Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-10-23
OHIO.


COLUMBUS, o., Oct. 1.-THE Dem
ocratic State Committee have Issued
Line following address:
Democrats of Ohio The result OF
the elections just held in Ohio aud
indiana, while a disappointment OF
our reasonable and just expectations,
is by no means a loss irretrievable
even to the democracy of Ohio, and
should have no other effect upon the
national contest that to stimulate the
democrats Of the whole country to IL
renewed and more determined effort
to elect Hancock and English in No.
vember. In these local elections the
democratic party has been compelled
to contend, not against the republi-
can party of these states alone, but
against the organized capital and ma
chinery OF the republican party OF
the whole country, as well as the
whole power of the federal office
holders and government contractors.
BY arraying this power against the
democracy of two states, aided by the
use of federal machinery, of super
visors and deputy marshals, by i'm
P0h AOPCotClSs OloCh anu WlltG,
to swell the vote to unprecedented
numbers, in many places far beyond
the census showing of male citizens
yer twenty-one years, by intimida-
ton and coercion by employers of en-
ployes, thus robbing men of their
sacred right of free manhood suffrage,
by raising and spreading false issues
and alarms as rebel claims, business
threats, putting the party in a
FALSE POSITION ON THE TARIFF,
by the most lavish and corrupt use
of money ever known, shameIessly
buying outright votes where infu-
ences failed, they have succeeded in
showing d slight gain over the last
election. But against this power the
democracy of Ohio have rolled up a
sold vote of nearly $4,000, the largest
vote they ever gave for the mainte-
nance of liberty and constitutional
government. Though apparently
outnumbered, that is not defeat ; if it
Is not indeed a victory it is surely a
grand achievement that ought to en-
courageI our democratic-ward con-
servative voter to stand steadfastly
by the great principles of Tree gov
for which We ever contend,
aud to renew with fresh courage the
night against corruption aud the CELL
~rallzatlo tendency, which, unless
arrested, will surely put an end to
free elections and wres from the peo-
pie their control Of the government,
when will be realized the hopes anu
purposes of the chief among the re-
nnhllcQn IQQdara-fhn Host, .g
local self-goVernment and the estab-
llshment of government control, and
the country will be ruled by all
oligarchy OF wealth, a stepping Stone
to permanent imperialism. Such a
combination of money and federal
power as was made last Tuesday
against the
FREE BALLOT AND MANHOOD srF.
FRAGE
cannot take place i'll our state IN Nc
vember, and but for that democracy
would have won a decisive victory.
Democrats of Ohio, you have seen
many dark days. Devoted to the
Union of states, devoted to the princi-
plies of liberty and free institutions.
contributing nor soldiers to the
Union army than your opponents,
you have been maligned, abused.
traced and misunderstood by honest
but p%rejudiced men, and misrepre-
sented by INSCRIPTIONS demagoyues.
But in all these trials you have main
tanned your integrity. Defeated one
year, your vote has increased the
next. You have been greater in YOUR
adversely than your foes in their ILL
deserved ascendency. You are the
bulwark between despotism on the
one hand and anarchy On the other.
You are at the same time the truest
trends of national conservatism
There is not one idea that ever rave
freedom to a human being that had
not its origin in democratic principles.
Every man the world over, who to-
dav find his social and political con-
diti0n better than that of his fathers,
owes that fact
TO DEMOCRATIC IDEAS,
and hence 80 long as true progress
shall be made among mankind our
party will be indestructible. 1t knows
no such word as surrender; it is the
national party Of free institutions,
and only when :hey fail will it fail.