The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-29
Washington Correspondence
WASHINGTON. D. G. Oct IL IL

HAshlNSToNi ~. u, Oct. Is, 1884
EDITOR CLARION The October election
in Ohio has been one of more absorbin.
interest than usual from the fact that !,
was more doubtful and uncertain than anv
former One--even the sporting men decllp.
ing to risk their money on either side-sDB
because the majority vote was OF such sip.
nihcanc0 and importance that almost evsro
one eoncurred in the opinion said 10 have
been expressed by Hon. Jas. G. Blaine tba,
It would have the effect Of "proelaimjD,
the result ofthe Presidential election
The trst dispatches stating that the Re.
publican msiority exceeded their biobos,
expectations, were received by the Radic,l.
here, with such exuberant rejoicing tbs,
one Of them declared that it afforded h.,
more pleasure than would the pressr, -
one hundred thousand dollars; but il
really wonderful TO believe how r,pi5l,
their exultation toned down, and actp,n,
vanished, when the news came tina, ~.
majority had dwindled to the iusirpisc,r,
figure OF about 10000, when before, it had
been reported as high as $4,000.
Then il was that they exclaimed with
touching pathos, ooh, what fall wa.
there" my radical friends, now you and
and oil OF us must fall down and vesnv
because the Ohio vote is so ominou. oi
Radical gloom and Republican disaster
and all this, Notwithstanding the mapv
magnetic appeals of the one who had
come "to marshal us, in all his armor
dressed" and who had "bound SNOW
white plume upon his gallant crest,n and
notwithstanding the additions to our rank,
of so many hirelings, repeaters and import.
ed voters, and the expenditure Of million,
of our immense corruption fund which had
been gathered from thousands Of Office
holders, from the many "bloated bond
holders" constituting those manufacturer
by whom it was given in return for the
protection we have afforded their infant IN.
dltStrics, and from so many wealthy monop.
olists made so by our magnificent "labd
grants" and otherwise, and some even from
our kind star route associates, and other
equally considerate and cherished friends.
II was notorious fact that a great
many colored voters were imported from
Virginia, Maryland and elsewhere. For
some time preceding the election at New
York, q reporter from the White Sulphur
Springs, Va, stated that car loads of them
were daily passing by there on their way
to Ohio.
One sad case was mentioned in the Bal.
timore Sun, in which a poor fellow who
had been brought from below that city, in
company with four others, each of whom
had been promised 81 day and their
passage paid to attend the Ohio election.
The radical agent who had decoyed him
away from home, abandoned him without
a cent of pay, and told him to 90 and shift
for himself, simply because the aforesaid
agent had Just found out that the aforesaid
fellow citizen was not old enough to vote.
and at the last account the latter was beg
cling for money to "carry him back" to his
home on the eastern shore OF Maryland.
One of the remarkable incidents in Ohio
was that the Republican increased vote
was in the large cities while the Democrat.
ic increase was at the county precincts.
The former were evidently the most CON
venient and accessible points for distribut.
ing the boards of money above referred TO-
and we're selected because in the cities
could be found more of the bummers and
tramps, the cranks and dead beats whose
votes were obtainable at very low prices,
in fact much lower than they could no
bought for elsewhere.
Besides this, the ordinary "stay a home"
citizens in the rural districts had become
aroused by the blatant and defiant frauds
and corruptions which had become so ram
pant and pronounced in radical legislation
and administration, that impeled by the
most commanding considerations of duty
10 their country, and by desires and pur-
poses to promote the happiness, the vel
are and advancement of the people, they
in a solid phalan1--to
attend the poles, aud there deposit a sound
Iacksonian-J efiersonian democratic ballot
As TO the Independent Republicans who
ire hearing and needing the voices Of the
ounders Of the Union and the trainers OF
he Constitution, and who are so shocked
md Mortified as TO be driven from political
,arty so grossly debauched with venality
nd fraud, many Of them have determined
o adopt the really true, pure, genuine
epnblicanism represented by Grover Cleve-
and and Thos. A. Hendricks.
They say lin words to this effect "come
ut from among them," eagles mate no.
nth kites and carrion crows" nor do hon.
st patriots consort with corrupt and venal
artisans, therefore, "come out from among
hem" and il this government cannot be
sforned and purified, redeemed, regenerat-
/ and disenthralled from radical rule and
ppression, then "blot out the stars that
presented the States in the galaxy Of the
nion and preserve the stripes, ct emblems
their degradation"
With them higher regard for the glo-
GUS old principles Of our forefathers,
ansceEds devotion to the grand old party
debased radicalism, and they are deter
ined not to "hide this light under the
lshel Of partisan predjudice--nor to be
sterred by threats or insinuations from
7oiding the cesspools Of the adherents Of
)litical pollution-nor from coming out
ON among them"
Let us join with them in the acclaim of
1urrah for Cleveland and Hendricks and
all Of whom some one has been
st heard to say, will be successful in the
ming contest on the general principle,
at
ruth crushed TO the earth will rise again,
he eternal years Of God are hers,
hist error wounded writhes in pain"
And will be deserted by its former fol-
Wers RETsEL.