The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-07-29

the campaign, and succeeded when an
other candidate would have failed,
The Jay Cooke bankruptcy came jus
in time to strike the Republicans hard
est at the election of 1873, and if ther
was time when the Grant administra
tion may be said to have touched bottom
it was just then. Now we must conside
the changes in two years that have i'm
proved the Republican chances, and W,
number and record them as they occu
/ to US:
l. The Grant admins tration has beer
improved in tone and character by tn,
Cabinet changes that introduce Pierre
pont, Jewell and Bristow.
2. The Republican candidate for Gov
ernor is not a candidate for the Senate
and Mr.. Delano is out of harms way
8. The Liberal party has been resolved
into its original political elements, anc
at least two-thirds of the ten thousand
who voted for Collins will vote for Hayes
4. The Prohibitory party is reduced in
proportions 1t will make show, but
not as large as two years ago, and the
majority of those who voted for Stewart
OO,27O will go for Hayes.
5. The effects of the panic of 1873 have
not passed away, but the people have
been educated in financial matters, and
they have been taught, we think, to the
point of conviction that the Democratic
currency declaration means to establish
the conditions of further trouble and
loss.
6. The Germans are well grounded in
matters of finance. They know that the
Democratic money doctrine as proclaim.
ed in Ohio is at war with good sense and
human experience, and those who have
in other years abandoned the Republican
for the Democratic camp on account OF
the nepotism, loaferism and carelessness
of principle in the National Administra.
ton, will find their way to their old
quarters in great numbers.
Z. There are thousands of old-fashioned
Democrats who might, for the sake OF
the party, have put up with an equiyocal
platform, but positive imitation pro
gramme they know to be mischievous in
the last degree, and they will quietly
permit the party to suffer defeat as the
cheapest method of redeeming it from a
delusion which, fixed upon it, would be
deadly
8. The Democracy two years ago en-
joyed, without noise or ceremony, almost
the solid Catholic vote-or all that the
Catholic Telegraph could promise in re-
turn for the Geghan law Now the party
must take the disadvantages along with
the advantages of that vote, and the no
popery cry will bring out votes through
out the country
9. Allen has. ceased to be portent.
The people hear his loudest shouts and
lowest whispers without emotion. He
does not exert magnetic influence that
is appreciable, and the old mans weak
nesses are more conspicuous than his vir-
tues. His white head is no longer sign
and a wonder.
10. General Cary is powerful stump
speaker, and he will expend his accus-
toned extravaganza largely on the cur
rency issue, but it will appear very dis
tinctly, long before the close of the cam
paign, that he is a weakness to the party
that presents him on its ticket.
IL. With the record of the last Gener-
al Assembly of Ohio and the municipal
administration of Cincinnati before the
people, the effort to associate the Demo
cratic party with ideas of reform becomes
ludicrous and contemplate. The Legis-
lature was, and the City Government is,
Democratic, and both are disgraced by
hagrant and notorious briberies, pilfer-
ings and systematic corruption.
II. The record of Governor Hayes,
while not exceptionally luminous with
remarkable achievements, does not offer
any points of advantage to his opponents
l3. Republicans two years ago failed
in discipline through excess of conf
dence. They will not make that mistake
this time, but will be better organized
than in any former campaign, and their
votes will come to the front as if in
critical contest for the Presidency
TO sum up, we find the prestige of AL
len, which was force, faded, if not gone
a Ho of in fha
Democracy dissipated and made ridicu-
lous-the antagonism to the Romish
Church wantonly provoked and turned
against the Democracy, by Ultramontane
presensions-the Liberal party dissolved,
and the Prohibitionists dwindled-the
German converts to Democracy disgusted
and driven to the Republicans by the in
tolerable ignorance and audacity on
vital business question of their late asso-
ciates-the hard-money Democrats, in
Guiding the strong men of the party,
alienated, and their personal ambition
and pride enlisted against their party
success-the Republicans rallied by
sense of danger and of resentment for
unexpected, and as they think, unde-
served defeats, while their differences
have been forgotten and opportunities
for strife among themselves are absent,
while in addition to their appearance in
full strength they are animated by the
knowledge that their opponents have
been guilty of blundering of the largest
and that this Ohio campaign
is, in the estimation of the people of the
whole country of National significance.
We come, therefore, to the conclusion
that Republican victory in Ohio this
time is certainty-and that the major
ity for Hayes will be handsome and en-
phatic, larger than he received on former
occasions, and sufficient to pronounce
the doom in the Nation forever of the
sort of Democracy that is now asserting
itself in this State.