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THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE
ADDRESS THE PEOPLE.
THE SITUATION Reviewed.
THE OUTLOOK ENCOURAGING.
REASONABLE EFFORT WILL ASSURE
VICTORY.
H'nQR'> NAT'I DEM Cow.
No. IL WEST TWENTY FOURTH ST.
October 10th, 1854.

October 10Th, l>e4.
To the People Of tie Jnit>d States:
The result or the elections on TUESDAY
last in the States Of Ohio and West Vir
ginia is before you Ohio chose Repub
lican electors in 1868, 1872, 1876 anG
1880 West Virginia chose Republican
electors in 1868 and 1872, and Demo
cratic electors in 1876 and 1880. Gar
field obtained \ plurality in Ohio in 1850
of 34,227 votes. The Republican candi-
date in the late election for Secretary OF
State was a gallant soldier and reputable
man. The vote NJ the Republican party
in that election was broken down bv the
weight of Mr.. Blaine, a factional seeker
after the Presidency As the people
then elected ; Democratic majority of
the Congressional delegation Of the State,
We may confidently expect majority in
Ohio for Cleveland and Hendricks in So
vember.
West Virginia has, by its splendid and
decisive majority for Democratic Gov
ernor at the October election, already de
clared It's purpose to give its electoral
vote for our candidate in November
The Blaine managers employed extraor'li
nary methods in both States They ex-
pended not less than FIVE hundred thou>-
and dollars in Ohio and more than one
hundred thousand in West Virginia in
their political work. They did not use
money only. They called from every
State the otficc-holders best fitted to do
the work at which they were put. They
crowded these Two States with such men
as they employed in political Jobs, men
engaged in the pistol service Of the Cni
ted States. They left the veterans who
had saved the life of the nation without
the pay to which they were entitled un
der the pretence Of having an insufficient
clerical force in the Pension Bureau and
! then used the Commissioner of Pensions
and a great number Of his clerks as parts
Of their political machinery in the late
election in Ohio and West Virginia.
1t has been openly charged, without deni-
| al, that the payment of veterans by the
| Commissioner of Pensions has been de-
layed by him with the purpose of coerc-
ing them to vote for Blaine These abuses
Of political power have beer committed
under the overlooking eye OF Blaine, and
with his full sanction. They show the
manner in which, if he were elected,
public offices would be suborlinated to
his personal service, and the bounty of
the country be made q means of advanc-
ing his personal interests. They made
the Marshals of the United States and
their deputies, who ought to be the guar
lians of the rights of every citizen of the
nited States, part of their machine force.
They armed them and melted them to
violence and outage 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 the familiar duties They
devised with his knowledge methods of
compelling workmen to vote as their EN-
ployees dictated. They kept him in
| daily association with the worst ele
ments Of political organization. They
made him their counsellor in every disre
putable 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 last by using
armed deputy marshals and negroes to
drive voters from the polls. The meth
ods for their campaign in Ohio and West
! Virginia and the share Of their candidate
in these methods has added to the oppro
brium already resting on his name and
have assured his defeat in the general
election in November
Blaine has been a member Of the House
of representatives., Senator in Congress
and Secretary Of State of the United
States. He has been accused of corruptly
using his influence as Speaker and as Mem
Der of the House o; Representatives for
his individual profit. His misconduct has
been proved by his own letters. These
have confronted him wherever he has
gone. He has attempted no explanation.
The phrases of these letters are 50 we'll
known that they are by-words on the
streets and jests on the stage. A Speaker
of the House of Representatives,, mem
her Of that House, who would divert his
influence for money or property might
avail himself of the larger opportunities
which the office and powers of President
afford.
These are not words dictated by party
rancor. They sum up the judgment Of
that independent press which is, and al
wsys will remain. the bulwark of good
and constitutional government. They
express the convictions of the leading
Republican journals and the belief of
those distinguished Republican statesmen
whose love of country has forced them to
declare that the nomination of Blaine Is
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