Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-10-28
Address BY the Ohio Democratic Cen.
trail Committee

II
The Democratic State Central Com
mittee of Ohio issued the following ad-
dress to the Democracy OF Ohio on the
18th:
To the Democracy or Ohio: ..
The result of the elections just held in Ohio
and Indiana, while disappointment to oIe.
reasonable and just expectations, is by no
means loss irretrieyable, even to the De
noc:acyof Ohio, and should have no other
effect upon the National contest than to stiIr
uiate the Democracy. of the, whole country IL
a renewed and more determined effort to elect
Hancock ana Eng4ish in November I'm these
local elections the Democratic party has keel
coDlpelled 10 contend. Rot against the Reputr
lican party of those States alone but aga INST
the Organized capital and 1nachilery of the
Rcpubacan party of the whole country rs well
as the whole power of the Federal Administra-
ton, with its repeated assessments upon
an army of Federal offceholderS and
Government contractors. By j arcnying
this power against the Democracy of the
two States, aided by the use of the Federal
machinery of Supervisors and Deputy Mar
shals, by importing repeatcrs, white and black,
to swell the vote to- unprecedented mum berS, in
many places far beyond the census showing of
male citizens over twenty-one years; 10y in-
timidation and coercion of employer over en-
ploye, thus robbing men of their sacred right
of free manhood suffrage; by raising and
spreading such false issues and alarms as
rebel claims and business threats, putting the
party in false position on the tariff, and,
above all, by the most lavish and corrupt use
of money ever known, shamelessly buying
outright Eecessitous Toters where other
influences failed, they have succeeded in
showing small gain over the last
election; but against this power the Democra-
ay Of Ohio have rolled up solid vote of near
ly three hundred and fifty thousand-the
largest vote they ever gave-for the mainte
nance of liberty and Constitutional Govern
ment. Though apparently outnumbered, that
is not defeat. If it is not indeed Il victory. it
is surely q grand achievement and one that
ought to encourage every Democratic and con.
SENTATIVE voter to stand stcadfIStly by the
great principles OF free government, for
which we ever contend, and to renew with
fresh courage the fight against corruptionand
that ccntralzing tendency which, unless ar
rested, will surely put al end to free elections
and wrest from the people their control of gov
ernment. Then will be realized the hopes and
purposes of the chiefs among the Republic
an leaders, the destruction of local self
government and the establishment of Gov
crnment control by an olgarchy of wealth. a
stepping-stone to permanent imperialism.
Such Il combination of money and Federal
power as was made last Tuesday against the
free ballot and manhood suffrage cannot take
place in our State in November. and but for
that the Democracy would have won decisive
victory. Democrats of Oh:o, you have seen
many dark days devoted 10 the Union of
States, devoted to principles of liberty and
free Institutions; contributing more soldiers
to the Union army than your opponents, you
have been maligncd, abused, traduccd. misln-
acrstond by honest but prciudiccd men, mis-
represented by INSCRIPTIONS dcmR
gogues: but in all these trials you
have maintained your integrity; defeated
one year, your vote has increased the
next. You have been greater in your advcr
sity than your foes i'll their Il-dcscrved asccn
dency. You are buiwaril between Gespot
ism on one hand. and anarchy on the other
You ave at the sam, time the truest friend.
of National progress. AMI the firmest friends
Of National con ServatiSul. There is not one
idea thai ever gave freedom TO q human being
that had not its origin in Democratic principles
Every man the world Owe. who to-day finds
his social aud p pli.icti condition better than
that oi his ia! her, owes that fact To Democratic
ideas an |, hence. so Iolg as true progress
shall be made among manSind. our party will
be iudcstructihie. 1t knows no such
word render. 1t il IA National par
ty of free inst:tu ions, and only when they
tail Will it fail. Althoug IN our State ticket
is uneXccptOnabla, nevertheless Hancock Is
stronger by thousands in every state than the
strongest local tichct. Indiana, left to itself
i'll November. IL be recovered by the Democ-
racy. New York and New Jersey are sure.
Connecticut is scarcely doubtful. Maine has
already sppkon. New Hampshire, Colorado,
Nevada, California a1d Oregon, on the great
issue of +, ce Government against centralized
power, ought and can be brought to the side OF
the DemOc. acy. 1t remains for the Demo
Gratis or ohio bat 10 do their full duty, 20
place even ohio in the column of Demo-
cratic States in November. Only add to
the votes of Tuesday last votes that
might have been cast, and the work is
done Come, every voter, to the polls. Our
leader is worthy the cause. He saved the
Union, and with it free government, Il: Gettys-
burg; he uphe.d the Constitution and princi-
pies of fee government in Louisiana and
Texas; he champions the great principles
now. Rally to his standard on the I'd of No
vember, every Dcn0crltic voter and every
lover of popular government, and he will be
our next President. (Signcd.)
CLARKE IRVINE.
Secretary.
JOHN G.. THOMPSON,
Chairman Democratic State Central Commit
lee.
j. F. MCkINNY,
Chairman State Executive Committee.