The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-10-24
The National Democratic Committee
has issued the following address


TO the People of the United States:
The result of the elections in the
States OF Ohio and West Virginia is
before you.
Ohio chose Republican electors in
1868, 1872, 1876 and 1880 West Vir-
ginia chose Republican Presidential
electors in 1868 and 1872, and Demo
cratic electors in 1876 and 1880.
Garfield obtained plurality in Ohio
in 1880 of 34,227 votes The Repub-
lican candidate in the late election for
Secretary Of State was a gallant SOL
dier and reputable man. The vote
of the Republican party in that cleo
tion was broken down by the weight
of Mr.. Blaine, factional seeker after
the Presidency. The people then elect
ed Democratic majority of the Con
gressional delegation of the State. We
may confidently expect II majority in
Ohio for Cleveland and Hendricks
in November.
West Virginia has by its splendid
and decisive majority for Democratic
Governor at the October election, al
ready declared its purpose, to give its
electoral vote for our candidates in No
vember.
The Blaine managers employed ex-
traordinary methods in both States.
They expended not less than $780,
900 in Ohio, and more than 100000
in West Virginia, in their political
work.
They did not use money only.
They called from every State the
office holders best fitted to do the work
at which they were put. They crowd
ed these two States with such men.
They employed in political jobs the
men engaged in the postal service of
the United States.
They left the veterans, who had saw
ed the life of the nation, without the
pay to which they were entitled, under
the pretense of having an insufficient
clerical force in the Pension Bureau,
and then used the Commissioner of
Pensions and a great number of his
clerks as parts of their political ma
chinery in the late elections in Ohio
and West Virginia.
1t has been openly charged, without
denial, that the payment OF the veter-
ans by the Commissioner of Pensions
has been delayed by him with the put
pose of coercing them to vote for Mr..
Blaine.
These abuses of political power have
been committed under the overlooking
eye of Mr.. Blaine and with his full
sanction. They show the manner in
which, if he were elected, public Off
ces would be subordinated to his per-
sonal service, and the bounty of the
country be made the means of advanc
ing his personal interests.
They make the marshals of the Uni
ted States and their deputies, who
ought to be the guardians of the rights
of every citizen of the United States,
a part of their machine force. They
armed them and melted them to vic.
lence and outrage. They expect to
pay for the weapons and services OF
these men out of the Treasury of the
United States.
| They made Mr. Blaine one of theil
county and ward workers in Ohio and
West Virginia, and he entered with
zest upon the familiar duties. They
devised, with his knowledge, methods
of compelling workmen to vote as thei
employers dictated. They kept him il
daily association with the worst ele
ments of their political organization
They made him their counsellor in ev
cry disreputable plan which they de
vised to promote his success. He coult
not have been stranger to their pur
pose to make gains in Cincinnati a
! the election on Tuesday last, by using
armed deputy marshals and armed ne
! groes to drive voters from the polls.
The methods of their campaign il
} Ohio and West Virginia and the share
of their candidate in those method
have added to the opprobrium alread.
! resting upon his name, and have as
t sured his defeat at the general elec
/ ton in November.
8 Mr.. Blaine has been a member o
I the House of Representatives, Sena
= tor in Congress and Secretary o
1 State of the United States.
= He has been accused of corruptly us
= ing his influence as Speaker and as
member of the House of Representa-
y tives for his individual profit. ~
i His misconduct has been proved b.
J. his own letters. These have confront
l. ed him wherever he has gone. He ha
e attempted no explanation. The phra
# ses cf these letters are so well know
/ that they are by-words on the street
g and jests upon the stage.
d A Speaker of the House of Repre-
If sentatives--a member of that House
r who would barter his influence fo
e money, or property might avail himse
e of the larger opportunities which tn
If Office and powers of president a
g ford.
,s These are not words dictated by pa
G ty rancor. They sum up the judgmer
D. of that independent press which is, an
IF always will remain, the bulwark of goo
As and constitutional government. The
; express the convictions of the leadin
a. Republican journals and the belief {
s. those distinguished Republica
IL statesmen and citizens whose 10,
IN of country has forced them to d
t. clare that the nomination of M
o. Blaine was one not fiji to be made,
Ii There is reason for our confdenC
is that we will achieve a victory in N
vember.
Or The army of Office holders, engage
st. for month past in the business
en- manipulating votes in Ohio and We
n Virginia, must now disband. Eat
re man of the number must go to his ow
in place. The Commissioner of Pension
he and his burea clerks cannot be conce
n trated for political uses in the Mover
ng ber elections. When they are actir
of individual in their several States tn,
ID will be unable to do mischief.
as The marshals of the United State
nd by reason of the powerss which th'
rd exercise, may again do harm in N
rsi vember. They ought to understal
lat that for what they have done, and {