The Portland daily press., 1884-10-20
ON TO VICTOR z.
Stirring Address OF the Republican
National Committee.
sHME OF THE ABUSES COMMITTED
BY THE DEMOCRATS IN
OHIO MENTIONED.

HEADQUARTERS REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE,
242 FIFTH AVENUE
New YORK, Oct. 1871 1884.
The Republican National Committee halls
In the glorious victories already won, sure
omen of the greater victory which is close at
hand. Vermont is still the star that never sets;
Maine, captured in 1880, rebukes SANDER by
plurality of 10000 gain of Is per cent of its
entire vote; West Virginia, in place of II 900
plurality for Hancock, now falls below 5000, a
hepubi1can gain of per cent, which kindleE
. hope that the 1853 votes of the Solid South
may be broken in November. But the result
IN Ohio Is revolution and prophecy. Only
year ago Democratic by 12600 and two
years ago by 10000 plurality, OHIO now gives
II 000 plurality for the lowest Republican
State candidate, and on national ssnes 900
for the Republican congressman. Holding the
State and local offices, and the whole machin-
cry of elections, the Democrats scattered cor
ruption money with lavish hand, colonizsd
voters, imported professional repesters, who in
spite OF the most strenuous efforts to enforce
the law against them, cast many thousand
votes. Because Of this power they had chosen
TO stake their all upon that State; declared
that it would foreshadow the result in Novem-
Der, and were strongly certain of success.
They filled the air with ISLANDERS, and
local issues led many voters to disregard
ma ional questions. Against snch odds our
magnificent victory is prophecy Of 10000
plurality for Blaine and Logan In November
foreehadows an increase of 700 900 in the Re-
publican 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 Garfield were
Stance. cd in view SO the foremost statesmen of
to-day shall not be driven from the peoples
work by the tongue of malice. They show
that the Republican party which was the 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
cIizsps abroad They show that SO long as the
Democratic party rests all its hope of success
upon the denial of free suffrage in the South
ern States it will ask in vain for the conf.
dence of any State where free
vote is recorded by an honest count
People see what stagnation the Democratic
first firm step toward free trade has caused
within the past year. Nine mouths ago flush
ed with victory and boasting of certain success
the Democratic party made no secret of its
blind adherence to British theories of free
trade. Now neither its deceitful platform nor
its dumb candidate avais TO check the stam-
pede from that party. for its voters know that
protection has made the reward of labor great
er here than in any other lar d on earth. They
show that the people will not abandon the pro-
lection OF American industry under which the
country has gained twice as much in twenty
years as it had gained in all its previous his
tory of American labor, and which has lifted
wages So per cent. higher here than in Eng
land
The National Committee appeals to the peo-
pie TO make the victory decisive 1t is no time
for confidence or for neglect of any proper ef-
fort. Bare success is not enough. II is time
to pat an end to the agitation by which the
Democratic party prostrates business every
four years. The grandest part of the grandest
history ever made by any nation is the work of
the Republican party, and it rests with you,
Republicans OF the nation, to carry forward
the work which you and your fathers have be-
and to which manV hrQ and faithful
men have given their precious lives, that gov
ernment of the peopie, Dy the people aud for
the people shall be maintained in this land
(Signed)
B. F. JONES, Chairman.
SAMUEL FEssENDEN, Secretary.