The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-10-28
THE ONLY SAFETYs
Vote Against the Solid South !!

On next Tuesday the decisive battle
of the second Rebellion will be fought.
On the one side is arrayed the Solid
South, as rampant, as hot-headed, as
revolutionary, as in 1860. The South
ern leaders have publicly boasted that
they have captured the Capitol y and
that they will not stop until every
vestige of your war legislation is wip-
ed from the Statute Books" On the
other side is arrayed the great free
North, having no hope of pecuniary
gain to influence her action, but only
desiring protection for her great man
ufacturing interests, the maintenance
of sound financial policy and the
supremacy Of the Nation. The ex-
rebels Of the South have made the
campaign a sectional fight. They
boast Of having destroyed the Repub-
can party in the South, and, it seems,
are foolish enough to think that they
can destroy it in the North. They
are determined to rule or ruin the
country. Democratic politicians in
| Washington are even now asserting
that enough Republican States will
be thrown out by the Rebel Brigadiers
of the House to elect Hancock. The
elections in Ohio and Indiana virtual
ly settled the contest. There is not
an intelligent Democrat in America
who believes that Hancock has even a
shodow Of a chance for election. Han
cock does not believe it himself, hence
his ludicrous letters about the tariff,
order to catch votes in New York and
New Jersey.
Knowing as they do that Gen. Gar
field will sweep the Northern Statee,
and possibly one or two Of the South
ern States, the revolutionary scound-
rels who are managing the Democratic
campaign are busy manufacturing
testimony" as to frauds in Ohio and
Indiana, upon which testimony the
Rebel House will attempt to throw
out those States, unless Garfield shall
have so decided a majority in the
Electoral College as to convince these
bullies that there must be no fooling
about the matter. The election of
Garfield by a rousing majority, will
forever shut the mouth of the Solid
South, so to speak. The ex-rebels
will then understand that in their
schemes for plunder they will ever be
met and thwarted by Solid North.
Should the election be close, the
Democratic politicians will threaten
war, and bluster and blow, and repeat
the scenes Of 1861. Even now they
are threatening ''Revolution." Right
here allow us to say that the Demo-
crat who talks about going to war in
order to place Hancock in the White
House, makes decidedly ludicrous ass
Of himself. The rebels of the South
do not want any more war with the
North. Barnum, the forger, with his
gangs Of repeaters, ballot-box suffers
and crooks, would rather be excused
from going to war, when they have
seen, within few days, Gen. Grant
riding through the streets of New
York, at the head of fifty-six thousand
voters-at least twenty-five thousand
Of whom were 'Boys in Blue" We
believe that Grant, Sherman and Sher-
idan, could, With a nod Of the head,
have fifty thousand veterans on the
march for Washington, within five
days, and there could be supplemented,
if necessary, by half a million Of as
brave soldiers as ever lived. In view
of these facts, the war talk is simply
idiotic on the part of the Democratic
managers The attempt to throw out
Republican States would be, to say
the least, exceedingly dangerous, as it
might become necessary to throw out
the Rebel House.
But there is an easy way to avoid
any trouble or danger in the premises.
Let every Union man in the North
Democrat or Republican, vote on the
side of the Union, vote in the interest
Of National prosperity, vote for James
A. Garfield. The North should give
him such a rousing majority that the
"Solid South and the ''Bloody Shirt"
will be unknown in the political liter
ature of the future. The election Of
Garfield seems to be a foregone con-
clusion. In his frantic efforts to save
the sinking ship, Chairman Barnum