The daily gazette., 1875-09-23
THE PROSPECT IN OHIO.

| IL auJ uouDt heretofore eXlSIeu
regard to the pendiag election in Ohio
the crushing defeat of the Republican
In Carifornia, and their disruption il
Maine ought to exttnguish it entirely
While the moral effect of these result
cannot be we'll estimated in numbers
probability they will affect thousand
OF votes, and help to swell the Demo
cratic majority largely.
The change in Maine especially. can
not fail to produce profound impres
sion, not only on Ohio, but throughou
the country. The Democrats were
imperfectly organized, made no active
canvass, had no money to spend, and
, Were accustomed to set UP candidates
llke nine pins, only to be knocked
down. Allthe advantages were on the
other side, with the prestige superad.
ded of long possession of polite al
power in the State.
While the Democrats have polled a
remarkable vote in view of these cir
cumstances, what may be fltly called
the revolution has been brought about
poy the silent but decided protest of
disgusted Republicans, who could not
be led and would not be driven. Ap-
peals to the passions of the war and to
sectarian prejudice stirred the resent.
ment OF thinking men, whose material |
interests have been sacrificed to enrich
pubic plunderers and TO maintain venal
demagogues in office. These Republi.
cans In Maine who quietly went to
the polls and smashed the machine.
LOOK the t1rs. chance to put their
mark on the rotten system which has
brought the country to its present
distress. They voted last year before
tne tidal wave swept over other States,
put have now Joined in the general
remonstrance against Grantism.
Honest and rejecting Republicans
in Ohio in no respect differ from those
In New England or New York. The
Western Reserve Is peopled with the
sons OF Connecticut, Massachusetts
ana New Hampshire. They were all
alike educated in the same school
OF politics, and have been accustomed
to act together for many years, The
causes which have estranged Republ-
cans in tho East and snapped asundcr
the partisan bonds even in Massachu-
setts, must operate upon those of the
West.
From the outset, the campaign in
Ohio has been discreditable to the
republican party, and calculated to
orlve away from its support indepen-
dent and upright men, who despise the
trickery, oecsptions and frauds which
have been practised. The leaders who
formerly advocated the payment of
bonds in greenbacks, as John Sherman
did; who deprecated tho legal tenders
by repeating the act making them con-
vertible into bonds; who inflated and
contracted the currency in the interest
of spectators and who legalized
Richardson's illegal issue of twenty.
six millions in the panic of 1873, started
out as the pretended advocate of specie
payment.
When they found that hard money
was not so striking an idea as hard
times, and that Republican manufac.
tyrers, iron masters and their workmen
were deserting them by thousands, |
they abandoned this issue. Then a !
combined attack was made against a |
just and harmless law, which had al. |
most been repeated in ter by the |
Republican Legislatures of Massachu-
setts and Minnesota, allowing to the |
inmates Of penitentiaries and public1
institutions liberty of conscience in
choosing the pastors oftheir preference
for religious ministrations.
They wickedly misrepresented this |
law as an assault on the public school |
system, which is protected by the |
Cons .itution against any possible sec
tartan use or division. They sent se-
cret circulars by hundreds of thousands
over the State, intended to arouse re-
ligious prejudice and to profane the |
altar by partisan dissertation. They |
have sought to rivive Know-Nothing- |
ism in its most odious form by societits s |
and signs, designing to make it the |
basis for national organization next |
year.
Systematic falsehood directed against |
Senator Thurman and others, has been
one of the weapons constantly employ.
ed by these INSCRIPTIONS leaders.
This whole programme of cheating
and evasion was deliberately organized |
10 escape from the living questions in /
which the people arc most concerned,
and to divert attention from the cor
-uption, misconduct, extravaganza and
for which the Republican
party is directly and exclusively Ie.
sponsible.
Of course, these tricks have been
and the reaction is manifest.
IN. Y. Sun.