Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-10-30
NORTHWEST DEMOCRATS.
Appeal to the Democracy OF the
Northwest.
A Stirring Address to the People by the
National Sub Committee for the West
The case Fairly stated What Is Ex-
pected to BE Accomplished.

pected to BE Acc .mplishe<l- s.
TO rHr ELECTORS OF THE NORTHWEST:
| Within three weeks The neopie OF the United
| States will make an election for President
| and Vice President of perhaps greater Inn
porfance that they have ever made before. II
will. be marked in history as pivotal epoch:
Upon its event viii turn the great experiment
OF the popular strength to resist the most In
sidious enemy of popular liberty History
teaches that AGAINST poveray,
stand; but that the fatal rocks among when
they have broken are the coriupfions anu
arts of denlaaogy and monopoiizsd WeatIn.
And never before in free Amer fca have these
agencies of destruction SO openly ana boidly
attacked our birthrighI of self-governmenI
and the security for its continuance II was
natural consequence to the disorders
OF civil war. and the enormous taxa
r r,p mem ana skslifni and powerful for evil
should fasten upon the machinery OF
the Government and make great profit from
the Opportunities afforded by its hour OF trial
Itwas natural that by continual combination
and increasing strength their hold should
become more securely fixed upon the ma
chinery of the party IN power. Having by
such means controlled Tin large degree un
observed legislation and administration. the
wealth of the Nation has been gathered to
flow in channels which have enriched and es-
tabiished in power classes and orders of men
full adsantage secured Yielding to their
arts the public lands have been seized
and eonverted into gseat estates. and
iously harvested to swell the Golfers of the
few. The possession of this power has been
maintained by desperate methods in two pre-
vious elections. The great question must be
solved this year. Can the people shake of
the grasp of these enemies to their liberty
The circumstances of the nomination and
the peculiarities of the candidacy of the so-
called Republican nominee for President have
been such as to challenge the deepest appre-
hension of honest and patriotic men. The
methods by which his canvass has been con-
Quoted are such as have marked the destroy
ers of popular liberty in other lands. and have
always hitherto been repudiated by the seal-
Gus manliness OF American freemen. II they
can prevail now to deliver the Government
with all its powers, into such hands as reach
through his election to clutch tin spite of
the great revolt of honeSt-mnded men from
the party by which he was nominated-where
can hope be justly placed that in some later
arts fortified by the increased power which
entire possession of the Government will
give?
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.
Happily for the future of the Nation. the
igns of the times are Enthusiastically favor
a6le to popular triumph. All the preiimi-
aha far o OF te results
fords the highest confidence in the election
of the Democratic candidates. No State
which was necessary to their success. no
State which the managers of the campaign
expected to carry. has been lost; while from
every State whose Electoral vote has been an
AA.s-s
cheering assurances are received. 1t has
been the manifest plan of the Blaine cam
elections in Republican States, and endeavor
to stampede public Judgment by success in
them. as if it were doubtful. Accordingly.
Maine and Ohio have been made the objects
OF the most enormous and concentrated eff
fort. The one is the State OF Mr.. Blaine
residence, and was allowed to pass uncha,-
lenged. He claims Ohio as Garfield's heir, and
the State has not given Democratic vote in
9 Presidential year for thirty years. The aver
tions in that State during the last seven pre.
ceding Presidential contests has been 20,
this majority in the present year such efforts
have been put forth by that party, by every
monopolists who could control it could exert,
as have never been known before. The ut
most fruit of all their labors is the simple
majority. The utmost claim that can Be
made upon the result is that the Electoral
vote of Ohio will be cast for the Republican
nominees. Is it not characteristic audaefty
TO demand that these States should govern all
the others?
mencing with the counsels Of the great con-
vention at Chicago. the Democratic party has
conceded that result as probable and has
based no expectation of support from Ohio
for Its triumph IN November. So throughout
the country similar counsel has prevailed.
demonstrates that the states to which si The
convention turned it's hopes for success may
be relied upon to Justify and secure it. That
vote be held, except by importation of money
and foreign aid, the vote of Vermont estab-
fishes. of the seven States in which elections
have been held since the nomination Of Pres
idential candidates four-Aiabama, Arkansas
Georgia and West Virginia-have been carried
by large majorities; the latter, after tre-
mendous efforts by the Blaine COMMITTEES
and confident expectation from his presence
and alleged influence there. has given large
Democratic gain. In short, the same ratio of
Democratic gains which has been shown in
these States, even in the Republican States of
ried into other States, insures large major
ity to Cleveland and Hendricks in the Elec-
THE RESULT IN OHIO
In Ohio peculiar influences have operated to
affect the State election. in many respects diff
ferent from those which affect the National
contest. There. also. owing to peculiar CTR
cumstances, little or no independent vote
has been cast. while the entire Prohibition
vember, was given the Republican State
ticket The vast change of populafsentiment
which has been manifested in Republican
ranks in New York. in Indiana. in Michigan
III Wisconsin, in Illinois, and elsewhere has
had little counterpart in Ohio. The contro-
versy has been between the old parties upon
State ticket representing similar division
to that which has existed heretofore. Even
under these conditions reports already re-
ceiSed Justify belief that the result has been
secured only by the graFest inyasions upon the
free expression of sentiment at the baiIot-box
tnrougn unscTupulous abuse OF the Federai
eet.on law, it not by gross frauds in bal
loting in the cities of Cincinnati Cleveland.
Columbus, Toledo and Dayton, especially in
actcr armed with clubs and pistols. and UNI
der the leadership of the notorious Powell
Ciayton. OF Ark s;. and John l. Dayen-
date the polls and fill the streets with terror,
while s2,00J votes were counted in city Of
only 10000 people, ami in Cleveland where
many Chinese were illegally naturalized by q
Republican Court and illegally voted by Re-
publican election judges,
Cincinnati have sigualIy disproyed the SLAM
der of alleged Irish defectIon from the old
party of their friendship by giving Democrat
&c gains i'll their wards, unterrihed by negro
deputy Marshals. and that in the country dis
tricts. outside the. large cities, Democratic
y remains for the people Of the Morthwes.
ing. No portion of the country has been so
great sufferer by the evil legislation and
unjust taxation which have been inflicted up-
SO great a share of wealth by its labor, Of
which it has been deprived BY the schemes Of
monopollsfs no reglon OF the e. g
aDce of such methods as have been promised
to the great owners of wealth and capital to
secure the means with VIII ch to gain Ohfo's
vote No people more ardenfly and sincerely
than the people Of the Northwest. and upon
dependence and manly action.
The opportunity is now open to the electors
tellgent understanding of tho controversy
which SO deeply interests and affects them
and their INDEPENDENCE from the dictation OF
others. The instinct of animals leaves them
a prey to sudden impulse. to jump in panic
where some leader breaks in fear or
stampede in herds upon q sudden alarm: the
intelligence of freemen is not to be moved by
such causes. - 81
LAST APPEAL
acknowledgements of the Northwest vrr
mad abundant reason to know that a ulusr
desperate struggle would be made in this cleo
ton TO defeat the popular party. You en-
tered into this contest fully aware that you
would be met ~ every agency which unlim-