The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-10-18
PEACE, GOOD WILL.
Patriotic Address ny The Democratic
National Committee.


FELLOW Clrl2ENs- We congratulate
you AS patriots AVID parla ers with u
IA thr common destiny Of American
freedmen upon the results OF the Octu-
her stale elections. We rejoice In the
victory which the peoples ballots have
bestOw ed upon the friends Of reform
In the Valley of the Ohio, where the
Republican hosts have had ogerwhel.
ming ascendancy In every Presiden-
tial election since 1906
We rejoice in the assuran res these
elections convey that your ballots will
btstow decisive majorities TO the allied
forces OF Democracy and reform in the
November elections throughout the
Union; but We rejoice not as partisans
We rejoice with you rs fellow citizens.
and when the decision Of his week Of
l,0)0,OOO voters along the Valley of the
Ohio shall be
RATIFIED NEXT MONTH
by the fiat Of SO0O0U0 voters thruup-
out the whole Republic, shall still re-
joice, chiefly for the reason that not
one of its citizens can miss an equal
share with w, who are Democrats, In
the political peace and good will
whict will then and there he estab-
lished among all sections, races,
classes and conditions Of men, aud in
the prosperity of which political peace,
based on equal rights and fraternal
good will, l. the first condition. Upon
the three States of West Virginia,
Ohio and Indiana were concentrated
all the influence Of the administra.
ton, all their efforts, and all
THE VAST SUNS OF MONEY
forced from 100, 900 uiliceholders of the
party in power. These were fearful
odds, not again to he cOnteuded
against 50 concentrated, for in the
November election the contest will he
in every one OF the thirty eight States
upon the same day. Nevertheless,
against those odds the Democrats and
relOrmers Of West Virginia and India
ma have been victorious, and in Ohio
they have all but rescued state hith-
ertO deemed hopeless, and have creG-
ted an assurance of victory in NOvem-
Der. II it falls to our lot, AS the M.
tional Democratic Committee, to con.
graduate the people OF the Union upon
this victory III the first battle OF the
reform campaign, it is only because
the Democrats have been hOnored to
he the leaders Of the people in the
work of
NATIONAL REGENERATION.
The victory won and the victory
still to be won will be deliverance az
much to the Republicans as to the
Democrats The patriotic masses of
the Republican party may be thankful
that the misdeeds of their unworthy
leaders have been rebuked and ar
rested. The suffering whites of the
South may lift their heads to greet the
dawn of better day for them a. we'll
as the nation ut large. The colored
citizen may share the general joy that
he will soon cease to be
THE STOCK IN TRADE
of corrupt politicians, but shall enjoy
his righltul Liberties and his equality
before the law amid universal good
will. AS for the reform Democracy to
whose standards victory has b.cn lied
with all her garlands on, il 0uly re-
lbl llitAAl w hClltbAt tNttO NitN
every friend, close up the ranks and
press on, shoulder TO shoulder, under
the banner ana with the one wutchwUrd
reform. Feilow-citizens, peace be-
tween all sections, prosperity in all our
homes-of these you have been for
years deprived, by tina mistaken So
licitude of patriotic Republicans, |
played upon by
SELFISH AND CORRUPT LEADERS
who have kept warm the dylug EN-
bers OF civil strife In order to escape |
the inspe ctiun of the trusts which they |
have betrayed. For eleven years you
time have you had the substance OF |
peace. In lieu thereof you have had |
the grinding taxation aud the wastriul |
expenditure OF war. Just before every |
election every year you have had the |
of new crusade against Il
section utterly defeated in war and |
anxious only to be completely recon.
ciled in peace. For eleven years the |
power of the men who have seized |
away the control of their party from
the hands OF
has been supreme in almost every de.
of the Federal Government.
Discardiug the hopes of prolonging |
their domination by beneliceut public |
they have created and trai-
ticked upon public calamities. The |
policy they adopted has been worked |
out. Its failure has been absolute, In |
place of past performances these same |
corrupt aud selfish leaders now proifer |
promises already broken rs their titles
to further trust. Having Frustrated |
our manifold industries 10y vast aggre,
gates and the worst methods of Federal |
taxation they now again solicit your
rs Instruments Of retTench |
ment and reform. Having
DEBAUCHED THE PUBLIC SERVICE,
and having just now in the face o:
open day assessed their army of 100000 |
officeholGers-the peoples servants,
paid by the peoples taXes-in order to
create immense corruption funds to
Illustrate the peoples will, they now
profess to be champions of civil ser
vice reft rm. Having iinposeh upon
the Southern States the rapacity, fraud
and plumber of carpet bag governments;
having almost ruined the prosp' rity OF
the North by destroying the prosperity
of the South, and having created ter.
ror, uncertainty and confusion in oil
the productive industries OF the South,
which furnish most Of the exports OF
our whole country, keep in motion the
commerce and manufacturers of the
North and East, and furnish Il market
for the agricultural products OF the
West, they now proprose by renewal
of
THE SAME FATAL POLICY
to prOlong their own power, in the
hope Of concealing their misdeeds, and
for this purpose they do no, hesitate TO
renew the cry Of intolerance, to revive
the dying memories of fraternal strife,
and to appeal to the fears and preju
n al