Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-24

America, They talk or tho east as h<anE
hostile to the west In this campaign. We
of the east glory in the west. All that the
east asks now Is to do as It so often has
done before and help place westerner in
tho white house. Twice we republicans of
the east have given every electoral vote
we could control to the sons of Illinois.
twice to sons of Ohio, and once to a son of
Indiana, and now all that we ask is that
through our votes we may be able once
more to put in the white house a son of
Ohto, who is more than son of Ohio be-
cause he Is an American who has fought
for the country In war, who has served her
In peace, who was nominated because he
stood as the embodiment of the principles
of his party, and who will be elected be-
cause he stands for all that is highest, best
and most honorable in American life at
this crisis of the fate of America
Preachers of Theft and Murder.
I'VE believe that this campaign should
he waged on the moral, even more than the
material, issue Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. Alt
geld are the emhodiments of tho two prin-
ciples which our adversaries desire to see
triumph; and In their ultimate analysis
these principles are merely the negations
of the two commandments: Thou shalt
not steal and Thou shalt do no murder
Mr.. Bryan champions that system of dis
honesty which would steal from the cred
itors of the nation half of what they have
in good faith loaned and from the working
men of the nation half of what by their
honest toll they have earned. Mr.. Altgeld
condones and encourages the most infa-
nous of murders and denounces the fed
eral government and the supreme court for
interfering to put stop to the bloody law
lessness which would result in worse than
murder. Both of them would substitute
for the government of Washington and
Lincoln, for the system of orderly liberty
which we inherit from our forefathers
and which we desire to bequeath to our
sons, red welter of lawlessness and dis
honesty as fantastic and as vicious as the
Paris commune itself. Turning aside from
the American principles of government,
repudiating everything which has made
the name of America a symbol of hope
among nations, they seek to substitute a
crazy fabric, patched up from the worm
out theories of every European dreamer
and European agitator.
I'VE appeal to no class and to no section
we appeal to all the citizens of This land
alike merely as Americans. Fastener and
westerneE northerner and soCtherner,
merchant and clerk, farmer and farm la
borer, manufacturer and workingman, we
ask you to stand together as Americans,
jealous of the honor of your country and
indignant at those who propose to drag
that honor in the dust. We ask you to
stand for decent government and the hon.
est payment of debts. We ask you to set
your faces against that spirit OF lawless
mob violence which could in the end pro-
duce nothing but anarchy; anarchy the
handmaiden and sure herald of tyranny.
We ask you to vote against Mr.. Bryan,
not merely because hls success wou4L
mean the impoverishml mt of The poor and
the trouble of the rich, the breaking up of
homes, the despair of stiIEs men ana >..a
hungry misery of the won.,.. and ch.ldre...
but because the laws of right and justI, q
bid you to oppose him. We ask you to de-
clare for the payment of honest debts aI.d
for the suppression of lawleSS n.ODS, not
merely because 1t is eXpedient, but be cause
1t is right. No nation can long hold its
place in the world if it does not strive
to live up to lofty moral ioeal: and we
ask you to join in the overthrow of the
enemies of American honor and OF Amer
lean liberty, because every principle of
sound morality bios you TO take such ac-
| tion,"