National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-10-21
AN ADDRESS TO THE NATION.


The Republican National Committee Review
The Results In Vcrmgi, Maine. and Ohio.
Tho republican national committee has
issued the following address.
The republican national committee halls in
the glorious victories already won a sure omen
OF the greater victory that Is close at hand.
Vermont is still the Strrthat never sets, Maine
captured In 1850 rcbukcs SANDER by plurality
OF 2l,Uu a gain Ofl3pcr cent Oflts entire vote
West Virginia, In place Of ll,uJO plurality Tor
Hancock, now inlls below 5000 II republican
gain OF per cent, which klndles nope that
the 1888 votes Of a solid south may be broken in
November But the result in ONO Is rgNolu-
tiun aud prophecy. only year ago demo-
cratic by l2GO), and two years ago 10y 1900
plurality, ohio now gives l2.ODN plurality lor
the lowest republican state candidate, and on
national issues 1900 for tho republican CON
gfessmcn. Holding the state and local Onlces,
and the whole machinery of elections, the
democrats scattered corruption money win
lavish hand colDniZed voters, imported pro.
icssionnl rcpeaters, aud, IN spite of the most
strenuous efforts to CniOrYc the law against
them cast many thousand fraudulent votes.
Because OF this power they had chosen tOstaEQ
0ll upon that state, declared that II would
loroShndOw the result In November aud were
strangely certain Of success. They HlGd the
air with ISLANDERS, Local issues led many
votersto disregard national questions. Against
such odds the magnificent victory Is uprophecy
Of 40 900 plurality for Blalue and Logan In No
yember With the ratio OF gain IN other states
II ioreshadows an increase of 1OO,OOO In the re-
publican national vote, aud the largest pOpu-
lar majority ever given to any candidate,
These victories show the determination OF
the people that Us Lincoln Grant, and Garfield
were sandered IN vain, so the foremost states
man 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 ilrst TO resist and uproot the dogma OF
perpetual allegiance" TO u foreign power, is
chosen by the nation to defend oil rights OF
American citizens abroad
They show that, so long rs the democratic
party rests all hope of success upon adenial Of
Tree suffrage In southern states, 1t will ask In
vain the confidence Of any state when free
vote Is recorded by an honest count.
They show that the people Will not abandon
the protection Of American industry, under
which the country has gained twice as much
In twenty years as II had gained In all its pre-
ylous history-thc protection Of American la
Dor, which has lined wages 62 per cent. higher
here than In England. The people sec what
stagnatlon democratic first firm step to-
ward free trade has caused within the past
year. Nine months ago, flushed with victory
and boasting OF certain success, the demo-
cratic party made no secret of Its blind ad-
hcrcnCe to British theories of free trade. Now
neithera decetiul platform nor dumb can
didate avails to check the stampede from that
party. For It's 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 peo-
pie TO make the victory decisive. 1t Is no
time for over-coniidence, or for neglect Of any
proper effort, Bare success Is not enough. 1t
Is time TO put IN end TO the agitation by which
the democratic party prostrates business every
four years. Put nm end to the hope that the
nation can be ruled by shotguns in sixteen
states and frauds in two! Put an end to the
yilification 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 matchless
| lcader-"Peace with the world, commercial
| expansion In every practicable direction, en-
enlargement of every form of American in-
| dustry, protection TO every citizen, native or
| naturalized, at home or abrOad,-not only
| triumphant, but so overwhelmingly triumph
ant that the splendid prosperity which they
promote shall not again be interrupted by the
! struggles of obsolete theories and foreign in
terests for the mastery ON this continent. The
grandest part of the grandest history ever
made by any nation is the work of the repub.
| llcan party. 1t rests with you, republicans of
the nation, to carry forward the work which
| you and your fathers have begun, and to
| which 50 many brave and faithful men have
| given precious lives, that government OF the
people, by the people, for the people, shall be
maintained in tho land,