The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-10-23
THE GREAT REPUBLICAN VICTORY
IN OHIO.
From the Chicago Tribune.1

The Importance of the Republican
triumph in Ohio is heightened by two
circumstances that must not be over
looked, viz: Cd The Republican ma
jority is larger than the most sanguine
partisans anticipated, and CO the inn
mense majority of 10000 or $4,000 was
secured under the most adverse condi-
tons and in spite of the most violent
struggle ever made by the Democrats
in that State. The conditions unfayor-
able to large Republican majority in
the State were these: The Democrats
had complete control of the State ma
chinery. They had redistricted the
State in such way as to render
it impossible for the Republicans
to carry the Legislature except
by an overwhelming majority in the
aggregate. They had set up police
boards in all the large cities, which
were appointed by the Governor, and
they had thus complete control of all
the local police. They had turned ev-
cry Republican out of Office, and had
even the matrons and nurses in the
State institutions working for Demo
cratic success. Under such circum-
stances, the sweeping Of the State by
the Republicans, who have rolled up a
majority five or six times as large as
that which Hayes received over Allen
in 1875, and reversed the Democratic
majority of two years ago, when Bish-
op was elected over West by plurality
of 22,500, is a marvellous achievement,
and the philosophy thereof is well
worth studying.
The principal causes of this remark
able victory may be summarized as fol-
lows:
l. The public mind was alarmed at
the ex-rebel encroachments and threats,
and the reassertion of State supremacy.
Ample warning had been given at the
extra session of Congress Of the dam
gerous length to which the ex-Confed-
crates proposed to carry the doctrine
that once led to rebellion and war, and
the leaders of the Democratic party in
Ohio and other Northern States had
manifested the same servility to South
ern dictation that the Northern dough
faces always exhibited before the war.
2. The public mind was outraged by
the ex- Confederate notification of the
constitutional amendments and United
States laws. The blacks have been
cheated, maltreated and prevented
from voting; they have been robbed of
their civil and political rights; they
have been driven from their homes to
escape oppression that has had scarcely
parallel in the days of slavery. The
ruling faction of the South have been
guided by the single aim of gaining and
maintaining political power for section
al purposes. To that end the laws have
been suspended, and fraud, violence
and murder have been encouraged and
condoned. Yazoo and Kemper county
found reaction in Ohio.
3. These two conditions impressed
upon the conservative and patriotic
people of the great central State Of
Ohio the conviction that it would not
be safe to let the political control of the
nation pass into the hands of the unre-
constructed rebels and their Northern
doughface allies. They knew that the
surest way to prevent the consumma-
ton OF the sectional scheme was to
place Ohio so overwhelmingly against
it as to cripple it's champions every
where.
4. There was universal satisfaction
throughout Ohio with the re-establish-
ment of specie payment and it's prac-
teal operation. Everybody recognized
the improvement of the times, the ex-
pansion of real money, the growth Of
confidence and the boom" in indus
trial enterprises. The mills and fur
naces had started up, there was album
dant employment for all who were able
and willing to work, there had been an
advance in wages, and there was a gen.
eral assurance of continuous and in
creased prosperity by adhering to the
consistent, honorable and practical
policy of the Republican party.
5. The fiat lunacy was in a state of
collapse. The delusion OF an inflated
and irredeemable currency has been
dispelled by the actuality Of real, sub
stantial money and plenty of it. The
result of this was that the Republican
Greenbackers quietly returned to their
own party, conscious that they had
erred in their financial theorizing and
unwilling to be used simply to contrib
ute to Democratic partisan success.
6. There was general satisfaction in
Ohio With President Hayes admins
tration, and a general desire to rebuke
the party and men who had harrassed
and abused him. He had stood faith
fully by the rights of the Executive, he
had courageously beaten back the sec
tional assault that was made upon him,
he had championed and protected the
purity OF elections, and he had saved
the national credit, and achieved specie
resumption in spite of the most violent
opposition. It was natural that the
people of Ohio should take special
pride in sustaining and approving his
administration.
7. The Republicans had nominated
GOOD men thrOI1phout tho State tnav