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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1880
Page
5
Cc K M Jennings urges support for Garfield and Arthur in the upcoming election. Articles praise Republican protections, warn Democrats, condemn forged letters, and rally workers to vote next Tuesday for national prosperity and unity.
A rallying plea dated after a large county win urges Republicans to vote next Tuesday. The speech attacks the Democratic party, claims federal misgovernance, and warns of intimidation by violent groups while urging a 1500 vote margin for national Republicans.
The piece argues Democrats forged Garrett stance to scotch laborers from tariff debates. It cites Garfield’s July 12 acceptance letter praising selective immigration limits and Chinese labor concerns. It notes administration moves with China to modify treaties and defend American workers from servile labor. The tone attacks Democratic positions as inadequate for workers.
A Garfield campaign response denounces a forged Morey letter as a bold forgery. Mentions receipt of a lithographic copy and calls for detectives to find the culprit, with Garfield and correspondence from Mentor, Ohio, October 1880.
The document compiles platform excerpts from the Democratic and Republican parties from 1856 to 1880. It highlights opposing stances on protectionism and free trade, with Democrats favoring free seas and world trade and Republicans advocating duties to support American industry and labor, including mentions of tariffs for revenue and protecting wages. It cites conventions in Cincinnati, Charleston, Baltimore, St. Louis, Chicago, and Philadelphia.
The piece argues that Democrats would lift obstacles to Rebel claims if given full government control. It contends Republicans blocked payment through disloyalty requirements and demands a Court with broad jurisdiction to decide Rebel claims without loyalty taint, warning that Democratic power would drop masks and reveal Rebel faces.
Secretary Evarts rallies on human liberty equating Southern restriction of suffrage with oppression. He warns 138 electoral votes are pulled from politics by the Solid South while 47 votes could win the government for opponents and 185 for friends. He questions Democratic methods and a shift from honesty to dishonesty in tariff and governance.
Farmers and wool growers should recall that the key tariff bills of 1866-7, covering the entire wool and woolen goods tariffs, were enacted with no Democratic votes in either house.
The article argues the Solid South has blundered in governing the nation and should not control the country’s business interests. It emphasizes a critique of regional political dominance and its impact on national policies.
The Morrill Tariff created the protected industrial system with votes split along party lines. In the Senate, all but one Democrat opposed, and in the House, Republicans led the majority with few crossovers. The shift marks a prewar policy change from 1857 free trade to protection, later echoed in party platforms and tariff adjustments.
In Athens the speaker Con A D Jaynes of Sedalia contends Republicans will boost their Missouri vote by forty thousand next Tuesday, framing it as a step toward the party’s planned realignment of the state’s political column.
The Postoffice stamp on the alleged Garfield forged letter proves its counterfeit nature. In January 1880 Washington City Postoffice used only an old rubber stamp. On April 13 a new steel canceling stamp arrived and has been used since, and the forgery imitates this new stamp, self-convicting the perpetrators.
The speaker argues a key difference between revenue tariffs and protective tariffs. A revenue tariff taxes imports not produced domestically, like tea and coffee, while a protective tariff taxes imports competing with U S industry to shield American manufacturers. Revenue tariffs destroy domestic industry. protective tariffs sustain it.
The passage contrasts Southern Democratic claims that white Republicans harm families and the public, with Northern Democrats accusing appeals to workers of intimidation. It argues that such insinuations insult worker manhood and honesty while urging voters to consider their own interests.
Henry Watterson, chairman of the Platform Committee, says the tariff for revenue only plank was set after an all-night session and careful revision, then presented to the Convention with unanimous approval. The party pledged free trade, while its Northern wing now claims it meant protection.
The piece argues it would be libel on public intelligence to accept the Democrats, citing their record as wholly bad, a candidate lacking civil experience, and a platform yielding only disruption, presented amid prosperity as a reason for change that no sane people would support. It states the proposal is preposterous and fit only for a lunatic asylum.
The piece argues that securing a 40,000 vote majority for Garfield in Ohio would help sustain the current business boom and blunt Democratic-Confederate calls for change. It frames the Ohio result as decisive for stabilizing policy and political momentum.
The piece argues that the revenue tariff idea stems from the Democratic South and Confederate texts. It cites a Cincinnati platform plank and the Confederate constitution to claim the policy aimed to fund government without protecting industry, noting Northern workers’ voting tendencies and accusing the Garfield Morey letter of being forged.
An advertisement offers 625 t erase week selling pods for E G Rideout at 10 Barclay Street New York. It invites readers to send for a catalogue on terms dated August 19 1 yl B.
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