Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-10-20
TO THE PEOPLE.
A Patriotic Address Issued by the Repub-
Iican National Committee.
HEApe'Rs REIN NATL CoM'rEK,

az 9th Avenue, N. I. Oct. is.
! The republican National committee halls
in the victories already won as = sure omen
of greater victory is close at hand. vermoat
is still as a star that never sets. Maine, cap
tured in 1880, rebukes slander by plurality
of 20, 900, gain OF l3 per cent on the entire
vote West Virginia, in place of IL 900
plurality for Hancock, now falls below 5000,
a republican gain of per cent which kindles
hope that 1853 votes of the solid south NAV be
broken in November; but the result in Ohio
is resolution and prophesy.
| Only a year ago, the democrats by IL 600
and two years ago by 10000 plurality ,got0 Ohio.
Ohio now gives $1,000 plurality Ter the low
est republican State candidate and on the
national issues 49, 900 for republican con.
gressmen. Holding the State and local off,
ces and the whole machinery of elections,
the democrats have scattered corruption with
lavish hand, colonized voters, imported
professionals, repeaters and in spite of the
most strenuous efforts to enforce the Law cast
many thousand fraudulent votes. Because
of this power they had chosen to stake all On
the State. declared it would foreshadow the
vote in Nov. and were strangely certain OF
success. They filled the air with ISLANDERS.
Local issues led many voters to disregard the
national questions; against such odds the
magnificent victory is q prophesy Of 40, 900
plurality for Blaine and Logan in Nov, with
a ratio of gain in other states, 1t foreshadows
an increase of zoe, 900 in the
republican national vote and the
largest popular majority ever given to any
candidate.
These victories show the determination of
the people, that as Lincoln, Grant and Gar.
field were slandered in view of so foremost
statesmen of today shall not be driven from
the peoples work by the tongue of malice.
They show that the republican party which
was first to resist and uproot the dogma OF
perpetual allegiance to foreign power is
chosen by the nation TO defend all the rights
of American citizens abroad. They show
that so long as the democratic party rests all
hope of success on denial of free suffrage in
the southern states, it will ask in vain conf.
dence of any state where the free vote is re-
corded by an honest count. They show that
the people will not abandon the protection OF
American industries, under which the country
has gained twice as much in 20 years as il
had gained in all its previous history of
American labor. which has lifted the wages
II per cent. higher here than in England.
The people see what stagnation the democratic
first firm step toward free trade has caused
within the past year Nine months ago
flushed with victory and Boosting of certain
success, the democratic party made no
secret of its blind inheritence to the British
theories of free trade. Now neither the
deceitful platform nor dumb candidate avails
to check the stampede from that party for
its voters knew that protection has made the
reward of labor greater here than in any
other land on earth.
The national committee appeals to the
people to make the victory decisive. IL 10 no
time for the confidence or neglect of any
proper escort. Bare success 10 not enough.
IL is time to put an end to the
agitation by which the democratic party
prostrates business every four years
The grandest part Of the grandsst history
ever made by any nation 10 the work Of the
republican party. 1t rests with you republi.
cans Of the nation to carry forward the work
which you and your fathers begun and to
which so many brave and faithful men have
given their precious lives, that the govern.
ment of the people, by the people and for the
people shall be maintained in the land.
(Signed) b. +. JoEEs,
Chairman
SAMUEL FEssESDEN,
Secretary.