Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-10-11
the ELEcrsON IN OHIO.


TINE ELECTION IN OHIO.
The result OF Tuesdays voting In
Ohio will be found in our telegraphic
columns. The sweeping victory
achieved by the Democracy = be at
tributsd 20 but one cause. namely, dis
affection In the Republican party.
growing out Of what is commonly
known as Hayssism. II this election,
rightly Interpreted means anything, it
vi . singing rebuke to he Ad-
m~inistration The circumstance OF
the case will admit Of no other explain
alton.
Ohio Il the home Of the President;
Stanley Mathews, his brother-in law
and chief fugleinsn, was the acknowl-
edged candidate Of the Republican
party for United States Senator; voters
were sntrested and csjoled all through
the canvass to stand by the President
and bis policy; they were told that the
Administration, SO far rs Ohio was
concerned, was being put to the test
before the world. and yet, all Is lost,
and that. too, by msjorities unpre-
csdented In the annals Of the State,
since away back in war times. 1t was
an Administration campaign in every
conceivable sense Of that term. State
pride was invoked, and the friends
and neighbors Of the President we're
exhorted from every stump to rally
to his standard and strengthen his
hands. On the Democratic side,
the battle was mainly fought on
the idea that Hayes WAS not only n
fraudulent President but q sham re-
former ~ we'll, and that Stanley Math-
ews aud Charlie Foster had given a
written bill Of sale OF him to the South
ern members Of Congress In advance
Of his Inauguration. Senator Thur
man, George Morgan and Tom Ewing
talked iu this way all over the State.
As Democrats, they were glad that the
troops had been Withdrawn from the
South, but they st%renuously denied
that MIR. Hayes was entitled to credit
for an act which he had secretly stipu.
lated to perform, o the detriment OF
his own party, in order to gain the
Presidency. We say this was the gen.
erai tenor of the Democratic speeches,
thus presenting the Administration is
sue in the anvass rs clearly as though
MI. Hayes were again before the peo-
pie for Endorsement or condemnation.
That he "a overwhelmingly repudia-
ted at such a time and at the conclu
sion of such q canvass, Is not without
the deepest political significance. 1t
says as plain as language can say, that
the Conklings and Blaines are the ,rue
representatives of the Republican par
ty. More than this, 1t Says that Hayes
ism means the dlsintegration and
ultimate overthrow Of the Repub
lican party as great national
organization. The party is al
ready extinct in ten or a dozen
Southern States, and two Northern
States that went for Hayes-Califo-nia
and Ohio have nov changed front
and wheeled into line with stupendous
Democratic majorities. Is there no
significance In all this? Does it not
mean that any one-man idea or policy
can not endure the test of a popular
verdict Of the American people at the
pollsf We think 1t does, and we also
think that by the verdict just rem
dered In Ohio, Roscoe Conkling, as
much as he has been maligned for the
part he played In the Rochester Con-
vention, IL placed At the head of all
that IL left Of the Republican party.
The story transmitted by telegraph
that the workingmen's party drew its
chief support from the Republican
ranks Is entirely too thin. We all
know that ss . rule the laboring
classes act with the Democracy. The
rural precincts In the Western Re-
serve disclose . very different state OF
Affairs. That particular section con-
stitutes the stronghold Of Republican
ism In Ohio. The returns show
that the greater tho Republican
strength hitherto. the greater has been
tho Democratic gains. This IL conclu
siye Of the whole subject, and unless
we fail TO appreciate the lessons OF
cause and eject OF public sentiment,
the result must tend inevitably to alien.
ate from the Administration the last
vest]Cs OF Republican support In Con-
JuDae d. G. McKENNEY, Of the
Austin Circuit. has not succeeded
In s~lsvating himself much In