Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-12-06
why Governor Noyes was De-
tented.


Now that the smoke of the political bat.
tie in Ohio has cleared away. and noncom-
batants can go on the field to seek the
dead aud wounded, it is discovered that
old Mr.. Allen is in charge of the field, with
the white flag of the Bouri,ons floating
over him. The young leader of the Re-
publican is found, lhetaphofically speak
ing. dead beneath heap of slain. Such
result those who gazed npon the battle
afar on were not prepared for. Il was
known that large majority of the people
OF Ohio had no active sympathy for tho
poiticai Chambord who has come to the
leadership by the grace of COD They
no more wanted him placed Z he head Of
affairs than the majority of the people Of
France want throne set up for his proto-
type. Yet the Bourbon star seems to be
in the ascendency In both cases for tho
time being.
But the question why the people of Ohio
have allowed Allen to be elected Governor
is answered in the Washington Chronicle of
the eighteenth instant.
| 1t is claimed that the candidates for
Governor and Lieutenant Governor Of
Ohio, looked to future senatorial honors,
conducted the canvass personally for their
own political ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. This
charge seems to be well grounded, from
the fact that the greatest losses were in
large Republican districts, while there
were gains to the party in Democratic dis
tricts. The fact Is well established by the
press of the State, who were dissatisfied
with the demagogism displayed by their
candidates.
1t appears the Young men at the head OF
the Republican ticket permitted their per-
sonal ambition to override their regard for
the party's interests. They felt that an
easy victory was before them; and so re-
jected assistance that was rendered them
in canvassing the State, proposing to win
| and wear all the lanrels themselves.
Again, it is charged that arrangements
were made by these candidates, whereby,
to advance their own success aud increase
their prospective maiorities, the interests
Of the remainder of the ticket were to sui.
fer. The honest masses of the party sup
ported the ticket, as general thing not
withstanding the sh rtcomings-not to use
a stronger term--of their leaders. but
enough of them set their faces against
such conduct to defeat at least one of them
by few hundred votes.
The Republican party of Louisiana has
had some experience with this class of
dickcring politicians. Two or three can
,iidates obtained prominent places ON the
ticket at the last election, who, no sooner
than this was was done, began to make
combinations and compromises with every
body aud everything to obtain votes for
themselves, at the expense OF their COL
leagues on the ticket. BY this means,
more than any other, the Republican ticket
came near being defeated ut the polls.
The masses Of the party submitted to thia
treachery on that occasion, but will never
give these gentlemen another chance to
betray them. No good behavior on their
part will ever again tempt the Republican
voters to contide in those who struggled
to sacrifice their party for their own ag'
grandisement during the most important
election that has been held since the war,
when all the results Of years Of Rspubli-
can government CANT near oeing lost for
ever. With these gentlemen the boast was
not how much they had strengthened their
ticket in this ward and that parish, but
how much, in this ward and that parish
they had run ahead Of their ticket
|. Understanding, then. the reasons why
the Republicans of Ohio yielded 30 luke
warm support to their candidate for
Governor, and fully approaching the self
ishness Of the candidates which led TO their
own discontinue, we have no regrets to
express at the result of the election IN
Ohio.-lN u. Republican.