The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-10-27
THE OHIO ELECTION.
IT'S SIGNIFICANCE.

The election in Ohio was one of
the most memorable contests that has
ever been waged in this country.
There is a significance in the vote
polled in that election, which may
as well be proclaimed now as here
after. True, it has ssbeen heralded
all over the country as a Republican
victory, and in a sense, such it is;
but this is not all. Nor are we to
learn from it that Ohio is a Repub-
lican State. This is not the great
lesson to be learned from the result.
Indeed the mere fact that a small
majority of the votes polied we're
for the Republican candidate does
not signify that the State will ever
again go Republican, or that a ma
jority of the voters in Ohio belong
to that party now. In the contest
Gen. Hayes on the one hand repre-
sented in name the Republican par
ty, but IN .}act he represented the
BondoCracy of Wall street and the
east. With Wall street, Gov. Til
den, Manton Marble. the whole
Bondocracy Of the east and the Re-
publican party Of his State at his
back, Gen. Hayes is elected by a
meagre majority-his majority being
scarcely 5000 in half a million.
In the canvass. Bondocracy pour
ed out its treasure with an unstint-
ed hand. Gov. Tiiden and the N.
Y. World brought all their influence
and power Ito their shame be it said)
to bear against the regular nominee
Of their party in q great State for
Governor thereof. Such scene
has never before been presented in
the history of American politics. A
leading organ of a party-a promi-
nent candidate for a presidential
nomination in party-turning their
batteries against regular nominee
Of that party in a distant State and
working for his defeat. In addi-
ton to this the Republican party
brought to bear every force possible.
The administration saw in the Dem
ocratic candidate for Governor of
Ohio, a foe whose triumph would
foretell the certain destruction of
all of it's prospects and hopes. The
National banks all over the country
saw in his success liquidation for
every one of them. The bondhold-
ers and spectators in gold saw in his
triumph ''that not only this their
craft would be set at naught, but al
so that the temple of their great
goddess would be despised."
With all these powers arrayed
against Gov. Allen, the wonder is
that he found in Ohio, a corporars
guard to sustain him. But what are
the factsf The Democracy of Ohio,
stronger by 10000 than ever before.
declare in favor Of a volume of
currency equal to the demands of
trade. With unanimity which pro-
claims in thunder tones the inten-
sity Of their determination, they
have recorded their opposition to
the contraction scheme OF Bondoc.
racy. This is now and for the fu.
ture the cardinal doctrine of the De-
mocracy of the West:
"CuTrency equal an OOEunse to the wants Of
trade. destruction Of the National banking
system, a return to specie payments, only
tOhen the Government becomes able to TecesUe
its OsO'a promises to pay, OUer the counters Of
its Olon custom houses"
These will be the watch-words of
the Western Democracy in 1876.
The man who accepts the nomina-
tion Of the party for President in
1876 on any other platform, will
show himself even more willing to
be the leader of forlorR hope than
did Horace Greeley.
The Democracy Of the great West
will never consent TO be led by the
nose in the interest of the National
banks and Wall street brokers.
Marble and his coadjutors may cry
honest money as loud as they
please. The Western Democracy
will understand by the cry, "gold for
Wall street and ruin to everv indus
trial interest"
Mark the prediction. Wall street
Democracy must back down to the
demands of the West, or be crushed
under the wheel, which the Ohi0 and
Pennsylvania Democracy have set
in motion.
To the Tax-Payers OF HambIen /