Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-11-22
THE RECENT ELECTIONS.
what Leading Republican Paper
Say About The Result.


Say About The Result.
The tendency of the fall elections of
1873 is toward a division of parties on
the old lines, the Southern States being
solidly Democratic and the Northern
Republican. The triumph of the De-
mocracy in Indiana and Oregon, like
its previous success in New York, Con-
necticut and New Jersey, will be short
lived. The inevitable result of solidi-
flying the South, taken in connection
with the methods of its accomplish
ment, will be to reinstate the Republic
ans in every Northern Commonwealth.
The repeal of the Missouri Compro-
mise aud the attempt to nationalize
slavery were not more instrumental in
creating sectional political division,
than will be the policy of the men who
aim to get control of the Administra-
ton of the country upon the basis of a
solid South. - Cincinnati Commercial
! Ind.
The old party which has borne the
brunt of so many battles has sustained
| its well-earned reputation as the party
of patriotism, loyalty, good govern
ment and sound financial ideas, and it
is especially gratifying to know that
the elections of the 9th of November,
! 1873, have done nothing to detract from
| its noble record. In the Tuesdays elec-
tions every element of opposition which
could be brought to bear was arrayed
against the Republicans. Combinations
were formed where there seemed to be
a chance of success. The contest in
many of the States has been terribly in
earnest, and characterized by the ut
most bitterness and determination. We
went into the fight knowing the char
acter of the opposition, and if not the
winner in every contest we are in the
main victorious. Toledo Commercial.
The result of Tuesdays elections, not
only in Michigan but elsewhere, rein
forces very strikingly the main lesson
of the Ohio election in October in show
ing the folly of an attempt on the part
of the Democratic party to secure votes
by a sacrifice of principle. In every
State and in almost every Congression-
al district where the Democracy low
cred their standard for the purpose
either of preventing detection to the
National party or of winning back de-
serters, the party has suffered loss by
the operation. This is less conspicu-
ously shown, perhaps, in Michigan than
in some other States, because the Dem
ocratic platform here was for SOUND
currency. But even in this State the
effects of abandoning or feebly support
ing principle can readily be traced. In
every district where the candidates
have bid for the support of the "sofi
money! men, so-called, they have moi
only failed to get the vote they sought
but have lost very nOticeably from the
disgust or indifference of Democrat;
who favored Il sound currency with nj
irredeemable paper features.
Free Press (Dem.
The effect of the Southern disturb
ances could not but be damaging to thu
Democratic party at the North. Th'
South has recovered to its old place il
the Union on the understanding tina
the colored people should not. be dis
turbed in their civil and political rights
Cows. Hampton and Nichols hav,
deeply pledged themselves to this pol
lev. Yet so far as is visible to tn
North, neither of them has taken meas
ures to prevent violence, punish out
rage or vindicate the equality of tn
races. This is not what the North ha
been led to expect. What has happen
ed does not impugn the wisdom c
President Hayes Southern policy, o
necessitate its reversal, or in fact ope
the way for any Federal interference
except the peaceable enforcement c
the laws of Congress, but it does nc
satisfy the North. On the contrary
occasions deep distrust, and that dis
trust finds natural expression in rt
posing power in the hands of those wh
fought rebellion rather than of thos
who fought the Union. The South ha
only to let the colored man alone in hi
rights to see the sectional question e'
pire. 1t has only to bulldoze him wit
violence to give it new life. 1t wi
probably take the tuition of long yeaI
of voting, of popular education, of til
4. vindication of civil rights by the court
and of the elevation of popular mora
in every way, to secure the cOloro
voter in South Carolina the immunit
he enjoys in Massachusetts. 1t is
matter of slow political advancement
fostered and encouraged by Nations
influences rather than one of "sOlid
sections and bayonets, but the Mort
will not condone it.
As the Republican has steadily mail
tanned, the financial issue, over whiC
such an alarm has been raised, prov
,s to have had very little strength in Il
country. AS we have said before,
would be a strange commentary on Il
self-governing capacity of the Amel
can people. if they they turned ba'
within one-half per cent. of the resum
ton of specie payments to indorse al
scheme of unlimited or irredeemat
paper currency The financial bugab
was about on par with the "desi
for change" which does not seem
have existed anywhere except whe
State maladministration had given II
1r. pretty good basis in reason.-Spr1n
feld Mass Republican.
y THE Republican party has not alwa
deserved victory, but it has deserve
ER. because it has earned, the victory
,Es. ,I record this morning. AS TO the pr
Jr. ciples upon which the party is found'
aft. and as to the policy that has direct
Id. its course, there is not now, and ne'
has been, any successful impeachm'
of either. And it is worth while to
MEMBER tnaU III SQUARE uBhI the
|. publican party has never been beat
II. If the Republicans won yesterday
rp was because they took decided sta
for honest money, and stood by Il
stand. There was at first hesitaI
me. among the leaders of the party. ]
ger public waited. Public sentiment as
spects finance, did not crystalline r
idly. There were, too, some halt
utterances, which only served to
lou. crease the confusion of ideas.
seemed at one time as if finance co
not be successfully put in issue betw
the two great parties. To many tn
seemed no dividing lines, but COZ
RNE. sion of lines, as numerous as opin
was diverse; and such as carefully