The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-10-29

NEW YORK, special telegram, October
19.-fhe national republican committee
has issued the following address:
The republican national cora mittee
halls III the glorious victories already
won d sure omen OF the greater victory
that is close at hand. Vermont is still
the star that never sets. Maine, captur-
ed III 1880, rebukes sIander by plurality
OF ~ O,OOo, Il gain OF Il per cent oflts entire
vote. West Virginia, i'll place of II, 600
plurality for Hancock, now falls be low
3,UOO-a republican gain of per cent,
which kindles hope that the 153 votes
Of a solid south may be broken in
November. But the result in Ohio is
revolution ana d prophecy. Only a year
ago democratic by 12,6OO, and two years
ago by l9, 900 plurality, Ohio now gives
1900 plurality for the lowest republican
state candidate, and on national issues
$4,000 for the republican congressman.
Holding the state and locaio1fices and
the whole machinery OF elections, the
democrats scattered corruption money
with lavish hand, coIonized voters, lm-
ported professional repeaters, and in
spite Of the most strenuous efforts to
enforce the law against them. cast many
thousands of fraudulent votes. Because
OF this power they had chosen to stake
all upon that state, declared that it would
foreshadow the result in November, and
We're strongly certain OF success. Local
issues led many voters to disregard nat-
ional 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 foreshadows an in
crease of 100 900 in the republican nat
ional 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 slandered in vain, SO the
foremost statesman ofto-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 ''perpet-
ual allegiance" to a 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 the southern
states it will ask in vain the confidence
Of any state where a free vote is record
ed by honest count
They show that the people will not
abandon the protection of American IN
dustry, under which the country has
gained twice as much in twenty years
as it gained in all 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 democratic first firm step
toward free tradeu has caused within
the past year. Nine months ago, flush
ed with victory and boasting of certain
success, the democratic party made no
secret of its blind adherance to British
theories of free trade. Now neither
deceitful platform nor dumb candidate
avails to check the stampede from the
party. For its voters know that protec-
ton has made the reward Of labor great
er here than in any other country on
earth.
The national committeeappeal to the
people to make the victory decisive. 1t
is time 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 and frauds IN
two; put an end to the villification Of
tEe.tWo foremost champions of Ameri-
can ideas by men who do not dare to
meet vital issues of national policy.
Make the principles proclaimed by our
matchless leader-''Peace with the
world commercial expansion in every
practicable direction encouragement of
every form of American industry; pro-
lection Of every citizen, native or nat
urlized, at home or abroad''-not only
triumphant, that the splendid prosper
ity which they promote shall not again
be interrupted by the struggle of obsol-
etc theories and foreign interests for the
mastery of this continent. The grandest
part Of the grandest history ever made
by any nation is the work of the repub-
lican party. It rests with you, 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 and for the people shall be main
tanned i'll the land.
B. f. JONES, Chairman,
SAMUEL FEssENDEN, Secretary,