Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1885-10-08
THE BLooDY.sHIRf cAMpaisS
f2nOD VS..
The Manufacturers aud Mechanics of
Ohio.

Il w hat the manufacturers of Ohio need
Is market outside the State. The
acres and acres Of machinery, and the
specimens of manufactured articles ex.
h1oited at our recent State fair at Co
lun.bus, showed what the State Is able
70 do in supplying the country with
agricultural implements, engines. mills,
wagons, carriages, buggies, wash-boaris,
and almost everything needed in carry.
Ing ON the various industries of the
country She has the capital invested,
the coal, timber, skilled workmen, and
every other requisite for turning out
annually millions of dollars worth I'm
addition to what she is now manufact-
uring. Give her market, and the
goods shall be forthcoming in the short
est possible time. y
The information given by travellers
through all the Southern States as 10
the unprecedented cotton, rice, tobacco
and other staple crops Of the South Is
confirmed by the reports Of the Agri-
cultural Department at Washington.
Never since the war has the South had
such cropsl never since, the war has she
had so much money to spend for what
she is in the greatest need OF, and what
the, manufacturers and mechanics Of
Ohio can furnish her as cheaply as any
other State. as she win have during the
the next six months. Is it worth while
for the manufacturers Of Ohio to en-
deavor to secure any part Of this pro-
bspective Southern trade? If So, how is
1t to be done? How do we secure the
trade of the people of our own city,
county and surrounding counties? Do
we do it by circulating Infamous and
slanderous falsehoods in regard to them,
and then sending an agent to sell them
q tnreshlng machine, reaper, or hay
FORK? Do we, over the name of our
snrm, reporta woman as no better than
she ought to be; in fact very doubtful
character, and the next week send an
agent to sell her wash-board, patent
sitter, or the last and best churn ever
Invented? If this plan of selling goods
would not work at home, among old
friends and neighbors, how can we ex-
pect it to succeed among strangers and
in Others States? / submit these uues-
tions to the hard common sense Of the
working people of Ohio. Judging the
people of those cities and States by our
selves, what amount of goods could rep
resentatives of Ohio manufactures be
expected to sell in Nashville, Atlanta,
Richmond and other Southern cities
and throughout the South oy reading
to the people the speeches of Chairman
Taylor, Senator Sherman, Judge Fora
ker and other Republican orators, now
being delivered in Ohio. But it will
not be necessary for these agents to
take. along these speeches and read
thento the Southern people. They
have been read as soon as they are pub
lished and reach the South, and they
sink very deep into the hearts of the |
southern people. If that most improba-
BILE event should happen-the triumph
of the bloody shirt campaign, and the
garment should be borne |
alOft and fiauneted in the face of the
American people during the two years
of Judge Foraker's administration,
what would be its natural effect in the
promotion or hinderance of the sale of
goods outside the State. This is
question for every mechanic to consider
and answer l.lDL r-. lig .l |
More than twenty years have passed |
since the war closed, and the people are
weary, oh, so weary of having to fight |
lt ail over again in every political cam
paign in Ohio. This is especially true
Of the business community. They want
the "Peaceu that General Grant prayed
Tor at the very close Of the war, and
hat he so fondly, so joyfully trusted
had come to the whole American peo-
pie before his eyes closed in'death. All
The incidents connected with his death
ind funeral services are toosfresh In the
minds OF the people to need repetition.
everywhere, North, South, Feast and
West the people felt that national
oeace, concord and perfect unity had
,ome at last, and come to stay. Canon
t'arrar in his masterly seulOgy on Gen.
,ral Grant, delivered in Westminster
Abbey, London, on the day of his fu-
leral said: "And the South has accept
ID that desperate and bloody arbitra-
nent. Two of the Southern Generals,
We rejoice, to hear, win bear General !,
irant's funeral pail. The rancor and
ll-feeling of the past are buried forever
n oblivion:. true friends have been
made out of brave foemen. Americans E
re no longer Northerners and South t
rners, Federals and Confederates, but q
hey are Americans."~ So saying Canon :
0arrar spoke the sentiments of the /
ivilized world. But alas!- the exigen- Q
les OF the Republican campaign IN
)hio, the burning, scorching ambition t
t Senator Sherman to secure a re-elec-
ion to the Presidency, and Of Judge
foraker to wipe out the disappointment O
nd humiliation Of his former defeat .
re such that In the face of all these !
acts they again unfurl and throw. to !
he breeze the bloody shirt, The peo-
lie Of the Uuited States are saddened,. Z
lorrified, by the atrocious act. They :,
nd their political associates bear this !,
tandard aloft, and Ohio alone. OF. all the i
'tates must suffer the National indigna- Q
ion. Their financial circumstances /
nay be such that they can personally
ssume these responsibilities;-but how T
bout the MECHANICS their wives and 81
hildren that must suffer the loss of q v
market for their work Resulting from h
his bloody shirt campaign. Let them
nswer. sh aas t$I Gs8 .
The total amount ofofdinary ex pen
es for Governor Fosters administration