New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-10-07

Is, SATURDAY. OCTOB
pendent Reader purchased this year, find
upon inquiry, were bought by some unfor-
tunate pupils through ignorance as to the
book required. 1t ill becomes any agent to
refer to so small matter.
Very respectfully.
Superintendent of Public Schools, Sixth
Division.
The Western Canvass.
The New York Tribune of the third con-
tains q letter from E. V. Smalley, which
gives tolerably clear idea of the campaign
in Ohio.
In Cleveland the election Of Townsend,
Republican, is conceded. Tilden is losing
daily. Blaine is to speak Saturday to
meeting prophesied as the largest ever seen
there. The vote will probably be COO, 900
in Ohio.
Maryland sends delegation of "boys
who wore the blue" to Indiana, accom-
panied by several ex-Confederate officers
and some Baltimore roughs.
Mr.. Smalley writes from Cleveland that
The two important points in the political
field in Ohio are always Hamilton county
and the Western Reserve-the former be-
cause the city of Cincinnati is exceedingly
freaky, given to sudden changes and often
controlled by local influences; the latter
because in the heavy Republican counties
of the Reserve it is only when a canvass
takes strong hold of the public mind that
full vote can oe brought out. When the
Republicans have lost the State it has al
ways been occasioned either by apathy on
the Reserve, or bv some change in the large
floating vote of Hamilton county. Of late
years there have been two other factors to
be studied in considering the problem of
the politics of the State-the attitude of
the German vote of Cleveland and of the
lsb0ring population in the iron and coal
districts, who have been infected with the
soft money heresy since the hard times be-
gan, and have shown q remarkable apti-
tude for turning somersaults into the Dem
ocrstic ranks. In the other portions of the
State parties are pretty evenly balanced,
and it is rare to find any marked changes
at elections.
Hamilton county is expected to increase
its Republican majority this year by 800.
The candidates for Congress, Judge Stanley
Matthews and Judge Force, are absolutely
unassailable. In Cleveland, the Repub-
licans will not do as we'll as Hayes 5000
majority of last year. The rag baby has
not been fourished at the Germans, and
the school question has not troubled the
Luthersns. A-four thousand majority is
expected, a. the German vote is divided.
The business men of Superior, Bank and
Water streets, and even the aristocrats of
Euclid avenue, have agreed to carry torches
in the procession at the great demonstra-
ton to take place when Mr.. Blaine comes
here next week. Nothing could more forci.
bly, show the interest felt by the best
classes of Republicans in the election.
1t is the best omen of Republican vic
tory l have seen in the State. The
business men here are convinced that q
Democratic triumph would unsettle public
confidence in the financial policy of the
government, reopen all questions affecting
the currency and the bonds which the Re-
publican party has settled and so fill the
public mind with apprehension of unwise
tinkering with legislation affecting none
tary and general business interests ss to
indefinitely postpone the advent of q new
era of prosperity, which now appears so
near at hand.
The Western Reserve appears all right,
and as large . majority is expected as
Hayes received last year.
1t will be remembered that in the mining
and iron working districts the Republicans
lost heavily last fall, notably in Youngstown,
Massillon, Steubenville and Portsmouth In
ali those localities they will make impor-
tant gains. Republicans who were led by the
hard times into embracing the rag baby have
no excuse for acting with the Dem Mocracy
since Tilden captured the party at St. Louis,
and many of them are back in their own
ranks. Judge Kelley, who furnished them
with the arguments to justify their deser-
them that there is more hope for the
success of their theories from the Repub-
licans than from the treacherous and an.
principled Democrats, 60 that they are row
turnished with what most of them were
waiting fora plausible reason for return
ing to their former allegiance.
The only locality, outside of Cleveland,
where the Democrats are likely to gain, is
Dayton; there the inmates of the Soldiers
Home, three-fourths foreigners, have been
captured by the Democrats to vote against
the party that feeds and shelters them.
Toledo is enthusiastic for Cox, who ranks
with Judges Mathews and Force, and Gar.
field is sure of his district.
The Republicans have been provoked by
the assaults upon their candidate into ven
tilating the record of his opponent, Mr..
Bell. They find that he was Copperhead
meeting to resist the draft, and that his
honesty as q county official was once seri-
Ously impugned. While Bell was at home
acting with the Vallandigham Democracy,
Colonel Barnes was in the field, Drawing
the dangers of score of battles and re-
ceiving two wounds from rebel bullets.
A dispatch from Indianapolis, dated Oc
tober 2, says:
The Repnblicans are feeling much more
hopeful to-day. The greenback movement
begins to show phase which promises if it
develops to be of great assistance to Cen
ersl Harrison. Many of the greenbsck
leaders have come to the conclusion that
the election of Mr.. Williams would be regard.
ed a. certain to be followed by the success
of Tilden, and that it would be impossible
to make respectable canvass for Cooper
and Cary after the October election under
such circumstances. On the other hand.
they think that the election of General
Harrison would tend to disrupt the Dem
ooratic party by making it evident that
Tlden's election would be impossible;
and that in such an event the Inde-
pendent party would immediately receive
q large accession to its ranks, would be
put on the footing Of formidable
national party, and would be enabled to
push vigorous canvass up to the Novem-
Der election. The men who are prepared
to act upon this view care little for their
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