The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-10-21
THE PEOPLE CONGRATULATED.
The National Democratic Committee to the
Voters Of the United States.

you as patriots, as partakcrS Win US IN the
common destiny of American freemen,
upon the results of the October State
elections. We rejoice in the victory which
the peoples ballots have bestowed upon
the friends of reform,;;i theivalley of the
Ohio, where the Republican hosts had an
overwhelming ascendency in every Presi-
dental election since 1856. We rejoice
in the assurance these elections convey
that your ballots will bestow decisive ma
jorities to the allied forces of Democracy
aud Reform in the November elections
throughout the Union. But we rejoice
not as partisans; we rejoice with you 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, weshall still rejoice, chief
ly for the reason that not one of its citi-
zens can miss of an equal share with us
who are Democrats, in the political peace
and good will which will then and there
be established among all sections, races,
classes, and conditions of men, and in the
prosperity of which political peace, based
on equal rights aud fraternal good will, is
the first condition.
Upon the three States of West Virginia,
Ohio and Indiana, were concentrated all
the influence ofthe Administration, all their
efforts, and all the vast sums Of money
forced from the one hundred thousand
oficeholders of the party in power.
These were fearful odds, not again to
be contended against SO concentrated, for
in the November elections the contest will
be in every one of thirty-eight States upon
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 u
State hitherto deemed hopeless, and have
created an assurance Of victory in Novem-
ber.
If it falls to our lot as National DEM
ocratic Committee to congratulate the |
people of the Union upon this victory in
the first battle of the reform campaign, it
is only because Democrats have been hon
ored to be the leaders of the people in the
work of national regeneration.
The victory won, the victory still to be
won, will be deliverance as much to
Republicans as to Democrats.
The patriotic masses of the Republican
party may be thankful that the misdeeds
Of their unworthy leaders have been re-
buked and are to be arrested. The suffer-
ing whites of the South may lift up their
heads TO greet the dawn of n better day for
them, as well as the nation at 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 en-
joy his rightful liberties and his equality
before the law amid universal good will.
As for the Reform Democracy, to whose
standard victory has been tied, with all
her garlands on, it only remains 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 watchword, Reform.
Fellow citizens, peace between all Sec
tions; prosperity in all our homes; of these
you have been for years deprived by the
mistaken solicitude of patriotic Republi-
cans, played upon by selfish and corrupt
leaders, who have kept tanning the dying
embors Of civil strife in order to escape in-
spection 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 taxation and
wasteful expenditures of war. Just be-
fore every election every year you have
had the preaching of new crusade against
a section utterly defeated in war, and anx-
ious 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 its statesmen and ,
founders has been supreme in almost every !
department of the Federal Government,
Discarding the hope of prolonging their
domination by benefcent public measures,
they have created and traficked upon
public calamities. The policy they adop-
Ted has been worked out. Its failure has
been absolute.
In place Of past performances these
'amc corrupt and selfish leaders now prof t
Ter promises already broken as their titles t
% further trust. &
Having prostrated our manifold indus t
ries by the vast aggregates and the worst c
methods Of Federal taxation, they now
lgain solicit your confidence as the instru- t,
nents of retrenchment and reform. h
Having debauched the public service, Il
md having just now, in the face of open g
lay, assessed their army of hundred Ii
thousand officeholders-th peoples SER Fl
'ants-paid by the peoples taxes-in ID
rider to create immense corruption funds 81
o frustrate the peoples will, they now A
'rofess to be the champions of civil service Z
eform. Having imposed upon the South.
I'm States the rapacity, fraud, and plunder
# the carpet-bag governments, having al p
most ruined the prosperity of the North D
y destroying the prosperity of the South, "a
Iaving created terror, uncertainty, and al
onfusion in all the productive industries OF
f tho South, which furnish most of the D,
xports of our whole country, keep in mo- OF
ion the commerce and manufactures of %
he North and East, and furnish market pl
or the agricultural products of the West, tn
hey now propose, by renewal of the same OIL
atal policy, to prolong their own power in OF
he hope Of concealing their misdeeds and m
DR. this purpose thew do not hesitate IN ny