The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-10-23
Some Sober Words to the Northern
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The result of the recent elections in Ohio
they were in 1868, when, in the plenitude of
their strength, acquired as they supposed by
few oh-year victories, they nominated
SEYMOUR and BLAIR for President and Vice
President of the United States. The New
York World, always wrong, leads these
Bourbons. 1t tells them, and they believe,
that great rejection in favor of Democracy
has set in, although the fact is they have
gained nothing worth talking about. THUR
MAN will continue in the Senate, where he
now il, and will be in more contemplate
minority than he has been in for the last six
years. ALLEN will be Governor Of Ohio
for two years, and then Republican will
succeed him. The Cincinnati Commercial
we'll infers that the success of the Democrats
in Ohio this year will result in 4 Democratic
defeat in the presidential election Of 1876.
The northern people never will elect Dem
ocratic President, and rs the Democratic
party never will diSband and give way to a
the prospect seems to be that the country is
to be cursed with the Republican party for
many years to come. But we intended
merely to call attention to the following
good advice to the northern Democrats from
one of the soundeSt Democratic papers in
the country, the Missouri Republican,
which, in spite Of its name, is the organ of
the best people in Missouri:
From the Missouri Republican of Saturday lastI
"If the Ohio election proves anything, it
is that the Republican party has become
almost intolerably offensive to the people of
that State-a trife more offensive to them
than they have declared the Democratic
party to be at every election in the last
twelve years. If this is to be construed into
an endorsement of the Democratic party,
then the people of Ohio are never to have
any other option than choice of evils.
They are to alternate between Democracy
and Republcanism accordingly as one be-
comes more offensive than the other, with
no freedom Of invention and selection be-
yond them. This is the view which the
trained partisans on both sides take OF IT;
for it is to be noted that the Republican
leaders are as strongly opposed to a dlsoand-
ment of the Democracy as the Democratic
leaders are. They do not want to see the
withdrawal from the field OF an enemy
whom they can always beat in crltl-
cal contest. and the substitution OF an
other enemy whom they may not be able to
heat There is no doubt that these leaders
secretly rejoice at a result in Ohio which
presel YES their feeble antagonist for their fur
Their sport. They could better afford to lose
Ohio in this otf-year' of politics, and half
dozen other Sta,cs with it, than have the
Democracy give up the ghost. They can
easily regain Ohio, as they recoyered%New
York, Connecticut, California, and New
Hampshire, at the next election; but with
the Democracy out of the way, and the peo-
Die at liberty to form new combinations, they
know that their ascendancy would be i'm
perilled. a...
And yet all the efforts of the Democratic
Bourbons, backed by all the friendly CO.
operation Of the Republican leaders, cannot
save the Democratic party. The Baltimore
abdication is irrevOcable. 1t was solemnly
recorded, and cannot be recalled. What the
local Democracy have done in Ohio amounts
to little; for, after ALL it is less than the half
organized and teebly-commanded Anti-Mo-.
nopoly movement has done in Iowa, and Tar
less than similar movement has done. in
California. The Reorganization of the De.
mocracy is so nearly complete that re-
organization Of it would be far more difficult
than the formation of a new party? Il has
no existence in one.thfrd Of the States; it
has only perceptible existence in another
third and it has no national existenceat ALL"
The St. Louis Globe, Republican paper,
reiOices over the result in Ohio. 1t says:
1--WE are profoundly thankful for the re-
suit Of the Ohio election not because we
hold the principles or admire the prejudices
which gained in that. election substantial,
if not com plete, triumph, but because we
do not hold pr admire them. and Wish to
see them trauirled out efectualIy-bfearlse
we love Republican ideas" y '.'>