Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1884-10-31

VOTERS Ol tlt NuutNiJ ""' wv"
issued by the Republican National
Committee
IIEADQUARTES
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COM,
2i2 Fifth Avenue.
NEW YORK, October Is. lSs2.
The Republican National Com
mittee halls, in the glorious vic
tories 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, rebukes slander by a plu-
rality of 10000, gain OF Is per
cent. of its entire vote. West Viz
ginia, in place Of 1l,0O0 plurality
for Hancock, now falls below 5000,
a Republican gain Of per cent,
which kindles hope that the l53
votes Of Solid South may be
broken in November. But the re-
suit in Ohio is revolution and a
prophecy. Only year ago DEM
ocratic by 1900 and two years
ago by $4,000 plurality, Ohio now
gives $4,000 by 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 cleo
tion, the Democrats scattered cor
ruptiOn money with lavish hand,
colonized voters, imported pro
fessional repeaters, and in spite OF
the most strenuous efforts to en-
force the law against them, cast
many thousand fraudulent votes
Because of this power they had
chosen to stake all upon that state,
declared that it would foreshado"
the result in November, and were
strangely certain Of success. They
filed the air with ISLANDERS. Local
issues led many voters to disregard
National 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 increase
100000 in the Republican National
vote. and the largest popular ma
jority ever given to any candidate
These victories show the deter
mination 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
party. which was the first to resist
and uproot the dogma of per
petual allegiance to a foreign
power, is chosen by the Nation tC
defend all rights of American cltl
zens abroad.
They show that, so long as th'
Democratic party rests all hope OF
success upon a denial OF free sui
frage in Southern States, 1t vii
ask in vain the confidence of any
State when a free vote Is recorded
by an honest count.
They show that the people will
not abandon the Protection o
American industry, under whlcl
the country has gained in all 1t
previous history-the Protection 0
American labor, which has lifte'
wages G2 per cent higher here thar
in England. The people see whd
stacnation Democrat first firm
step toward Free Trade has caused
within the past year. Nine month
ago, flushed with victory an'
boasting Of certain success, TN
Democratic party made no secre
of its blind adherence to British
theories of Free Trade. Now
neither deceitful platform nor
dumb candidate avals to check tn
stampede from that party. For 1t
voters know that Protection ha
made the rewards Of labor create
here than in any other land o
earth.
The National Committee appeal
to the people to make the victor
decisive. 1t is no time for over
confidence, or for neglect of an
proper effort. Bare success is no
enough. 1t is time to put an en-
to the agitation by which the Den
Ocratic party prostrates buslnes
every four years. Pit an end |
the hope that the Nation can b
ruled by shot-guns in slXtee
States and frauds in two Put a
end to the vililicatiOn of the fort
most champions Of American ideas
by men who do not dare to NEE
vital issues of National policy
Make the principles proclaimed b
our matchlcss leader-'Peace wit
the world, Commercial expansion
in every practicable direction
Encouragement Of every form {
American industry, Protection t
every citizen, native or naturalile
at home or abroad, NOT onl
triumphant, bnt so overwhelming
triumphant that the splendid pro
perity which they promote sha
not again be interrupted by tn
struggles of obsolete theories an
foreign interests for the mastery Q
this continent. The grandest pal
of the grandest history ever mad
by any nation is the work of I'll