People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1895 — DESPERATE METHODS [ARTICLE]

DESPERATE METHODS

Of the Ohio Democracy In Its Despicable Campaign of Falsehood. A. POLITICAL REVOLUTION In the Buckeye State That Is Frightening Both the Old Party Managers. The Populists Will Carry Huffieirnt Counties to Hold the Balance of Hower in the Next Legislature. Never in the history of political campaigns has any party gone to the extreme of wholesale falsification and villification that characterizes the work of democracy of Ohio this fall, in its war upon Coxey and the populists. The republicans are scarcely noticed in comparrison with the columns of lies that are launched against the leadersof the peopled party. Not satisfied with the simple purchase of the support of democratic editors with cold cash from Brices “barrel,” the central committee has taken control of the editorial departments of the organs, and fill the papers with columns of especially prepared matter, sent free in plate form supplemented with type written specials, and the burden of ninth tenths of this stuff is directed at Mr. Coxey. It is simply a scheme to frighten back into the demonratic fold those of that party who have been converted to the populist doctrine. The scheme will fail, and it will be found when the votes are counted next Tuesday that without reference to former party affiliation a magnificent work has been accomplished in the buckeye state. The best proof that the populists are making tremendous gains in that state is the fact the old parties, especially the democratic party, are lying about them and using such despicable means to stem the political revolution. Now stick a pin here friends. The first press reports that go over the wires next Tuesday night wiL not give Coxey a tenth or the vote he actually received; the next day it will increase it a trifle, and that is the last the associated dispatches will say about it; you will have to look to the populist press fora correct report of the election. The Pilot does not predict the election of Mr. Coxey, God forgive the people for neglecting to do so, but it does look for such growth of the party in actual vote?, cast for principle, that Ohio will be debatable ground next year. The democratic ranks of Ohio are not strangers to the true political economy of populism. They have trained under the leadership of reformers in the past, and have supported a reform state platform that embodied populistprinciples in every line. Such was the case in 1873, when Uncle Billy Allen was elected governor, through the efforts of the majestic Tom Ewing, who swung the Ohio democracy into line for currency reform, and to-day Tom Ewing is urging his old democratic friends to vote for Coxey on the populist ticket. Let us hope that the tidal wave will be large enough to crown his noble efforts with victory. It is already conceded by impartial judges that the balance of power in the next legislature will be in the hands of the populists. The following choice samples of convincing arguments are given, one from a democratic and one from a republican factory of falsehoods: DEMOCRATIC ANNAMI AB. The fact that J. 8. Coxey is in frequent consultation with the republican executive committees at Columbus, and confers with the the local republican committees in all the counties he visits, ought to open the eyes of democrats to the fact that he is simply one of George B. Cox's sideshows in a big game of bunko. He has sold himself to tbejrepublican party and Is trying to throw the influence of the populist vote against the democratic party. Will any honest thinking man vote to endorce such methods? The way to rebuke them is to vote the straight democratic ticket.—Plate matter sent out by democratic "Brains Bureau at Columbus. REPUBLICAN BAPPHIRA. It is very evident that Coxey is in pay of Cal. Brice. He has already made nearly a dozen speeches in this county and all of them in republ lean localities. Candidates for Governor have re ver been known to make more than one speech in a county during a campaign. Ooxey'sefforts elsewhere are in counties where Brice hopes by the liberal use of boodle to elect a member of the legislature. Why don't he go upjlnto democratic townships of Buck's, Jefferson. Auburn, Bugarcreek and Wayne? For the very simple reason that he is not after democratic votes. Republicans should not permit themselves to be made unwitting tools of a boodllng millioniare.—Turcarawas Advocate.