Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-10-14
The Press Upon The Ohio Election.
The New York Herald says:


tic victories is arrested, and a further humil-
lation awaits the party in Pennsylvania, the
democracy are not 80 hopelessly damaged as
they would have been by the reelection OF
Governor Allen. For the sake of the coun-
try every body should rejoice that imitation
mas nothing To show but ats dead on the bat
tic field"
The New York Tribune says:
The result is .uu OF meaning Has the
administration OF President Grant or the
republican parry done anything since last
year % commend either OF them Ia public
c nndence or popular support Not one
thing. so far as they are concerned the sit
uation is unchanged. except that they have
stood back and let their opponents make
their own fight and their own ceStruct ION.
The wise democratic politicians or Ohio
have dug their own pit. They seem happy
at IL. They have done It repeatedly I'm the
past fifteen years, and, so far as can be seen.
are capable OF learning nothing from eXpe-
rience. What with Nallandighsm during
the war, PendletOn in the period Immediate
ly following its close, aud VIM. Allen In the
new political epoch just opening, they have
shown most remarkable ability TO overturn
and destroy. In this election they have
forced a hight upon the currency questian
From partisan point OF view, simply as a
question of political eXpcdiency, IL has been
The saddest of plumbers. From the higher
cere love Of country, we can see that they
Lave builded better than they knew"
The New York World says:
Tho rag baby is dead. Nothing remains
but for democrats To put IL under the ground
as promptly as possible. IL is plain that III
the democrats Of Ohio had been lei by the
democratic statesmen of Ohio instead of by
their Cincinnati corruptionists, Hayes would
nave been beaten by an OveIwhelm ma
jOrity. With all the advantage which a
false financial issue gave 10 the republicans.
the fact that Hayes is probably elected by a
majority so small I'm a total vote so large
forebodes the hopeless defeat OF the repubii-
can party even in Ohio itself when Ohio
democratic platforms are the opponents OF
democratic principles. Nothing is clearer 10
the unbiased political observer than that the
election OF Hayes is not republican vic
tory, nor democratic defeat. IL is the de-
feat of an attempt To rally democrats under
republican standards, ii il the rejection OF an
Incompetent leadership usurped by a small
knot OF corruptionists at the Enquirer Office,
with whom politics is trade and political
principles pretense."
/ The New York Times saws:
I've regard the result something far
more Important than "A party victory. IL il
triumph OF simple honesty over a base at
tempt 10 break the public faith aud sully
10 the attention OF all timid persons, whether
home or abroad, who have been half disposed
To believe that the people of the United
states were heading straig ut toward imitation
and reputation"
The New York Commercial AdueTtiser saws
I'VE said at the outset OF this fight, IN May
last. that IL would prove bad for Tilden and
his New York followers which ever way IL
would fare worst An imitation aud repudia-
ton victory under the lead of such men a.
Alien and Cary would be sure To brjng re-
trlbutlon upon the Tilden hard-money
democracy in New York, while the defeat OF
these men in Ohio would as certainly rouse
TIE republican and liberal masses 10 indorse
The triumph OF their party in the west. Til
den may now imagine that he can fall back
upon his Syracuse platform, after sending
through the Albany Argus, a few days since,
greeting ID the architects of the Columbus
platform, his best sympathies and wishes
Tor success on Tuesday. But he will not n
trusted after this on the currency, while his
fraudulent issue on the canals. if not aIre adv
sufficiently demolished, will have nothing
left To swear by before another week passes
over"
Tie New York Express says:
"All the hard money men OF the country
will see in this result the future OF a united
effort to restore the resumption ofspecie pay
menis, and most OF them will be gratifisi at
me reouke bestowed upon infiationists. la
ONO both Gov. Allen and bis organ, the Gin
clnnau Enquirer, hpve been particularly Of
fensive i'm their methods of attack and de-
fence, and each OF them have their reward
Ihe question OF a sound currency ought TO
hove been, and out 20 oe, above ali party
considerations II affects every mans oasf-
ness and home"
The Boston Post says:
The pernicious doctrines which a portion
OF the Democratic leaders in Ohio were in
ouced 10 adopt and promulgate have done
their work, and the hard money men, who
constitute the larger majority OF the demo
ment the folly of the party in Ohio. capnot
mourn their defeat The incubus Of imitation
is removed"
The Boston Globe says:
with the defeat of the Ohio infiationists
sinks into obscurfty that heresy which has
Wanted itself SO insolently in Pennsylvania
and other states beyond her borders. This
victory for hard money has a national signi-
ficance, too; it defines the policy of both par
ties on that question, and its effect will be
felt in the councils OF Congress during the
coming session"
The Springfield Republican says:
Iowa, too, reports republican gains from
rem don't seem TO understand the cultivation
OF tidal waves"
The Philadelphia Times saws:
1.-The demagogue mastered the councils of
the democratic party In Ohio, and stamped
its fundamental teaching with dishonor aud
death. II was insanity itself 1t was a dou-
bic wrong to our free government and TO our
free people. 1t was a blunder that had every
essence of crime, and was worse than crime
itself, for IL proclaimed an illogical falsehood
and defeated legitimate efforts for state and
national regeneration"
The Philadelphia NaT says:
The democracy have lost and with their
defeat we mark the death of an inflated
paper currency. The act providing for a re-
sumption OF specie payments after January
i, 1873, now remains intact, so that I'm three
years time gold and silver will be our circu,
lating medium"
The Philadelphia Press says:
"Ohie has done well, but Pennsylvania
can and will do better. Now for 10000 ma
jority in our own great commonwealth. Let
Pennsylvania grid her loins, bend all her en-
ergies, ana swinging forward with a cheer
take her place on the right of the columns OF
the union. Let her do this, and she leads in
the Presidential campaign impending.
The Cincinnati CcHHleToiol says:
"The downfall of the infiationists i'm Ohio
Will have an immediate and far-reaching IN
huce for good. 1t places both parties upon
their good behavior for the Presidential colt
test OF the Centennial year. The republican
party received their warning last fall The
democrats have, in yesterdays experience,
q greatly needed lesson, that may be OF much
service TO them. The floating vote grows
with the intelligence OF the people, and the
political organizations are admonished that
neither can win with Its worst elements in
mont"
The Cincinnati Gd7ette says:
"The victory can justly % claimed by the
republican party because ft adopted plat
form worthy the support Of honest men, and
fought the battle upon distinctive principles;
but we not unmindful Of the fact that this
victory of honesty over dishonesty; OF sound
principles over pure demAgoguery, is due
largely TO the votes OF men who have not
been identified strictly with the republican
organization. Thousands Of liberal And In