Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-10-31
MUTATIONS DEFEAT.


10 rejecting upon the result in Ohio the
FIRST significant thought is tho defeat oil
the reputation candidate. The thing
more signifcan than that. is that ID
an American community majority 30
narrow should be polled against cause
so monstrous. Let not the reasons IN
this event be misunderstood. The de-
feat of virtual reputation is gain to
public morals and to the prosperity and
reputation OF this country 10 the times
10 come; but the overthrow which the
Republican party in Ohio barely escaped
is the most graphic illustration of the
public protest against Grantism, which
the politics OF recent years has
furnished The Republican party was
fighting in its stronghold. 1t was OPP
posed by an organization which had been
captured by its worst elements. 1t made
a fight on SO vital a question as the M
tional honor. 1t Tor decency's and
policy'U sake RETAINED from the defense
OF It's national administration. II
adopted by its silence all tho indict-
ments against that administration. Its
opponents we're led by blathersiktes, and
abandoned by their own statesmen. The
Republicans had the most in their favor
they ever had before. Their foes had
the most against them-their traditions,
the brains and conscience of their own
party, the protest OF their brethren
within and without the State-that ever
they had before. Yet what is the result?
A bare majority for the Republicans;
almost success for the undemocratized
Democrats.
The APPALLING. instructive, unmistak-
able meaning Of this can escape no mind.
II means that on American community
inferior to none in virtue, public spirit
and intelligence, is so set against Grant
ism that it hesitates between giving
party which even recants that abuse
recognition, and the Endorsement OF such
horror and crime in politics as repudia-
ton itself. No Republican can fail to be
startled by such an exhibit. The stain
Of Grantism on the Republican party in
State where defense OF the thing is
abandoned is held to be of almost equal
reproach with the fact OF reputation
avowed by party that never was afiili
ated with Republican abuses. Grantism
as mere memory in Ohio, works
equal indignation with reputation as I
present spectre, striding to the front o
affairs. Ohio has laid the spectre, but i
has done so in way that reflects he
detestation Of the other abomination il
terms none can fail to realize.
That the Republicans, lowered as the.
we're with such issues and advantages
did not carry the State with 1907 ma
jority, IL disgrace no rejecting person !
their ranks can avoid feeling. 1t is
commentary on their administration, Q
their no policy policy, on their misuse {
power, on their Congresses and Pres
dent, on their course of sectional hate
and on their degradation and debaucf
ment OF the civil service and the govern
ment tone which no rebuke administers
last Fall from Galveston to either Por
land equals in the emphasis of it. Nc
can the credit for the result rest with III
party in whose name it was wrough
The fact that Allen was nearly elected
due to the Republicans infected with til
heresy Of imitation. The fact that Hayt
is elected is due to the Independent Den
ocrats and Liberals within the State an
ont, who preferred to punish their errai
friends by acting with the Opposite
rather than let those friends pervert Il
principles OF an organization, who
honors they had proved unworthy
wear, till after the discipline of disaste
The sturdy. indomitable course of II
Independent and conservative press is I
be thanked for the result, and for Il
fact Of that result rather than for il
meagre proportions is gratitude due.
is evident, however, that the Held WI
better fought outside of the State than
1t. II the expression be permitted. II
at least evident that the press has dor
better work for honesty than the stun
In this fight. All speeches for inflatic
are necessarily puerile. The create
strength they can have will be no mo-
than inheres in sophistry. The mo-
cogent statements they Contain can be /
more than Misrepresentation. The mo
vivid appeals they can make can only |
uemagoey. The highest argument the
can attain can be naught but pettifoggir
ciaptrap and chop logic.
But even the hard m ney speakers al
little better. Had there been half a doze
more like Schurz the infiationists won
have been rebuked by majority larp
by far than the existing one and it is
pity they were not. Nothing but II
dread Of that increasing incubus in o
American politics. the third term, pl
vented majority for hard money
100000. aud nothing but the great int
ests at stake called forth even the me
crate majority of 5000 apparently
Republicahism. but in reality against i
hation.
But great good has been done T
Republicans have been forced to ha
money. The Democracy has been be
'" H. Reputation has been mashed. IT
"o's' elements in the Republican part
100 oy Morton. Logan. Kelly and Butte
wou'd nave come to the front had n
Allen. Ewing, Psndleton, the fence me
and the blatherski,e Cary been san,
the rear The retirement OF both sets
charlatans opens the way to the union
What Ia and who are tba ~.