The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1884-10-30
The Republican state executive
com mmittee has issued the fol1owinu.


chairman and secretary Of the Demo-
cratic executive committee Of Ohio
issued a libelous and indecent address,
in which they seek to reconcile the
extravagant predictions made by them
prior to the election with the unpleas-
ant facts since developed by their hu-
initiating defeat.
In this whining circular they adopt
the old stratagem Of the cunning
rogue and cry 'Stop thief" to divert
attention from their own rascally
methods and thwarted attempts to de-
feat the honest will of the people.
They denounce fraud to divert at
tention from the expensive schemes
for the perpetration Of frauds, which
were detected and rendered inopera-
tive by Republican vigilance. They
condemn the alleged undue use Of
money to divert attention from the
fact that they expended the enormous
sum of $275,O00 to corrupt the voters
of Ohio.
They charge General W. W. Dud-
ley, as gallant soldier and as pure a
man as ever stood on the battlefield,
with remissness in the discharge of
official duties as commissioner Of pen
sions to divert attention from the fact
that Governor Hoadly, his private Sec
retary and all the Democratic state
officers have virtually abandoned their
offices to lay the wires and manipulate
disgraceful campaign in behalf Of a
solid South and Congress controlled
by rebel brigadiers, which would have
no interest in the Northern soldier
except to crush him.
They charge the United States mar
shals with improper interference with
voters at the polls to divert attention
from the unfairness and brutality Of a
cloud Of Democratic deputy sheriffs
appointed to protect rufians in their
raids upon the ballot-box, we'll know
ing that District Attorney Charming
Richards and the Republican press Of
the state have challenged them to
show single instance in which a fed
eral officer has deferred an honest man
from voting, or sought by improper
means to influence vote.
They condemn violence to divert at
tention from the fact that in the
Democratic wards of Cincinnati col
ored Republicans were knocked down
by organized gangs Of Democratic
rufians, driven from the polls, and
hundreds of them thus disfranchised,
while other colored citizens were ar
rested on false and frivolous charges
on the morning of election day, and
kept in prison until the polls were
closed at night, and from the further
fact that prominent white men, among
them Bishop Jaggar, Of the Episcopal
church, General Adams and E. T.
Sprague, were challenged by Demo-
cratic plug-uglies, then thrust from
the polls and not permitted to vote.
They affirm that $4,000 votes were
cast in Cincinnati. This statement is
absolutely false. There were but So,
694 votes polled in that city. By
their lying figures they seek to convey
the idea that there were more votes
cast than males Of voting age, but in
this connection they fail to mention
the fact that the vote would have been
still larger than it was if the scoun-
drels sent over from Kentucky to vote
the Democratic ticket had not been
hunted down by honest men and
frightened from the city.
They reiterate the thread-bare false
hood that the presidency was stolen
from them in 1876, and yet omit in
this connection to mention the fact
that 5000 Southern Republicans were
killed and wounded in the elections of
that year by Democratic thugs in
their unsuccessful efforts to give the
States Of Louisiana, South Carolina
and Florida to Tilden.
They denounce corruption to divert
attention from the fact that in the
cities Of Cincinnati, Cleveland and
Columbus their bold attempt to pur-
chase voters and lavish disbursements
Of the corruption fund became mat
ters Of such common notoriety that
scores of honest Democrats abandoned
their party in disgust and voted the
Republican ticket.
They affirm that they will carry
Ohio in November, when they must
know, if they have any sense at all,
that their ticket will be buried under
Republican majority Of 10000.
Beaten at the polls; with their
schemes to stuff the ballot-box and
defeat the popular will detected and
exposed; with a campaign fund Of
$275,OO0 wasted On ward strikers and
political dead-beats, convicted as
cheats and liars, these Democratic
managers now howl like whipped ours
over their merited misfortunes, and
afford to the world another vertical
tion of the truth that "the way Of the
transgressos is hard"
JOHN F. OaLEYEE, Chairman.
JOSHUA K. BROWN, Secretary.
AMONG THE COPPERHEADS.