Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-10-24
rur OCTOBER ELECTIONS
Gomnients Of the Press.


stantial one. That gained in In
diana is not less 50. The results
in the other States indicates no
change of special Importance in
the politicrl sentiments of their
people There is no reason for
doubt that much of the gain made
by the Democracy in Ohio is due
to the pronounced position taken
by the republican PARTY in favor Of
temperance legislation. That party
includes the great mass Of the 70
ters of the State who are engaged
in the temperance movement 1t
also includes q great many Ger
mans who oppose and despise the
temperance movement. The tenn
perance plank in the platform re
tanned the former would have bolted
if it had not been put in, and lost
us the latter This was onecause,
and a very important cause, for
the change which the election
shows has taken place.
The Republican party is to day,
as much as ever, the safest and
best party of the country. With
whatever faults it may have, and
and in spite of the rascals whom
its prosperity has attracted to it,
and who have too much to say in
it's councils, it is the party most
likely to give the country good
government It is, if judged by
the great body of its adherents,
honest, just, patriotic and temper
ate 1t means, with perfect sin
cerity, to make the government as
pure as possible, to preserve the
public faith, to resume specie pay
ments, to remedy its errors in the
South, and to protect the rights of
the negro without injustice to the
whites. AS party it has never
meant anything else than these
things, and in the long run it may
be depended on to do them more
surely, more wisely, more faithful
ly than the opposition could pos
sibly do them. We do not be.
lieve that the people at heart
doubt this. The election in Ohio
and Indiana show that the Repub-
lican party, as at present managed
and represented in those States,
cannot command the ready
strength it has hitherto shown.
But we have no doubt that on any
distinct national issue it will be
found as strong as ever.
From the New York World
The latest news from Ohio and
Indiana adds emphasis to the
words of cheer wherewith we yes
terday hailed the dawn of better
day for the Democracy and for the
country. The people of those great
and populous States have spoken
their disapproval of tho principles
and practices of the Republican
party in tones which it is impossi
BILE to misunderstood and misinter-
pref. These happy results were
unexpected orunpredicted. They |
have been eagerly expected by the
millions vino are weary of corrup- |
ton and incompetence in the Gov
eminent of the nation, weary of |
taxes which impoverish the people |
and enrich not the Government,
weary of war and of appeals to the
memories and apprehensions of
war. They have been predicted |
by the mad and lawless excesses of
the Republican party, and by the
condemnation, which beginning |
with New Hampshire and Connec
ticut, has been pronounced by one |
State and another almost every |
month of the present year. They |
in turn predict the fuller and more
sweeping victories which await the |
Democracy in November, when the
South will join the North in the
call fu free government and re
stored Union, when California will |
echo the demand of New York for
a currency and acode of tariff laws |
under which commerce and indus
try may thrive as they have not
thriven for years. The reputation
of Pendletonism by it's authors and
by leading Democrats of Ohio and
Indiana, has saved those States to |
the. Democracy.