The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-01-23


who love and want to preserve Gov
ernment for the people and by the
people, and who can unite on q few
fundamental propositions in opposl-
ton to the aggressions of the Money
Power, the substitution of greenbacks
for bank notes, the unlimited coinage
of the old silver dollar, and the prompt
and absolute stoppage of all increase
of the bonded debt for resumption
purposes. Let US postpone further
questions about resumption until it
shall have had its day of trial. The
country has been forced through a
sweat Of blood to reach it; now let it
give US back our stolen prosperity, or
be torn from our statute books. Post
pone, too, the tariff, the mode of reg
ulating the volume of the paper cur
rency, and ali other distracting ques-
tons not of instant and supreme i'm
portance. Let us settle them when,
by q united and gigantic effort, we
shall have broken the political scepter
of the Money Power,
If there be Democrats who are dev.
otees of bank money, who are hostile
to unlimited coinage of the old silver
dollar, who would plunge the whole
country yet deeper in bonded debt to
fasten on it the slavery of gold prices
and payment, let them go; and their
desertion, emphasizing our sincerity,
will draw to our ranks two where we
lose one. If we should lose New
York. New Jersey and Connecticut,
which do not believe, we will gain
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan
and Wisconsin. And even if, after
having secured a united and homoge-
neous Democracy, devoted to great
and lasting principles and measures,
we should lose the first battle, it were
far better than TO win it by false
union of discordant elements on a de-
ceitful platform.
Who shall our leader be? No man
who expects to win the Presidency by
suit in chancery, or an Electoral
Commission or by money. Let us
have q pure and brave man, on a plain
and candid platform. Let it be re.
solved that the result shall be ascer.
tanned and declared according to the
immemorial usuages of the Govern
mont, no matter what powers Of force
and fraud may attempt to defeat the
verdict. 1t is to be a fight between
manhood and money-between the
people who bore the heat and burden
of the war and an aristocracy which
grew and fattened on their sacrifices
Let our leader be one who is with the
people, heart and soul-who has q
back-bone-andw who, if duly elected
will be the President.
Modest Ohio has sons fit for the oc-
casion. She grows Presidential tim.
ber. Her woods are full Of it. I see
befole me the able and distinguished
leader of the Western Democracy in
the memorable struggle of 1868 fol
the payment of the public debt &C
cording to the contract. Here, too
sits Greenbacker of national fame, {
soldier of two wars, with the blood O
the Revolution visiting his big heart
Nor can we forget, though he be alb.
sent, the farmer-statesman who would
have won the Governorship of Ohio
in 1875 and the Presidency in 1876 bu
for that godsend to the Republican
party, the bugaboo plot between Geg
han and the Pope. If we could rol
ten years off the old hero's back W.
would elect him President, and h
would be present at the Inauguration
Yet at three score years and ten he il
more vigorous than half the Presi
dents. and his age, like a lusty winter
is frosty, but kindly. But uppermos
in the general thought, in Ohio ant
throughout the United States, standI
Thurman-the Fablus Msximus of th'
Ohio Democracy. Strong in mind
rich in experience, sage in judgment
No one need fear that he who bu
yesterday seized the two greatest rail
road corporations Of the earth, ant
made them submit to the just deman,
of the people, lacks either the nerv'
or the strength TO weld the battle-a,
with which Jackson Glove the helme
of the Money Power.