The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1877-10-17
THE OHIO ELECTION.
raE VARIOUS EXPLANATIONS GIVEN
OF THE RESULT OF THE OHIO
ELECTION.

Thc Probability Of Return Of the Re
pubJIcans To Their Ancient Principles
with Grant as Their Candidate fol-
President in 1850. ....
Especial Correspondence of the Democrat
WASHINGTON, October IL. 1877.
s'Many men of many minds" have expressed
TO me their several interpretations OF
THE RESULT IN OHIO,
within the last two days, and to sum up all
have heard, / should say that there never was
an election result in this country in which sc
many diverse elements claim to have sue
ceeded, or in which so many partisans ol
such various views find, or profess to find
ssyindication" TO begin WITH all the Demo
Gratis are pleased, hard-money and soft.
money men alike, Eastern and Western
Northern and Southern. The ant-Hayes
Republicans are delighted, and the Hayes
men profess to be not disappointed.
ut will show Hayes, Matthews & Go. that
Republican voters must have Republican
principles to vote for or else they will stay
Mt home, said one of the ''stalwart' crowd to
me, with evident glee.
sIt will teach the Bourbons of our party "
said one Of Mr. Hayes concilationists, "that
IL is better to bend preiudices than break the
party"
THE OPPONENTS OF THE HAYES POLICY
say that the result in Ohio will force the
President to abandon his present attitude and
return 10 the ancient Radical fold.
The supporters of the Administration de-
clare that 1t ought to teach the malcontents
that IL is their duty to follow and sustain
Hayes in order to prevent q national Demo-
cratic victory In 1880.
The official returns show that from $4,000
to 6o, 900 voters staid at home. AS
TIE sTAy-AT-HoME ELEMENT
liz the heaviest In the blindest Radical coun-
ties on the Western Reserve, there need be no
doubt that most of the non-voters are Repub-
lcans, and 1t is safe to assume that, OF 300, 900
naturally Republican voters in the State.
10000 refused to come to the polls this year.
This calculation In round numbers will be
found sufficiently accurate for present pur-
poses. The conclusion is, therefore, that, 80
Tar as the Presidents policy was an issue In
the canvass, one-sixth of the Republicans of
Ohio have condemned It, Examining the re-
turns by counties, we shall find that the most
pronounced condemnation proceeded from
the strongest Radical counties mainly those
Of the Western Reserve, whose leading char
ActeriStcS have frequently been set forth in
this correspondence. We all know what
this means and what 1t amounts to viewed
from q Republican, or, Ii you please, from
an Administration standpoint
Inc more violent elements Of the party, the
raw-head and bloody shirt Radicals who have
10 absolutely controlled the party and used the
onRlnery OF Its power are really q small minor
ity "a its ranks But they are strong enough
10 defeat # at any time when, soured or mad
dened by the policy of the majority OF the
party, they refuse to support the ticket.
Ihese election returns, considered together
with the events Of the last six months. teach
as the important fact that it is idle for the
Republicans to hope, or for the Democrats to
Tear that the Radical party will ever recover
1ts ascendency. The breaches made at
Rochester, at Des Moines, and at Cleveland
last Tuesday, and beyond peradventure des-
tined 70 be still aggravated next month, will
never be healed.
AS Bill Morrison said in the interview re-
principles you may as well let the party go
with them.'
Parties can't be kept together on the
strength OF mere policies. And
THE COLLAPSE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
is due to the fact that the principles upon
which 1t has lived have been traded off for a
policy In which there Is no partisan nutri-
ment.
THE ''PRrNcIPLEs'' OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
can be summed up in few words, provided
you use plain English They were:
4. The South Is the territory of the enemy
and must be kept In state OF siege.
2. God Almighty Is Radical.
D.. The national treasury Is the natural in
heritance Of every Radical who can get his
hands into its vaults.
4. No Democrat has any rights which Rad
icals and niggers are bound to respect.
!. It Is patriotic for Radical to steal
9. Let us pray.
The above has been the Republican plat
form for the last sixteen years, translated
into plain English. The men who voted the
so-called Republican ticket in Ohio last Tues
day did not vote for any such platform as the
Tor the above platform and hence we may
conclude that the truly ''stalwart'' RepubIf-
can party Of Ohio according to Jim Blaine,
numbers from so, 900 to 60,ooO voters.
Inls may seem like travesty upon fact,
but you will find, on close examination of the
whole matter, that there is a good deal of
seriousness about it, The above tragedy, in
six acts, Is actually the Radical PLATFORM
nay the political gospel-of
THE WESTERN RESERVE.
The Darwinian descendants of the Connec-
ticut wooden-clock- k-peddler of the last cent,l-
ny, who people that land of skim milk and
sour prejudice, can no more be liberalized bv
time and events than hyena can be converted
10 the Christian religion. But these creatures
have votes and their votes are vitally renui-
site to the success of the Republican party.
They will never vote any ticket or sustain any
platform that does not substantially embody
the creed set forth in the foregoing six-act
tragedy. But that large majority of the Re-
publican party which has outgrown this
creed will never again vote in accord with it.
Thus hopeless crevasse has happened. The
ancient party levee has given way and what
was once a broad, smooth stream of unity
perpetually flowing to the ocean of success
and power Is now broken into angry divided
torrents q, Individual passion, malice, recrim-
ination and revenge.
STANLEY MATTHEWS
has been made the scapegoat by such paners
as the New York Times and the Chicago H,te,.-
Ocean. But he is really the prophet stoned
He had the sense to see last spring what his
rawhead and bloody shirt associates could
not see, to wit; That the Republican party