Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-10-21
VOICE OF THE PRESS.

| A clear idea OF the importance anu
significance of well contested election,
may be found in the utterances of the
several papers regarding it. The n,
Y. Herald says of the Ohio election:
"All the tears lie in an onion" which
the Democrats of New York will shed
over the defeat of their rarty in Ohio;
for although the progress of Demo,
cratic victories is arrested, and a fur
ther humiliation awaits the party in
Pennsylvania, the Democracy are not
so hopelessly damaged as they would
have been by the reelection of Gov.
Allen. But although his defeat is
lesser evil to the Democratic party
than bis election would have been on
an imitation platform, the rejoicing
over this canvass will be on the side OF
the Republicans. They have recon-
quered great State, which they lost
two years ago, and, what is more i'm
portant, they stand before the public as
the successful champions of a sound
currency, gaining great moral as
well as a great political advantage.
They are fairly entitled TO the credit of
having rescued the country from a
great danger; and their success will
have decided influence on the subse-
quent elections of the present year.
The Democratic defeat in Ohio carries,
as its inevitable consequences, Dem
ocratic defeat in Pennsylvania, and q
diminution of the Democratic majority
in New York by the new hope and
courage that will be infused into the
| Republicans"
The Philadelphia North american
clearly understands the real spirit of
the affair: 1.-The result of yesterdays
voting in Ohio will be hailed with live
ly satisfaction by Republicans of course,
and not only by Republicans, but by
all men who are jealous of National
honor. One obvious teaching of the
result is that the mania for imitation
has not affected the masses of men
anywhere. This accords with the be-
lief We have entertained from the first,
and it pricks many bubble which has
SO ostentatiously planted itself in pris-
matte colors on the surface of politics
during the last year. The verdict of
Ohio is for moving cautiously toward
specie basis, and against repetition
of war financial tactics in time of pro-
found peace"
For what Mrs. Partington would call
'spicery,' we offer an excerpt from the
New York World. In the bitterness
of itr sorrow, it utters the truth in
plain terms: "Nothing is clearer to
the unbiased political observer than
that the election of Hayes is not Re
publican victory, nor Democratic de-
feat. 1t is the defeat of an attempt to
rally Democrats under Republican
standards; it is the rejection of an in
competent leadership usurped by
small knot of corruptionists centering
at the Enquirer Office with whom poll
tics is trade and political principles
pretcnse. Their folly in in shaping the
issues of the present camgaign has been
supreme. But the blunderers who
twice already wrecked the fair pros
poets of the Democracy devised anoth-
er issue. 1t occurred to them to attrib-
ute hard times to contraction of the
currency which has never taken place,
and to prescribe for its cure the renew
al of that imitation of the currency the
reaction from which had been the
chiefest cause of hard times. The re-
suit is what might have been ex-
pected."
The wailing tones of the New York
Tribune fit in SO exactly with those of
the World that it puts them in friendly
companionship: ":The wise Democrat
ic politicians of Ohio have dug their
own pit. They seem happy at it.
They have done it repeatedly in the
past fifteen years, and, so far as can be
seen, are capable of learning nothing
from experience. What with Vallan-
digham during the war, Pendleton in
the period Immediately following its
close, and William Allen in the new
political epoch just opening, they have
shown a most remarkable ability to
overrun and destroy. In this election
they have forced fight upon the cur
rency question. From partisan point
of view, simply as a question of politi-
cal expediency, it has been the saddest
of blunders."
The New York Times catches the
true drift of the of the issues decided.
1t says: "Uundoubtedly the issue has
been thoroughly tested in Ohio. The
canvass has been very long one. and
the Democrats have made immense ef-
forts to carry the day. Their speakers
have been popular, and they have had
the advantage on their side of tempo
rary decline in the popularity of the
Republican party. Nothing has oc-
Cured during the past twelyemonth to
strengthen or assist the Republicans.
Fortune has not favored them. The
accidents of the hour have been against
them Many things have happened
which have given the enemies Of the
Administration opportunities of assail-
ing it. People have been, and still
are poor, and many plausible ar
guments have been put before them to
prove that the Democratic party alone
could lighteu their burdens. We
had nothing on our side in Ohio but