Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-10-17
From the New York Times.
The Victory i'm Ohio.

All the dispatches from Ohio show that the
interest in the election yesterday was intense
and that the vote poled was among the larg-
est ever known in the State. This is partly
due to the importance of the general issues
involved, and partially TO the effect which
the result of the election was expected to
have upon the personal fortunes of distin-
guished men, especially in the democratic
party The campaign, so far as public dis
cussion went. has been almost as completely
national in its character as if Representative
in Congress, or even Presidential Elector.
were to have been chosen. On the republi.
can side great prominence has been given tc
the Southern question. Although Mr.. Fos-
ter was intimately connected with the earlier
efforts of Mr.. Hayes to give a new complexion
to the Southern policy of the Government
neither he nor his friends have hesitated &c
occupy the most "stalwart' ground. In fact
Mr.. sherman, who is regarded as the politi
cal sponsor of Mr. Foster. has gone as ial
as any one could 90 in advocating the views
! which the EXTREMIST republican critics of the
| Administration have advanced, and Mr..
Schurz, who has been the most intelligent OF
| the Presidents advisers in the Southern mat
ter, gave a more temperate and rational. but
a not less emphatic, support to the doctrine
that the only remedy for the evils with which
the South threatens the country was a decided
republican sentiment in the North.
The republican party was therefore, united,
SO far as the southern question went. There
was no detection of either Administration
men or ''stalwarts" The result is one which
the gentlemen who have managed the affairs
of the democratic party and the Legislative
business of the country may well take to
heart They chose their own ground, with
the avowal that it was in order to get in good
position for the Presidential struggle, and
they have suffered hnmiliating defeat
They put aside all questions of current poll
tics except those which they raised during
the last two sessions of Congress; they in
vented the Gerry of ''free elections" and
after a desperate contest with the republican
minority and the republican President took
their appeal to the people. The appeal has
gone hopclessly against them. With every
device that ingenuity could suggest or craft
could carry out, to persuade the people OF
Ohio that the real issue was one. not of South
ern domination. but of Federal intertcr-
cnce, civil and military, with elections, they
have been badly beaten, because they were
not believed.
In spite of the creditable war record of
Gems. Ewing and Rice, in spite of the expla-
nations and protestations that the dead is
sues" of the war had nothing to do with the
canvass, majority has been rolled up against
them which is distinct warning that the
Democratic Party given over to the rule of
the South, cannot be trusted. The hollow
pretense that the liberties of the people were
in danger from the bayonets of soldiers and
the iron cages of Federal Supervisors, has
been met with contempt. The sober sense of
the people recognized that the only real dan
ger to the suffrage came from the party which
tolerated the murdercrs of Chisolm and Dix
on, which suppressed the republican vote in
the cotton States and to the door of whose
candidate for the Presidency was traced the
crime, hitherto unheard of, of trying to obtain
the Presidential office by the grossest corrup-
finn