Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-10-15
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the ONO ELECTION
Views Oft Prominent Republican Papc
ON the Result.
Chicago Inter.Ocean.
The IntersOcssn dd not iasr,,d, it, ID
vie upon Ohio repQblicans, nd made y,
complaint when amid the ominous silenc
Of 500 delegates the convention at CLEVELAND
indorsed the policy Of the president, ant
resolved that his course was a wise ant
patriotic one.
Ohio was the presidents own state, ant
there, if anywhere his course was to b,
commended and his political sagacity fairly
tested. Ohio has spoken. 1t has repudi
ated the policy. It's republicans have placed
the seal Of their disapproval on the cours,
to make one more in the gathering of north
ern satellites that revolve around = solid
south. The def. At is a bitter one-it is {
farsreaching and disastrous one; but it maj
have the effect to open the eyes of the polit
ical wiseacres who have caused il. and, if 20
will not be wholly lost.
Two graet blunders are revealed BY the
reault 10 Ohio.
First, the endorsement of the president'a
southern policy by the convention, BY which
an effort was made to force republicans who
discountenanced that course into . seeming
approval of it, and into a quasi approval Of
state sovereignty which stalked in its train.
The effort was a failure. The old, stalwart
republicans of the western reserve rebelled;
they refused to be driven into a remuneration
of their principles, and stood modify by
while the enemy filed through the breach
made bv republican hands and carried the
fortress.
Sad Henry w.. gazing on the stabbed and
CORY garments Of the Duke Of Burgun ~:
"Through these rents the English marched
into France" So We may say, in speaking
Of the result in Ohio: Though this breach
the democracy Of Ohio marched into
power.
This the prime cause. Then came others
hardly less destructive. The convention at
Cleveland was q blunder from first to last.
Having given an enthusiastic Endorsement
to q policy which the president himself re.
garded at that time with considerable dis
trust, it supplemented its action by making
a financial platform, which, if it meant y
thing at all, meant opposition to the over
whelming voice of the entire west. It was
q seeming attempt to straddle the fence, to
offend nobody, and take good care that moth.
ing was said, and, at the same time, make a
vast pretense Of saying q great deal. 1t
seems that the astute managers who ran the
convention actually believed that they could
thus coddle the republicans of Ohio into
good nature and a warm support of the
ticket. 1t is worth something to teach them
q lesson in this regard.
Then came the order relating to civil ser
vice reform, which also. played it's part.
Having driven away a vast number Of old
w~heelhorses of republicanism by a foolish
Endorsement Of the southern policy, and dis
gusted 4 large percentage of the rest BY the
good Lord and good devil" style Of the
declarations on finance, there remained but
one thing more to do to insure defeat, and
that was the handcuf the few remaining
workers who happened to hold Offices, and
who felt a disposition, like Napoleon's vet
eran cavalry, TO fall in and make an old
time charge when the trumpet sounded.
This Of course was done, the presidents
order making it necessary, and the republi-
cans of Ohio we're at last in about - COM
plete q shape for q sound thrashing Is a
party can yer be.
The convention finally made . bid for the
votes ofthe workingmen by inserting a plank
urging the settlement of labor difficulties by
a good enough move if it had
been accompanied with, OF supplemented by,
some practical recognition of the working.
mems organization. But the latter required
something besides mere words ard smooth
phrases, a fact we have tried to impress upon
Chicago republicans, and which they will
do we'll, in view of the result in Ohio, to
heed.
The consequence was that the bid for the
w%orkingmen's vote amounted to nothing,
while the fact it was made digni6ed the
movement, and alienated many of those
who disagreed with the resolution. 1t there
fore proved worse thar useless, though
framed no doubt, with q sincere desire to
place the party in a fair position toward
labor and do justice by the workingmen.
Here, then, we have the result in the pres
ident's own state of the presidents own pol
icy. We ask republicans what they think
Of the fruit? OF course the triumph in
Ohio means a democratic senator, and with
this goes almost the last hope for continued
republican supremacy in the United States
senate. The fact that . senator was to be
elected drew many republicans to the polls
on Tuesday who would not have otherwise
gone, and saved the party from humiliation
If there had been a certainty that a straight
republican would have been chosen, and
that Stanley Matthews would not become
his own successor, the legislature nigh,
have been saved; the doubt dashed tina,
possibility to the earth.
Here, then, Is We said, we have the result
Maine refuses to leave her old repubhca,
landmarks to run off after the new gospel 0
the president, and Maine elects her republi
can state ticket by $4,000 majority.
Iowa, first. of republican states, defeats Al
effort to commit her to the southern policy
and sends in a majority on the old side q
10000.
Ohio indorses, approves, yields and Obi
is lost. What comment is needed? VIVA
language % powerful as these potent facts t
tell the s'ory Of republican disaster, and tn
blunder which caused it?
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