The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-11-07
HOW OHIO WIS CARRIED.
BANKS AsO E81ngEs AT THE BOTTOM
OR Is.

GeD. Thos, Ewing, in lis speech at
Warren, Ohio, 4 few days before the
election, told something Of The true in
wardness" Of the manner in which the
Radicals carried Ohio. Here is an ex-
tract from his speech:
have said, ny fellow citizens, that
the contest this year in Ohio is a hand
to hand fight for tic rule Of the I,tllot
against the rule Of the dollar and the
bayonet. In no struggle in one State
heretofore has the influences and power
of money been 50 openly aud audacious-
ly asserted. Heretofore the money
power ha4 fought under cover: now it
comes openly into the field. L hold ia
my hand The proceedings Of tho Amer
lean BsukerS Associatiop,1 held st
Saratoga, Gn the 9th, 7th and Sth Of
Last month. before which association
the comptroller of currency made nm
address fyoring all of It's objects. and
before which Mr. Sherman says lie was
only prevented from appearing by the
pressure Cf official engagements. The
leading purposes Of the association, as
declared IN this report, are to 'fGb0tish
the abort 1cetytt doLiar," which means
the ancient dollar Of all our contracts,
public or private, and to "sepagats the
issase Of piper Money from Partisoa pol
ittcs," which means to destroy all the
grcenbachs aId commit the whole con-
troll Of the paper caneIi.y to the Ma
tional banks; and also To prevent the
re-enactmeut Of What the association
calls the cold anil oiious income tar"
On the day after the adjournment of
the annual convention referred 10 cir
cular WAS iss,4td to Ibe ..bs.nl.a and
bankers of Ohio" a duplicate of which
was handel me bv an officer Of Ma
tional bank, who Is sonid Democrat,
and is not la favor of hanks thrusfing
themselves into the arena Of politics.
read the original circular, ~kici, Is as
follows
''The American Bankers Assn,
"No. 247, Broad way. Room 4,
New Pork, August 9. 1879.
ITO the banks aud ls.ukers of ONO:
As members of the executive council
of the American Bankers Association,
we desire to state that special measures
will be taken to FORWARD our interests
in Ohio. It is desirable that all banks
and bankers become nieini.erz Of the as
sociation for this year at least.
Yours truly,
WM. j. DEsHLER.
president National Exchange Bank,
Columbus, Ohio.
\. II. MoLs,
president First National Bank,
Sandusky, Ohio.
a 204.
Here we have b,.i,i attempt at
combined movement of these powerful
institutions, created by public Law and
Subsidized by the National Treasury,
to elect the Republican and defeat the
Democratic State ticket in Ohio. Whyl
Only because the election of Mr. Fos-
ter this year will probably scare the
election of National Bank candidate
for the presidency in 1880, and fasten
on the country the deciar, poiicf OF
the associated Lanhs to destroy the
greenbacks and the silver dollar and
bank taxation.
Let the National banks beware. II
they push on this combination for the
corrupt Use of their power in bribing or
pursuading or menacing voters they
will find that their own roof-sree will
not stand the firmer for that They
will find that there is enough Of cour-
age and public virtue in the masses to
execute the Seitz law against even the
most wealthy aud powerful of its vio-
lators; and they will find, too. that this
combination to bring their power oI,en-
ly to bear upon Ohio politics, will
arouse a spirit of resistance among the
masses that will demonstrate to them
that they would have stood better
chance of success if they had remained
concealed under cover of the Republi-
can party, instead of thus openly APP
pearing as the instigators of corruption,
the violators of law and the purse-hold-
ers and pronounced allies of the Re
publican party.