The daily gazette., 1875-10-14
THE OHIO ELECTION.
rom the Baltimore News.

rom tuc DultiulOTc NeWss
The returns from Ohio so far re-
ceived are not sufficiently reliable as
to enable us to arrive at the actual re-
suit. The indications are, however,
that the Republicans have elected
their State ticket after one of the
hardest fought battles ever witnessed
in this country. 1t was Republican
necessity and every nerve and sinew
was strained in the contest If Gener-
al Grant had an aspiration for third
term he well knew that Ohio must be
taken this time or that. hope would be
buried beyond the dreams ofa lifetime
the leaders of the Republican party
throughout the country realized that
a Democratic victory in Ohio now
would as surely expel them froli
power as that we are to have nation
al election in seventy six. Not only
would such victory desrtoy the last
hope of Republican success in the
Presidential contest, but it would have
destroyed the Republican party as a
political organization, uprooting it
locally, and giving it its death blow.
This condition of things was fully
appreciated by the shrewd men at the
head of that great political organiza-
tion. The election last fall, which
gave to the country Democratic
House of Representatives had aroused
them to a realization of their danger,
and the successive Democratic victor
les this spring and summer in various
parts Of the country, spurred them TO
extra effort. Ohio was too great a
State to lose, ,and yet was in imminent
danger. She was looked upon as the
pivot of the presidential canvas, and
no labor, pains or expense could be
spared to carry her. Men and money
were sent there without stint; the
party press and speakers seized upon
every dodge and adopted every senti.
ment to catch votes, and every device
and appeal which could possibly reach
the prejudice, bigotry, passion, fear
or cupidity of men were enlisted in
the service.
From the New York World,
The rag baby is dead. Nothing re.
mains but for Democrats to put it un-
der ground as promptly as possible. 1t
is plain that if the Democrats of Ohio
had been led by the Democratic states
men of Ohio instead of by their Gin
cinnati corruptio.ists, 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 majority so
the hopeless defeat of the Republican
party even in Ohio itself when OHIO
Democratic platforms are the expon-
ents of Democratic principles. Moth
ing is clearer to the unblessed politi-
cal observer than that the election of
Hayes is not a Republican victory, nor
Democratic defeat. 1t is the defeat
of an attempt to rally Democrats under
Republican standards, it is the reject.
ion of an incompetent leadership
usurped by small knot of corrupt
ionists centring at the Enquirer office
with whom politics is trade and pol
itical principles pretensa. Theil
| folly in shaping the issue of the pres
ent campaign has been supreme. Il
required the very genius of fatuity fol
them to prevent Ohio from being
transferred from the rol Of Republican
to the roll of Democratic States. Til,
misdeeds of the Republican party now
ripening in all their baleful fruits, il
the disorganization and unsurpation!
of the South, in the universal hare
times at the North and West, these
and the principles of true Democracy
which are and have been flat protes
iagainst those misdeeds in all th;rt
causes and their plosent consequence
what other reason, what bette
reason did people ever have for dis
carding their political servants anC
selecting new ones? These all suffi
cient reasons. These were the tru
issues upon which the Ohio campaigl
should have been fought.