Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-10-14
OLYMPIA, SATURDAY MORNING, OCT. IA, 1876.
THE RECENT ELECTIONS.

It appears that Killpatrick's predic-
ton in reference to Indiana that cum
less the war-spirit was fully aroused"
Indiana would go Democratic, has been
fully verified, and that State has rolled
up very satisfactory majority for
(" Blue Jeans" Williams and the re-
mainder of the ticket. The returns are,
of course, meagre, as they always are,
when Democratic victory is to be an
nounced, but each day increases the
majority, and with this we must be
content. Grant carried the State by
81 900 majority, and the change that
has been effected indicates unmistaka-
bly, that the spirit of reform which in
Auenced every important election in1S74
goes bravely on. The people realize
the fact that vital principles are at
stake. The spirit Of American citizen
ship is aroused. The fight against the
Administration is carried on with pa
triotic rather than party spirit. Men
are divided more on questions of hon
esty and capacity than upon party is
sues. A reform that shall bring fair
dealing as the rule in Governmental
action; reform that shall wipe out the
existing corruption in all the depart
ments of the Government; reform
that shall put an honest, straight-for-
wexd man in the Executive Mansion,
is the groundwork upon which is built
the intense feeling and enthusiasm that
is to carry all before it in November,
and is now bringing the great Reform
ers of the country to the support of
Tilden and Hendricks.
In Ohio the result is closer, and is
claimed by the Radical electioneering
machine-the telegraph-for the Re-
publicans, but the indications are that
if the State is lost, it is by the merest
scratch. The mighty resources of the
Administration have been conferred on
this battle-ground. When the shrill
scream of Carl Schurz first startled the
leaders of his party in Ohio from their
Tranquil doze of confidence, it carried
with it the horrible nightmare of a
possible Democratic victory. This
would have meant utter humiliation in
November. It was paralyzing, and
made the blood run colder than even a
sightof the carmine garment. When
the whisky thief Babcock called for In
gerson to save Indiana from the men
who would put them all in prison, and
Blaine sent his regrets to the Philadel-
phia Committee, and said he was kept
to save Ohio, their CONSERVATION knew
no bounds. Realizing that with the loss
of Ohio Hayes would indeed be a
"dead duck" dead beyond the hope
of temporary resuscitation, no scheme
of fraud was too monstrous to be re-
jected by the INSCRIPTIONS party lead
ers. Allen, the notorious rough, Re-
publican politician and gambler, was
sent west with three hundred despera-
does, to manipulate the wires and Sc
cure those States at all hazards. An
unlimited supply of money and other
appliances of war" were placed at
their command, but it appears that the
sturdy yeomanry have been equal to
the emergency, and the result, viewed
from the most favorable point of Radi-
cal vision, is an overwhelming disaster
to their Presidential ticket.
West Virginia is not deemed of suf6-
cient importance to justify anything
like detailed report, although it is
conceded to have gone Democratic by
5000 majority.
There's a good time coming, boys,
Wait q little longer"