The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-10-29
THE OIIIO ELECTION.
Camaeuts ~ the Press Death
Blow to Initiation.
DEMOCRATIC MApSrs

ground a. promptly a. possible IT Is
plain that If the Democrats Of Ohio had
been Il by the Democratic statesmen
Of ohio instead Of hy their Cincinnati
corruptiouists, Hayes would have been
beaten by an overwhelming majority
TlIr result is what might have been ex-
pected. Ii was all but impossible even
in Republican Ohio to stay the sweep of
Democratic victories But their mad
ness. if it was not treason, their treason,
If II was not madness. rose to the Occa-
sion. and this morning we have to regret
the loss of It great State, which might
have held between New York and Illi-
nOis the centre Of the Democratic col
umu.
VICTORY FOIs THE PEOPLE.
From the n. Y. Evening Post, Qnd. Rep)
The defeat Of Allen and Cary is a pop
ular victory that is bounded by no party
lines. It is one in which good people
everywhere, no matter what their polit-
zeal proclivities may be, ought to rejoice.
1t is idle to deny that Republicans have
gained important advantages from the
election in Ohio. TO them belongs the
credit of defeating imitation in its first
fight. They have secured this notwith-
standing their own weakness on finance.
\ still greater gain to them will be the
strengthening of their own principles
and policy. But personal or party con
sequences are comparatively unimpor-
taut. The defeat Of initiation is a victO-
ry for the people.
a NOBLE VICTORY.
From the n. Y.COmmerciaI Advertiser.
The Ohio Republicans have done their
work nobly. Giant efforts were demand
ed tn stay tine iusiduous and demOraliz-
ing platform of imitation and repudia-
tiun, and they have been promptly, Wig
ornuSly, and most successfully rendered.
All praise to their gallantry. We said
at the outset of this fight, in May last.
that it would prove bad for Tilden and
his New York followers, whichever way
it might go. It was difficult to see where
he would fare worse An imitation and
Reputation victory, under the lead of
such men as Allen and Cary, would be
sure 10 bring rrtribution upon the Til
den hard-money Democracy i'll New
York. willie the defeat of these men in
Ohio would as certainly rouse the Re
publican and Liberal masses here to in
dcrss the triumph OF their party in the
West.
A DESERVED REEUKF TO THE INFLA-
TIONISTS.
From the n. Y. Evening Express tDem).
All the hard-money men in the coun-
try will see ia this result the future of a
united effort to restore the resumption
Of specie payments, and most Of them
will 10 gratiiied at the rebuke bestowed
upon in!iltioni5ts. In Ohio both Gov
ernor Allen and his organ, the Cincin-
natl EaTUireF, have been particularly
offensive in their methods of attack and
defense. and each OF them have their re-
ward. The question OF a sound curren-
cy ought to have been, and ought to be,
above all party considerations. Good
and bad money ought no more to be
party question than good or bad COM
modities or materials of any kind. I'm
fortunately it has been made so in Ohio,
and doubly unfortunate is the result to
the Democratic party.
A NATIONAL TRIUMPH.
From the New YORK Evening Mail (Rep9
The triumph is not local or ien.por-
ary. for the whole nation has watched
the great contest, and the popular mind
has been enlightened by the irresistible
array of facts and arguments al favor of
an honest currcUuy. t'rom the Ohio
campaign thee will be no step back
ward. II has consolidated the Republi
can party as the only national Organiza-
ton which can be trusted TO conserve
the national honor, the public interests
and credit, and honest trade and indus
trv. 1t has revealed the true attitude of
the mass of the Democratic party, just
as the Brough -ValIaudigham campaign
disclosed its essential disloyalty and un-
wisdom in time to put patriotic Demo
cra's n'guard and seeure the re election
OF Lincoln.
ON.TILDEN MASTER OF TIE DEMOCRAT
IC FIELD.
From the New York Graphic Ind)
The Ohio election settles tie following
poipts:
/ That imitation Orany increase Of the
currency is no longer to be thought of.
, That both parties will hereafter be
engaged in an honorable rivalry as to
which shall make the best record on the
subject Of administrative rrfog,a and a
sound currency.
>. Thas The Presidential contest will
involve far higher issues than initiation
and rag money.
/. 1t puts ont of the way of Governor
| Tilden all his Western competitors, and
makes him as absolutely master OF the
Democracy of the nation as John Kelly
is of TaInmany Hall.
| ;. 1t gives the Administration renewed
backing by the people, and affords a
| chance for the National Republican par
| ty 10 carry the Presidential election, if
| it can prove by its works that it is bet
ter friend of administrative reform and
sound currency than IS the Democratic
party.
! THE INDEPENDENT VOTER DID IT.
From the Springfield. IndJ Republican.
For this result, Ohio and the country
are indebted TO the independent voter,
represented in the canvass by the Gin
cinnati Commercial and Carl Schurz
When the latter arrived in Ohio, there
Is reason to believe that the intsatiCuists
were ahead and IL {. i:sir way to win.
| They had been allowed 10 force the
tightiug-to have the attack pretty much
to themselves. Schurz and Haistead,
with notable assistance from Woodford
and others, turned the canvass around.
They had the courage, based on a belief
In the American voters good sense and
sound instincts, 10 deal frankly with
him. Instead OF running away from the
issue, they welcomed it aud magnified it.
They saved the Republican nachine
from itself and in spite of itself. And
they didn't do it for the machines sake,
either. The Democrats have only them
selves to blame for what has befallen
them. If they had shown ordinary sense
and discretion, nothing could have pre-