Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-10-18
The October Elections.


The returns from the four states-Ohio'
Indiana. Iowa, and West Virginia-ln
which elections were held on Tuesday the
sth inst.-though not yet complete, snoro
substantial cause for rejoicing y the
friends ofbonest money and political integ-
ritv The Democratic Praty esPOused the
NT.t;o,si-oreenback docirine, and, in order
70 se.urs votes. becams a mere tender to
the Greenbaek movement. Judge Thur
man gave the keynote of the new depar-
ture- and it has been proved, BY the result
| Of Tuesdays work, to have been the death
kneII Of his Presidential aspirations. if not
the end and funeral dirge of his political
career. Last year lie and his party carried
the State of Ohio by q, 600 majority; this
year they have. lost it by $4,000 votes.
Even the carrying out the order from the
Speaker Of the National House OF Repre-
sentatives, the Hon. Sam. Randall, to re-
district the State in the interest CT their
PARTY. has failed signally Of the sweeping
results expected. In fact some OF the
most prominent Democratic members who
aided in securing legislation in favor Of
the nefarious scheme have already been
politically ignored and defeated. The Re
/ publicans in Ohio return at least nine
members to the House of Representatives.
Banning failed Of denomination in Gin
cinnati, and Sayler a reelection. Two
Republican members succeed them in re-
presenting the city.
Indiana, according to latest returns,
viii have one Greenbsek, six Republicans,
and six Democratic members in the next
House Of Representatives.
Iowa will be represented by two Green
back and seven Republican members.
The State went Republican by about
1900 majority.
West Virginia viii return its three Re
presentatives, all Democrats. The State
as usual, elected Democratic State officers,
but by greatly reduced maiorities.
As result, the Republican party is pre-
sented to the country with a slight decrease
in their national representation, but to the
world, at home and abroad, as the adYO-
Gates Of honest money-the worlds money
Of account and exchange--while the Dem
ocrstle party, committed through Thur
man and other party leaders to the rag
baby, haYe in their political platforms
and later in campaign speeches, indorsed
and become a tender to the GreenbaeE
movement, thus going back upon all theil
former financial declarations, and leaving
themselves, as a party, without a party
| policy or prestige upon which to count
upon any degree Of success in the Novem-
Der elections.
On the other hand the Republican par
ty, after seventeen years of brilliant achive-
ments, stands squarley not only upon its
honest-money platform but upon its entire
| past record. Upon these claims it viii
win, or it will court defeat rather than
become the ADVOCATE of deprecated cur
rency ald the tender of an upstart polit-
ieal faction.
The October elections cannot fail to
leave lasting impression upon the better
Judgment Of the communities, the infu-
enee Of which in the November elections
will secure to the Republican partya de-
eisive victory and to the country an escape
from the villainies of Democratic rule, the
ultimate repudiation and financial ruin.