Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-11-04

TO PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES.
FELLow-CTrIzENs: We congratulate
you as patriots, as partakers with us il
the common destiny of American free
men upon the results of the Octobe
State elections. We rejoice in the vic
tory which the peoples ballots hav
bestowed upon the friends of reform
in the valley of the Ohio where the Re
publican hosts had an oyerwhelmly as
tendency in every Presidential election
since 1856. We rejoice in the assur
ance these elections convey that you
ballots will bestow decisive majoritie.
to the allied forces Of Democracy anG
Reform in the November elections
throughout the Union. But we rejoice
not as partisans, we rejoice with yor
as fellow-citizens.
! And when the decision of this week
of one million voters along the valley Of
the Ohio shall be ratified next month
by the fat of eight million voters
throughout the whole Republic, we
shall still rejoice, chiefly for the reason
that not one of it's citizens can miss OF
an equal share with us who are Demo
Gratis, in the political peace and good
will which Will then and there be es-
tablished among all sections, races and
conditions of men. and in the prosperi-
ty of which political peace, based on
equal rights and fraternal good will is
the condition.
Upon the three States Of West Yir-
ginia, Ohio and Indiana, were concen-
trated all the influence of the Admins
tration, all their efforts, and all the
vast sums of money forced from the
one hundred thousand office holders
of the party in power.
These are fearful odds, not again to
be contended against so concentrated; d;
for in the November elections the con-
test will be in every one of the thirty
eight States on the same day.
Nevertheless, against these odds the
Democrats and Reformers of West Vir-
ginia and Indiana have been victorious,
and in Ohio they have all but rescued
a State hitherto deemed hopeless, and
have created an assurance of victory in
November.
If it falls to our lot as a National Dem
ocratic Committee to congratulate the
people of the Union upon this victory
in the first battle of the reform cam
paign, it is only because Democrats
Gratis have been honored to be the
leaders of the people in the work of
national regeneration
The victory won, the victory still to
be won, will be a deliveranee as much
to Republicans as to Democrats.
The patriotic masses Of the Republi-
can party may be thankful that the
misdeeds of their unworthy leaders
have been rebuked and are to be ar
rested. The suffering whites of the
South may lift up their heads to greet
the dawn of better day for them as
we'll as fhe nation at large. The col
ored citizen may share the general Joy
that he will soon cease to be the stock
in trade of corrupt politicians, but
shall enjoy his rightful liberties and
his equality before the law amid uni
versal good will.
AS for the Reform Democracy, to
whose standards victory has been tied,
with all her garlands on, it only re-
mains for them to welcome every ally,
every friend, close up the ranks and
press on, shoulder to shoulder, under
the banner and with the one watch
word,
REFORM.
Fellow-citizens: Peace between all
sections; Prosperity in all our homes:
of these you have been for years de-
prived by the mistaken solicitudes of
patriotic Republicans, played upon by
selfish and corrupt leaders, who have
kept tanning the embers of civil strife
in order to escape inspection of the
trusts which they have betrayed.
For eleven years you have had the
name of peace. At no time have you
had the substance of peace In lieu
thereof you have had the grinding taxa
ton and wasteful expenditure of war.
Just before every election every year
you have had the preaching Of a new
crusade against section utterly de-
feated in war, and anxious only to be
completely reconciled in peace
For eleven years the power of the
men who have seized away the control
of their party from the hands of it's
statesmen and founders has been su-
preme in almost every department of
the Federal Government.
Discarding the hope of prolonging
their domination by benefcient public
they have created and traf-
ficked upon public calamities. The
policy they adopted has been worked
out. It's failure has been absolute.
In place of past performances these
same corrupt and selfish leaders now
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