Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1880 — Address of the National Democratic Committee. [ARTICLE]

Address of the National Democratic Committee.

To the Democratic and Conservative Voters of the Country: The election of President and Yice President is now before you. State and local dissensions are eliminated from the issues of the day. The magnitude of a victory or defeat cap only be estimated by the forces and means employed in securing it. By fraud and corruption the people of the country were defeated in their purpose in 1876, and the right-fully-elected President was kept from office. With the combined capital of the Republican party, aided by repeated assessments upon an army of officeholders, with the power of the Federal Government represented by United States Marshals at the polls, with intimidation, fraud, and a resort to every corrupt appliance known to Republican methods concentrated in two States, our adversaries have succeeded in procuring the probable return of their local candidates. Can it bo possible that in every State throughout this broad land tho same methods can be brought to bear that were used by the Republican managers in Indiana and Ohio ? Can the great States of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, California, Colorado, 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, New Jersey and the States that are conceded to us, including Maine, the election of our candidate is assured. The Republican party have put in nomination for President and Vice President two men who, by the admission of their own party and press, are unworthy of your confidence and your suffrages. It is impossible that fifty millions of intelligent and patriotic people will consent to place themselves upon tho humiliating level thus prepared for them by tho Republican managers. Fellow-citizens, the first day’s repulse at Gettysburg ended on the third, with Hancock in the front, in a glorious victory. That victory secured us out Union. Tho question is not now the preservation of the Union, but of constitutional government. Hancock is now, as then, in the front. The repulse is now, as then, tho omen of a victory which will secure to coming generations the inestimable blessings of civil liberty. By order of the National Democratic Com-

mittee,

WILLIAM H. BARNUM,

Chairman.