The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-10-18
THE OHIO ELECTION.

but it is certain that Bishop, the Demo
cratic candidate for Governor, has been
elected by twenty-five thousand majority
and that the Democrats will have ma.
jority in both the State Senate and House
of Representatives, with a majority o.
from thirty to forty oil Joint bullot. This
is a very great change to be wrought ir
one year within this State. Its majority
for President Hayes was about ten thou.
sand, and the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives we're largely Republican
Indeed, the State has uniformly gone
Republican since President Hayes de.
feated ex-G Governor VIM. Allen for Gov.
ernor on the imitation question in 1875
The result of the contest this year has
added another powerful State to the gal.
axy of the Democracy, and secures the
selection of a Democrat to succeed Stan.
ley Matthews in the United States Senate
on the fourth of March next. 1t renders
the prospect of any disintegration of the
Democratic party before the next Presi-
dental canvass impossible, and it ensures
the selection and Inauguration of Dem
ocratic President in 1880.
Several causes operated to secure a
victory for the Democracy in this State
at this time, and foremost among these
was the general public Indignation at the
Republican party for the great political
fraud and crime it perpetrated last year
in counting the votes of Louisiana and
Florida. The country realizes the fact
that party so devoid of principle as to
perpetuate itself in power against the
expressed wishes of the people cannot
with safety be trusted. The people of
the United States who love liberty insist,
and will-ever insist, that the men who
are elected shall be inaugurated, and any
party which attempts to set at defiance
this great principle of public right will
be spurned by freemen, and crushed by
the weight of its own iniquity.
Another cause leading to this Republi-
can defeat rests in the fact that the
country does not approve the bungling
and partial financial course of the Re-
publican party. The resumption act is
seen to be clearly and exclusively in the
interest of the large capitalists and mon.
eyed corporations of the North. The de-
monetization of silver, by the refusal to
coin the 'dollar ofour fathers" is known
to be in the interest of the national bond
holders alone, and the vote in Ohio is a
censure from that State upon the fnan-
cial policy of the Republican party. The
result of this will in all probability be
either to cause the repeal of the act fix
ing the 1st of January 1879 as the date
for the resumption ofspecie payments, or
to cause the renewal of the coinage of
silver dollars with which to pay debts
after the period for resumption has ar
rived. The vote in Ohio means that the
people demand paper currency or an
issue of silver for the payment of debts.
Another cause of the Republican de-
feat was the disafection within the ranks
of the Republican party. A great many
Republicans in Ohio are so bitter towards
the South that they would not vote the
Republican ticket because of the Presi-
dents conciliatory and just Southern
policy. This class, however, did not
amount to very many, we presume, for
the policy of Mr.. Hayes tends to induce
people to forget the iniquities of the
party which inaugurated him, and there
fore we have no doubt that the Republi-
cans of Ohio gained more votes than
they lost by the so-called Southern
policy.
The foregoing were the principal causes
of defeat to the Republicans of Ohio.
President Hayes own State has left his
party by an overwhelming majority, and
Republicanism had as we'll read the hand
writing on the wall. AS party it is
bound to die in very short time, for the
House is already Democratic aud the
Senate soon will be so. The President
is not in sympathy with the leaders of
his party, and will not, we believe, lend
himself to carrying out the corrupt prac-
tices by which the party has lived. He
is at variance with his party North and
West upon his Southern policy, or his
civil service reform, or both, and is to-day
upon the Democrats in Con-
gress for his support. The result of this
will be beneficial to the reputation of
MIR. Hayes in history, and it is a blessing
to the country, but it is death, death,
death to Repubicanism forever.
AS an indication of the justice which
tho nrosant administration Intends IN ey.