Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1884 — LAST WORDS. [ARTICLE]

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The National Democratic Committee to the People of the United States. A Stirring Appeal t® All Who Desire Honest (government and Honest Officials. The Democratic National Committee leaned a final address to the people of the United States on the 28th of October. Jt ie quite lenzthy. The salient pointe are as follows: There is only one great issue involved in this campaign. The question Is whe her this country shall be governed honestly and wisely or corruptly. Mr. Blaine would not be purer as a President than he was as Speaker and member of ttie House You are burdened with unnecessary taxes. One hundred millions of money not needed to de-fr-y proper charges of the Government are annual y taken irom the people and kept m the Treasury. The withdrawal of this Immense amount from circulation has hampered commerce, distressed trade, and impoverished labor. Mr. Blaine aided in the needless and reckless accumulation. He Is responsible lor the mischief it has occasioned. He cannot be trusted with its disbursement. The methods which he has employed in this campaign prove that the Government ought not to lie placed in h s hands. . A candidate capable of using improper means to increase his chances of election would not discharge the duties of that office honestly. Mr. Blaine personally supervised the preparations made by his managers for their work In the election in Ohio. Plain provisions of Federal law were wholly disregarded. Ruffians, not living in the election districts in which they were appointed, and not, in many instances, even citizens, were armed and used for the purpose of obtaining Wiajorities by violence and fraud. The effect has been remarkable. The blow struck at the rights of the citizen in Ohio has welded tiie Democratic party in New York. '1 here is no longer anv doubt as to the manner in which the electoral vote of that St te will be cast. Mr. Blaine and his managers, despairing of success in New York, are attempting to carry Indiana. New Jersey, and Connecticut by the d scredltable means employed in Ohio. in Indiana, New Jersey, and Connecticut men are forewarned, and are ready to meet the issue. They understand that a deputy marshal not a qualified voter of the precinct in which his duties are performed is an intruding mercenary. They know, also, the precise limits of the authority of each supervisor, marshal, or deputy marshal. Each State determines lor itself by whom and in what manner its Presidential electors ►hall be chosen. No supervisor or marshal has power to interfere with any person claiming a right to vote for electors of President and Vice 1 resident. The functions of these officials are limited to Congressional elections, and it is time th - t they should understand that there are well-defined bounds to their powers in such elections even.

Th address then proceeds to exp’ain the limitation of interference by Federal election officers. It then says further: Mr. Blaine claims the credit of having aided in imposing duties upon imports with the purpose of protecting American labor. The national debt on Jan. J, 186-', was $?,860,<’47,869. It was necessary to levy largely increased duties on all imports in order to provide lor the anneal interest on this indebted r ess. These duties necessarily afforded protection to American industry and stimulated its g owth. buch dudes must have beeu laid if Mr. B aine had never been born. The national debt of Jan. 1, 1883, was J1.181,171,728. It will require the imposition of high duties upon imports to provide for the payment of the Interest on this great debt and sinking funds for its redemption. it is conceded by men of all parties that these duties must be revised. Under a Republican President such revision would be made in the interests of the corporat ons. Under a Democratic President such revision will be in the interest of the people. Tiie Democratic party has declared that in revising duties it will protect labor and capital involved in existing industries; will p otect labor and en <ble it to compete with foreign labor. This committee has conducted this campaign against enormous odds. Its necessary expenses have been paid by your voluntary contributions. The Republ.can treasury, on the contrary, was filled to overflowing. The large contributions of officeholders, of contractors who have accumulated wealth in public jobs, and of favored corporations, have c eated a campaign fund larger than the Democratic party edn command.

It the Blaine managers had stopped with this money, atfd rested content with its corrupt use, we should have left them to their devices, knowing that their expenditures w’ould be unavailing. But. while we write, a meeting of manufacturers, summoned by these managers, and in session at the Fifth Avenue Ho el, has by the request of those managers agreed to stop work at their factories unless their workmen will sunport Mr. Blaine. This attempt to coerce the workingmen to support Mr. Blaine will be remembered at the polls, not only by the men it was intended to affect, but by all workmen. You have fully awakened to a sense of the supreme importance of good government. You are putting forth all your power to secure it. This committee can forecast the issue. That issue will be the triumphant election of Cleveland and Hendricks.