The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-10-11
THE OHIO ELECTION.

The Ohio election has resulted in q
decided Democratic victory. The ma
jority for the State ticket has not, at
this writing, been accurately ascer-
tanned, but 1t appears to be some
where between 5000 and $4,000. I'D d
new Legislature will be Democratic. on
joint ballot by a decided majorit, -, and
OF course Democratic Senator will
succeed Stanley Matthews. New York,
by very large majority, and very prob.
ably Pennsylvania, will follow the lead
Of Ohio and go Democratic on the 9Th
of next month. The same causes
which led to the Waterloo defeat of the
Republicans In the former State are
operating In the two latter, with more OF
less force, and promise similar conse-
qwences.
The Ohio Republicans have evidently
repudiated Mr.. Hayes and his Admins
tration, and in this they have simply
preceded the Republicans Of the
other States. It was, early in the
campaign, understood that the Repub-
lican cause in Ohio was the cause
OF the Administration. Stanley Mat
thews, the Presidents best friend,
framed the platform and managed the
canvass, while Eliza Pinkston's man,
John Sherman, Secretary Of the Treas
ury, spent the last weeks OF the canvass
In the field. moving heaven and earth
to evoke, by Republican triumph, an
Enforcement Of the Administration.
But every effort. every strategem failed !;
and whether the Democrats have car
ried the State by a plurality vote or a
majority, the grim fact we have affirmed
remains, that the Ohio Republicans have
repudiated Mr.. Hayes. his Cabinet and
his policy. and the New York and
Pennsylvania Republicans will do the
same thing.
Mr.. Hayes Is therefore without
party; without any organized and re-
liable support from any section, party
or faction. The official creature of fraud
and conspiracy, he has alienated from
his administration the most powerful
and numerous Of the oonspirators. He
attempted by single act of justice to
win the confidence ana support Of the
South, and when he seemed about to &C.
complish his end, he destroyed all that
he had done by honoring and rewarding
the most despised and loathsome in
struments Of the conspirators upon
whom he pretended he had turned his
back. He has broken the power and
destroyed the cohesive principle of
the Republican combination by his
civil service policy and aroused the
Of it's most violent eie-
ments by his 80. called Southern policy.
He has organized Cabinet such as the
world has never witnessed before, un-
less it may have been that celebrated
one gathered together by Lord Chat
ham, and Of which Mr.. Burke said sit
was 80 checkered and speckled; piece
Of joinery, 30 grossly indented and
whimsically dovetailed, that Kings
friends, courtiers and republicans,
Wings and Tories, found themselves,
they knew not how, pigging together,
heads and points. in the same truckle-
bed-a very curious show, but utterly
unsafe to touch and insure to stand on. !"
The disastrous defeat and ruin of |
such an administration might have
been anticipated by any man OF common
sense. The country accepted it sullenly
Is a fraud, and only vigorous, manly |
md consistent policy could possibly have
regular and adequate sup
bort around it. Mr.. Hayes pursued no
uch policy. His course has been weak
md vascillating, threatening one day,
fielding the next. The congregation of
[ohn Sherman, w. M. Evarts, Carl
'churz and Judge Key in the same
)abinet shows an utter absence OF
unity Of design or of those pro.
bounced and aggressive views which
re necessary to organize consistent