The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1867-09-18
The Finger on the G1ide-pOst-
Maine FOFeshadOJyS the Get
beF Elections.


ber Elections.
''IIarI the song of Jubilee;
Loud as mighty thunders roar,
or the fullness of the sea,
When it breaks upon the shore,
Halleluiahl-hark!t the sound
From the centre to the skies,
Wakes above, beneath, around,
All creations haTmonies."
The extraordinary result Of the Maine
election foreshadows almost unerringly the
coming result in Ohio, Pennsylvania and
New York. Two-thirds of the last year
gigantic Republican minority of 27,0OO has
been swept away! A Democratic gain has
been made on hundred thousand votes
polled of $4,000 As we poll 1900 votes
in Ohio this is equal to change OF 10000
in this State. This ratio cf Democratic
gain would carry Ohio by $4,000 majority,
as it only gave some 10000 Republican ma
inritv Ia 1t year! This immense gain in
Maine is as astounding as it is gratifying,
All things considered, it is quite as brilliant
an achievement as the glorious Democratic
victory in California. There is no one now
who can be SC blind as to mistake the drift
of public sentiment. Every election thus
far has }eenin the highest degree favorable
to the Democracy and discouraging to the
Radical. New Hampshire, in March, open
ed the campaign with a reduction oftwenty-
five per cent, ia the Republican majority.
In April Connecticut was redeemed, and
Republican majority of 10000 was changed
into a Democratic majority Of 1000. In
May Kentucky increased her Democratic
majority some thousand, and in August she
made q still further increase, running up to
$4,000. In September Vermont fell consid-
erably off in its Republican vote, and Cali
fornia, formerly Gibraltar of Republican
strength, went Democratic throughout by a
large majority. But still the question was;
What Of Maine? For twenty seven years
she, voting iust before the great States of
Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania, has been
anxiously looked forward to with absorbing
interest. Those States have always gone in
the direction which she has risen or fallen in
her majorites.
Twenty seven years ago. the election of
Edward Kent, the Wing candidate for Gov
crnor, over John Fairfield, Democrat, who
had been elected but two years previous by
mary thousands majority, was the first note
of warning given to the friends Of Mr.. Van
Buren, of the Harrison tornado, which
swept every thing before it in that memora-
bic year. After this great Whig gain had
been made in Maine, it was known that we
were doomed in all of the large States.
The Harrison song then was:
"Oh! have you heard the news from Maine,
All honest and true;
The Star in the East is rolling the ball
For Tippecanoe and Tyler, too;
And with them we will beat little Van;
Van is used-up man;
And with them we will beat little VAN"
Last year we had high hopes Of tavora-
bic result from the action OF the. johnson
philadelphia Convention, until they were
buried under an increased majorltyln Maine,
that reached the mOnStrouS figure OF IL OOO!
Therefore, despite all the favorable indlca-
tions from New Hampshire, Connecticut,
Kentucky, Vermont and California, the
Democracy were no. entirely clear as to
how things were going until Maine had
spokan-spoken SO gloriousy and unans,
werabIy! Those who ale the most blind
can now see the signs written all over the
political horizon. The dcafest can hear the
thunder from the far East, which is now
reverborating in the sky. The same omi-
nous signs which accompanied and caused
the defeat in California are visible in Maine.
Many thousand OF Republicans, who can
not apt,rove Of the ultraism Of their party
| itsmdd Insanity upon*he negro question
its suning over the Southern States to ne
! cro rule hay, q ,ietly stni1 at home, OF
gave TIE weght ot their indu.nce agains
tham. When Ohio, Pennsylvania and New
| Ya.k vote W. shall see the sane phenomen;
exhibited, on a much greater scale, for thci
p0pulations arc much more inclined to De
,nocyacy than that Of Maine. The bal tina
has rolled over that State will receive sn
creased Impetus from this result, and wi
be much more formidable in its progress il
| he middle and western sections of the coun
trv We shall be told by the Radicals tha
this change in Maine is owing to loca
causes. Strange it is that local cause
should operate at one and in the same de
gree in Maine in the far Fast, and Californi
Ia the far We.t-in Vermont Kentucky
Connecticut aud New Hampshire! Their
is toe, much of this local causel 1t has to
wide sweep by far for satisfactory Radi
cal explanation. No these gains are nc
faon local causes. They are parts Of on
of the grandest Democratic victories whic
is in process of being won in every part {
the Union.
We say to the Democracy of Ohio, loo
to Maine--it is the guide-p post that point
to brilliant victory in this State in October
Close up the colum and press on the ranks
The day which has been solong and anxior
sly expected is breaking at last. The daw
Of bright and better era is at hand.
VIC have had any doubts as to the extent {
the change which our friends in the countr
have reported in public opinion, we hay
none DOW.