Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1884 — OHIO. [ARTICLE]

OHIO.

Address of the Republican State Committee. To the Republicans of Ohio: Ou behalf of the Republican State Executive Committee we congratulate you on the magnificent victory which you won last Tuesday. Our enemies were made confident by the victories which they had won in 188-2 and 1883. They were strong in having lull possession of every branch of the State Government, and of the police departments of nearly all our large cities. The Democracy of the nation poured their then and money into our State ip the hope of settling the Presidential election by capturing Ohio. All these means were used against you with great skill and reckless disregard of fairness. Against all these great odds you have made a brave contest and fairly won it, having made a gain over last year of more than 24,<<X) on the head of your State ticket, against whom all sorts of schemes were devised, for the purjxise of cutting down his votes. In the result upon the other State officers and Congressmen your victory appears In treater magnitude, as upon these the gains were 30,000 and 31,009. The State had been gerrymandered by the Democratic Legislature, so that it was thought impossible for the Republicans of Ohio to secure more than six members in the next National House of Representatives. With this unfairness to contend against you have won ten. While we congratulate you upon this victory, we also ask yon to enter upon the contest which will close the 4th of November with renewed vigor and enthusiasm. The enemy has renewed the struggle, and by the unscrupulous use of the State, county, aud municipal governments, where they control them, will attempt to rob i w» o* Sruits of our victory. Let evecr Bepub-

lican put his shoulder to the wheel ot our chariot, and bnry the Democracy under such an overwhelming majority-that another campaign of slander and scandal will not be indulged in by our beaten foe 1 John F. Oglevee. Chairman. Joshua J. Brown, Secretary.