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The Brookhaven Ledger
Brookhaven, Lincoln County, Mississippi
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Senator Gordon, interviewed in Charleston, SC on the 3rd inst., attributes Democratic election losses to currency issues distracting from Republican corruption, especially in Southern policy. He urges Democrats and Liberal Republicans to unite in 1876 on constitutional issues, local government, and honest administration, avoiding new distractions.
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Senator Gordon was interviewed in Charleston, South Carolina, on the 3d inst. regarding the late elections. He attributed the Democratic reverses to the fact that the currency issues divided public attention from the corruption and mal-administration of the Republican party, especially in its Southern policy. He said the Republicans would be glad to fight the battle of 1876 upon new issues, and it does not matter with them much what these new issues are--whether they be currency, the acquisition of Cuba or a war with the Pope--anything rather than their own record.
The National Democracy will make a serious mistake if they permit any of these new issues to be brought into the Presidential canvass next year. "I am," he said, "satisfied, however, that after the lesson of Tuesday, the National Democracy will not make the currency question either paramount or prominent, and that both wings of the Democratic party on the currency question, and the Liberal Republicans will unite in 1876 in favor of the Constitution, local government, honest and economical administration."
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Charleston, South Carolina
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3d Inst.
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Senator Gordon attributes Democratic election reverses to currency issues distracting from Republican corruption and mal-administration, particularly Southern policy. He warns against new issues in 1876 and expects Democratic unity with Liberal Republicans for constitutional government and honest administration.