Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1880-10-28
Conservative Republicans.

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Conservative Republicans.
} STEERING ADDRESS To LOVERS OF
: LIBERTY AND THE BALLOT
PLAOEHULDERs, MnN,Po-
LISTS AND CnRRUP-
TONS DENOUNCED.
The National Association Of Con
. servative Republicans has issnet
the following s.iG!fcss
HEADQUARTERs NATIONAL
ASSOCIATE OF CnNsER-
vATIvE REPUBLICANS,
No 81 WEST TWENTY
FOURTH STREET,
NAw York, Oct. IS, 1880.
To tie Friends IF Gensral Hancock
and IF the Coastatutioa and. TIE
UnsUaa
We ask your immediate and
earnest attention and co-operation
with lis in national effort to bring
ont to the polls on the 2d dav OF
November next every voter who
thinks the same things with you
and Will, us concerning the Repub-
Tic. The October elections i'm Two
great States Of the West-Indiana
and Ohio have ust shown to the
whole conrtry that the Pres idcniial
election in November next the
honest voters Of the Union will fnd
themselves confronted at tie polls
by the org .nized corruption of the
radical party WELDING all the re-
sources of the federal government,
and determined in 1880 TO repeat,
under one or another form, the
crime by which in 1876 the ex-
press will of the American PEOPLE
III the choice OF their rulers was
tudaciously defeated aud set at
naught. In Indiana aud in Ohio
large bodies of fraudulent voters
wer. shamelessly brought to the
to the polls by Radical managers,
many Of whom fill posts in the pub
lie service and draw pay from the
Treasury "f the United States. In
indianapolis aud Cincinnati alone
.he closing OF the polls on the 18th
ut October showed an aggregate OF
votes deposited III the ballot box OF
nf these two cities exceeding by
more than five thousand the census
returns of men or the voting age
included in tneir population. Voters
were openly bought in the public
streets of both cities, and in th'
city of indianapolis at midnight on
tho 1th OF Octo:,er literal rcgi-
ment of ''Davenporttd'' deputy
marshals, numbering 625 men, was
snd,lenly called into being by
Dudley, the United States Marshal,
10 protect at the polls on the ensu-
ing day the imported repeaters VII"
were to defraud the people of In
diana oi their free choice of rniers
tor their own Commonwealth.
HOW MONEY WAS ut.
All this machinery of trand anu
force has been established and is
kept III motion Of course by a lavi-h
use # funds. These fund. have
been raised by the following
methods:
First Repeated assessments.
ranging from fifty cents to hundreds
ut thousands Of dollars, have been
NJ on every man and WOMAN in til,
public SERVICE, from the Secretar,
Of Slate to the sciub woman in the
Capitol.
Stcoud-Banks, bankers ano
sgndicates, CONNECTED by secret anu
confidential relations with the
Treasury of the Uuited States.
'noaopolists maintained by snch
| private connections with mcmbeIe
of Congress as were brought to
light IN the scandaluus history OF
tie Credit Mobilier and DeGolytr
pavement ring stock operators fat
tened on the profits OF secret and
| iHitt IldE6 cdcU
and all contributed largely of tn. ir
profits in the past in the hope OF
realizing more than all their present
entiay from fresh profits in the
future.
To hold Ohio and Indiana in
October was absolutely necessary
to the Radicals If their organic .tiop
was to be held together in the field
till November Nothing was spared
to achieve this result, and this re-
suit Was achieved.
II now becomes necessary for
the people Of the United States to
put themselves at once and ener-
geticalIy between these hungry and