contest whic h
has transpired in Ohio are not those which
are before us in Pennsylvania. The people
of Ohio are an agricultural people. The
great staples of Pennsylvania consists of her
ron, her coal, her manufactures and me-
chancal industries these have first felt the
baleiul influences Of profigate government
and bad system of national legislation.
We of Pennsylvania have been first to feel
the rod of oppression and tyranny. The
people Of Ohio have yet to learn what it has
| been our misfortune to realize; had they but
been sensible of the wrongs we suher, the
power of the money of the Federal treasury,
| and the corrupt and dcmoralizing practices
of the men who used it, could never have
beaten down the honest yeomanry of Ohio.
What, therefore, is our duty as Pennsylva-
mans? The disasters of our friends in Ohio
should encourage us to combat this ipsoent
| foe with determination and zeal that have
no limitation. The obligations we owe to
ourselves, to our country, to our families and
to the cause of good government imperious-
| ly demand this Of US The desolaton of
our manufacturing industries, the depression
of the wages of labor require that we should
enter into the approaching contest with all
our courage, with all our energy and set
tied determination on our part that nothing
shall be left undone which the emergency
requires at our hands. We cannot afford
that the hard earnings of busy life of labor
shall be exposed to the executioners ham,
mer, nor can we stand and endure that terri
bic burthen Of taxation which is exacted
from us.
Let us go into this contest under the broad
banners of reform. Let us stand by the Or
ganizaton that has been formed and the re-
solves adopted by the Democratic Conven-
ton at Erie. Let us merge every personal
consideration and look only to the common
good in the relief of a suffering and distressed
people. Let JUS battle for our homes and
firesides before the mercenary power of a
mercenary government shall rob us of them.
Fellow citizens, the issue before you may
be the last one between the power of incor
pOrated wealth on one side and the integrity
and honor of the popular masses on the
other. Let those who are attempting to i'm
poverish and ruin you understand and
know that the hour Of determined resistance
has come, and that it is your purpose to
make that manly resistance which the emer-
gency of the occasion requires.
HENDRICK B. WRIGHT,
| Chairman I)nmnpratin Stoto C,,,,,