The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-10-15
TIE SPIRIT OF TIE OHIO CONTEST

| TIE SPIRIT OF TIE OHIO CONTEST,
Hon. Henry Clay Dean, Of Missouri. went to
Ohio to assist the Democrats He made several
telling speeches and travelled much through
the State. He gave on his return to st. Louis
graphic description of the contest, a part
of which we quote from the Times, of that
city:
The Ohio contest is of threefold charac-
| ter, The bankers and bondholders have de-
c,ared war of idle, unproductive, exacting,
absorbing capital against active, producing,
creative labor. Second, the Eastern monopo-
lists are trying to inaugurate war OF central
| lied Eastern capital against Western pro-
ductive labor Third, the bigots are trying
to create war of religions against the spirit
of our Constitution, which protects every man
in the exercise of the right to worship God
according to the dictates of his conscience.
The people of the State of o. io understand
fully the nature, extent and character OF the
contest, and will meet it with promptness and
alacrity. There has not been so much enthu-
sias m upon the part of the Democracy OF the
State in any contest for the last thirty years.
The Democrats are qniet, earnest, determined,
and in every county the meetings have been
immense, the conf dence of the Democracy un-
bounded. Every neighborhood reports
changes to the Democracy, and thousands
will vote for Allen who never voted the Demo-
cratic ticket before; and no change to the
Republicans from the Democracy SO far as re-
ported. Owing to the present financial sys-
tenn of the government, furnaces have c osed
up, mills and manufactures are idle; thous-
ands of poor, industrious men out OF employ
ment. and their destitute families facing the
storms of winter, without hope and without
remedy. There is not gold and silver enough
in the United STATES to pay the taxes OF ONO,
and the interest due on the debts OF the State,
counties, corporations, and mortgages resting
upon the real properly of the State Sober
men laugh at the idea Of returning to specie
payment.
Ire Republicans are employing the vilest
appeals to passion; trying to arouse religious
ejudiccs; using the offices and moneys OF
the Federal Government, the credit OF banks
and the power of capital, to intimidate cred
itors, to browbeat the poor; to buy the cor
rupt, and use all the appliances known to the
old English rotten Borough system to carry
the election and failing in this, are trying to
buy Judges of the election, to tamper with the
ballot boxes, and secure fraudulent and false
returns. They have been importing nlggers
from Kentucky, West Virginia and Indiana;
shoulder hitters and repeaters from Philadel-
phis and New York, ami tramps from New
England. They are colonizing them where
they will be least subject to discovery, hoping
in this way to secure an occasional member OF
the legislature. Many of the INSCRIPTIONS
partisans hesitate not to boast of their purpose
to carry the election in this way.
In the face Of all this the Democrats are
prepared to watch at every precinct, and are
reliant on a majority of twenty thousand or
more for Allen. Ex-Gov. Curtin of Pennsyl-
vania, who was formerly Republican, and
many of the old and earnest Abolitionists and
Humanitarians, are openly avoWlng them
selves for Gov. Allen. In many parts OF the
State the decentralization of the Republican
party amounts to revulsion, and upon all
hands it is conceded that the questions in
volved in the Ohio campaign will form the
basis of the campaign of 1876 and be fought
out until victory and triumph will be deter
mined in favor of natural justice and the
rights Of active labor against the aggression
of idle capital
New York, that has always been mercenary,
has been sending her hirelings to influence
the Democracy. Mercenary, pretended Demo-
cratic journals, always ready to succumb to
the highest bidder, have been circulated
broadcast. Carl Schurz, the Hessian, has
been tumbling his vocabulary of rhetorical
jargop, burying his confused and meagre
ideas in a graveyard OF words, embellishing
his financial nonsense in a shroud of unmean-
ing financial nomenclature. His bladder, well
filled with the wind Of egotism, was duly
punctured by Wendell Phillips. As the
mercenary hireling agent of the German
bondholders, he has failed to exercise any in
fiuence over the independent German voters
of the State of Ohio, who fed from the fnan-
cial, military and political despotisms of
Europe to escape the very system of oppres-
sive taxations which such Bohemians as Carl
Schurz and his employers would impose upon
the people,