Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-10-21
THE DEMOCRATIC ADDRESS.
what the Late Elections Have
Proven. and What the Result
Promises.

What the Late Elections Have
Proven. and What the Result
Promises.
New YORK, Oct. 13.-The following
address on the recent democratic victo-
ries, was issued to-day.
TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES
Fellow Citizens We congratulate
you as patriots and partakers with us in
the common destiny of American free
men upon the results of the October
state elections. We rejoice in the vic.
tory which the peoples ballots have be-
slowed upon the friends of reform in the
valley of the Ohio, where the republi-
can hosts have had overwhelming as
cendancy in every presidential election
since 1856:
We rejoice in the assurances these
elections convey that your ballots will
bestow decisive ma jorities 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 this week of
1.OOO, 200 voters along the Valley of the
Ohio shall be
RATIFIED NEXT MONTH
by the fiat of 100000 voters through
out the whole republic, shall still re-
joice, chiefly for the reason that not one
of its citizens can miss an equal share
with us, who are democrats, In the po-
lltical peace and good will which will
% ho 1icIn al
sections, races, classes and conditions of
men, and in the prosperity Of which po-
litical peace, based on equal rights and
fraternal good Willis the first condition.
Upon the three states of West Virginia,
Ohio and Indiana were concentrated all
the influence of the administration, all
TIE VAST SUMS OF MONEY
forced from 100000 ofliceholders of the
party in power. These were fearful
odds, not again to be contendcd against
so concentrated, tor in the November
election the contest will be in every one
of the 3S states upon the same day
Nevertheless, against those odds the
democrats and reformers Of West Vir-
ginia and Indiana have been victorious,
and In Ohio they have all but rescued Il
state hitherto deemed hopeless and have
created an assurance of victory in No
vember. If it falls to our lot, as the
National Democratic Committee, to con-
gratulate the people of the Union upon
this victory in the first battle OF the re-
form campaign, it is only because the
democrats have been honored to be the
leaders of the people in the work of
NATIONAL REGENERATION.
The victory won and the victory still to
be won will be deliverance as much to
the republicans as to tie democrats. The
patriotic masses of the republican party
may be thankful that the misdeeds of
their unworthy leaders have been re-
buked and arrested. The suffering whites
OF the south may lift their heads to greet
the dawn of a better day tor them az
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 enjoy his
rightful liberties and his equality before
the law amid universal good will. AS
for the reform democracy, to whose
standards 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 atchword-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
republicans, played upon by
GET ETcu AMI CnppIrp-r T t .nCpS
who have kept warm the dying embers
OF civil strife in order to escape the in
spection of the trusts which they have
betrayed. For eleven years you have
had the name of peace, but at no time
have you had the substance of peace
In lieu thereof you have had the grind.
ing taxation and the wasteful expendi
ture of war. just before every election
every year you have had the preaching
of a new crusade against section utter
ly defeated in war and anxious only to be
completely reconciled in peace. Fol
eleven years the power of the men who
have seized away the control of theil
party from the hands of
| ITS STATESMEN AND FOUNDERS
has been supreme in almost every de
partment of the federal government
Discarding the hopes Of prolongins
their domination by beneticent public
measures, they have created and traffick
ed upon public calamities. The polio,
they adopted has been worked out It.
failure has been absolute. In place o
past performances these same corrup
and selfish leaders now profler promise
already broken as their titles to furthc
trust. Having prostrated our manifold
industries by vast aggregates and tn
worst methods of federal taxation, the
now again solicit your confidence as in
struments of retrcnchmcnt and reform
Having
DEBAUCHED THE PUBLIC SERVICES
and having just now in the face of ope
day assessed their army of 100, 900 Office
holders-the peoples servants paid b
the peoples taXes-in order 10 Great
immense corruption funds to frustrat
the peoples will, they now profess t
be champions of civil service reform
Having imposed upon the souther
t states the rapacity, fraud and plumber
: carpet bag government; having almo
: ruined the prosperity OF the north /
| destroying the prosperity of the soutl
4 and having created terror, uncertain
1 and confusion in all the productive il
5 dustries of the south, which furnis
l most of the exports of our whole cou
t try, keep in motion the commerce n
A manufactures OF the north and cas-
n and furnish market for the agricultur
q products of the west, they now propo
d by 4 renewal of
THE SAME FATAL POLICY
+ to prolong their own power, in the hol
- of concealing their misdeeds, and f'
: this purpose they do not hesitate to +
: new the cry of intolerance, to revive Il
n dying memories of fraternal strife, Al
" to appeal to the fears and prejudices
- the timid and ignorant.
:. Fellow-citizens, these men and the
= measures have been completely trit
a and have completely failed. Oppre
- sive taxation, an exhausted south, ;
impoverished north, 4 iiuctuating GU
y rency. the enterprise Of IN induStrio
+ people locked fast in the paralysis
- hard times-such is the outcome of the
:, political policy; such are the achlev