The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1873-10-24
ELECTION OF ALLEN IN OHIO.

[From tho n. o. Herald, l9th.l
Governor McEnery received, Friday
! evening, the following dispatch:
CINCINNATI, Oct. II, 1873.
Allen elected Governor by about one
| thousand majority. The State ticket also
FARAN Il MCLEAN,
Editors of Cincinnati Enquirer
The signers Of this telegram arc the
trusty and cautious editors Of one of the
oldest and trlest Democratic papers in
the United States.
The event announced is certainly
very gratifying and encouraging. Gov
einor Allen is a noble specimen Of the
ancient Democracy, as ii existed and
fiourishcd in the days of Jackson and
Van Buren,, before the party became
divided and demoralizcd by the slavery
and sectional contests. He was con-
temporary of Clay, Webster, Calhoun
and other WORTHLESS OF the era when the
United States Senate was composed Of
the intellectual giants of the nation.
Though n much younger man than
those mentioned, he achieved a high
position and great celebrity rs an able,
vigorous and powerful champion OF
those Democratic principles and policies
which have survived the shock of civil
war, and arc still recognized as the only
safe and solid basis upon which this
republic can be maintained. A giant
in height and in structure, of such
power of voice, vigor and earnestness
as speaker, that few over dared to
meet him in debate, he also possessed
an intellectual and moral strength, and
practiced digni1ied propricty of life
which justly entitled him to the res
poet and admiration ofthc whole nation,
and made him one Of the recognized
chieftains of the party.
Some miserable fcud and division of
the party suddenly arrested Mr. Aliens
career as a rising statesman in it's very
beginning, and 1T the very moment
when tho party stood in the greatest
need Of such leader, he was sent into
the retirement Of private life. Though
his pride and patriotism were no doubt
hurt by this result, Mr.. Allen accepted
this octracis1n with tho spirit of a phil
osopher and true gentleman, and found
great cnjoynlcnts i'll the comforts, quiet
and happiness of rural life. He became
q great farmer on his beautiful model
farm, near Chillicothc, where we have
seen him cutting the widest swath Of
the whole gang Of the Graders in his
fields, and leading all his employees in
every laborous task.
Tho time borrowed from his farm
duties was given to study and reading
in his fine library. But Mr.. Allen did
not in his retirement withdraw from
all interest in the politics of the country
or from the duties Of citizenship. On
the contrary, in all elections and polit-
ical assemblies, in his county, he was
always prominent as speaker and
an actor. The i'll return made for his
great services by the Democracy never
weakened his devotion to, nor dimin-
ished his zeal and artior for, the princi.
pies of the old party. He never waVcr-
ed or varied a hairs breadth from the
straight path upon which he had entered
in his youth.
It was indeed happy thought of the
Ohio Democracy to select Il tried vcte-
ran of their party, OF such high charac-
ter and distinguished record, to cnanl-
pion them in the contest against the
party that has done SO much to lower
the standing Of the public men of the
ccuntry-to promote corruption and
heep alive the virulcnt and bitter ami
mosities engcndered 10y orr civil war.
The defeat Of his antagonists mUtiia-
tod and gallant soldier OF that war-
was the first emphatic rchniln of these
appeals TO passions that ought long ago
to have been cNtinIUiShch. We trust
it will be the inauguration Hf a long
series OF such victories throughout the
United States. Ohio, by ciecting a lien 4,
has placed herself IL tn" front of the
Democratic column which must event
ually bear tho tim,-honorCd old stand
ard of that party to glorious triumphs
and Il complete conquest, -ubjugation
and extinction of the malignant faction
which has thrivcd and prospcrcd only
by corruption and a IandcrilG to the
worst passions of Il free people.
FAILURE NO. , OF THE BALLOON TO
EUROPE.