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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1870
Page
2
Republicans urged to vote the whole ticket and mobilize early to ensure Tarif Andy wins a strong majority. Dems accused of seeking low turnout, with warnings that supporting any Democrat equates backing rebel-leaning principles and half measures.
A reader letter accuses the Free Trade League of New York of spending to defeat protectionist candidates and endorses Democratic candidate Henry D. Foster over Republican Andrew Brower. The piece urges early voting and mentions county-wide support for the ticket.
A raucous call to Union party voters to back Schenck against Foster and Campbell. The piece accuses the Butler county liquor ring of funding Lew Campbell to defeat Robert C. Schenck, claims British interests back the opposition, warns of English influence, and urges immediate turnout next Tuesday to prevent a Democratic majority and protect American industry. It cites price drops and calls readers to fulfill their civic duty.
Senator Morton of Indians presents a detailed record praising the Republican party for abolishing slavery universal suffrage civil rights and building infrastructure while claiming debt reduction and protections for labor. He contrasts with Democrats accusing sympathy for rebellion hostility to suffrage and anti debt reduction before urging turnout next Tuesday.
The publication notes a September debt report showing total debt 2.48 billion and treasury coin and currency holdings. It accuses Democratic leaders of theft and argues Republicans are paying down the debt, urging readers to keep the party in power.
The New York Tribune reports Free Traders claim tariff benefits only the East while Western workers need protection. An Osage City project to build furnaces and a brick plant, with $10,000 to $20,000 in startup, stalled after repeated delays. Representatives cite strong site potential but fear inadequate protection and high costs, delaying investment and farm sales in Cole and Osage counties.
Fragmented report extols Andrew Stewart as veteran Republican candidate for the Twenty first district. Born 1792 in Fayette County, he served in the Legislature, as United States Attorney for Western Pennsylvania, and eight terms in Congress. Praised for support of manufacturing and internal improvements, the piece notes strong GOP momentum nationally with Republican gains in Vermont Maine Colorado and Wyoming.
Fragmentary OCR suggests a political note urging voters to support the entire Republican ticket in Missouri. It contrasts with a Democratic four decades in power and mentions schools and buildings, but the text is garbled and lacks clear names, dates, or places.
The document from the Republican State Central Committee in Philadelphia on September 29, 187- argues the Republicans led by end of Civil War reforms, crediting Emancipation and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to equal rights. It contrasts the Democratic Party as pro-slavery and obstructionist, touts tax relief, debt reduction, railroad land grants, and homestead provisions, and urges unity and turnout to preserve Republican control in Pennsylvania and national elections.
A fragment from a 19th or early 20th century critique laments Southern Democrats embracing negro votes and admitting black members, condemning the party for moral compromise and portraying the shift as a dangerous betrayal of anti-Republican ideals and national integrity.
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