The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-10-21
1T is NOT A DEFEAf"N


WORK ol Ohio last Tuesday is in order
There are hundreds of thousands of our
friends in the W West and in the South,
there are thousands in New England and
New York, there are scores of thousands
in Pennsylvania, who believe that the
greenback question, the currency issue,
was the only one involved in the late
canvass, and that the defeat of Govern
or Allen is defeat of the platform of the
Democracy Of Ohio upon that issue;
Even if that, were the fact, the defeat is
one ofwhich We might be proud When
100000 peol lie in Ohio march to the ball
lot-boxes, the everlasting gates of free
dom, and deposit their verdict in favor
Of themselyesand Of our belief and when
in a total vote of considerable more than
halCmilion, the doctrine we deightm
fails ofyictory only few hundred votes,
the defeat Is certainly not appalling, nor
is it. even significant, In view of the odds
against which we fought such a defeat.
though it were honest, and though upon
the money issue alone, would be a
splendid victory 1t must be borne in
mind that the Democratic party fought
in great Republican State against two
thousand National Banks, against ma
tionaI party in power, as full Of despera-
ton as of the conviction tn t its head
was resting loosely on its shoulders; and
fought against more money than has ever
before been used ina political canvass in
this Statel IT. therefore, the Democratic
party had lost Ohio by more pronounc-
ed majority, and on the currencyquestion
alone, it would have been famous
victory"
The fact of which we wish to advise
our friends abroad is that we have ap-
parently lost Ohio not because Of Jm not1
wiHaudug, our financial doctrine. 1t is
inn ortant that our friends outside Of
Ohio should understand exactly what it
was that defeated us. We were beaten,
first by religion, second by frauds. We
find in the Gazette yesterday, the lead
ing Republican organ of Ohio, this edit
oral statement:
"The 'unbroken solid vote of the Is
raelite Americans Of Cincinnati was yes
terday cast for the Republican candi-,
dates"
And this
"The 'unbroken solid vote ofthe Prot
estant German citizens Of Cincinnati was
yesterday cast for the Republican candi'
dates"
In the Times of yesterday we also find
this:
"The school question, which so many
excellent gentlemen have seen fit to be-
little by their arrows of sarcasm, has, un-
doubtedly, played an important part in
the canvass. 1t is certainly true that
thousands of votes have been cast for
the Republican ticket by voters in the
rural districts on this question alone.
"In the mining districts and in the
cities where work was scarce aud money
short, the financial question has, un-
doubleday, been the main issue, but in
the country, where corn and other crops |
woul grow in uxurianCe in spite of the
specie resumption law, it was hard to
make the brawny sensible farmer believe
that all his prospects for temporal and
spiritual health would be seriously i'm
paired by the election of Hayes. He
cared little for the finances, but much
for the Common Schools. The schools
so near his heart he felt to be indirectly |
in danger at least, and so with work and
vote spoke noble against sectarian inter-
ference and the result shows most con-
clusiyely the utter folly Of an attempted
alliance between the great religious de-
nomination"
One fact, known throughout Ohio, and
which we desire to make known beyond
the borders of the State, is sufficiently in
dicated in the above quotations 1t was
religion that prominently helped to con-
quer, temporarily, the money of the peo-
pie. The Republican leaders had aban-
doned the fight and the field upon the
money question weeks ago, and sum
moned religious prejudice and bigotry
to their aid. They chose, indeed they
were compelled, to degrade the noblest
and sincerest impulses of the human
heart, in order to defeat cause in which
there was more of the spirit Of religion
than in all of their creeds. This appeal
to religious passions was worth twenty
five thousand votes to the Republicans,
probably more than that. They would \
not permit verdict upon the question
abroad to be the only one be-
fore the jury, the people of Ohio.
The same party that in the holy name
of Religion and in the sacred cause Of
the Common Schools, sought to, and did,
prevent an honest verdict of the people
upon the q lestion at issue, married bal
lot-box stuffing and fraud to its religion
a beautiful pair, in the four large cities of
the State this was notoriously evident.
The Republicans denounced an aggre-
gate vote in Cincinnati last spring of &c.
900 as so enormous as to be fraudulent.
Six months later they cast vote in the
city of nearly forty thousand, the increase
being Republican In Toledo, Cleveland
and Columbus similar frauds were perpe-
trated, and it was by the use of religion
(?), and by these frauds that the Repub-
licans distorted the vote of the people of
Ohio. 1t was not square fight upon the
currency question, for on that we have
the State by nearly fifty thousand. Our
friends in Pennsylvania have very little
religion to contend against, and they
should be encouraged by the result in
Ohio. 1t is not defeat of our doctrine.