The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-10-27
TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES

FELLOW CITIZENS: We congratulate
you as patriots, as partakers with us in the
common destiny Of American freemen, up
on the results OF the OctOl or State elections.
We rejoice in the victory which the peoples
ballots have bestowed upon the friends OF
reform in the valley Of the Ohio, where the
Republican hosts had an overwhelming as
tendency in every Presidential election since
1856. We rejoice in the assurance these
elections convey that your ballots will bestow
decisive naorities to'the allied forces of De-
mocracy and reform in the November cleo
tions throughout the Union. But we rejoice
not as pariisans we rejoice with you as tel-
low citizens
And when the decision Of this week of
1000, 900 voters along the valley of the Ohio
shall he ratified next month by the fiat OF
5000 900 voters throughout the whole Re-
puiic we shall rejoice, chiefly for the reason
! that not one OF its citizens can miss an equal
share with us who are Democrats, in the po-
ltical 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, bas'
ed on equal rights and traternal good will
is the first condition.
Upon the three States of West Virginia
Ohio and Indiana were concentrated all the
vast sums of money forced from the 100, OOC
ofliceholders of the party in power.
| Il all 40, hf
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 Dem.
ocrats and Reformers of West Virginia and
| Indiana have been victorious, and in Ohio
they have all but rescued a State hitherto
deemed hopeless, and have created an assur
ance of victory in November.
| If it falls to our lot as a National Demo
cratic Committee to congratulate the people
of the Union upon this victory in the frs
battle of the reform campaign, it is only be
cause Democrats have been honOred to b'
the leaders of the people in the work of ma
; tional regeneration.
, Tho victory won, the victory still TO b.
won, will be deiyerance as much to Re
publicans as to Democrats.
, The patriotic masses of the Republican
party may be thankful that the misdeeds o
their unworthy leaders have been rebuke,
and are to be arrested. The suffering white
of the South may lift up their heads to gree
the dawn of better day for them as well a
the nation at large. The colored either
may share the general joy that he will sool
cease to be the stock in trade of corrupt pol
iticaas, but shall enjoy his rightiul libertie
I and his equality before the law amid univer
: sal good will
! As for the reform Democracy, to who's
7 standard victory has been tied with all he
r garlands on, it only remains for them to wei
T come every ally, every friend, close up tn
+ ranks and press on, shoulder to shoulder
: under the banner and with the one watch
: word, .....r
+ REFORM.
= Fellow citizens: Peace between all sec
z tions prosperity in all our homes; of thes
= you have been for years deprived by th
y mistaken solioitudes of patriotic Republi
cans, played upon by selfish and oorrur
leaders, who have kept tanning tho dyin
embers of civil strife in order to escape in
spection of the trusts which they have be
trayed,
For eleven years you have had the nam
, of peace, At no time have you had III
h substance of peace. In lieu thereof yo
have had the grinding taxation and wasleh
expenditure OF war just before overy eleS
tion every year You had the preaching Of
new crusade against section utterly defeat