Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-10-30
A CALL TO VICTORY.
An Able Address by the Republican
National Executive Committee.


To the Republican Voters of the Country:
NEW YORK, Oct. ls.-The Republican
National Committee halls in the glo-
rious victories already won a sure
omen of the greater victory that is close
at hand. Vermont is still the star that
never sets. Maine, captured in 1880, re-
Dukes the slander by plurality of 2O.-
600, gain of 1S per cent. of its. entire
votes. West Virginia. in place of loco
plurality for Hancock, now falls below
5000, Republican gain of Z per cent
which kindles hope that the 15S votes of
a solid South may be broken in Novem-
Der. But the result in Ohio is rsvolu-
tion and prophecy. Only a year ago
Democratic by 12,600, and two years ago
by 10000 plurality, Ohio now gives H.
900 plurality for the lowest Republican
State candidate and on national issues
$4,000 for the Republican Congressman.
Holding the State and local offices, and
the whole machinery of elections, the
Democrats scattered corruption money
with lavish hand, coloBiZed voters, i'm
ported professional repeaters, and in
spite of the most strenuous efforts to
enforce the law against them cast many
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 iilled the air with
ISLANDERS. Local issues led many voters to
disregard national questions. Against
such odds the magnificent victory is
prophecy of 10000 plurality for. Blaine
and Logan in November. With the ra
ito of gain in other States it shadows an
increase of 100000 in the Republican
national vote, and the largest popular
majority ever given to any candidate.
These victories show the determination
of the people that, as Lincoln, Grant,and
Garfield were slandeTed in vain, so the
foremost statesmen of to-day shall not
be driven from the peoples work by the
tongue of malice. They show that the
Republican party. which was the first
to resist and uproOt the dogma of per
petual allegiance to foreign power, is
chosen by the nation to defend all rights
of American citizens abroad. They show
that so long as the Democratic party
rests all hope of success upon denial
of free suffrage in Southern States, it
will ask in vain the confidence of any
State where free vote is recorded by
an honest count.
WILL NOT ABANDON PROTECTION.
They show that the people will not
abandon the protection of American in
dustry under which the country has
gained in all its previous histoFy-ths
protection of American labor, which has
lifted wages 81 per cent. higher here
than in England. The people see what
stagDation a Democratic 3tirst frm step
toward free trade" has caused within
the past year. Nine months ago, flushed
with victory and boasting of certain sue
cess, the Democratic party made no Sc
cret of its blind adherenceto British the
ories of free trade. Now neither de-
ceitful platform nor dumb candidate
svails to check the stampede from that
party, for its voters know that protec-
tion 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
1t is no time for over-confidenee, or for
neglect of any proper effort Bare sue
cess is not enough. 1t has to put an end
to the agitation by which the Democratic
party prostrates business every four
years.
PUT AN END
to the hope that the Nation can be ruled
by shotguns in sixteen States aHd frauds
in two; put an end to vili6catiOn of the
foremost champions of American ideas
by men who do not dare to meet vital
issues of national policy. Make the
principles proclaimed by our m2tch!es5
leader Peace with the world, CONNER
cial expansion in every practicable di
rectiOn, encouragement of every form Of
American Industry, protection to every
citizen, native or natuTalized, at home or
abroad" d"-tTiumphant that the splendid
prosperity which they promote shall not
again be interrupted by the struggles OF
of obsolete theories and foreign interests
for the mastery on this continent The
grandest part of the history ever made
10y any nation is the work of the Repub-
licans 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 main
tanned in the land.