The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-31
The Recent EIectiOnS-Their Inter-
probation.

election and vote for Allen or for Noyes.
Whether Aliens vote is large enough to
amount to half, or little over half of
The $4,000 polled in 1872 for Wykoff
and for Wylie, will be known when the
footings are made of the vote for Govern
or in 1873. If he falls short of having
obtained 25S,000 votes, then it is not a
fact that mis- supporters are in popular
majority of all the voters in Ohio, while
every one may admit his plurality over
Noyes. If by adding Aliens and Col
Inns vote together we find 258, 900 votes,
then there is verdict in Ohio not only
a gainst the Republican party, but in ia
vor Of those principles of civil govern
ment on whose popularity the Democra-
cy drove from power every party which
to oppose it from 1924 to 1860
SO years.
When war questions are out of the
way, and the mind of the nation again
becomes fully turned to questions Of civ
il polity, of taxation, of local rights, of
of internal Improvements
by taxation, of tariffs, of legislation for
the few at the expense of the many, of
paper money used to make few rich
only to impoverish the many, and not
to subserve the high purposes of its crea-
tion-when these again become the topic
of thought, and of action; the verdict
in Ohio under the lead of Thurman AMI
Collins, the verdict in California, Ore
gon and Iowa, under the lead of Anti
Monopoly and Farmers Oranges and
Democratic elements acting in concert,
indicate return to the same question:
which gave to the Democratic party it,
oid-,ime victories, and to its opponents
their uld-time defeats.
THE ISSUES OF THE PAST
Is years, which grew out of slavery and
sec,ionalism, and war and reconstruc-
ton, are not now under discussion: the!
are consigned to history. Had slavery
and the doctrine of secession survived
the war; had not their fate been sealed
forever by amendments to the Constitu
tion, and by the acquiescence of the
North and the South in pledges of good
faith-there would be just ground for
distrusting the Democratic party, or any
other party of which it might form the
chief element Of strength. The coun-
try. like noble ship which has success
fully withstood the storm and outrode
the breakers, is about to moor itself safe
ly in the harbor from whence it depart
ed, with slavery and secession overheard,
but laden with debt and in command of
captain and crew, who have charged
the ship with false bills of lading, also
with salaries not agreed upon, and who
have converted large and valuable por-
tions of the cargo to the benefit of favor
ite passengers to the great injury of the
remainder.
TWO SYSTEMS OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT
are again presenting themselves, one
championed by the Republican, and the
other by the Democratic party-the same
systems presented by the Whig and
Democratic parties, and the issues are
returning to the questions of the olden
times, the question of taxing the many
for the benefit of the few, of creating
fat jobs out of undertakings by the Gov
ernment to build railroads, dig canals
erect colleges, gobble up the public
lands, taking possession of the telegraph
and running post-ofice banks,-ques-
t ions of interference with local cleo
tons, and disbursements for carry
ing elections under the plea of Other
motives-these and their offspring, the
Credit Mobilier, the Salary Grab, and
negro supremacy in Louisiana, and the
money! panic which is rumbling under
the feet of the people like the premoni-
tory symptoms of an earthquake-these,
say, are the questions of the present
and the near future-these are the dan
gers we realize, and these the results we
are called upon to neutralize by change
of system, and therefore by change OF
rulers.
WHEN THE OLD ISSUES
regarding tariffs, banks, distribution
laws, strict construction, internal i'm
provements, local self government
and the ability of the people to take
care of themselves, return once more tc
absorb the public mind, the old Wing
notions, now so prevalent in the
policy of the Republican party of which
the Whig party constitutes the chief and
ruling element, will be condemned in
time to come as they have been in time
past These questions are the founda
tion stones of the government, and they
affect the whole building so long as they
remain. Rebellion, reconstruction, anC
slavery may have retired other questions
at issue between the old Wing and Dem
ocratic parties, just as know-nothingism
retired them, just as the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise retired them-bu
like these, all other questions rising ou
of the rebellion will go by the board
and the great fundamental questions
which have divided the country into
parties since the formation of the gov,
ernment, the great questions which af.
feet the earnings and the liberty of the
citizen, and conGne the power of the
ruler to strict limits, will return for re
cognition, discussion and solution.
THE PARTY NAME
under which the Republican whiggery
of this day is to be opposed is not of vi
tai consequence, so it be successfully op
posed.
GEN. JACKSON
became a candidate the first time, anains
the caucus nominee, William ]. Craw
ford. The people brought out Jackson,
and they were not mistaken in theii
man. The Crawford men came over te
Jackson, and the people in few years