The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-10-27
ADDRESS to VOTERS.
APPEAL FROM THE DEMOCRATIC
NATIONAL COMMITTEE.

Questions of the bay Warning Against
the Work of Corruptionists - Money
Needed for Proper Uses.
NEW YORK, Oct. 8.
To the People of the United States:
The issues of the campaign are made
up and are before you for your judgment,
They are SO sharply defined, and at
last so well understood, that no intelli-
gent man can fail to apprehend them, or
to know what great governmental poll
cies he will choose for his country when
he shall come to exercise his sovereign
power ON election day.
The gravity of the crisis in the nations
life appeals to every citizen Of the repub
lie to prepare to cast his ballot by giving
to that sacred and supreme duty timely
meditation, uninAuenced by passion or
right illumined by his love of country
and his desire for the happiness and
prosperity of all his countryrnen.
1t is universally conceded that as the
verdict of the people is now made up
the tendency of this government will be
determined, and that on the rectitude or
error Of their Judgment in this contest
turn questions involving the future well
fars of Americans.
With an abiding faith, therefore, in the
intelligence, the patriotism and the po-
litical purity of the masses, believing
that the principles of our party, practi-
cally applied in governing, will achieve
the greatest good to the greatest mum
ber, and that that political heresy which
vaunts the wealth and luxury Of a class
especially favored by law as evidence Of
the prosperity of all the people has found
no lasting lodgment in your minds, we
ask your suffrages for the candidates of
the Democratic party.
The record of each candidate for the
| presidency in the administration of that
Office is before you.
The characters, the qualifications, the
abilities, the courage, and withal the
fidelity to you, and to all Of you, which
have been by them brought to your serv-
1 ice in that great trust, are to be COM
pared by you, and you are to judge be-
tween them on the evidence presented
I by their plain records.
Arrayed against us in the struggle
| which is now on are all the sinister
forces which unlimited money can
J equip.
Organized bodies of men who have
gathered enormous wealth at the eX-
pense of the people under unjust tariff
laws, and who have bargained to con-
tribute for election purposes in consider
alton Of the enactment of such laws, help
fill to overfowing the Republican cam
paign treasury.
Rich men add to the fund on prom
ises of the highest places Of honor and
trust in the gift of the nation.
An army of officeholders, by choice or
compulsion, pay into the same treasury.
Corporations holding i'll gotten lands
of the people, by their contributions seek
to keep from power party and candi'
dates determined to right injustice and
to restore to the people unearned and
legally forfeited subsidies of the public
domain.
| With abundant means, with subsi.
died ingenuity, with body of hired
professionals drilled and experienced in
political intimidation and political de,
bauchery, our opponents are preparing a
final assault upon the freedom and hon
esty of the ballot.
Those most exposed to temptation from
poverty or debt, from avarice, petty am
bition or personal animOsities, are being
stealthily sought ont under a regularly
organized system and the means made
ready which are most likely to serve the
purpose when the time shall come tC
tempt them to be false to their country
at the polls. Wherever men are EN-
ployed they are listed, their character:
and histories set down, and the mos
powerful influence likely to control eacl
one noted. When men are found whC
cannot by any scheme be brought to di
rectly vote as desired, the system in
cludes the alternative Of keeping then
from the polls by ostensible and highly
paid employment, by intimidation, OF b!
other methods within the ingenuity anC
resources of skilled manipulators EN-
ployed for such purposes.
This committee has not troops of of
, ficeholders at its command. 1t will no
agree to sell the future legislation o
congress for money paid now into it
party treasury, 1t will not agree Il
give high places in the peoples servic
for money. 1t will not contract to up
hold any bargain heretofore made b
the Republican party under cover o
! law for any contribution however great
1t appeals to the people against on
and all of these opponents thus corruptl
banded against the friends Of good gov
ernment.
We have no resources except what tn
people furnish.
We call for means not only to sprea
the truth among the people and to al
in getting to the polls the full and hor
est vote of the masses, but also TO dc
tect, TO prosecute and to punish crime
against the purity of the ballot, where
soever in the United States they al
perpetrated and by whomsoever con
mitted or directed
Every indication points to the defea
of the Minneapohi candidates and