Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-08-30
A Specimen Electioneering Document

A Specimen Electioneering Document
Used by the Republicans of Ohio.
The following article was headed "An
Ohio Man In Virginia"
10 the Editor OF the commercial Gazette:
sent contribution TO your State Com
mittee to-day. | was not asked TO do So,
but could not have helped doing 1t II | had
tried ever so hard. Ohio has disgraced
herself most shamefully in the last two
elections. defeating a gallant soldier and
electing notorious copperhead Secretary
Of state, and covering themselves all over
with shame by the defeat OF Foraker. The
Ohio election last fall had as much to do
with carrying Virginia for the Bourbons
rs the massacre Of the colOrcd people and
other devitry. When we got the news
Of that election here In old Virginia the
survivors Of Lees and JacksOn's armies
fell into line, and loaded up their cannon,
and raised the rebel yell. On their banners
was "Oyerthrow Of the id Radicals in
Ohio" "Our Cause will yet Prevail" dc.
| went through the war honorably in an
Ohio regiment, and when looked at that
procession the iron entered my soul. Not
one Of these men knew ANYTHING OF the cir
cumstances I'm Ter which the Republicans
lad gone down, and they cared less.
They looked upon it as an endorsement Of
the Lost Cause. | thought OF the de-
luded temperance peOple--the misguided
hut wellmeaning old ladies-and a
thousand times worse Than all, an old vcte-
ran here and there who had assisted in
bringing about this result. One Of the
mysterious, Inconsistent, uneXplainable
problems over which / have puzzled and
iretted more than any other one thing, Is
how an old soldier, who carried his mus
ket three or four Years to put down 4 Dem
ocratic rebellion, can vote the Democratic
ticket. When east my vote IN Sucha way
that rebels will rejoice at the result OF it, |
will stick my honorable discharge in the
first mud hoe, and cast in my allegiance
with Mr.. JEFF. Davis at once. 1t allamOunts
TO the same thing.
Iwant TO tell you right here that il the
solid South, with the assistance OF one or
two northern States, get possession OF this
great country, they mean TO ruin It. | was
talking recently with a gentleman from
Wisconsin who has been travelling in this
State more than year. collecting data and
taking subscriptions for historical and
biographical encyclopaedia OF Virginia.
He OF course passed. himself of as
sOutntrn nian, anu stopptu taCu ulSnt
at different house. Among the
numerous questions asked him the follow
| ing rarely. II ever. failed DO you think we
win ever get paid for our niggersy DO you
think our soldiers viii ever be pensiOned +.
He said the apparent unanimity OF this
thing alarmed him and thoroughly opened
his eyes.
Thousands Of the middle classes in Nir.
glnia, Tennessee, aud North Carolina
would vote the Republican ticket If they
were sure Of success. and would not have
TO NEE; ostracism. prescription, aud IN
many cases starvation. Blainc's election
| viii break the solid South forever.
Republicans OF Ohio, you must set the
example IN October. We don't want to
hear the rebel veil here the day after the
election. Put your hands in your pockets
and help the State Committee. Old sol.
diers. "fall in" aud carry tpis CAMPAIGN
10 the tune Of "Marching Through Geor-
gia," and make the enemy howl.
Very respectfully,
Az OLD SUBSCRIBER.