The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-05-26
OHIO RADICALS BOTHERED.

The Ohio Republicans are fsarfuily pestefeo
to ind candidate for Governor. Inelr
election takes place October IL Ohio has .
population Of $500, 900. with voting power
of about $40, 900, being represented by twenty
members of Congress and entitled to twenty
two electoral votes out of the 1856, or nearly
one-sixteenth part of the whole college. Inc
present Governor, William Allen, Democrat,
was elected in 1873 by vote Of 2l4, 654
against 2l3, 1877 for his opponent, Noyes. In
1874 an election was held for Secretary of
State, when VIM. Bell, Jr., Democrat, beat
his opponent II, 202 votes. When Allen was
elected the Republicans carried the balance
of their State ticket. The State went for
Grant by vote of 2S1, 1852 against 244.321 for
Greeley, total vote of 526, 173. In 1873 the
total vote was 428, 49l, when Aliens majority
was only 8l7. It is to be expected that the
vote next fall will be much larger than in
1873. and probably not much less than in
1872, which was the largest ever polled in
that great State.
Allen has been very good Governor. He
started with pure record and he has kept It
pure. He was known to be very sturdy
and stalwart Democrat, and since his inaugu-
ration he has afforded uniform and marked
evidence of integrity and capacity. Two OBJ
jections only have been made to him-one
that he was too old, the other that his asso-
ciates were liable to be elderly men. with
strong prejudices, fixed ideas and old-time
notions. But in answer he has displayed
eminent vigor and working power, and has
proven to all observers that he cannot be
swerved by advisers of any age. He suits
the masses of the people, and especially the
Democrats. There is consequently every
probability that he will be nominated for .
second term.
But the Radicals cannot afford to lose Ohio
in October, as that would be equivalent to
giving up her twenty-five electoral votes to
the Democrats in 1876. A battle as for life is
to be waged in Ohio for the next four months
and half II they have strong man for
candidate they are forced to bring him out,
and they are now looking for such man
with longing and eager eyes. They are in as
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ing for an honest man by the joint light of
sun and lantern. They need . candidate of
the highest grade They try one after an
other, but an objection is found to each.
The paramount trouble with the Radical poll |
ticians of Ohio is that they have pom
derous records which the party is not
ashamed of under common auspices,
but which they cannot afford to carry in q
great pitched battle, which involves the future |
Of the Republican party of the nation at
large. They are now searching for the man
without record, choosing to forgo personal
and local popularity for the sake Of getting q
man wholly invulnerable for past political
conduct.
The election comes in an off season for
who will have leisure to expend
their eloquence upon the stump in Ohio. The
whole State, from the lakes to the river, will
be very thoroughly howled over by peripatetic
orators from other States, because the Radi-
Gals know that the reelection of Allen will |
forebode the defeat of their candidate for the |
presidency. Money for the same reason will
be used in abundance to support the Radicals
in their nationalized struggle to get back the
control of the State.