The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-10-01
THE BLOODY SHIRT CAM.
PAHGN
manufacturers and Mech.
mics Of Ohio.

need is g ma: ket outside the State.
The acres and acres Of machinery,
and the specimens of manufactured
articles exhibited at our recent State
fair at Columbus, showed what the
State is able to do in supplying the
country with agricultural imple-
ments, engines, mills, wagons, CARR
ages, buggies, wash boards, and al
most everything used in carrying on
the various industries of the country. !
She has the capital invested, the coal,
timber, skilled workmen' and every
other requisite for turning out annu-
ally millions of dollars worth in ad-
dition to what she is o manufac-
turing. Give her a market, and the
goods shall be forth coming in the
shortest possible time.
The information given by travellers
through all the Southern States as to
the unprecedented cotton, rice, tobac
aud other staple crops of the South
is confirmed by the reports of the
Agricultural Department at Wash
ington. Never since the war has the
Souh had such crops; never since
the war has she had so much money
to spend for what she is in the great
est need of, and what the manufact
urers and mechanics of Ohio can
furnish her as cheaply as any other
State, as she will have during the
next six months. Is it worth while
for the manufacturers of Ohio to en-
deavor to cur any part of this
prospective Southern trade? How do
we secure the trade of the people of
our own city, county and surround
ing counties? Do we do it by circu-
lating Infamous and slanderous false
hoods in regard to them, and then
sending an agent to sell them a
threshing machine, reaper, or hay
fork? Do we, over the name of our
firm, report as no better than she
ought to be; in fact, a very doubtful
character, and the next week send
an agent to sell her a wash board, u
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 expect it to succeed
among strangers and in other States?
1 submit these questions to the hard
common sense of the working people
of Ohio. Judging the people of those
cities and States by ourselves, what
amount Of goods could representa-
tives of Ohio manufactures be ex-
pected to sell in Nashville, Atlanta,
Richmond and other Southern cities
and throughout the South by reading
to the people the speeches Of Chair
man Taylor, Senator Sherman, J Judge
Foraker and other Republican ora
tors, now being delivered in Ohio.
But it will not be necessary for these
agents to take along these speeches
and read them to the Southern peo-
pie. They have been read as they are
published and reach the South, and
they sink very deep into the hearts
of the southern people. If that most
improbable event should happen
the triumph of the bloody shirt cam
paign, and the ensanguined garment
should be borne aloft aud Haunted in
tn face of the American people dur
ing the two years of Judge Foraker's
administration, what would be its
natural effect in the promotion or
hinderance of the sale of goods out
side the State. This is a question for
every mechanic to consider and an-
swer.
More than twenty years have pass
ed since the wal closed, and the peo-
pie are weary, oh, SO weary of having
to fight it all owe again in every po-
litical campaign in Ohio. This is es-
pscially true of the business commu
nifty. They want the "Peace" that
Gen. Grant prayed for ut the very
close of the war, and that he so fond,
ly, so joyfully trusted had come to
the whole American people before
his eyes closed in death. All the in
cidents connected with his death and
funeral services are too fresh in the
minds of the people to need repetition.
Everywhere, North, South, East and
West the people felt that national
peace, concord and perfect unity had
come at last, and come to stay. Can.
on Farrar in his eulogy on Gen.
Grant, delivered in Westminster Alb.
hey, London, on the day of his fun.
eral said: "And the South has &C.
cepted that desperate and bloody ar.
bitrament. Two Of the Southern
Generals, we rejoice to hear, will
bear Gen. Grants funeral pail. The
rancor and ~ill-feeling of the past are
buried forever in oblivion: true
friends have been made out of brave
foemen. Americans are no Longer
Northerners and Southerners, FEEDER
ais and Confederates, but they ar,
Americans" So saying Canon Farrar
spoke the sentiments of the civilized
world. But alas! the exigencies o
the Republican campaign in Ohio
the burning, the scorching ambition
Of Senator Sherman to secure a re
election to the Senate, and a possible
nomination to the Presidency, ant
of Judge Foraker to wipe out thu
disappointment and humiliation o
his former defeat are such that il
t the face of all these facts they aga:l
ulfurl and throw to the breeze tn
bloody shirt. The people of the Unit
ed States are saddened, Mortified, b.,
the atrocious act. They and their pc
%litical associates bear this STANDARD
aloft, and Ohio alone of all the State
must suffer the National Indignation
=, Their financial circumstances ma
t be such that they can personally as
same these responsibilities;-bu
!, how about the mechanics, thei
wives and children that must suffe
l from the loss of a market for thei
work resulting from this bloody shir