The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-12
OHIO VOTES TODAY.

Ohio votes to-day aud the result will be
watched for with anxiety. Rarely, if ever,
has a mere state election been regarded
with SO much interest, as of so much i'm
portance and the result as freighted with
such momentous consequences. The re-
suit will determine whether we are still to
be confronted with the dangers of iofiation
and reputation with the odGs against us, or
whether, although the contest may and
probably will continue, the danger
will be bridged over and the ulti-
mate decision easily made in favor
of honest money and the sacred
ness of the nations honor. Whatever may
be the result in Ohio, we believe that the
question of specie against an irredeemabe
paper money will be the main, if not the
only, issue in the next presidential cam
paign. We believe that parties will meas
urably go to pieces on this issue and that
although the present party names may
be retained that issue will determine poll
teal affiliations, that the republican party
will represent honest money and the demo-
cratic party initiation and reputation. The
inhationsts of the west and south will not
give up Their quest, but Aliens defeat will
mean their defeat, while his election must
result in the withdrawal of hard money
men from the party, new deal in politics,
drawing of lines straight on this issue, a
desperate contest next year with, perhaps,
temporary success for greenbacks at the
polls. sN ns0t,.' '
At the outset, there was nothing to indi-
cate such a canvass as we have witnessed.
The respective party platforms did not pre-
sent clear, distinct issue on this question.
The republicans were the first to hold their
convention and their declaration was, to
say the least, uncertain and unsatisfactory.
1t reads as follows: "That the policy of
" finance should be steadily pursued which,
without unnecessary shock to business
Z" or trade, will ultimately equalize the
f." purchasing capacity of the coin and pa
"per dollar" This resolution means moth
ing or anything as it may please the reader.
A believer in specie or an inflationist can
readily subscribe to it. 1t looks both ways
at the same time.
The democratic convention, soon after,
threw off all disguise, openly advocating
imitation by demanding that contraction of
the currency should cease and that "the
"volume of the currency should be made
90 and kept equal TO the wants of trade, u
and reputation by demanding that Gus
tom duties should be paid in treasury notes
and, also, in effect, the whole or part of
the interest on the public debt. The re-
publicans soon took ground in advance of
their platform, placed themselves on the
specie resumption act and have since con
Quoted the canvass as advocates -of a
speedy resumption of specie payments and
in opposition to the further issue of green
backs, while the democracy, so called,
have stood by their platform and thus,
without regard to the original republican
resolution, the issue of specie against paper
has been squarely presented and this issue
will be determined in Ohio to-day, SC
far as that state alone can determine it.
1t is rather late in the day to make pre-
dctlons, yet we believe that the republi.
cans will carry the state. At the last gu
bernatorial election, William Allen was
elected by plurality of eight hundred
and seventeen out of total vote of44S, 59s
he receiving PA, G54 votes, Noyes, repub
lican, 213, 1897, Stewart, temperance, 49,
0Sl and Collins, ''new party" 10,027,
leaving him in minority of nearly nine.
teen thousand votes. AS there are only
two candidates running this year this nine
teen thousand votes would determine the
contest, supposing they were all cast the
same way and the total vote was no larger
than two years ago. But, doubtless, the
vote will much exceed that of 1878 and
come up to that of 1879 when General
Grant received a majority Of nearly thirty
eight thousand out of total vote of SEQ
1873, the largest ever polled in the state.
Allen, at the time Of his election, received
some five thousand votes less than Nc