The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-10-25
An Address to the People.
The following address to the voters
of the country has been issued by the
Republican National Committee

HEADQUARTERS
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CoMMITrFF,
242 Fifth avenue.
NEW YORK, October Is. 1854
The Republican National Commit.
tee halls in the glorious victory al
ready won sure omen of the greater
victory that is close at hand. Yer.
mont is still the star that never sets.
Maine, captured in 1880. rebukes
SANDER by plurality of 20,0U0-a
gain of Is per cent. of its entire vote.
West Virginia, in place OIL, 900 plu-
rality for Hancock, now falls below
10000 Republican gain of 7 per
cent.-which kindles hope that the
1873 votes of the solid South may be
broken in November. But the result
in Ohio is revolution and prophe-
cy. Only year ago Democratic by
12,6O0, and two years ago by $4,000
plurality, Ohio now gives 10000 plu-
raIity for the lowest Republican state
candidate, and. on national issues,
$4,000 for the Republican congress-
men. Holding the state and local
Offices and the whole machinery Of
elections, the Democrats scattered
corruption money with lavish hand
colonized voters, imported profession.
al repeaters; and in spite of the mos
strenuous efforts to enforce the lsv
against them, cast many thoussld
fraudulent votes. Because of mis-
power they had chosen to STAKE all
upon that state, declared that it would
foreshadow the result in Novenber'
and were strangely certain ofsicress.
They filled the air with slinders.
Local issues led many voters to dis
regard national questions. Against
such odds the magnificent victory is
prophecy of 10000 plurality for
Blaine and Logan in November.
With the ratio of gain in othe states
it foreshadows an increase Of 100000
in the Republican national vote, and
the largest popular majority ever
given to any candidate.
These victories show the 1etermi-
nation of the people that, as Lincoln.
Grant and Garfield were slaldered in
vain, so the foremost statesman of to-
day shall not be driven from the peo-
pies 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
rights of American citizens abroad.
They show that,so long the Dem
ocratic party rests all hope of success:
upon a denial of free suffrage il
Southern states, it will ask in vair
the confidence in any state when
free vote is recorded by an honsS
count.
They show that the people will no
abandon the protection Of American
industry, under which the country
has gained twice as much in twenty
years as it had gained in all its pre-
vious history-the protection O
American labor, which has lifted
wages 81 per cent. higher here thar
in England. The people see whal
stagnation a Democratic first firm
step toward free trade" has caused
within the past year. Nine months
ago, flushed with victory and boast.
ing of certain success, the Democratic
party made no secret of its blind ad.
herence to British theories of free
trade. Now, neither deceitful plat.
form nor a dumb candidate ayails to
check the stampede from that party
For its voters know that protection
has made the rewards of labor great.
err here than in any other land on
earth.
The National Committee appeals
to the people to make the victory de.
cisive. 1t is no time for over-confi-
dence, or for neglect of any proper
effort. Bare success is not enough.
1t is time to put an end to the agita-
ton by which the Democratic party
prostrates business every four years.
Put an end to the hope that the ma
ton can be ruled by sh0tguns in six.
teen states, and fraud in two! Put
an end to the villification of the fore
most champions of American ideas,
by men who do not dare to meet vi
tai issues of national policy. Make
the principles proclaimed by our
matchless leader-"Peace with the
world. Commercial expansion in
every practical direction. Encour.
agement of every form of American
industry. Protection to every citizen,
native or natulized, at home or
abroad"-not only triumphant, but
so overwhelmingly triumphant that
the splendid prosperity which they
promote shall not again be interrupt
ed by the struggles of obsolete theo-