Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-09-23
A Loud Call to Republicans.

Several things are so plain to be seen
in this campaign for the Presidency that
he who runs may read and the wayfar-
lag man must be fool who is blind to
them; several things which, as our the
illogical friend Robert Ingersoll says
every Republican ought to know enough
to know. For instance:
l. The Democrats, by fraud and force,
have the South solid for Hancock. and
can give all their campaign forces to
Northern States.
,. They need only two or three
Northern States to add to the solid South
10 elect their man.
3. They therefore have only to fight
the battle in two or three States, and to
select such as as are the most favorable
battlegrounds to them.
4. These States are, first, Indiana !;
second, Ohio.
5. Republicans know enough to know
that the Democrats see this situation as
plainly, and that they are acting on it
more energetically and strategically.
6. They know enough to know that
the Democrats, having the South solid
and secure, can use that as a war base
to drawfrom to carry Indiana and Ohio.
We shall put Indiana chief, because that
is the most favorable to them for the
first great battle, and because the signs
of organization for it are more apparent.
I. Republicans know that if the Dem
ocrats Should carry Indiana in October
it would give the Democratic party great
encouragement, and enable them to turn
their forces to Ohio; that if they should
carry Ohio in October the national cause
would be given up as lost; they know
enough to know that the Democrats see
all this and are acting upon it.
8. Why have Daniel voorhees, and
Jason Brown of Indiana left their own
State in the midst of the campaign and
made political tours in Georgia, Mississ-
ippi and Alabama? Why, save that they
know that help must come from the
South to carry Indiana, and that the
Southern Confederates know that in In
diana is the field for battle to recover
the lost cause?
9. The party canvasses, so far as TAX
en-, show faYorably for the Republicans,
and they think that with an honest cleo
tion they Will carry the State; but the
Democratic managers know the same
and are acting upon it with energy and
means commensurate with the reality
that they have got to overcome Repub-
lican majority by crime.
1t is time for Republicans to wake up.
The battle is not to be fought with prin-
ciples and reason, but with crime and
Southern methods. Has any man heard
of any Northern Democrats objecting to
the Southern methods of carving elec-
tions? Is the man who helped organize
by the dark lantern the Indiana Knights
of the Golden Circle, to make an upris-
ing in the rear of the national armies,
and invite the Confederate army into In
diana, any too good to go South and or
ganize the invasion of Indiana by the
method of carrying elections? ?
What are these Indiana Democratic lea
ders and this great button ball orator
in the solid South for if not
for this?
The people of the North are going to
see election methods which they never
saw before. The solid South has but to
capture two or three States. The meth
eds that made the South solid are to be
tried in these. Let none think that only
imported voting is to be tried! All the
Southern practices are to be tried, from
an invasion by secretly organized Ku
Klux previously stealing in. prepared for
violence, to all the resorts of fraud, from
the preliminaries to the last of the coun-
ting and returning. And all this is to be
reinforced by the barrel of the Indiana
who is reserving his ill-gotten
boards to pour out on the day of election
in buying votes and election judges,
practice in which he is veteran.