Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-10-22
The Press on the Ohio Election

November
The Press ON the Ohio Election
CRUSADERS DID THE BUSINESS.
From the St. Louis Globe
T. 2 loss to the Republican party in
Ohio and Indiana may be accounted
for on several grounds, but in estima.
ting the causes which have led to it, il
will not do to overlook the foolish cru.
SADIE Of sou.o months since, for which
the Republicans werc everywhere held
responsible, probably because it was
conceded that movement. against the
consumption of whisky could not ema-
nate from the Democratic party. A
careful examination of the facts shows
that where the crusading fanaticism
was the most largely developed the
Republican losses are heaviest. We
do not believe that any national issue
had as much to do with the result as
this now almost forgotten folly; and if
the gentle reader Will stop to consider
how much more strongly thousands of
men are attached to whisky than they
are to party, he will concede that our
diagnosis of the case is not far wrong.
From the Cleveland Herald. -,
Political tidal waves are periodical.
That's been so since political parties
had a being. 1t will be so always.
The Republicans, in part, deserved a
thrashing, and this was their year for
getting whipped anyhow.
There was one feature of the contest,
| however, that was utterly unfair to-
wards the Republicans. We refer to
| the crusade movement as it affected
politics. The Republican party was no
more responsible for the fanaticism and
| folly of the Temperance street crusade,
than the Democratic party. But the
Republicans were held resonsible for it.
"There are twenty-three voters in my
own family, and in that of my wife;
every one for many years has voted the
Republican ticket, but every one this
year will vote the Democratic ticket"
said a very respectable, industrious,
and mind business German, a
few days before the election. why
have you all changed? we asked. Cru
sading, sir, crusading has done it, and
he gave the name of a prominent wO-
man crusader as the chief cause of this
family German stampede. And the
lOht u Tic was LidG tlldI "OlHdh
is the wife ola Democrat. And yet the
Republican party is held responsible
for the incorporate, indiscreet. and in
effectual attempt at praying and sing
ing down liquor selling. Perhaps the
crusade accounts for Republican defeat.
If so the defeat is unjust. But there
were other causes that every man can
ssign for himself, so that between Re-
publican SHINING, and this year being
the off year for Republicans, the re-
suit is not astounding.
EFFECT ON BUSINESS.
From the Cleveland Leader.
The Democratic victory in Ohio will
make initiation and free trade the battle
cries of Western Democracy. 1t will
make the Western Democrats so strong
and influential that they will be able
to foice the initiation here5y upon their
Eastern brethren. All this, with the
anti-protection policy which will now
be .ainted on their banner, will give
t the finance and tariff legislation to-
ALLY new departure. There will be
new tendency among business men to
kee out of investments until they can
see ne end of this new departuee. The
fact that has depressed business during
the past six months is not the scarcity
of money, but the scarcity of confidence,
the unWili;n,ness of banks and capital
lists 10 trust their money out of their
hands upon such securities as business
men could offer. This sudden turn of
the political weathercock, the certainty
for a new financial and anti-protective
policy, cannot fail to have an important
nffaot hYroinnSS q r,laf-
form of imitation, reputation, anti
temperance, and free trade, the De-
mocracy can carry State ticket in
Ohio, then it must indeed be difficult
for q business man to know what to ex-
pect, or what the financial bias of next
winters legislation will be.
From the St. Louis Democrat.
Evidently, the temperance question
exercised decisive influence in Ohio |
and Indiana. 1t will be remembered |
that the last Constitutional Convention |
placed the liquor question sharply be- |
fore the people of Ohio, and the Re-
publieans have since taken strong tenn
perance ground, while the Democrats
favor a license law. The result is a
strong reaction against the Republl-
cans, and Democratic majority larger
than the State has given to that party
for about a quarter of century, and
the defeat of many Republican candi-
dates in districts and counties hitherto
comparatively close. In 1852 Ohio
gave 16, ,699 majority, In 1862 it gave
5 SIT majority to the same party, and
in 1873 only S13 majority. Manifestly,
it is not the influence of national ques-
tiOns, which has now swelled the DEM
Ocratic majority to $4,000 or 10000, but
the policy of prohibition, against which
of voters have protested.
The result in Indiana is of double inn
port; but the indications there point in
the same direction. The Republicans
in that State advocated local option
system, with stringent laws hold
ing dealers to pecuniary responsibility,
while the Democrats advocated gen.
eral license law. Accordingly, in Vigo
county, dispatches say: "The German
having decided to vote
the Democratic ticket, in consequence
of the position of the Republican party
on the Temperance Issue, the Demo
Gratis have gained from 800 to 500 votes
in this county," In South Bend Re-
publican loss of 300 is reported; and,
though corresponding gains were eX-
pected by the Republicans in strong
localities, the returns thus
far do not show that they have been
MARY Jane, have you given the
goldfish fresh water" No, ma'am.
What's the use; they haven't drunk up
what's i'm there yet
A Dubuque man offers to go out pray
ing with the sick at SO per day, and
adds :-'Or l will drive team, break
colts, or run cider mill
What is bull-head luck p asks a
kentucky paper. Twisting a mules