The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-10-30
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.
What tile Leading Journals of Various
Shades of Opinion say about the Result
I'm Ohio.
.Etom t1c Nclu York Timca.

All the dispatches from Ohio show that
the interest in the election of yesterday
was intense and the vote polled was
amongth largest ever known in the State.
This is greatly due to the Importance
of the general issues involved, and par
TALLY to the effect which the result of the
election was expected to have upon the
personal fortunes of distinguished men,
especially in the Democratic party
The campaign, SO far as the pualic dis
cussion went, has been almost as COM
pletely national in its character as if
representatives in Congress, or even
Presidential electors, were to have been
chosen. On the Republican side great
prominence has been given to the South
ern questions. Although Mr.. Foster was
intimately connected with the earlier ef-
forts of Mr. Hayes to give new complex
ion to the Southern policy of the gov
eminent, neither he nor his friends have
hesitated to occupy the most "stalwarp
ground. In fact, Mr.. Sherman, who is
regarded as the political sponsor of Mr..
Foster, has gone as far as any one could
60 in advocating the views which the
EXTREMIST Republican critics of the Ad-
ministration have advanced, and Mr..
Schurz, who has been the most intelli-
gent of the Presidents advisers in South.
ern matters, gave more temperate and ra-
tional, but not less emphatic support to
the doctrine that the only remedy for
the evils with which the South threatens
the country was decided Republican
sentiment in the North. The magnet
which drew the disafected to the Repub-
lican ticket was the unmistakable firm
ness of the party for equal rights in the
South. Had the Republicans taken the
highest ground on the currency, we be-
lieve they would have succeeded equally
we'll, and their victory would have had
greater value. But the significance of
the victory lies in the evidence which it
affords that the people of Ohio, fairly
representing the people of the North,
are thoroughly aroused as to the tenden.
cy of Democratic rule, and are resolved
to overthrow it wherever it has gained
footing.
From the New York Herald.
This decisive Republican trump is of
national interest. Besides disposing of
several prominent Ohio statesmen, it will
inspire courage and hope in the Repub-
lican party throughout the United States.
Even locally it is of considerable impor-
tance. 1t extinguishes Senator Thur
mans chances of reelection and puts an
end to any lurking aspiration which Ew-
ing may have had to be Thurman's sue
cessor. But these local consequences are
as dust in the balance. The great sig
nifcance of the Ohio election lies in its
influence upon national politics and its
bearing on the selection of candidates
and the success of parties in the great
Presidential contest of next year. 1t
makes it impossible for the Democratic
candidate to he taken from Ohio, and ia
vors Tilden's chances of nomination by
putting some Of his principal rivals out
of the field. But in proportion as it i'm
proves Tilden's chances of nomination it
diminishes his chances and the chances
of any Democratic candidate for an elec-
ton. Tilden is q shrewd calculator, and
it may turn out that he will not covet the
nomination after the smoke has lifted
from the preliminary battles of the pre-
sent year. If New York should follow
the example Of Ohio, Tilden would sim
ply lose his labor by intriguing any fur
ther for the Democratic nomination, and
he may prefer that some other candidate
should lead the forlorn hope. The result
in Ohio tends to Republican success in
New York, and should this be the actual
effect, Tilden may bid long farewell to
Presidential honors.
From, the Ne,u York World.