The Van Buren press., 1879-10-25
The Ohio ELECTION.
ST. Louis Republican The Cincinnati
Gazette says:

ST. Louis Republican The Cincinnati
Gazette says
"The democratic managers in this
state, and in the whole country reeog-
hize this Ohio election as a decisive ae-
ton in the presidential campaign. The
republicans also recognized that this elec-
tion was the tnrnihg point, and would
decide whether tho government of the
nation should pass under the yoke ofthe
Southern coniederacy, and the public
faith, finances, currency, and all the set
tlcment Of the issues OF the war be put
into the hands OF their enemies. and the
republic be again placed in jeopardy by
an attempt to seize the presidency by u
revolutionary act, or, at best, tho coun.
try torn with disputed election OF pres
ident or whether tho republic should
be rescued from all these perils, and CIV
en- assurance of keeping in it's course Of
recovery aud prosperity and public &C.
curty."
"The democratic managers" OF Ohio,
or elsewhere, do not recognize any
thing Of the sort, however idiotic the
republican managers may be in their es-
Inmates of the results OF the recent elec-
ton, Ohio has never gone democratic
at presidential election since 1856. In
what are called the off yearsp the de-
mocracy have occasionally been success
fui, but never when national questions
were made tho Issue. Though some
times easscd among II tho doubtful
states,' Ohio is never doubtful when the
republican party really needs her. In a
critical emergency, she is, and always
has been, rs reliably republican as Hi
no9. The great republican victory
is, therefore, merely another casa Of the
{" Dutch taking HoIland.' This election
was indeed "the turning point with re.
publicans for the loss Of the state in
1879 would have been a toeraby good
guaranty of its loss in lSS0-which, OF
course, would have been fatal to repub-
lican prospects. As it is, democrats are
just where they were before just where
they were in l875-only we believe there
are no republican bayonets and return.
ing boards in the South to overcome.
The republican cock may crow Justify
on his own dunghill, but he will need to
lengthen and sharpen his spurs to save
comb and tail feathers in next years bat.
tie.
TOO confident democrats may, howev.
er, learn valuable lesson from the de-
feat OF Tuesday. They can see that the
line is drawn precisely where it was and
as it was in 1876 that the enemy has
not been dslodged from any important
point, and that in 1880, as in 1876, moth.
ing short of the hardest kind of fighting
will win. And the incentives to hard
fighting are even more powerful now
than then. The republicans, made des
perate by broken prestige and power
are determined to restore both at all
hazards They have hosled the bloody
shirt flag, resurreeted the hatreds of the
war, and announce their purpose to con.
quer the South for negro and carpet-bas
rule, at any cost Mr.. Bowman, mem.
ber of congress from Massachusetts,, nj
a dinner of the Middlesex club in Bos-
ton, last Saturday, said:
"The people of the north were more
stalwart than the republican members Of
congress and their leaders, and would
hail the day when the great captain
shall lead them again to victory-by
peace, let us hope, by war; ii neces
sary
After such an unmistakable setting
forth of the republican programme, the
patriotic twaddle of the Gazette may bc
taken for what it is worth. The" inter
est Of public prosperity and security
the integrity of "pubIic faith, finances
aud currency" have no more influence
on the republican side of the impending
conflict than has the domestic policy OF
Japan. Tho sole objects of republicans
, is to get the South down, and keep he,
down, to tetter the democracy and keer
them tottcrcd to put Grant in the sad
die, and keep him there as long as the
people will bear him. On these points
J the republicans are practically u unit
and nothing but equal unity and equa
energy on the part of the democrats car
achieve national salvation. Paul Jones
in the terrible duel between Bonhomme
J Richard and the Scraps, when sum
J moned to surrender, said have not
begun to fight" If the not-expected
disaster in Ohio rouses the same spirit
among the democracy, victory will come
to them as it did to Jones.