The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-07-23
From the Gin. Commercial, independently
WHO WILL WIN IN THE OHIO RACE.

Aliens majority over NOyes was less
than a thousand, and there were ten
thousand votes thrown for the Liberal
| and ten thousand for the Temperance
candidate. Allen was therefore in a mi
nority of nineteen thousand, and he had
exceptional advantages that are not to
be found in the present conditions, Civ
ing him the narrow margin of plurality
by which he ran.
General Moves, as everybody knew,
was, running, not for Governor, for he
wis weary of the office, but for the Sen
ate. and in that enterprise he encounter
ed quiet bat deadly antagOniSIns. MIR
Delano. Secretary of the Interior, wasSo
vicious ia his hostility that NOyes visited
the President at Long Branch and urged
him, on peril of sacrificing the State, to
restrain the Secretary; but this was only
done in part.
Politicians will see the Importance of
| this incident, itself ample to account for
the loss of Ohio by the Republican
panty; and there is another related TO it,
| and of equal size and pertinenee. While
| Moves was labOrine in the close counties,
| fighting on the fine points for the LeSis-
Iature. the Western Reserve was neg
lpct,.d. and fell far below her reliable
Republican strength. So Eoyes had the
| singularly i'll fortune to pick up several
| of the sharply contested counties and
lose those in which there were decisive
| Republican majorities.
The Western Reserve was not happy
| abont that time anyhow. The Republi-
cans were in trouble over Garfield; and
| the bankruptcy of the Northern Pacific
| Railroad, in which they had largely in
vested their earnings, was just apparent.
| Besides, rs NOyes was running for the
Senate. they did not feel deeply enliyen-
| ed about the general result. 1t was
real ease of apathy, and cost thousands
| of Republican votes.
Another point that we would not be
| justified in omitting To review, Is that
| NOyes was fiercely tradueed here in his
home, especially by the Enquirer news
paper, rs an extravagant public officer,
| and the most persistent efforts made To
associate him with transactions Of pub
| lie profiigacy, while the Times, the Re-
| publican organ, being personally un-
| friendly, made melancholy showing in
| the defense, and the Gazette awOkc from
| IFS SlumberS at late hour. The Com
meYciGI, we may remark, WAS otherwise
| engaged, fixing the foundations of n
| third party, so to speak. Now, Allen
was before the people at this time as n
ease of icy purity, and the extravngant
| charges against NOyeS, associated with
| exalted assumptions for Allen, seemed
| to shed sweetness and light over the
| Democracy, and made the party redo
| lent with the flavor of the reformation
that the great and virtuOus people al
ways demand and never achieve.
The appearance of Allen in the cam
paign had Il considerable influence. He
was accepted by his party as n phenom-
enOn and pro Dizzy, and aroused in his
| partisans an enthusiasm to which they
| had long been strangers. His voice was
| like trumpet call to arms. He was
one of the venerable men who had come
down to us from former generation.
After retirement for n generation there
was something romantic and eaptivat-
ing in his return. His stately figure and
snowy head, his powerful lungs and the
ardOr with which he entered the cam-
paign, drew away attention from the es-
sential weakness of his harangues and
the tokens in mind and body of the de-
cay of faculties. He was n new force in
the campaign, and succeeded when any
other candidate would have failed.
The Jay Cooke bankruptcy came iust
Il. In To-, i ;e tL 49,,
| Lia.a when the Grant administration
may be said to have tOuGheq bOttGm II
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Tile Pr"ihbitOry party Is reduced
III proportion. 1t will make show, but
not as iaE-n az two years ago, and the
majority nl those who voted ior stew
ard QO,ZTD will go for Hayes.
.. The effect OF the panic of 1873
have not passed away, but the people
have been educated ia financial matters,
and they have been Taught, we think,
To the point Of conviction that
the Demaeratie currency declaration
means to establish the condition "f fur
ther trouble and loss.
6. The Icrnans are we'll grounded
in matters Of finance. They know that
the Demos rattle money doctrine as urO-
claimed 10 ohio = at ys;t. w.tii good
sense aud human experience, and these
who have ln other years abandoned the !
Republican for the Democratic camp !
Oh account oi the nrpoiirI, 'O'tirrlsin and |
eitrcl'''--Hcs'i Of principle IN the National |
Administration, will find their way To |
tIrlr olh quarters IN grent numbers.
4 There are thousands OF old
l0ned Democrats who might, for the |
sake oi the party, have rnt uD v:sh ~ !
eGWE9lai platform, bGt''I positive ini'i,- |
tIi programme" they kno7v ~ p" ms
cineYous IA tie last d"Srce, an% they /
VIII quietly permit 81" party to snif"r
Gelehf, rs the cheapest meIliod OF re-
d'eihlh% II from dciuSi0H which, fixed
upon q, Eoiid D. deadly
.; The Democracy two years enjoyed,
without noise or ceremony, almost the
solid Catholic vote or all TINT tie CGih-
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