The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-10-19
Effects of the Election in Washington
Correspondence Cincinnati Enquirer.1


If there were veritable Salt River
there is the most dilapidated human
cargo here who need the shelter of its
friendly banks. The aggregated plaques
of Egypt could not have produced more
decided blow to the Republicans than
was the result of the glorious battle of
Tuesday last in Ohio and Indiana. For
two days the wicked men at the other
end of the line have surfeited the fol-
lowers of Grant & Co. with hope by delib-
erately lying. The smoke has cleared
away. The dead and wounded are on
the field. The spectacle is alarming,
and both the leaders and the rank and
file are wrapped in the gloom and apathy
of their own reflections. The hand.
writing is on the wall; the letters are not
Arabic, but can plainly be deciphered:
"The end of Grantisu." In ten years
there has been no such excitement.
The returns came to us slowly, vague
and indefinite. They were mass of
contradictions. No one attempted to
analyze them. The followers of both
parties went to bed on Tuesday night
apprehensive and respondent. On We'd
nesday Holloway and Haiford, at
indianapolis, furnished the inconsist-
encies, and before noon the Republican
leaders, led by Boss Shepherd, opened
up with the cry that Ohio had indorsed
the league dubbed the Republican party,
and that Indiana had gone to the same
idol. The Democrats were demoralized.
Boss Shepherd offered to stake five
thousand dollars on Harrison, and,
strange to say, no one seemed
to have courage to take him
up. In the evening, however, the
first installment of good news reached
us, and since then has been supplemented
with all the good cheer needed to warm
up the representatives of party which
for sixteen years had battled without
seeming hope. The situation has
changed. The Democracy is now "heads
up"
There is decided sentiment that the
Presidential enthusiastically anticipated
in its results. The Republicans fully ex
pected at least majority of twenty thou
sand in Ohio, and half of that in Indians
The loss of the latter State, and the gain o.
the former by majority believed to be
less than Hayes received last year is con
strued by them as decisive victory fol
their political opponents; so decisive
indeed, that stampede seems inevitable
Every inch Of ground mustagain be con
tested by them in Ohio, and the whole
sale expenditure of money made in lndi
ana has been thrown away. The leader
concede that Indiana is hopelessly Dem
ocratic, and that Mr.. Hendricks will car
ry it to the Tilden column by majority il
the twenty thousands. There is uni
versal apathy. All their plans for tn
future campaign have been set aside
and await the coolest head for revision
They are like sheep without shepherd
They have no Moses upon whom TO rely
and Chandler is too we'll stepped in tn
orgies of his own debauches to leat
once..more unto the breach.
The best informed of the Republican
leaders now say that the field of battl
will be transferred from the West to tn
East. New York, New Jersey and Con
necticut are to be the stamping grounds
Ohio will be abandoned to the tende
mercies of Hayes and his confdentia
friend, Comfy. The poor showing tn
standard-bearer has made in his ow
State is accepted here that he is indee
a negative man. If the leaders dar
make the swap in the middle of th
stream, they would hurl Hayes from tn
ticket in twinkling. They now presag
defeat anyhow, and Rutherford is poss
bly, the best of the party to bear th
burden,