St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-10-19
The Ohio Election.
AND wHAr rHE PRESS SAWS OF IT.

The Ohio Election
AND WHAT THE PRESS SAYS OF IT.
The direct bearing of this election
upon national politics is very slight, ma
tional issues having been avoided in the
contest by, both sides. But, indirectly,
it may have an excellent effect upon the
western republicans. Two years ago
they met their adversaries in Ohio on
the high ground of national honesty,
and, after hard fight they beat them
gloriously. This year they have fallen
back from the noble position which
they then conquered, and they are over
whelmed. Another year they will per-
haps understand that honesty is the
best policy.-N. 7. Tribune, lind. Rep
As both the main parties were equal
ly evasive on all live questions of the
day, the result in Ohio can only be
said to be significant of the way in
which the presidents southern policy"
is regarded. 1t is evident that it has
displeased good many republicans,
and the number of democrats won by
it does not appear to be large.-Ne,U
York Times, (Rep.)
AS for the administration in the con-
test, such is the curious position of
both parties that President Hayes finds
himself at one and the same time ap-
proved by the democratic victory and
condemned by the republican defeat
Ne,c York World, (Dem.)
But there is a broader and a more
satisfactory explanation. The republic
cans of Ohio deliberately abandoned
the high moral vantage ground upon
which they not only had carried their
state in two exciting and important
elections, but had secured the respect
and sympathy of the country. They
deserved defeat, and that they have in
Cured it is not at all surprising. 1t
was folly for them to suppose that by
yielding anything to the infationists
and regulators they could secure any
democratic votes.-Nep York Evening
Post, Dem.)
All together the causes of the defeat
consist of those distracting elements
which eliminate in the off years, but
which disappear before the definite is
sues and the Strengthened lines of Ma
tiOnal elections. They furnish, as we
have said, timely admonition to the
sachusetts, New York and Pennsylva-
mia, whose elections are yet to come.
The result in Ohio must be made up
for by increased vigilance, greater
thoughtfulness, better organization and
more thorough, energetic work on the
part of these Republicans who will close
the political verdicts of the year. Let
Massachusetts in particular acquit her
self well, according to the enhanced re-
sponsibilities thrown upon her-BoStOn
Journal, (Rep.)
The Ohio election is the first great
act of retribution following the frauds
and crimes which defrauded the coun-
try of President of its choice, and de-
prived the people of a thorough reform
Administration. 1t has left to the Pres
ident the nominal occupancy of the
Executive chair, but nothing else re-
mains to him but the semblance of pow
er and the shadow of authority. The
House, which holds the purse-strings
of the nation, is strongly Democratic.
The Senate is rapidly approaching the
same condition, and already has su-
preme control over his appointments
He has, it is true, Cabinet of his
choice, but its cOunsels are weakened
by divisions, and the Civil Service pol
icy which one of its members has en-
deavored to enforce has been vainly set
at defiance by his Minister of Exchequer
and by regiment of Ohio clerks, at
whose head he marched in order to save
all concerned from ignomy and defeat.
Boston Post, (Dem.)
The men who do not like the Presi-
dents course abstaiDed from voting.
They had perfect right to do so. No
body questions it. They can repeat
the man9uvre elsewhere, and with the
same effect. The circumstances of the
defeat are not such as to cause any
deep-seated melancholy in Republicans
breasts. The discontinued men of the
Western Reserve will recover their
cheerfulness by and by, and the Work
ingmen's party will die, as such parties
always do. By the time great Nation
al interests are brought up for decision,
Ohio will be all right again.-B Boston
Advertiser, (Rep.)
The credulous inflationists imbibed
the idea that they could have cheap
metal dollar spliced on to the unlimited
greenback, so as to double the quantity
of cheap money, and could have ''inter-
cOnvertibilityn without redemption. So
far as this result has been brought about
by any defnable ideas, it was by this
shallow delusiOn of irredeemable paper
money, and a cheap metal dollar hitch
ed to the tail of the paper kite, and by
the small ways with the small things
above mentioned. But the returns will
show what is called the silent vote large
enough to have turned the result large
ly the other way. Several reasons will
be alleged for this, but it is way of
the Republicans. Annual elections are
too great burden for large number
of them. A government of the people
requires too much of the people so
they have their off-years, when they
have not political energy enough to
vOte.- Cincinnati Gazette, (Rep.)
Moody and Sankey in Burlington.