National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-13
WEDNESDAY, Observation-Disclosures Ia. 1876.
OHIO ELECrIoK-Is INFLATIoN DEADl

OHIO ELECTIoK-Is INITIATION DEAD!
The Ohio Democratic State Central Com
mittee comedies the election Of the Repub-
Hcan ticket in that State yesterday. The
numerous details and figures showing the
result confuse the average reader, but this
announcement is sufficiently clear and su-
thentic 10 convince even the most obdurste
doubter. 1t must be admitted, however,
that at no time since the campaign began
and up to the closing of the polls has
either party been confident of final success.
The issues of the canvass were new and the
people had never been tested on them
before The Republicans of Ohio found
themselves called upon to take stand
upon the financial question at a time
when they did not expect it, and
when it was we'll known that the
majority of them had not duly considered
it in all lis bearings, and, further, at time
when i'll the very nature of things there
was danger of widespread misapprehen-
sion of the subject. The Pendletonites
had obtained control of the Democracy, and
had issued platform, of which the paper
currency fallacy Was the principal feature.
The result was some CONSERVATION at first,
but the gauntlet having been thrown down,
the Republicans took it up and began the
battle in behalf of the integrity of the
financial pledges ofthe Government. The
discussions which ensued naturally drove
the dividing wedge deeper and deeper,
until the Republicans very nearly
reached a basis of solid metallic
currency, whileRthe Democrats, in their
anxiety to pander to the supposed appetite
for cheap money, as nearly reached tine
despicable level of an irredeemable circu-
lating medium, There was, besides this,
questions affecting more or less directly the
public school system, and its relation to
State and Church. Regarding this matter
as regarding the finances, the contestants
were driven, by the logic of their discus
sions, to assume the most extreme and
radical positions, and the "POpe's toe
finally became shadowy terror in the
minds of thousands of voters. But under
living all this, there was a sentiment of
antagonism in the Democracy which,
when aroused, as it was''not in 1873, when
The Democrats carried the State, served to
bring the voters to the polls in unusual
numbers. This was especially true in the
Western Reserve counties, in which ten
thousand Republicans elected to vote at
the last election. Further, there was an
especial antipathy on the part of the Ger
mans, including large number of brewers
in Cincinnati and other cities, against the
Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Gov
ernor. This antipathy, no doubt aided the
Republicans to the extent of several thou
sand votes.
An analysis of the relative gains and
losses of the two parties shows that the
Republicans were strong everywhere ex-
cept in the mining districts, where it
seems that the communistic demagogism of
the cheap money advocates had the effect
to demoralize the miners. In Hamilton
county, in which Cincinnati is located, the
most significant revolution appears. The
Democrats carried it at the last Guber-
material election by 1853 majority, and
the Republicans carried it yesterday by
about 2,6O0-a clear gain of over 5000
In Cuyahoga county, of the Western
Reserve, carried by the Republicans in 1878
by 1901, they made a gain yesterd ~ of
about 400, and carried it by about 5000.
In a large number of towns, wards and
precincts the Democrats made gains, show
ing that while the majority of the people
were in favor of honest currency, sufh-
cient number of them were seduced by the
promise of cheap money to warrant the
Democrats in the assumption that their
financial theories are not altogether un-
popular. 1t must be admitted that the
gains of the Democracy were made because
of those theories, while the gains of the
Republicans must be ascribed 10 the sew
eraI reasons We have mentioned. This
view of the case is worthy of serious
thought, for it shows that initiation is by no
means dead.
On the whole, while the result is salts.
factory to the Republicans, it might be
more so. Its greatest significance is to be
felt in the future. 1t will aid in the defeat
of the Democracy in Pennsylvania, but it
may encourage the Democracy in New
York and New England; but under any
circumstance it does not show, as we
have said, that initiation is dead.
WONDER if the Dem Jackasses were