The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-10-23
TO THE PEOPLE.
An Address From the National Commit.
tee,

| NEW YORK, October 1.-THE follow.
Ing was made public to day:
Headquarters National Democratic
Committee, No. II, West street, October
| lG.-To the People Of the United States ::
The result of the elections Of Tuesday
last, in the States Of Ohio and West Vir.
ginia, Is before you. Ohio chose Repub.
lican electors In 1868, 1872, 1876 and
1880. West Virginia chose republican
presidential electors in 1868 and 1872,
and democratic electors in 1876 and 1880.
Garfield obtained plurality in Ohio in
1880 of 1927 votes. Tue republican
candidate in the late ele, on for secreta-
ry Of State was a gallant soldier and
representative man. The vote Of the
republican party in that election was
broken down by the weight of Mr..
Blaine, factional seeker after the presi.
dency. The people there elected dem.
ocratic majority Of the congressional
delegation Of the State.
WILL GO DEMOCRATIC IN NOVEMBER.
We may confidently expect majority
in Ohio for Cleveland and Hendricks in
November. West Virginia has, by it's
splendid and decisive majority for the
democratic governor at the October elec.
tion, already declared its purpose to give
it's electoral vote for nur candidates in
November. The Blaine managers em.
ployed extraordinary methods in both
States. They expendid not less than
five hundred thousand dollars in Ohio,
and more tban one hundred thousand in
West Virginia. In their political work
they did not use money only. They
called from every State the oflicehoIders
best fitted to do the work at which they
were put. They crowded these two States
with such men as they employed in po.
litical jobs; men engaged in the postal
service of the United States They left
the veteran, who had saved the life Of
the nation, without the pay with which
they were entitled, under the pretence OF
having an insufficient clerical force in
the pension bureau, and then used the
number of his clerks AZ parts of their
political machinery in the last elections
in Ohio and West Virginia.
THE ABUSE OF OFFICIAL PATRONAGE.
1t has boon openly charged, without
denia! that the payment Of the veterans
by the commissioner of pensions, has
been delayed by him, with the purpose
of compelling them to vote for Blaine.
THESE abuses Of political power have been
committed under the over looking eye Of
Mr. Blaine, and with his full sanction.
They show the manner in which, il he
were elected. the public Offices would he
subordnated TO his personal service, and
the bounty Of the country he made the
means Of advancing his personal inter.
ests. They made the marshals of the
United States aud their deputies, who
ought to be the guardians OF the rights
of every citizen Of the United States,
part of their machine force. They arm.
ed them and incited them TO violence
and to outrage. They expec, to pay for
the weapons and 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, aud he entered with zest upon
his familiar duties. They devised with
his knowledge the methods of compelling
workmen to vote rs their employers die.
tated ; they kept him in daily association
with the worst elements Of their political
organization ; they made him their coun-
selor in every disreputable plan which
they devised to promote his SUCCESS. He
could not have been n stranger to their
purposes to make gains in Cincinnati mt
the election by using armed deputy mar
shals and negroes to drive voters from the
polls.
BLAINE's PERSONAL CORRUPTION.
The methods of their campaign in
Ohio and West Virginia, and the share
of their candidates in these methods, have
added to tho opprobrium already resting
upon his name, and have assured his
n Nnfa 81 sr, BIO Al =
ber. Blaine has been member of the
congress and Secretary of State of the
United States.
He has been accused of corruptly using
of the house of representative for his
individual profit. His n,isconduc: has
been proved by his own letters. These
have confronted him wherever he has
gone. Tho phrases of these letters are
so sc we'll known that they are by.words on
the streets and jests on the stage. A
speaker of the house of representatives,
member of that house, who would
divert his influence for money or proper.
ty, might avail himself of the larger
opportunities which the office and powers
Of president affords. These are not words
directed by party rancor. They sum up
the judgment of that independent press,
which is and always will remain the bull
wark of good and constitutional gov.
ernment. They express the conviction
OF the leading republican journals, and
the belief Of those republican statesmen
whose love Of country has forced them
to declare that the nomination Of Blaine
was one not fit to be made.
THE HOPE For NOVEMBER.
There are reasons for our confidence
that we will achieve victory in November.
The army Of officeholders engaged for q
month past in manipulating votes in
Ohio aud West Virginia, must now dis.
band. Each man OF the number must
60 to his own place. The commissioner
of pensions, and his bureau clerks cannot
be concentrated for political purposes in
the November election. When they are
acting individually at their several States,
they will be unable to do mischief The
marshals of the United States, by reason
of the powers which they exercise, may
again do harm in November. They
ought to understand that for what they
may have done, and what they may do,
they will be hereafter held to the stcictest
account by justly indignant people.
The hopes Of reward and the promises of
indemnity which tho republicans hold
out to them will not avail them in the
days which are close at hand. Tho
country is fully aroused.
THE COUNTRY ALARMED.
It Is alarmed by the corrupt influences