The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-10-23
NUMBER s..
Now For New York.

The Republicans of Ohio have won a
splendid victory, SURPRISING the expec-
tations of their most sangnine friends,
and recalling, by the spirit of the con-
test and. the size of the majority, the
magnificent battle in which Vallandig
ham was routed. Mr.. Foster is elected
Governor by plurality over Ewing,
which is estimated at over 20, 900 votes.
The Legislature is considered as surely
Republican. Cincinnati, the great
fighting ground of the State, has gone
Republican by handsome majority,
and there are great gains in Cleveland
and Columbus. The first returns are
necessarily incomplete, but enough is
known to settle 10 politics of 1879. Gen.
Ewing drops like shot from his proud
didate to the place of rather uninfiu-
entail Congressman. Mr.. Thurman's
extinction is complete. He is cut off
and from nomination to the Presi-
dency. His downfall is, in one sense,
pitiable, for the whole country is look
ing at it. Ohio is enrolled among the
surely Republican States ID 1880. The
Solid North is beginning to loom up be-
fore the Solid South. --..-.-,-
This great victory must not be belit-
tied by assigning it to too narrowc causes.
1t is not the result of Mr.. Fosters ener-,
getic canvass, nor of the labors of any
one man, however able and sincere. It
is not the result of the Sherman boom,
nor of the Grant boom, nor Of the
Blaine boom, nor of the Hayes
boom. ALI these currents in the
campaign have had their effect, no
doubt, but the one mighty cause has
been the profound conviction of the
people that the interests of the country,
would not be safe for the next four
years in Democratic hands. They were
forced to this conclusion when they
saw, on the one hand, the tendency of
the controlling element in the Demo-
cratic party toward soft money, infia-
ton and Reputation theories; and con-
fronted, on the other, the aggressive
insolence of the Solid South. The peo-
pie of Ohio realized, perhaps for the
first time, how little aid the South
needed from its Northern allies to con-
quer the country, and how near we
were to the rule of party which has
repudiated $500. .0OO, 600 of debts, which
made the chief of inflationists its lead
er in this very campaign, which has
virtually abolished the ballot in
at least six States, and murders
even women and children for the
crime of Republicanism. If Ohio vot-
ers have been repelled from the Demo
cratic party by the sense of danger
both to the stability of the finances and
to the political liberty of millions of the
citizens of the South, they have been at
the same time drawn toward the Re-
publican party by powerful influences.
Resumption was a Republican achieve
ment The revival of business was
known to be the result of the Repub-
ican financial policy. The whole coun-
try was aroused, and the old war feel
ing famed out again in resentment at
the course of the Confederate Briga-
diers in Congress. The vetoes of Presi-
dent Hayes. and his recent speeches,
helped. The innate love of the people
for public honesty helped. The Ameri-
can dislike to seeing q man shot for his
political opinions helped. Many things
worked together, and the result is
splendid triumph for the right.
1t is a victory great in itself, but
vastly greater in its far-reaching con-
sequences. 1t will give a tremendous
impetus to the Republican cause in New
York. Three weeks hence the Empire
State will have substantially the same
issue before it, She will render sub
stantially the same verdict. Let every
Republican do his best in the time that
remains. The Republicans of Ohio
have put the initiation and shotgun De-
mocracy to flight Now let the men of
New York rise in their might, and
smite them hip and thigh!-M p. Trt-
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