The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-11-06
AANADDREss.
The National Democratic
Committee to the People.
A Fair Vote Only Necessary
For Victory.
An Appeal to the Honest
Voters Of the Country.
Rooms OF THE NATIONAL
nr,,oc,. ro,t EypprT HOITSE.


DEMOCRATIC Con-, EVERETT HOUSE,
New YORK, November. g, 1876, }
To the People of the United States:
The crest contention between the Re
publican office holders and the people Is
now drawing to close. The evidence
is all in and the country Is to pass upon
the issue, which is, whether, by
change of men and measures, there snail,
at least, be an opportunity given for
change from bad times brought on
by Encouragement and msladmlnistra-
ton of public interests by the party in
power. The great majority OF the people
desire only an opportunity to earn an
honest livelihood, and their main concern
is not in the success Of any party, but IN
the maintenance of u government when
protects life, liberty and property at the
lowest cost, and does not tend by Its
policy and measures to make the rich
richer and poor poorer. The Republican
managers have ANONYMOUSLY Jailed 10
their efforts 10 obscure and. pervert the
real and only issue involved IN TINS
struggle for honest government, by sub
stitution of false party cries and calum-
MES addressed to the passions aud preJu-
dices rather than TO the reason OF men.
The result is no longer doubtful. The
bad men who have so long abused the
truss confded to them by the patient
people will be driven from power by tie
popular voice on Tuesday next. From
information in possession of this commit.
tee, based upon careful estimates re-
ceived from various States, we are JUS.
titled in claiming as sure for the cause OF
reform, embodied in the National Demo-
cratic ticket, two hundred electoral votes,
a clear majority of the whole number
In this estimate we do not IN
clude the electoral vote of South
Carolina or Louisiana, which, If
accorded an election free from mill
.tsry Interference, will undoubtedly cast
fifteen additional votes for the cause OF
good government. Besides these, we
nave every reason to expect seventy-one
votes from States regarded as doubtful,
which, if cast for Tilden and Hendricks
will give them over two-thirds OF the
Electsral College In this estimate we
do not include the State of OHIO, from
which, however, we have assurances OF
victory. On the other hand our estimate
comedies to the Republican oftice-holders
every State in which by their power OF
patronage and their reckless use OF illegal
expedients they have any reasonable
ground for claiming success.
The Committee feels that the day of
redemption draws nigh, when our be.
loved country will be freed from the
embraces of corruption, when equal
rights will be restored to all classes OF
citizens, when the government will be
honestly and economically administered,
when the burden o. taxation will be
lightened so as to be to,erable; when the
national credit will be upheld and
strengthened; when the shackles OF COM
merce will be stricken of, and prospect
ty, so long a stranger within our gates,
will once more take up its abode IN the
homes of the American freemen. 1t
only remains, therefore, for the Commit
tee to make this final appeal to their
fellow-citizens to use all possible pre-
cautions to prevent frauds in the cleo.
ton, by which the will of the people may
be defeated, and to exercise the great
privilege and supreme duty of the free
man by casting their votes for the Cause
of reform in such overwhelming numbers
MS will for the coming century render
impossible the resurrection of the cor
ruption and improvidenee which have
dishonored and Impoverished the country
during Republican rule. a victory thus
achieved will be triumph, not of any
ore party or section, but of the whole
people, vindlcaLing their own honor aid
assuring their own welfare.
BY order OF the National Democratic
Committee. ADRIAN S. HEWITT,
"CHai13adn