The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-07-29

govern the State, and Bishop Purcell and
the Catholic Telegraph have promised to
support the Democratic candidates with
all the rage of blind fanaticism If they
succeed by threats and by excommunica
tions in driving their Irish and German
followers in a solid, unbroken body to
the polls, the Democracy will have gained
| its reward, but it will be at the expense
of every American principle and every
honorable sentiment. Nor is it possible
to believe that any large number of
American Democrats can long consent to
follow those party leaders who have
shown a base servility to the ultramon-
tame rule.
The contest in Ohio is one between
European and American ideas. 1t is the
foundations of the republic that are as
sailed by the ultramontanes. 1t is
ridiculous to suppose that the faction
which is the defender of the Bourbons in
France and Spain, of Catholic unity at
Rome, religious tyranny, and the tenn
poral power of the Pope which threatens
Germany with the horrors of invasion
and civil war, and Italy with the fercest
plaques of priestly tyranny, is any differ
ence in Cincinnati or New York. The
politics of the ultramontane must every
where be controlled by the decisions of
his spiritual head The Pope may guide
his 1900 or more bishops with the ease of
practiced commander, for implicit
obedience has become their only rule of
conduct; and beneath the bishops an
immense host of priests move with con-
Roman Curia with whom the Republicans
of Ohio are brought face to face. 1t is to
enforce the doctrines of the Syllabus and
the Council that the often reluctant
Democrats are driven by threats of ex-
communication to the polls. What the
ultramontanes hope to do in Ohio is to
retain that control over the future Legis-
lature which they held over the past.
Never before has the foreign Church ven
tured to speak to American legislators as
it spoke recently to the Democratic Sen
ators and Representatives in Ohio.
"Obey us" cried the priests, ''or we will
drive you from power, and mark you
with an ineffaceable brand" And the
Democracy obeyed. 1t is to retain this
power that the priests have promised to
the Democratic leaders the whole Catho-
lie vote. The sole question in the fall
election is, Shall this Catholic vote rule
in the State? The ultramontanes offer
to the people of Ohio caste and sectari-
anism, European prejudices, and trans
atlantic follies; the Republicans, those
principles of human equality and mental
progress which have made our country
happy and great The ultramontanes
are everywhere the advocates of despo-'
tism and absolutism; the Republicans, of
liberal and generous progress. Our ul-
tramontane Democrat sighs for titles and
rank, the rule of priests and potentates,
the privilege of unlicensed and arbitrary
corruption. The true Republican lives
in his native simplicity alone. Ohio has
to decide between the two. Nor could
that State do an act more worthy of the
Centennial years of the republic than to
set striking mark of condemnation
upon ultramontane follies and European
impulses in its coming election. Let US
all be purely American Republicans,
whatever be our race or creed, in this
great era of the nation, and let us place
no person in Office who laments the pro-
gress of freedom and sighs for the abuses
of the past. Nor can the whole country
more fitly celebrate its natal season in
1876 than by electing as its Chief Magis-
trate some wise and honest citizen who
has never bartered his honor for the
Catholic vote, and who is in all partic-
ulars an American Republican.