Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-27
A Calm, Earnest and Patriotic appeal to
the People Of OhiO-The Republican
Party LabOring for the Bond
h0Iders-The Maine Repub.
Iicans Nominate Davis
for Governor.

COLUMBUS, June 26.-The Democratic |
| State central committee and candidates met |
/ here to- day for consultation. The committee |
| meeting was without jar or special point |
of interest. The central committee organ |
| lied by electing John G. Thompson chair |
| man. The following executive committee
| was chosen: Frank M'Kinnev, of Piqua, |
chairman; j. G. Rinehart, of Columbus, |
| treasurer; S. w. Hoffman of Cincinnati, d. |
M'Connvllle of Steubenville, James Estell of |
Millersburg, and J. II. Anderson of Column |
| bus.
General Ewing was serenaded tonight, |
and in response to loud calls appeared and |
| after an enthusiastic reception made a speech.
| After returning thanks for the reception, he
referred to the Democratic platform, saying
| that it needed no interpreter, and no man IN
| the party had a right, when speaking in its
name, to add one word or substract one
word from that platform. He SAID it may go
1 too far on The money question to suit some
| Democrats and it may fall short of the views
| of others, but 1t is a moderate exposition of
/ the issues of this campaign on which the
| Ohio Democracy have chosen to ask the in
| dorsement of the people. Further along,
| General Ewing said: THE fight this year is
for position in the great battle of 1890. The
| forces on each side are so evenly balanced
| that which ever party secures Ohio has the
| point of advantage which will probably turn
| L
on the canvass fully realizing the popularity,
ability and capacity for organization of the
| distinguished gentleman who heads the
Republican ticket, and the mighty power,
wealth, privilege, patronage and plumber
which will be arrayed against US. But, con-
ident of the triumph of constitutional gov
eminent and popular right, l shall obey the
voice which called me to the front, and, aided
| by others far ADLER than myself, will sub nit
our great cause to the eonsiderate judgment of
| the people," After declaring that there were
no feuds among the Ohio Democracy, and
| that their light was rot for a man or a fac
ton, but for a cause, and that honored and
| trusted leaders in office and out are IN en-
! thusiastic accord, and that not one would
| think OF degrading himself or impetlllIng
the cause by an untlmely struggle Tor per-
! sonal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, ne SAID we propose
to make IN this campaign a calm, earnest
| and patriotic appeal to the people of Ohio.
| We expect to show them that whatever may
have been the services of the Republican
| party in the past, the material interest of the
| masses and safety of local self government
| alike demand a change of administration.
| No party that ever existed could have had
the power as long as the Republican has held
! it without detrim emit to the public welfare
| 1t IS high time Tor a change. 1t cannot be
for the worse. 1t will certainly be for the
better. The Republican party emerged from
the war amid the plaudits of vast majority
of the people of the north. But with Lin
coins assassination and Johnson's political
murder it lost popular leadership, and fell
| into the hands and under the control, not OF
the men who bore the neat and burden Of the
! war, but of the money arlStocracy which
grew and fattened on their sacrifices. 1t
turned Its back to the soldiers, and its
face to the bondholders. It con6scated the
interests OF the masses and piled mountain
high the fortunes of the favored few. Fear
ing to submit its measures to the judgment
| g I TOD
Stunned popular discussion of them, aud
blinded the people with passion and preJu-
dice on false issues Invented to deceive them.
Ten years have passed since all the constitu
tlonal amendments and all legislation
adopted or proposed by the Republican party
to secure the results OF the war have been in
scribed upon our statute books, administered
by our courts and acquIesced IN by the whole
people. But sectional distrust preju-
dice and passion are still kept alive
by that party, not for your good, fellow-citl-
| zens, not for the security OF the toIling mil
! lions, black or white, north or south, but
| solely for party advantage. The Republican
party has become the foe OF that restored
: harmonious and prosperous union for which
the best blood of the north was shed. 1t has
{ become the enemy of civil order, the pro-
moter Of discord, the obstacle to fraternal
union. Fog thirteen years past it has SO
managed our debt, currency and revenue as
to lift burdens OF good from the shoulders of
the rich and lay them on the shoulders of the
industrial classes, to double the wealth of
9 the holders of money securities and
9 double the burdens of the people groaning
under the accommodating load of debt
and taxation, and so as to strengthen
b. its relaxing hold onipower by enriching the
D | privileged classes and corporations, whose
$ means and disposition to sustain it increase
! | in the ratio of the Impeachment of the
i | masses. In referring to Federal interference
! in elections, General Ewing said the Eepub-
r lican party had further fortified itself by
, | usurping Federal control over elections, which
had heretofore never been asserted since the
| foundation of our government, and that our
| fathers never knew or heard of the phrase
!. | national elections" which President Hayes
@ and Mr.. Foster SO glibly use, and this at
: tempt OF the Republican party to coerce and
: control State officers, when conducting
| State elections under State lays, by
! | the use of the Federal array and
! | swarms of hireling spies and marshals,
is fragrant, monstrous, and intolerable usur-
" | patton. While speaking on this subject, he
| said: "Fellow-eitizens, this assumption of
! | power, if recognized and established, tends
: and will, | believe, lead to the utter destruG-
y | ton of the benehcent system of govern
!, | ment established by our forefathers. Under
. ! that system, formulated under the constitu-
: ton, all powers of the Federal government
. are strictly defined and limited, while the
= | States and the people, reserVing to them
, ! selves all power not delegated to the general
= | government, are sovereign In a far wider
= | sphere than is the general government. |
!. speak in no spirit of craftsmanship, but in
4 candor of conviction, when | say that the
/ obliteration of the reserved rights of the
:, States and people, and the absorption In the
? general government Of all, regardless
| of political power, the constitution
. has become the controlling tendency, if not
| the final aim of the Republican party. These
| policies of the Republican party, by which they
'' are lmpoverishing the masses and absorbing
g unlimited power in the general government,
), are only steps toward the ultimate subyersion
4 of our popular liberty and the establishment
/ of the rule of money aristocracy. He said !:
y | Never In the history our government have
y principles opposed to true democracy been so
= boldly and powerfully maintained as by the
1t Republican party in the past twelve years.
= It's long and firm hold of rapidly expanding
IT power and enormous growth of concentrate.
y | wealth have developed and ripeEed
y forces inimical to popular government,
q | until now, having reduced the
d laboring masses almost to pauperism
having stripped the middle classes of large
share of their wealth; having learned how
| to exact enormous tributes from corporations
o it has enriched by unjust legislation, it seeks
a by corruption to bride, and by force to over
| awe the electors, and to perpetuate Its power
in utter contempt of the constitution and OF
free and unbought sutfrag of the people.
General Ewing closed by appealing for the
RI whose employment is cut off by the depres-
Iv sion of values; to the debtors and payers
20 whose burdens are doubled by that depreG,
sion; to the men Who know that n change
| tends to reform abuses; to those who love
q free government; to the soldiers of the