Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-10-17
Ohio Election.

dency victory in favor OF pure
Democratic principles, and secures to
us both the United States Senators
fiom that State.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says ofthe
election :-'It was the hostile ideas
that were met, and chief among them
was the question offorced resumption.
John Sherman came to Ohio, held up
the resumption act in his right hand,
shook it in the faces OF the people OF
Ohio, and swore between closed teeth
it could and should be executed unless
repealed. The people OF Ohio have
said it ought to be and shall be re-
pealed. The Republican party was
entrusted to restore the dollar Of the
fathers to the currency Of the land,
and it refused. Ohio said yesterday
it should be restored. The Republi-
can party, plethoric with ill,gotten
spoils, klngly bya patronage which
nothing but lofty patriotism and intel,
ligent suffrage can resist, appeared
before the people of the State, plead
ing tor popular perfecting Of the
presidential title, and in the indorse-
ment of the returning board method
OF choosing a President as a prece-
dent, and Ohio, Hayes own State, in
dignantly refuses, in the name OF civ
il liberty, to sully her lips with the
atrocious verdict. The fruits Of the
victory are the permanent possession
of this peoples real. This is Ohio's
gift, to-day, to the Democracy on this
continent. The Ohio idea has con
quered at last, and lastingly. The
full summer OF power is at last at
hand the long domination of the
National Democratic party is secured.
Not only this, but Ohio herself is lit
ed to a place Of command in our ma
tional affairs Ohio will presently send
another Democratic Senator 10 Wash
ingtou worthy to wear the mantle,
and Ohlo's real voice will be heard in
the higher branch OF Congress. Three
days hence, the Representatives OF
the Democracy of the United States in
the House of Congress will select a
Speaker for that body. 1t will be for
them to determine whether or not
Democratic Ohio has earned recognl'
ton at their hands, whether the con-
querers of Republican State should
have their hands stayed up by the
national representatives of the party.
The election in Ohio says the N. Y.
Sun, is an event of immense signii
canoe and momen,, and its meaning is
plain. 1t is new and powerful JUST
ticatlon of popular government. 1t
shows that the people of this import
ant State perfectly understand thell
moral and political interests, and are
able, when great questions are place.
before them, to examine intelligentlJ
and decide firmly, justly and wisely
1t condemns the conspiracy which in
stalled Rutherford B. Hayes in the
White House, and with the hand O
his own State i. marks deeper ane
blacker upon his brow the brand o
fraud first triumphant in American
history. 1t condemns and rebuke'
Mr.. Hayes unconstitutional and ty
rannical edict respecting the civil ser
vice, and puts down the illegal shan
of reform, with which, he and his con
federates have done their best to pre-
vent and postpone the real reform o
evils in that department of our publ
affairs. 1t condemns the project TO
a great standing army, to be maintain
ed at the public expense, for the ben
eft Of a military aristocracy, for tn
special protection Of railroad corpora
tions and tor the rise Of future politi
cal conspirators. 1t condemns tn
lesser fraud of which Mr.. Hayes ha
made the Republican party guilty
that Of conducting a presidential car
{ vass upon a certain set OF principle
and a clearly defined policy, and ther
after getting into power, immediatel
, turning around, denouncing thos
: principles, reversing that policy, an
attempting to carry on the Govern
ment upon the principles and the pc
f icy Of the opposing party. 1t clear
up the political atmosphere, confirm
the permanence of our republican il
situations, and affords starting poir
for new era of constitutional an
upright government In this countr.
The American people may well regar
it with profound and earnest gratitud
toward Heaven.
Notwithstanding repeated warning