The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1875-09-28
The Int eI ests AT Stake in the OssiO
Election.

The lDteI ests AT Stake in the OisiO
Election.
Do the people fully realize the magni
tude OF the interests they have at stake il
the election on the 12,h of October p
Certainly those who have given the sub.
lject no reflection DO not; and if the pre-
vaiIirg apathy shall continue for two
weeks more, there will be left only vair
regrets. .
Whether ALLEN or HAYES shall bt
Governor of Ohio. is, in itself. question
of comparatively little importance; but
whether the voice of the great State Of
OHIO shall be given for avolume Of cur
rency "equal to the wants of tr,de," OF
for contraction, hard times and general
bankruptcy, involves the prosperity or
impoverishment Of hundreds OF thou.
sands of people.
1t is an open and notorious fact that
the financial policy of the Republican
party has been nodded and controlled by
the money oligarchy ever since the Ma
tional bonds and National banks needed
the services of party. None but an i'm.
beetle willlook to that party for q relax
ing of the grasp which capital has upon
labor, or for relief from the oppression
which a monopolized power exercises
over property other than money.
The only Fay OF hope for better times
is in the success Of the Democratic party,
and that too in the ''grecnbackn element
in that party.
Suppose Ohio and Pennsylvania, with
their Democratic platforms fayoriug the
interests of the people against the money
power, should pronounce against the
Democratic party, and suppose New
York with her Wall street platform
shouldgo Democratic! What will inev
tably be the result2 2,-1T.i'.i.
In The next Democratic National Con.
vention, who will dare offer for adoption
the platform Of Ohio and Pennsylvania
| if they shall have been repudiatcd at the
polls this Fall7 Such an attempt would
at once be denounced as suicidal, and the
Wall street platform of New York would
become the National platform Of the par.
Ity. Where then would be any party to
represent the peoples interestsp The
Republican party would belong to the
money oligarchy by original ownership,
and the Damocraticparty by recent cap
ture. gttt e.
The question Of most vital impurtsuce
is not so much whether the Democratic
party shall prevail over the Republican
party in Ohio. as whether the elemen,
which represents the people shalt prevail
in the Democratic party. tits precisely
because the issue has taken this form that
the money power is using every effort to
defeat the Democratsin Ohio and Penn.
sylvania, and it is exactly for the same
reason that thousands Of Republicans in
| these States will this time vote tue Demo.
cratic ticket.
Let no voter underrate the issues in
volved. In Ohio and Pennsylvania this
Fall will be permanently settled for thi'
country, the question whether any party
can oppose the grasping demands Of tht
money power, aud live.
Laborers, mechanics, farmers, on who
are engaged-iu productive industry, ava
ken to your danger!
The moneyed men have subsidized
your foremost newspapers, and have en-
gagged theu to misguide you.
They have corrupted your most trust
ed statesmen, and have employed then
to betray you.
! They viii secure every voter they cal
find who is vensl enough to be bribed, O
stupid enough to be beguiled
Do less than your whole duty, ant
Ohio will be theirs; the general govern
ment will be theirs; and ere long tn
sweat of your brows will he theirs.