New-York tribune., 1879-10-15
AT THE CITY HALL IN COLUMBUS.
IHE EEPURIcANs MIKE THAT BvIDING THEIR
HTADQUARIrKs AND GIVE THEMSELVES TO IHc
ENJOYMENT OF TllE NEWS.

IHE HEPURIICANs MIKE THAT BvIDING THEIR
HrADQU ARIrKs AND GIVE THEMSELVES TO Tnc
ENJOYAfENI OF TuE NEWS.
Try TELEGRAPH To rHE TRiRCNs.l
CoIUNHUs, Ohio. Oct. 11.-Ohio has given the
Confederate Democracy a stunning blow, and ha,
killed the cheap money humbug ald buried IL 50
dep that it may never be Tesurrectcd. The Reuh-
lcan victory is sweeping. glorious and complete.
Nh Fosters majority promises, from the returns
now in to reach % 600. making liberal allowance
for back countrs Democratic precincts. where tne
increased vote may give some Democratic gains,
and for agricultural towns where the changes rot
great. The returns to Legislative candidates
far from being full but The big that has lifted
MI Poster up above any majority. save that of
General Grant in 1872. makes the claim that hoth
srn4te aud House VIII be Republican a safe
AT 1870 this evening Chairman Robinson came
into the Neil House with the first return. IL was
from Zanesyilie and showed q Republican gain of
2J1. Lets 80 over 10 the hall" he said; the
good news has commenced coming" Wild General
Beatty. General Grosvcnor, Wykof, the old COM
nittcc chairman and half dozen newspaper men.
he led the way 10 the City Hall, alreadg nearly
filed with waiting crowd of Republicans.
town UP in tn, Western Reserve reported
gain Of %. Then came Lebanon, I'm the
southern part of the state. with gain of 200.
town in Columbiana County. from off in the east.
the Columbus City precincts. and batch of good
news from various central counties. The tide had
now begun t. flow, and the great crowd which lad
bv O'Clock crowded the hall grew more and more
uproarous with applause one gain after another
was announced.
The handsome gains In Columbus aroused the
most enthusiasm. Some colorcd mcu IA the crowd
were so worked mp Jy this news tha they tell -
huegng each other amid the encouraging shouts of
the crowd
At half-past g twenty-oue precincts showed 500
Republican gain. Then e.. roaring maloritics from
Cleveland came rolling in. Cincinnati reported the
election of all of Ler Republican Legislative caHdi-
dates Bv this time the enthusiasm had reached
such pitch that II seemed impossible for The crowd
10 make any greater NOISE.
Up to this time no Democratic gains had been re-
ported; bnt shortly after O'Clock the Associated
Press returns brought in a few scattering crumbs of
conf 1T for the ID cmocrats who had already began
10 abandon their own headquarters and TO come and
see what all the shouting at the City Hall was
about. The Democratic gains were very lonesome
however. buried they were In mass of dispatches
testifyng 10 the magnitude Of Mr.. Fosters victory.
BY 10 o'clock ninety-fve precincts haa reported =
Republican gain of 2.6Ol Fifteen minutes later
the figures had gone up to 2.97O. A. half-p.st 10
the tally swelled the net gain to $40 At l. the
announcement was 4,160. After TINS few cared 70
listen TO more calculations although Chairman
RobiIsona and MessTs. Donaldson and Nash were hard
AT work with then coats eli and the perspiIatiOn
II nning down eli faces
At the Democratic Headquarters at half
past 10. there was small and solemn
crowd gathered in front of platform
erected at the end of empty store.
None Of the Democratic chiefs were there
Nothing 10 b. seen Of John G. Thompson, who
yesterday claimed everything exutingly, nor of
the smiling aud confident Mckinney. Carson Lake
the secretary of McKinney's committee. was there
opening dispatches. and by his side Chauncy New
ton, of The Cincinnati enquirer. struggling with the
figures to make them appe a little less appalling
Down the street past the door went an army of
jubilant Republicans on their way 10 the railroad
station 10 welcome Charles Foster. Their shouts
finished the buspe at the Democratic headqua,-
ters few minutes later Lake and Newton gath
cred up their papers and departed aud the gas was
turned out
At haIf-past IL the returns showed that the Re-