Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-18
REPUBLICAN POLLUTION.
THE DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE
ISSUES AN ADDRESS.

The DEMOORATIC COMMITTEE
ISSUES AN ADDRESS.
Blaine and His Co-Workers Proven
utterly Unfit to Rule by Their Dis
graceful Prostitution of Political
Honor and the Government Patronage
In the Ohio ElectiOn-A Plain Appeal
to Every Mans Reason.
NEW YORK, Oct. 1.-THE following
was made public to-day:
HEADQUARTERS OF THE NATIONAL
DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE,
No. II WEST TWENTY FOURTH STREET.
Oct is, 1884.
To the People ofthe United States:
The result of the elections on Tuesday last
in the States of Ohio and West Virginia is be-
fore you. Ohio chose Republican electors in
1872, 1876 and 1880. West Virginia chose Re-
and Democratic electors in 1876 and 1880. Gar
Held obtained plurality in Ohio in 1880 Of
S4.221 votes. The Republican candidate in
the late election for Secretary of State was
gallant soldier and reputable man. The vote
OF the Republican party in that election was
broken down by the weight of Mr.. Blaine, a
Iactional seeker after the Presidency.
The people then elected a Demo-
cratic majority of the Congressional
delegation of the State. We may
confidently expect a majority in Ohio for
Cleveland and Hendricks ia November West
virginia has, by its splendid and decisive
majority for the Democratic Governor at the
october election, already declared its purpose
10 give Its electoral vote for our candidate in
November. The Blaine managers employed
extraordinary methods IN both States. They
expended not hess than $500.000 in Ohio and
more than 100000 in West Virginia in their
political work. They did not use money only.
Wherever they could they called from every
State ofliceholders best fitted to do the work
at which they were put. They crowded these
two States with such men. They employed
In political jobs men engaged in the postal
service of the United States.
VETERANS LEFT UNPAID.
They left veterans who had saved the life
of the nation without pay with which they
were entitled, under pretence of having an
insufficient clerical force in the Pension Bu-
reau. and then used the Commissioner of Pen
slons and great number of his clerks as part
of their political machinery in the late elec-
tions in Ohio and West Virginia. 1t has been
openly charged. without denial, that the pay
ment of veterans by the Commissioner of Pen
siOns has been delayed by him with the pur-
pose of coercing them to vote for Blaine.
These abuses of political power have been
committed under the overlooking eye OF
Blaine and with his full sanction. They show
the manner in which, If he were
elected, the public Offices would
be subordinated to his personal
service, and the bounty of the country be
made the means of advancing his personal in
terests. They made Marshals of the United
states and their deputies, who ought to be the
guardians of the rights Of every citizen of the
United States, part of their machine force.
They armed them and melted them to vio-
lence and to outrage. They expect to pay for
the weapons and the services of these men
out of the Treasury of the United States. They
made Blaine one of their county and ward
workers IN Ohio and West Virginia, and he
entered with zest upon these familiar duties.
They devised, with his knowledge, methods of
compelling wOrkmen to vote as their
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association with the worst elements of their
political organization.
BLAINE A TOOL.
They made him their counsellor in every
disreputable plan which they devised to pro-
mote his success. He could not have been a
stranger to their purpose to make gains in
Cincinnati at the election Tuesday by using
armed Deputy Marslrals and negroes to drive
voters from the polls. The methods of their
campaign in Ohio and West Virginia and the
share of their candidate in these methods
have added to the Opprobrium already resting
upon his name, and have assured his defeat
in the general election in November. Blaine
has been a member of the House of Repressn-
tatives, senator in Congress, and Secretary of
State of the United States. He has been .ac-
cused of cOrruptly using his influence
as Speaker and as member of the
House of Representatives for his in
dividual profit. H misconduct has
been proved by his own letters. These have
confronted him wherever he has gone. lie
has attempted no explanation. The phrases
of these letters are 50 well known that they
are words in the streets and jests on the
stage. Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives, a member of that House who
would divert his influence for money or prop
erty, might avail himself of the larger Oppor-
tunity which the office and powers of Presi-
dent afford. These are not words dictated by
party rancor. They sum up the judgment Of
that independent press which always will re-
main the bulwark of good and con titu-
tional government.
DISGUSTED REPUBLICANS.
They express the convictions Of leading Re-
publican journals. and the belief of those dis
tinguished Republican statesmen whose love
that the nomination Of Blaine was one not to
be made. There are reasons for our conf
dence that we will achieve vlctO;y in Novem-
ber. The army of o1fceholders, Engaged for a
month past in manipulating votes in Ohio and
West Virginia, must now disband. Each man
of the number must to his own place. The
Commissioner of Pensions and his bureau of
clerks cannot be concentrated for political
uses in the November election. When they
are acting individually in their several States
they will be unable to do mischief. The Mar
powers which they exercise, may
They ought to understand that for
what they may have done and what they may
do they will be hereafter held to the strict
est account by the justly indignant people,
and hopes of reward and promises of indemni-
ty which been held out to them will not
avail them in the days which are close at
hand. The country is fully aroused. 1t Is
alarmed by the corrupt influences surround
ing Mr.. Blaine, and will reject him as Presi-
dent. Mr.. Blaine has grown rich. The
men around him have grown rich. Specu-
latOrs whom he aided by framing laws to suit
them are rich. Corporations which he has
helped have monopOlized the public lands, but
trade is stagnant. The commerce OF the
country is decayed Mills are standing idle
Where wages have not been stODDed they are
reduced.
STARVATION AT HAND.
Mechanics and laborers go about seeking
employment in vain. Women and children
are beginning to want bread, and the farmer
can find no profitable market for his grain.
circumstances afford conclusive proof
that few interests have been cared for by
the Republican managers at the expense Of
the interest of the great body of the people.
The creation in this favored land of such eX-
tremes of wealth and poverty, and the evil
day which have overtaken all who are en-
gagged in labor, are not your fault. 1t has
been and is the fault of those selfish men who
use the powers which you gave them for their
own advantage, leaving you to fare as best
you can. It is for you to determine
whether these evils shall continue and in
crease or diminish and end in general
prosperity, shared in by all alike. You have a
right to expect that your party leaders, to
whom you have given support and accorded
honors in past years, will lay aside all differ
CHCbS anu earn u ld5biHg CldlIn upon your
gratitude by making common cause in your
supreme efforts to obtain the blessings Of good
government. You will not be disappointed.
that victory in November over un-
men who are now endeavoring to
seize the Presidency can only be assured by
your complete organization. When men are
of one mind and want to impress their opinion
upon the community in which they live they
must stand together and work together. The
highest and best organization of which men
are capable is that IN which every man
wants to do that part of the common
work which he can do, and does it with all
his might. Your organizations should be Of
such nature, and if they are Gov Cleveland
viii be elected in November by an unparalI-
eled majority.