The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-11-08
CONGRATULATIONS.
An Address by the Ohio State Republi.
can Committee.
What Has Been Done-Invincible On the Issue
OF q Sound Currency.
Especial Dispatch to the Leader.

Especial Dispatch to the Leader.l
COLUMBUS, October 28.-The Repub
Hcan State Executive Committee have
Just issued the following address:
To the Republicans of Ohio:
Your Executive Committee congrat-
ulates the Republicans of Ohio and
the "Honest Money" men of all par
ties who in any way contributed there
to, upou the significant and decisive
victory in favor of a substantial cur
rency and good government, won in
the recent State and Congressional
elections in Ohio by the Republican
party.
The Democracy one year ago carried
Ohio ny q majority of %, $50; this year
Colonel Barnes is elected over Mr..
Paige by q majority of 8. .154, a gain
in one year of 25, GA.
But our opponents claim that this
was an election of Copgressmen, and
we admit that upon the election OF
members of Congress the chief inter
eat centered.
is best ascertained by looking to the
result on Representatives. You cleo
ted nine members of Congress- gain
of four over the number allowed us by
the Democracy, in their corrupt gerry
mandel of last winter. by majorities
aggregating 80, ,S3S, while the Demo
Gratis carried eleven districts by major
titles only aggregating 1880.
In other words, our majority in the
State upon the real test was LOSS,
which shows a net gain from 1877 on
Bishops vote of SO. 57S, and this, too,
when in the Seventeenth District the
Democrats, Nationals and everybody
else pooled their issues" in the vain
attempt to defeat MIR. Monroe.
This victory was won in favor of the
Republican idea of redeemable money
and specie resumption. In the Tenth
District, where the special champion
of paper money, Hon. Thos. Ewing,
ran for Congress, and in the Thirteenth,
where General Warner was the Dem
ocratic candidate, the strongest evil
dence is shown of the fact that the
Democratic theory of irredeemable
currency is not indorsed by the people.
In 1877, Governor Bishop carried the
counties DOW In Ewing's district by
1,47S majority. This year Ewing
escapes defeat with a majority of only
334. and Gallia county scarcely had an
election in some of the townships on
account of yellow fever. Last year
the counties of the Thirteenth Dis
tr.ct gave Governor Bishop $40 ma
iority, and this year Warner carries
them by only 123. Last year Cover
nor Bishop carried the counties of the
Eighth District by 4. 200 majority; this
year Mr.. Foster, the champion of hard
money, ran Finley's majority down to
1,2o5.
You met the enemy of stable cur
rency upon his chosen ground, mar
shalled by veteran leaders, aided by
officers of recent enlistment, and you
vanquished him. You stayed the
tide of reputation, and turned il back.
The "Ohio Idean had its birth here
1t met a disaster at your hands in 1875
and again you have overthrown it in
1873.
The charge that the Republican
victory was won by the corrupt use of
money is false, let it be made by men
In high or low station; and while it
may assuage the pangs of disappointed
ambition, and serve to call of atten-
tion from personal apostacy to princi-
pie, it is none the less an outrageous
SANDER upon the men of Ohio who but
recently renewed the pledges of hostil-
ity to a currencv of rags. nothing but
rags" they had made in 1875.
By this victory you have retained a
majority of the Supreme Court and
control the Public Works. You re
tanned the Office of Secretary of State,
and have assurances of a sweeping
victory next year.
The work done has been well done.
The work ahead of us is now all i'm.
portant. Stand by your guns. Tent
on the field of victory. preparatory to
fresh attacks upon the enemy.
Ohio is a Republican State. Upon
the issue of sound currency you are
invincibie.
]. 8. ROBINSON, Chairman.
j. O. DONALDSON, Sec'y.
GEO. DONALDSON, Asst 6ec'y.
VIM DKNNIsoN, Treas.
W. T. WILSON,
5. A. LONG,
L. SKAsoNGooD,
@. II. GRosvENoR,
GUSTAV HoF,
State Executive Committee.