The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-18
ECHOES OF THE FIGHT.
After the Battle Comments on Our Ohio
Struggle.
[Chicago Times, Ind. Dem.l

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Ohio. The scramble for Senator Thur
mans shoes will be lively and bitter.
Taft wants 'em. Jim Garfield, once
beaten out of the Senatorship by the in
tervention of President Hayes, who put
the barren promise of the Speakership in
his grasp, wants 'em. If John Sherman
is beaten for the nomination next spring
in the National Convention, or concludes
not to enter it, he will want 'em. STAN
ley Matthews will want 'em. Foster
himself may take a fancy to 'em, and
there's Private Dalzell At the call of
duty the Private always responds. There's
trouble ahead.
Detroit News, Ind.l
Had Ewing carried Ohio his victory
would have transferred the party, bag
and baggage, to its soft money and dough-
face elements, and with these in the as
cendant it would not only be predestined
to defeat next year, but for all time to
come while that condition of things re-
mains. Ewing's overwhelming defeat,
however, annihilates the soft money de-
mocracy, whatever may be its effect upon
initiation as separate party movement.
New Haven Union, Greenback.1
Perhaps Governor-elect Foster will now
have Presidential bee in his bonnet.
The Republican managers in Ohio seem
to be very accurate in their estimates.
They all predicted just what has hap
pened. They evidently have discov-
cred patent process for carrying elec-
tions.
New York Tribune, Rep.]
A feeble wall comes from the chief
mourners of the late Ohio Idea that the
Republican victory was won by the com
bined influence of the money power and
the Deputy Marshals at the polls. As
there was not Deputy Marshal within
sight of the polls on Tuesday, the first
part of this statement is undoubtedly
lust as true as the last. If the money
power can buy up $4,000 or 80, 900 MT
jority in Ohio it either has several barrels
of money, or else Ohio Democratic voters
are for sale very cheap.
New York Star, Dem.l
There is one lesson in the Ohio elec-
ton which is not likely to be forgotten
by the country. Two gallant Union SOL
diers have been beaten, and gentleman
who kept grocery store during the war
has been elected Governor of that State.
That is a lesson easily learned and not
easily to be forgotten. The "stalwar"
cry for the revival of the angry memories
of the war was an empty sound. Had it
been sincere, the man who did the fight
ing and not the man who never saw
battlefield, would have carried the day
in Ohio.
Ewing's defeat gauges the utter hollow
ness of stalwartism. When men are sim
cerely attached to principle, their works
do not belle their faith. Had the posi-
tions of Ewing and Foster been reversed,
and had the Democrat been the money
making refugee behind his counter in the
day of trial, and the Republican the gal
liant General who fought the battles Of
his country, we would be told to-day by
the Republican press that the people
meant always to vote as they fought, and
the soldiers victory at the polls was the
stalwart answer to the Democrats.
New York Sun, Deml
While Tom Ewing was at the front
fighting rebels, Charley Foster-Calico
Charley, his Ohio neighbors call him
was keeping store in Fostoria. Yet the
stalwart Republicans of Ohio, although
dreadfully afraid of the rebel brigadiers,
have voted to confide the command of
the Ohio militia in this crisis to the store
keeper rather than to the well-tried SOL
dier of the Union. And probably nine
ty-nine in hundred of them have no
sense Of the inconsistency Of the proceed
ing.
New York World, Dem.l
If the contest in Ohio had been fought
out, as the Tribune and the stalwarts
foolishly insist that 1t was, on the extra
session and on the stalwart version of
those issues, the result in Ohio would
prove that Just about one-half Of the vot-
ers of that Commonwealth can not be
made to care sixpence about those is
sues even by the united efforts of the
whole Administration and of all the lead.
ing orators of the stalwart faith. The
contest was in fact determined, as the
World yesterday said, by the bad advice
which Mr.. Tilden gave to Mr.. Ewing in
regard te the ventilation of his own pc.
culiar financial crotchets, It leaves Mr.
Sherman in Ohio, as the World yesterday
said, as nearly as possible where Mr.
Blaine was left by previous election in
Maine, and it shows the Democrats OF
New York the way to victory SO clearly
that it will not be easy for them to erl
therein.
New York Times, Rep.]
On the side Of the Democrats the
presence Of strong sympathy has been
declared from the beginning. On the
side of the Republicans there has been
more inclination to coax back Green.
hackers, and. to show how nearly
related they are to the Republi
cans, than lis creditable to the Re
publican party. Putting together
this circumstance and the evasions and
omissions which marked the discussions
of the subject by Republicans Of whom
better things might have been expected