Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-10-23
Organization and Hard Work wiz
Elect Cleveland and Hendricks
by an Overwhelming Majority.

Elect Cleveland anu HENDRICKS
by an Overwhelming Majority.
NEW YORK, October 1.-THE Ma
tional Democratic Committee has issued
the following address, which will be
distributed all over the country:
To The people of the United States:
The results of the elections on Tues
day last in the States of Ohio and West
Virginia are before you.
THE VOTE IN OHIO.
Ohio chose Republican electors in
1868, 1872, 1876 and 1880. West Vir-
ginia chose Republican Presidential
electors in 1868 and 1872, and Demo-
cratic electors in 1876 and 1880. Gar
field obtained plurality in Ohio in 1880
of 34,227 votes. The Republican cam
didate in the late election for Secretary
of State was gallant soldier and re-
putable man. The vote of the Repub-
fican party in that election was broken
down by the weight of Mr.. Blaine, a
factional seeker after the Presidency.
The people then elected Democratic
majority of the Congressional delega-
ton of the State. We may confidently
expect majority in Ohio for Cleveland
and Hendricks in November.
WEST VIRGINIA
Has by it's splendid and decisive ma
jority for Democratic Governor at the
Octobe4 election already declared its
purpose to give its electoral vote for our
candidates in November.
DIsREPUTABLE METHODS OF THE RE-
PUBLICANs.
The Blaine managers employed ex-
traordinary methods in both States.
They expended not less than $5O0,C00 in
Ohio, and more than 100000 in
West Virginia in their political
work. They did not use money
only. They called from every
State the officeholders best fitted to do
the work at which they were put. They
crowded these two States with such men.
They employed in political jobs the
men engaged in the postal service of the
United States. They left the veterans,
who had saved the life of the nation,
without the pay to which they were en-
titled, under pretense of having an in
sufficient clerical force in the Pension
Bureau and then used the Commission
er of Pensions and great number of his
clerks as parts of their political machin-
erv in the late elections in Ohio and
West Virginia. 1t has been openly
charged, without denial, that the pay
ment of veterans by the Commissioner
of Pensions has been delayed by him
with the purpose of coercing them to
vote for Mr.. Blaine. These
ABUSES OF POLITICAL POWER
Have been committed under the over.
looking eye of Mr.. Blaine, and with
his full sanction. They show the man.
ner in which, if he were elected, public
officers would be subordinated to his
personal service and the bounty of the
country be made the means of adyanc-
ing his personal interests. They made
the Marshals of the United States and
their deputies, who ought to be the
guardians of the rights of every citizen
of the United States, part of their ma
chine force. They armed them and in
cited them to violence and outrage.
They expect to pay for the weapons and
services of these men out OF the Treas
ury of the United States. They made
Mr.. Blaine one of their county and
ward workers in Ohio and West Vir.
ginia, and he entered with zest upon
the familiar duties. They devised, with
his knowledge, methods of compelling
workmen to vote as their employers
dictated. They kept him in daily as
sociation with the worst elements OF
their political organization. They made
him their counselor in every disreputa
BILE plan which they devised to promote
his success. He could not have been a
stranger to their purpose to make gains
in Cincinnati at the election on Tues
day last by
USING ARMED DUPUTY MARsHALs AMI
ARMED NEGROES
To drive voters from the polls. The
methods of their campaign i'll Ohio and
West Virginia, and the share of theil
candidate in those methods, have added
to the opprobrium already resting upor
his name, and have assured his defea
at the general election in November.
A CANDIDATE WITHOUT A CHARACTER.
Mr.. Blaine has been q member of the
House of Representatives, Senator in
OOUgTeSS anu d ScCIcJdIy VI hotuVO VI OAA'
United States. He has been accused o
corruptly using his influence as Speaker
and as a member of the House of Rep
resentatives for his individual profit
His misconduct has been proved by hi
own letters. These have confronted
him wherever he has gone. He has at
tempted no explanation. The phrases
of the letters are so we'll known tina
they are by-words on the streets ant
jests upon the stage.
A candidate who has proved dishon
est wherever dishonesty is profitable
A speaker of the House of Representa-
tives, q member of the House, wht
} would barter his influence for money o
property, might avail himself of thu
larger opportunities which the offic
and powers of a President afford. Thes'
| are not words dictated by prejudice
They sum up thejudgment of that in
dependent press which is, and alway
will remain, the bulwark of good ant
! constitutional government. They ex
press the convictions of the leading Re
publican journals, and the belief o
, those distinguished Republican states
/ men and citizens whose love of countr,
has forced them to declare that tn