Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-10-16
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS
ON THE ELECTION.

comment from the leading dailies,
the general tone of which is that
OF congratulation over the defeat
of the "rag babyn monstrocity.
The New York Herald says:
"This is a blow from which the
snhationists will never recover.
It may be looked upon as fortu-
nate deliverance from great po-
iitical danger. "All the tears lie
in an onion" which the democrats
Of New York will shed over the
defeat of their party in Ohio; for
although the progress of demo
cratic victories is arrested, and a
further humiliation awaits the
party in Pennsylvania, the democ
racy are not so hopelessly darndg-
cd as they would have been by
the reelection Of Governor Allen
For the sake Of the country every
body should rejoice that initiation
has nothing to show but its dead
on the oattle iield.'
The New York Tribune says:
"The result is fall of meaning.
Has the administration OF Presi-
dent Grant or the republican party
done anything since last year TO
commend either of them to public
confidence or popular support?
Not one thing. So far as they are
concerned the situation is un-
changed, except that they have
stood back and let their opponents
make their own fight aud their
own destruction. The wise demo-
cratic politicians ofOhio have dug
their own pit, They seem happy
at II. They have done it repeated
iy in tIc past fifteen years, and, so
far as Can l. sNen, are capable of
iearniny nothing fro.a experience.
What with Valandigham during
the war, Pendleton in the period
immediately following its close,
aud William Allen in the new po-
iitical epoch just opening, they
have SAowD a most remarkable
ability to overturn and destroy.
In this election they have forced a
fight upon the currency question.
From a partisan point of view,
simply as a question of political
expediency, it has been the sad
dest Of blunders. From the higher
outlook of patriotism and honesty
and sincere love of country, we
can see that they have builded bet
ter than they knew"
The New York World says |:
"The rag baby is dead. Nothing
remains but for democrats to put
it under ground as promptly as
possible: 1t is plain that if the
democrats ofOhio had been led by
the democratic statesmen of Ohio
instead of by the Cincinnati cor
ruptionists, Hayes would have
been beaten by an overwhelming
majority. With all the advantage
which false financial issue gave
TO the republicans, the fact that
Hayes is probably elected by a
majority so small in total vote
SO large forebodes the hopeless de-
feat of the republican party even
in Ohio itself when Ohio demo-
cratic platforms are the exponents
Of democratic prit ciples. Moth
ing is clearer to the unbiased po-
litical observer than that the cleo
ton of Hayes is not a republican
victory, nor a democratic defeat.
1t is the defeat of an attempt to
rally democrats under republican
standards, it is the rejection of an
incompetent leadership usurped
by small knot of corruptionists
centering at the Enqui, er Office,
with whom politics is a trade and
political principles pretense."
The New York Times says: 1--WE
regard the result as something far
more important than a party vic
tory. 1t is triumph of simple
honesty over a base attempt to
break the public faith and sully
she national honor. AS such we
commend it to the attention of all
eimid persons, whether at home
or abroad, who have been half dis
posed TO believe that the people of
the Uaited States were heading
straight toward imitation and re-
pudiation."
The Philadelphia Times says:
1.-The demagOgues mast, red the
councils Of the democratic party in
Ohio, and stamped its fundamen
tai teaching with dishonor and
death. 1t was insanity itself. 1t
Was a double wrong 10 our free
government and to our free peo-
pie. 1t was a blunder that had ev-
cry essence of crime, and was
worse than crime itself, for il pro-
claimed an illogical falsehoOd and
defeated legitimate efforts for State
and national regeneration. 1t
throttled money as would the high
wayman, and taughtth morals of
he agrarian in every breath. 1t
made wise men sluggards and hon.