Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-10-20
ADDRESS TO OHIO DEMOCRATS.


The following address was issued Satur.
day last by the Ohio democratic State COM
mittee:
1.-THE result of the election in Ohio last
Tuesday of State officers should arouse eve
ry citizen who loves his country to realiz.
ing sense Of the danger. which menace our
free institutions. The man who stole the
presidency in 1876 mean to repeat their
methods even with more audaciouS desper-
alton in 1884. To them nothing is sacred.
Liberty is farce and the ballot box bur
lesque. Never since the experiment of free
government was begun on this continent
has the world witnessed such degradation
of the right of franchise, such dissertation
of citizenship and such desperate, corrupt
and polluted methods as were resorted to
BY rascals who were not citizens Of Ohio to
defeat the honest will Of the people at the
ballot box.
"a million dollars, raised by wealthy
stock jobbers and monopolists was sent into
the State. With it came the scum of the
country, thieves, ex-detectves, repeaters
and government officials, headed by w. w.
Dudley, chief of the pension bureau. Al,
though thousands of widows, orphans and
manned soldiers have been waiting patient
ly for years for pensions promised them,
and due from the government, large num-
bers of employees and special agents from
the pension office, headed by their chief,
and non-resideuts Of Ohio, spent four weeks
in the State under government pay engag
ed in preparing for the frauds commit
ted last Tuesday. In addition, two thou
sand men, many of them outlaws and
desperate characters, and but few of
IS in
deputy marshals in Cincinnati, armed with
weapons purchased by the corruption fund
furnished by Dudley and his gang. They
surrounded the polls in that city, voted
where they pleased, bulldozed, beat and
shed blood at pleasure, interfering with cur
citizens in the discharge of their most sa
cred duties.
"The enumeration of male inhabitants in
1883 shows that there were 66,29S males, Of
which number ] ,6S3 were colored, and yet
over ~, 900 votes were polled at the election
in that city. The enumeration taken il
1883 included all persons over the age OF
twenty one years, whether they were NATL
rallied citizens or not. Yet within period
of fifteen months from that date We hrd
cast in that city 1000 more votes than there
were citizens only year previous. At least
5000 votes cast in Hamilton county on last
Tuesday were fraudulent republican votes
cast by United States marshal5 and nom
residents.
Notwithstanding these shameful meth
DDS, the republicans have only succeeded in
securing plurality of about ten thousand
for tho head Of their ticket on u toral zoe
cast of nearly eight hundred thousand, a
.oss of 1000 III their majority as Compared
with the vote for State "tn :rr5 when Janes
A. Garfield was candidate four years ago
.Ou the day following the election the re
publican committee of Ohio, With reckless
disregard for. truth and initiating the cx
ample of their illustroua chief, caused to
be spread broadcast over the country that
they had carried Ohio by $4,000 majority.
For political effect they were willing TO ex-
aogerate and lie. We feel it our duty to
lay these facts before the people of the
country.
The result of this election in Ohio need not
discourage democrats hero or elsewhere, but Con-
sdering the fearful odds against us must and will
give Gauss for encouragement To the people of Obi"
to continue this fight. The battle has just begnn
Tho men, the money tho methods which gave
the republicans their unholy and discrcdtab!e
but meagre ma GRITTY on October II have dl:ap.
peared We mean to carry Ohio in Novembe- Tor
honest men aud honest administration of an non
est government 1t would take the same lncn
the same methods and tho same money To give
James G. Blaine one half the majority in Noyem-
Der that tina republican State ticket secured iii
October. Their entire gang must be brought
back to maintain their ill-gottsn victory. Ohio
will give democratic majority in November for
Cleveland Hendricks aud honest government.
We congratulate the honest citizens who voted
the democratic ticket Nearly thirty thousand
moro than ever voted tho democratic ticket in
Ohio We congratulate you upon the glorious
fight you have mada against desperate odds.
There is no fault to be found with the democracy
or the democratic committee in any county in
the Stats. Pledge yourselves anew to the great
work before you. Stand by your guns and push
the enemy along the whole line.
Renew the fight by school districts. Gather
in your school houses and resolve to wrcst Ohio
from corruption Go to work at once and in less
than ten days we will have the republican mana.
gers crying out in alarm, calling on Blaine and
Logan. and Dudley and Davenport, and Clayton
and FilcT Come back and save US or we SINK
Democrats of Ohio, let Us share in the glorious
victory thst awaits honest government in Novem-
her, We must keep the republicans busy in
Ohio. At the beginning OF this campaign we en-
gagged to fight the republican party of Ohio III a
State election. Thus far We have been in a con-
test with the republican party not only of Ohio,
but of the United States. Now we have them
single handed and alone we can win this victory
if we make proper effort to do so. Let every
democrat in Ohio from to-day forward enter upon
the fight snd cease not his exertions until the
polls clos. on the evening of the 4th day of No
yember."
VIRGINIA NEWS.
A Gre on Saturday night at Farmville