Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1880 — Address of the National Democratic Committee. [ARTICLE]

Address of the National Democratic Committee.

To the Democratic and Cons< rvative Voters of the Country: The election of President and Vice President is now before you. State and local dissensions are eliminated from tho issues of the day. The magnitude of a v ctory or defeat can only be estimated by the forces and means employed in securing it. By fraud and corruption tbs people ts the country were defeated in their purposes in 1876, and the rightfully elected President was kept from office. With the combined capital of the Republican party, aided by repeated assessments upon an army of office-holders, with the power of the Federal Government bi’ United States Marshals at the polls, with intimidation, fraud and a resort to overy corrupt appliance known to Republican methods concentrated in two States our adversaries have succeeded in securing the probable return df their local candidates. Can h be possible that in every State throughout this broad land the same methods can be brought to bear that were used by the Republican managers in Indiana end Ohio. Can the great States of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, California, Colora do, Nevada and New Hampshire be bought, intimidated and defrauded, even without the vote of Indiana, which we believe will be redeemed in November, with New York and New Jersey, and the States that are con’ ceded to us, including Maine, the election of our candidates is assured.— The Republican party has put in nomination for President and Vice President two men who, by the admission of their own party and press, arc unworthy of your confidence and your suffrages. It is impossible that fifty millions of intelligent and patriotic people will consent to place themselves upon the humiliating level thus prepared for them by the Republican managers. Fellow citizens, the first day’s repulse at Gettysburg ended on the 3d, with Hancock in the front, in a glorious victory, and that victory secured us our Union. The question is not now the preservation of tho Union, but of Constitutional government. Hancock is now, as then, in the front. The repulse is now, as then, the omen of victory, which will secure to coming generations the inestimable blessings or civil liberty, By order of the Democratic National Committee.

WILLIAM H. BARNUM,

Chairman.

We will endeavor next week to lay before our readers -the full official vote of Jasper county. Below we furnish the aggregate, and the majorities of the successful candidates: Porter, 1314 Landers, 859 ■ Porter’s majority, 455 Hanna, 1303 Gray, 864 Hanpa’s majority, 439 Majority on Sup. Judges 441 Hawn, 1303 Shanklin, 862 Hawn’s majority, 441 Wolfe, 1302 Manson, 862 Wolfe’s majority, 440 Hill, 1303 Fleming, 863 Hill’s majority, 440 Baldwin. 1303 Wooelen, 863 Baldwin’s majority, 440 Bloss, 1304 Goodwin, 862 Bloss’s majority 442 Dice. 1301 Mabtin, 864 Dice’s majority, 437 Royse, 1305 Schmuck, 861 Rovse’s majority, 444 DeMotte, 1313 Skinneb, 957 DeMoJlte’s majority, 356 BishopD, 1286 Douthit, 964 Bishopp’s majority, 822 Powell, 1258 Nukell, 975 Powell’s majority, 283 Alter, 1277 Welsh, 969 Alter’s majority, 308 Warner, 1292 Healy, 950 Warner’s majority, 342 Alter, 1288 Pjeboe, 953 Alter’s majority, 335 Gilman, J 309 Bubnham, 911 Gilman’s majority. 898 Burk, 1240 Randle, 1003 Burk’s majority, 287 Mrs. Thos, Thompson is visiting friends in Ohio,

It nothing was wrong, there was nothing to get offended at.—Republican. That is— a newspaper may set afloat a grievous lie, but because it is a lie the parties against whom it is pub lisbed have no cause to be offended ? Sharp logic, that! Any party could have i indicated bis position and his honor in a better manner t lan by cussing the man who is looking to the safety and the purity of the ballot. Republican. T e.e, now, we have it, even if he does say it himself. But the idea of a member of the party that has maintained its hold on power by the grossest frauds, even to the theft of the presidency, ‘looking to the safety and the purity of the ballot,* rather gets us.

Our neighbor is very persistent in his efforts to impress upon the public the idea thatjhe exceeds in honesty the purest democrat, that he is anxious only for fair elections and bitterly opposed to bulldozing, etc. We can not see the object of our friend across the hall in thus parading his notions of the immaculatibility of himself and his party, unless, indeed, he is cognizant of fraud, bulldozing and violations of law bv members of his party. The Lafayette Journal manufactured an article for use in Jasper county, and was sufficiently sharp to mention no names, thus placing it beyond the assumption of denial. Our neighbor was not so astute. He named, without authority,old citizens of high standing, and the Republi can’s statements immediately pronounced false by men of all partiesOur friend Corkins should bear in mind that such men as Dr. Loughridge and H. A. Barkley are not necessarily required to submit to bulldozing at his hands.

Monon is the banner township of White county. Sh« reports a republican gain of fifty—redeemed from a democratic majority of thirteen.— Close organization and unremitting exertion did the work, - Republican. Monon did it with her little hatchet.—Monticello Herald. If that’s what you call ’em, Billy— Members of the “close organisation* with “unremitting exertion,” from that distribution point, distributed thousands of those “little hatchets” over Jasper and White counties. We are informed of a responsible gentleman in Hanging Grove township who was furnished with forty of those “little hatchets” for his vote and influence. The “little hatchets” were retained, and likewise the vote and influence. From every township ciime reports of the free circulation of these “little hatchets” in the shape of new greenbacks.fresh fiom the xadical finance committee at Washington. Even our neighbor informs the public that “leading democrats, men who have borne some character for honesty and respectability were ped filing around town last Sunday a republican ticket and a two dollar bill which they said was given by DeMotte to a voter in the north part of the county.” Men of honesty and respectability are generally believed