Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-22

Last weeks EiectiOnss
The complete returns from the elections
in Ohio and Iowa fully confirm our brief
dispatches of last week. In the former state
the Republican majority is in the neighbor
hood of twenty thousand, with q good pre-.
ponderance in both branches of the legisa-
ture; while in Iowa the Republicans have
made an oldfashioned clean sweep
This decisive Republican victory, espe-
cially in Ohio, possesses far more than a To-
cal interest It most eff 'ctually disposes of
Thurman and Ewing as presidential candi-
dates 1t even extinguishes Senator Thur
mans chances of reelection, and puts an
end to any lurking aspiration Mr.. Ewing
may have had to be Mr.. Thurman's sue
cessor. But these local consequences are as
dust in the balance. The great significance
lies in its influence upon national politics,
its bearing on the selection of candi-
dates aud the success of parties in the great
presidential contest of next year. 1t makes
it impossible for the Democratic candidate
to be taken from Ohio, and favors Mr.. Til
denis chances of nomination by putting
some of his principal rivals out of the field.
But in proportion as it improves Mr.. Til
den's chances of nomination it diminishes
his chances and the chances of any Demo-
cratic candidate for an election. If New
York should follow the example of Ohio, Mr..
Tilden would simply lose his labor by in
triguing any further for the Democratic
nomination, and he may prefer that some
other candidate should lead forlorn hope.
The result in Ohio tends to Republican
success in New York, and should this be
the actual effect Mr.. Tilden may bid long
farewell to his presidential hopes.
Another result of the Ohio election is a
death blow to the greenback fallacy. The
state of Ohio has been the pestilential breed
ing ground of financial heresies ever since
questions of debt and currency rose into
prominence after the close of the civil war
From that day to this "the Ohio idea" has
been protruded in national politics, dividing
and demoralizing the Democratic party
carrying it away from its ancient land
marks stultifying its time-honored prin-
ciples and making it butt of soothing and de-
rision not merely to its political opponents
but to all honest men. They who sow the
wind must expect to reap the whirlwind,
and it satisfies the public sense of retribu-
tive justice to see the punishment fall on
the very authors of the fault.
These elections echo in trumpet tones the
public mind and heart throughout the North.
They foretell a mighty aud irresistible up.
rising of the loyal hosts. The patriotic
masses who saved the Union are appalled,
at the spectacle of a solid South marching
forward with determined purpose to OBJ
tain full control of the government. They
see it crushing all liberty and all rights
within its own domain by the bludgeon and
the bullet. They see it repudiating its own
obligations and making hungry raids on the
treasury. They see it striking to cripple
the army aud to break down the safeguards
for an honest balot.box They see the
Democratic party under the absolute sway
of this solid South, and in order to serve
its ends, threatening to starve the govern
meut openly nullifying the laws, entering
upon revolutionary schemes and Plunging
the country into agitation and turmoil.
Aud they answer back through the voice
OF Ohio that they are not ready to let this
government pass into the hands of the con-
federate brigaders aud their Northern allies.