The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1888-09-27
An Appeal From the Nat
iOllal Committee.

cat!Onal work in which the Demo
cratic party, from President CIeve
land to the township committee. II
now engaged. In no previous po-
IiticaI campaign in American his
tory has there been such demand
for facts and arguments. The peo
ple are thoroughly aroused. The
national coin mittee. it is stated, has
already sent out six millions ofdoc
umerts from the New York head.
quarters. But the demand con
tinues una bated, aud the leaders of
the party organization appeal for
funds to meet ito print, pub
Iish and circulate matters of fact
which every citizen ought to have
before him, when he determines on
which side his influence and vote
ought to be cast" as the National
Committee puts il. They do not
propose ''tn try the fat'' out of any
body enriched by government boun
ties or assess or blacKmail Office
holders but as this is the peoples
campaign TO reform useless and
burdenSOme taxation and continue
Cleveland's honest and faithful
administration, they appeal direct
ty to the people themselves for the
sinews OF war. That is the manly
and true method of conducting a
campaign. We hope the responses
xill be liberal ard general. 1.-The
appeal" the committee says, "is
made to the vast body of earnest
men who have learned. in the toll
and struggle of daily life, to esti
mate good government at it's true
worth, and whose love of home and
country will prompt them to con-
tribute. each according TO his means
to the expenses of a canvass of such
moment and extending over SO
great territory. All sums SO con-
will be received and held
by this com mittee, to be expended
only in the lawful. proper and nec-
sssary outlsys required by the can
Vass which you have directed US to
conduct"
We have G most efficient and
organization at the head
# the party. IL is equaling, in its
systematic and thorough work. the
rllden campaign of 1876, which
Governor Tilden personally direct
d. That also was an educational
in its exposures ofthe de
'ravity and rottenness of Repubh
an administration.
Not Democrats alone, but Repub
leans and manufacturers, are con-
material aid to the miss
onary enterprises of the Democrat
G national committee. The New
FORK Times of Saturday says:
1.-The national Democratic COM
nittec yesterday morning received
check for &5, 900 from a manufac :
arer at Pittsburgh, Pa, who has
lways been a Republican. but who
referred to answer Senator Quay's
ppeal for fat IN this way. In his :
tier he summed up the reasons ;:
hich had led him to this change
political fath-the desire for wide
arkets in which his firm could
'mpete with the world in the mar +
Els of the world, which they could :
} if the letters we're taken of of
commerce. He closed by :"
ying: Enclosed find our check, it T.
ing a contribution toward the r
ection of Mr.. Cleveland and tariff 81 ;,
form.' ~
Celenel Brice said that this let T
was one of many hundreds which :, -
had received from all sections :"
the country written by the Re- ~
lblIcans who were In favor of tar '
reform. Unfortunately few of ).
EN- contained such generous con '. ".
buttons TO the carrying on of the ,
But farmers. WORKING a.
e1, and small manufacturers had -,
ntributed from their limited indl- =
dual means in behalf of tariff re-
rm." nj
All this IS encouraging, but DEM a
ats everywhere should not weary Ia
well doing. Spread the truth
e argument is all on one side. and 1
will be Oh overwhelming ma III
rrty of the votes. :"
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Il he manufacturer with a nro- ~