The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-10-22
A CALL TO VICTORY.
ADDRESS BY THE REPUBLI-
CAN NATIONAL EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE.
October Elections lndIcatu Sue
cess for the Republicans in Mo-
vem Der.

October Elections ludIcatu suc-
cess for the Republicans in Mo-
vember.
10 the Republican Votcrs Of The
Country:
New York, October 1S.-The Re
publican National Committee halls
in the glorious victories already won
sure omen OF the greater victory
that is close at hand. Vermont is
is still the star that never sets.
Maine, captured in 1880, rebukes
slander by plurality of 10000, a
gain of 13 per cent. OF its entire vote.
West Virginia, in place of H. 900
plurality for Hancock, now falls be-
low 1900. Republican gain of per
cent, which kindies hope that the
153 votes of a solid South may be
broken in November. But the result
in Ohio is a revolution and proph-
ecy. Only year ago Democratic
by 1900, and two years ago by 49,
plurality, Ohio now gives 12,000
plurality for the lowest Republican
state candidate, and on National is
sues $4,000 for the Republican Con-
gressmen. Holding the state and
local offices and the whole machi-
merry of elections, the Democrats
scattered corruption money with law
ish hand, colonize6 voters, imported
professional repeaters, and in spite
of the most strenuous efforts to en-
force the law against them cast ma
ny thousand fraudulent votes.
sTAKED ALL ON OHIO.
Because of this power they had
chosen to stake all upon that State,
declared that it would foreshadow
the result in November and were
strangely certain of success. They
filled the air with ISLANDERS. Local
issues led many voters to disregard
Nation questions. Against such
odds the magnificent victory Is a
prophecy of 10000 plurality for
Blaine and Logan in November
With the ratio of gain in other States
it shadows an increase of 100000 in
the Republican National vote, and
the largest popular majority ever
given 70 any candidate. These vic
tories show the determination of the
people that, as Lincoln, Grant and
Garfield were slandered in vain, so
the foremost statesman of to-day
shall not be driven from the peoples
work by the tongue of malice
They show that the Republican par
ty, which was the first 10 resist and
uproot the dogma OF perpetual al
legiance" to foreign power, is chos-
en- by the Nation to defend ali rights
of American citizens abroad. They
show that so long as the Democratic
party rests all hope of success upon a
denial of free suffrage in Southern
States, it will ask IN vain the conf
deDce of any State when a free vote
is recorded by an honest count.
1 WILL NOT ABANDON PROTECTION.
They show that the people will
not abandon the protection of
American industry under which the
country he's gainedin al! its previous
history-the protection of American
labor, which has lifted wages 81 per
cent. higher here than in England.
The people see what stagnation a
Democratic first step toward free
trade has caused within the past
year. Nine months ago, flushed
with victory and boasting of certain
success. the Democratic party made
no secret of its blind adherence TO
British theories OF free trade. Now
neither deceitful platform
nor a dumb candidate
avails to check the stampede
from that party, fo- its voters know
that protection has made the rewards
of labor greater here than in any
other land on earth.
/ The National Committee appeals
to the people to make the victory
decisive Ii is no time for over con-
fidence, =. for neglect of any proper
effort. Bare success is not enough. |
1t is time to put an end to the agita- |
ton by which the Democratic party |
prostrates business every four
years.
PITT AN END
to the hope that the Nation can be
ruled by shot guns in sixteen States
and frauds in two; put an end to the
vilificatIon of the foremost champi- |
ons of American ideas by men who
do not dare to meet vital issues OF a
National policy. Make the prinei-
pies proclaimed by our matchless
leader" Peace with the world, com
mercial expansion in every practi-
cable direction, encouragement of
every form of American industry,
protection to every citizen, native or
naturalized, at home and abroad y
triumphant, that the splendid pros
perlty which they promote shall not
again be interrupted by the strug-
giles of obsolete theories, and foreign
interests for the mastery on this
continent The grandest part of the
grandest history ever made by any
nation is the work of the Republi-
cans of the Nation to carry forward
the work which you and your fathers
have begun, and to which so many
brave and faithful men have given
precious lives, that government of
the people, by the people, for the
people, shall be maintained in the
land.
B. L. JONES. Chairman.
SAMUEL FEsSENDEN, Secretary.
Remarkable Weather in the South.