New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-21
THE OCTOBER ELECTIONS.
OF TIE PRESS.
DOUBTS CLEARED UP.

tbe dispatches from an the October states give
r15T so mSTs ProS1d 6af Ren G. Thurman is
more level headed politician. and that tue times gener-
have suspected or indeed have had reason suspect
ing. 4 That the Allen County movement, Demo,
cratic bolt n conception and execution, has nOtOp put
il MILDLY accomplished what expected Of II, ana |
is now liable. should say, u be cut of m ITS cary
bloom That the Farmers party IN Iowa on tt The
trarN is rather success than Otherwise o; aornia
Independents OF Dolly Warden movement IN C,c5i6na
50 far from cNhaustng itself an the legislative e
only stored mp additional momentum. ana Is no" already
II" worse than ever T. That when aaPs tliz by u
3 3uS NIL Iu n ttros Inc experiment IN an on
year pttng Hiram smith against sue senator Nes.
uOnaily able ana popular gentena o., are very liable
min, o9,n me RPT ana Demoeratc friends have as
vague ideas about the relations eAs''"S '''''
swallows ana summers as ever
NEAEIND M NJ ~ y Hortf lDsal
The election in ono 70 t,n9 5laSo in our recent
politics. explodes al, tns DSrty since the great
5isfakc and disaster Of last year. ahu ~ turO"S 49,,
Of hight on iIe P' me ohio election Is that the Demo
cratic psrty is be the opposition party OF the heAt
Tour YEAR, ,ubcanism OF States like Ohothe state
Of Wade and Gddings ana Cnac, ana ' m 0pIguu
victory 0 Ub oiin,op Dagon the GOD of the PILLS
nss has fallen in his own temple. Since the people Of
Obio accept Democracy, now vain VIII IL be TO say
he Old Republican, states It has succeeded in
the popullus and important OF them an ~ t nus
succeeded IN the next year aiter dlsptltns uVio
winch was thought by shallow observers to have ruined
the parry y n mas spe Of tbe holding off Of
mnudcS ut dissatisfied Republicans in the expectation
81 new oplosuCn pr crcm what may we not
expect when the tide has so maniestly turnedf
THE TnlNG To- TO BE ERR. REGE E51 7aBi
The meaning of these elections is PLAIN
enough There Is no Gnange !. vac ana viii not be
trusted and that with all its faults the Republican
party is pretty Of long and prosperous iie lthe
Democratic party persists in maintaining shadow OF
It's offensive existence. II tho ONO Legi55Atuio
personal triumph. aud that Senator Thur,
mans course las DSen NeiJ @ % ,ros ae The
prospect of Senator Thurmans reelection. but they VIII
Wa Of about the same character Mr. Nesmih has long
been identified with the Pacific coast interest ana Is
personally popular That IS all there Il Oh lnat
Democratic victory There IS only one thing TO regret
In these personal victories They WI DC worked ms as
IN of rcyiyng the Democratic party Wnen tney
as far nom 1t as light IS IRON darkness Is 1
should be IN the least encouraged To thnK sei ai'e
lHE DEMOCRATIC PARTY THE PARTY OF THE FUTURE.
From Cinrlnnaa Enquirer tDcnl
We pass the word along the line that there
has been glorious Democratic victory IN ono. IL Is
the triumph OF honesty, is tribute to pubic yiIRe
and official purity paid by the people ana Dy
the odds against which fought II Is conquest OF
foes without and foes within. Our battle in ONO has
been the only election this Fail which has commanded
the attention OF the whole country had been made by
The NE and the permanence OF the Democratic party We
have killing larger game than Noyes In this cleo
tOn have been building or repairing Tor the f1ture;
marty whose beginning foOlishness and whose end
j. not6ngness has been taught useful lesson. The
questions OF the future economic questions, the rela-
tons between monopOles and people. are questions on
which the Democratic party alone can and Will promote
the Of the people. We have convinced majority
Of tho people Of ono that th9 DemGeTaTo pan ag bs
dominent questions which are ahead Of US as wisely
ara tssrsoe Of the election is really still
ahead Of US and viii cover larger field than OHIO
AN ADVANCE OF BoURBoNIsM
So BOurbOnism seems to be making It's ap-
Pearance tue surface IN Ohio Sc well as IN France.
The country Will be curious about the happening OIL TINS
thing. Certainly the situation is highly INTERESTING ana
events greater scope than those that have trans
pired hkey TO come of It, whether Moves or Allen
Is declared winner by lew hundred votes there Il
has been advanced The Democratic bugles VIII, there
be blown along the line and there viii be grand
the Allen faction--f Allen himself has won-or the
man Il the only heavy wnDer-nO harm done beyond
loss Of the opportunity TO better the political cOnd
party The longer heads of the Republican party will
discover reason Tor discoagemen 10 the ONO cleo
Ou for they could ask no better assurance OF tue per
peuatIou Of their national power than the guarantee
that there should be straight party fights for period
including the next Presidential campaign.
UNEXPECTED DEMOCRATIC VITALITY.
from BHgI0 Courier (Dep.l
The reports at this writing still continue
meager yet enough has been received to show that IN
Ohio and substantial Democratic victory has
been won This in state which last year gave Grant
majority Of 3426S, is result the magnitude OF which
it IS difficult realize. and which will go far 70 change
the political aspect OF the country IL Is the more sig
nhcant for the that 1t Is purely Democratic
victory achieved while united Republican chorus pro
claimed and many Democrats feared that the
Democratic party vas dead. Inc ONO Dem moe
affected Republicans who year before were their allies
large par supported independent ticket aud even
drew OFF few Democrats to the aid OF their new
party" movement. II the Democracy thus single
i shows not only that Repubcanism has fallen below
within the past year out also that there remains IN
he old Democratic organization an unsuspected and
iuexhaustblc fund OF vitality.
THE ONE OBSTACLE TO POLITICAL REFORM.
From TIE Chtc1g0 TINES JHdl
This is the most significant and most
important fact that appears from the results Of the
OF moral certainty that the one obstacle IN the
way of poca reform is the continued assertion OF
offensive existence by the mOrbuDd rump Of the old
BrOSlayery party Bury the old runp; remit the In
veerate Bonrhons 10 Oblivion In their own personality
eradicate tile "ancient and badsmeng prejudice and
the independent political power as we see in Iowa,
70 the front like young giant con9ueflng aud
10 conquer" There is IN treating the fossils
otherwise than the cumbersome fossils that they
are Men whO like the Tammanyites in New-YorK will
fully shut their eyes in order not TO see the hand
writing the wall, expect only the consideration
which would be given to an ueorrgi0le dog In the
THE DEMOCRATIC FUNERAL INDEFINITELY POST
PONED.
From 7as Ct,reloAd PlliadeaLsr tDem)
There is one palpable lesson of the Fall cleo
tons especially in Ohio-the Democratic party live
party Tie undertaken go home. There will be no
funeral Put away the GRAPE Those confident Repub-
ncans who have 50 eagerly and so peasuraby insisted
Efforts TO recucitae IN we're idiotic and absurd that IL
serve practical ends and the few very few, weak kneed
Democrats who have taken stock 10 this kind Of talk
all OF these people have suspended" and without
assets" The Democracy is not dead, The very name
must be henceforth taken as the best synonym for |
file. It's history commensurate with that Of the !
country
NO P gs IT. E.S OF OF TIE DEMOCRACY.
The result of the Ohio election will I'M |
dOubedy be TO END the tak about the dissolution Of the
Democratic party: The Democratic party not ready
TO dissolve aud there Is no issue which is strong
enough 70 deach 5 from IL any @ number Of
with II "a IL stands. Possibly the ant-monOpOly