The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-10-27
THE OHIO ELECTION In ENGLAND.
The Defeat of the InfiatIonists-EngIis In rest.
ments in American Secarities-Eifect on the
Presidential Election

The Defeat Of the InfiatIonists-EngIi gIish Invest.
ments in american Secarities-Elfect on the
Presidential Election
(From the London Standard, Oct. 14.1
The Democrats have lost the one i'm.
portant election of the present year.
The contest in Ohio, which for months
past has been exciting so much interest
throughout the United States, and prom
ising to foreshadow the result of the
Presidential campaign twelve months
hence, was fought out on Tuesday last,
and the Republicans proved victorious
by large majority.
At the beginning of the canvass all the
evidence seems to show that the major
| ity of the people of Ohio were in favor
of further issue of greenbacks. Ger
tainly among the Republicans there was
a strong tendaney III that direction. 1t
is reassuring, then,.to find that discus
sion has avalled to change the majority
| into minority. No doubt the support
of infation was wider departure from
principal on the part OF the Democrats
than on that Of Republicans, and it is
| reasonable to suppose that as the dis
cussion went on, and the real points at
| issue came to be generally understood,
many slanch Democrats shrank from
giving their adhesion to policy which
| is in hagrant contradiction with all their
antecedents.
Looked at in its broad aspect from the
point OF view OF impartial foreigners, Lhe
result of The election IS eminently satis-
factory. 1t removes all tear of imitation
and repudi alton. The ugly feature in
many OF the Democratic speeches in this
Ohio canvass was that they did not
merely call out for more paper money
that might have sprung from mere er-
roneous theory--but they also ehdeIy-
ored to rouse 0dium against the pu5lic
tcreditor. Very large numbers OF Eng
| llshmen have invested their savings in
American securities of all kinds, and it
| is Legitimate subject for congratula-
ton that politicians animated by ill-feel l.
ing to such investors have failed to se-
cure a position in which they might
have been able TO work mischief.
They have selected their own ground
and fought out The battle, and as they
have been signally defeated we may hope
that inhationists and repudiatiOnists
will disappear from American politics.
Politicians of the same kind were little
| while ago prominent in the Republican
party; they have been relegated to 'ob.
security. It is TO be hoped that the same
fate wil now befall the Aliens aud the
Carys OF Ohio. In the interest OF the
Democratic party itself it seems to us
that the result of Tuesdays election
must be considered beneficial. II the
| intiationists had carried Ohio they would
most probably have also been successful
in Pennsylvania three weeks hence.
l'rhey would then have been able te
appear in the National Democratic
Convention next season with the
almost undivided strength OF the West
at their back, and to- insist, il moi
upon the choice of Presidential
| candidate, at least upon some con.
| esssion tothefr views in the platform.
This the delegates from New York and
New England could not have agreed to;
and consequently there would have been
grave danger Of a split ip the party. Now
tnat peril is removed. The infationists
are crushed, and the control of the Demo-
| cratic party passes by right to Goyerhor
Tiiden, of New York, and his friends.
The main result OF ofTuesday's vote, then,
| is to clear the Democratic party from the
suspicion OF being tainted with initiation
ist or repudiationlst views, to insure its
fidelity to it's old historic principles ana
to strengthen the probability that Gov
ernor TildenIwill be the Democratic can
didate for Tie Presidency next year.
UnQuestionaDIy the loss OF Ohio strips il
Of some prestige. For two years the
party has been making extraordinary
gains. tuesdays election will generally
be regarded Is proof that the tide has
turned, aud IL Penisyivauia Is retained
by The Republicans lhe Democrats Will
lsnffer serious depression. But whether
not, IL mas certainly freed IL from an in