The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-10-23
TO THE PEOPLE.
An Address From the National Commit
tee,

NEW YORK, October l7.-Ihe follow
ing was made public to day:
Headquarters National Democratic
Committee, No. II, West street, October
16.-To the People of the United States
The result of the elections of Tuesday
last, in the States of Ohio and West Vir
ginia, is before you. Ohio close Repub
lican electors In 1868, 1872, 1876 and
1880. West Virginia chose republican
presidential electors in 1868 and 1872
and democratic electors in 1876 and 1880
Garfield obtained a plurality in Ohio in
1880 of 34,227 votes. The republican
candidate in the late election for secreta
ry of State was gallant soldier and 8
representative man. The vote of the
republican party in that election was
broken down by the weight of Mr.
Blaine, factional seeker after the presi'
dency. The people there elected dem.
ocratic majority of the congressional
delegation Of the State.
WILL GO DEMOCRATIC IN NOVEMBER
We may confidently expect a majority
in Ohio for Cleveland and Hendricks in
November. West Virginia has, by its
splendid and decisive majority for the
democratic governor at the October elec'
tion, already declared its purpose to give
its electoral vote for our candidates in
November. The Blaine managers en-
ployed extraordinary methods in both
States. They e1pendid not less than
five hundred thousand dollars in Ohio
and more than one hundred thousand in
West Virginia. In their political work
they did not use money only. They
called from every State the oficeholders
best fitted to do the work at which they
were put. They crowded these two States
with such men as they employed in po.
litical jobs; men engaged in the postal
service of the United States. They left
the veteran, who had saved the life OF
the nation, without the pay with which
they we're entitled, under the pretence oi
having an insufficient clerical force iu
the pension bureau, and then used the
commissioner of pensions and great
number of his clerks as parts of thell
political machinery in the last elections
in Ohio and West Virginia.
THE ABUSE OF OFFICIAL PATRONAGE
1t has been openly charged, without
denial that the payment of the veterans
by the commissioner of pensions, has
been delayed by him, with the purpose
of compelling them to vote for Blaine
These abuses of political power have been
committed under the overlooking eye oi
Mr.. Blaine, and with his full sanction
They show the manner in which, if be
were elected, the public Offices would be
.ubordinated 20 his personal service, and
the bounty of the country be made the
means of advancing his personal inter.
ests. They made the marshals of the
United States and their deputies, who
ought to be the guardians of the rights
of every citizen of the United States
part of their machine force. They arm
ed them and incited them to violence
and to outrage. They expect to pay fol
the weapons and services of these men
out of the treasury of the United States
They made Blaine one of their county
and ward workers in Ohio and West
Virginia, and he entered with zest upon
his familiar duties. They devised with
his knowledge the methods of compelling
workmen to vote as their employers die.
tated; they kept him in daily association
with the worst elements of their political
organization they made him their coun.
selor in every disreputable plan which
they devised to promote his success. He
could not have been stranger to their
purposes to make gains in Cincinnati al
the election by using armed deputy mar
shals and negroes to drive voters from the
polls.
BLAINE's PERSONAL CORRUPTION.
The methods of their campaign in
Ohio and West Virginia, and the share
of their candidates in these methods, have
added to the opprobrium already resting
upon his name, and have assured bis
defeat in the general election in Novem'
Der. Blaine has been a member of the
house of representatives, senator in
congress and Secretary Of State of the
United States.
He has been accused of corruptly using
his influence as speaker and as member
of the house of representative for his
individual profit. His misconduct has
been proved by his own letters. These
have confronted him wherever he has
gone. The phrases of these letters are
so we'll known that they are by.words on
the streets and jests on the stage. A
speaker of the house of representatives,
member of that house, who would
divert his influence for money or proper
ty, might avail himself of the larger
opportunities which the Office and powers
Of president affords. These are not words
directed by party rancor. They sum up
the judgment of that independent press,
which is and always will remain the bull
wark of good and constitutional gov.
ernment. They express the conviction
of the leading republican journals, and
the belief Of those republican statesmen
whose love of country has forced them
to declare that the nomination of Blaine
was one not fit to be made.
THE HOPE FOR NOVEMBER.
There are reasons for our confidence
that we will achieve victory in November.
The army of oficeholders engaged for a
month. past in manipulating votes in
Ohio and West Virginia, must now dis
band. Each man Of the number must
go to his own place. The commissioner
of pensions, and his bureau clerks cannot
be concentrated for political purposes in
the November election. When they are
acting individually at their several States.
they will he unable to do mischief. The
marsbals of the United States, by reason
of the powers which they exercise, may
again do harm in November. They
ought to understand that for what they
may have done, and what they may do
they will be hereafter held to the strictes'
account by justly indignant people
The hopes of reward and the promises Of
indemnity which the republicans hold
out to them will not avail them in the
days which are close at hand. The
country is fully aroused.
THE COUNTRY ALARMED.