The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-10-18
The Ohio Victory.
What the Papers Say About 1t.
IN. Y. Tribune.1

resist it. there rises in its resistess might Sol
id North Did we not tell you, men of the
South, that every buckshot aimed at South
ern Republican would cost you Northern
vote? Did we not tell you that every vote
against the honor and the creditof the Union
| would cost the Democratic party vote in
| States where it had none to spare? There is
a Solid North Ohio will be followed by New
| York in November, and by Indiana next year.
1t is an open secret, among those who watch
political events. that the State of Voorhees, has
| changed its population and its opinions even
| more than the State of Thurman For each OF
them there is a political grave, which VIII be
| speedily filed. And the voice OF the Empire
| State will be heard, within the next month,
sending Mr.. Tilden to a resting-place as mar
| row and as sure as the grave prepared for Mr..
| Thurman. The electoral vote of every North
| ern State, great or small, will be cast for the
| candidate of the next Republican PresGentiai
| conventions and the Solid South may stay solid
| if it can.
[Springfeid Re
The recovery of Obi publicans,
| with % 900 majority, is .s4sIcsai result OF
the two great Democratic cbiunders,-first the
extra session and its fruitless revival Of sectional
issues, second, Mr.. Ewings fantastic attempts
to impeach the policy Of resumption, and to
proong the craze for paper money prosperity
| Either of these mistakes must have seriously
| endangered the Democratic canvass, both OF
/ them were enough to swamp IT entirely. lt
| was impossible to make very effective ap-
| neal to the people on such fanciful grievances.
| as the federal election law, and the troops at
| the polls, and it was impossible highly to re-
| spect the political sagacity and personal integ-
rity of man of Ewing's intelligence who
| could open his campaign with a financial posi-
| tion which can only be described as drunk.
IN Y Times.1
| On the Republican side great prominence has
been given to the Southern question. Although
Mr.. Foster was intimately connected with the
earlier efforts OF Mr.. Hayes to give new COM
plexion to the Southern policy of the Govern
ment, neither he nor his friends have hestated
to occupy the most 'stalwart" ground. In
| fact. Mr.. Sherman, who is regarded as the po-
litical sponsor of Mr.. Foster, has gone as far as
any one could go in advocating the views
which the EXTREMIST Republican critics OF the
| Administration have advanced, and Mr.. Schurz
! who has been the most intelligent of the Presi-
dents advisers in the Southern matter, gave
more rational, but not less emphatic, support
| TO the doctrine that the only remedy FOR the
| evils with which the South threatens the coun-
try was decided Republican sentiment in the
North. The Republican party was, therefore,
united, so far as the Southern question went.
There was no detection of either "Administra-
ton" men or ''stalwarts." The result is one
which the gentlemen who have managed the
affairs of the Democratic party and the Legis-
| lative business of the country may well take to
| heart. They chose their own ground with the
| ayowal that it was in order to get in good posi-
ton for the Presidential struggle, and they
| have suffered humiliating defeat. They put
| aside all questions of current politics excel
| those which they raised during the last two
sessions of Congress; they invented the cry
| of "free elections and after desperate con-
test with the Republican minority and the Re
publican President, took their appeal to the
people. The appeal has gone hopelessly
against them With every device that inge-
nuity could suggest, or craft carry out, to per-
suade the people Of Ohio that the real issue
was one, not Of Southern domination, but OF
| Federal interference, civil and military, with
| elections, they have been badly beaten because
they were not believed. In spite OF the credit
| able war record of Gems. Ewing and Rice, in
| spite of the explanations and protestatlons that
| the "dead issues of the war had nothing to do
| with the canvass, a majority has been rolled
up against them which is distinct warning
| that the Democratic party, given over to the
| rule of the South, cannot be trusted. The hol-
low pretense that the liberties OF the people
were in danger from the bayonets OF soldiers
and the iron cages of Federal Supervisors has
|
the people recognized that the only real danger
/ to the suffrage came from the party which tol-
| Grated the murderers of Chisom and Dixon,
which suppressed the Republican vote in the
cotton States, and to the door OF whose candl-
| date for the Presidency was traced the crime,
| hitherto unheard of, of trying to obtain the
Presidential office by the grossest corruption.
philadelphia Press.l
1t may be safely predicted that the ''unat-
| tached" voters in Pennsylvania and New York
seeing the drift of things in the West, will join
the Republican ranks. Men who have very
tie partisan feeling or prejudice are apt to have
a keen scent for the winning side. They natu-
rally gravitate TO the party which is likely to
control the Government and give direction to
public affairs The result in Ohio will start them
| all toward the Republican camp, and most OF
| them will reach it before the November cleo
tions take place. Ohio has not only saved her.
self from the disasters which would follow the
adoption of the idea" to which she has
| given a name, bdt she has strengthened the
| hands of the friends of honest money and equal
rights in Pennsylvania and New. York All
| honor to the sturdy Republicans OF the Buck
! eye State, and to the men who led them TO
victory
This is grand victory, won against the
combined efforts of both hard and soft money
Democrats. 1t means that on purely ma
tional election the Republican party would
carry Ohio by $4,000 majority. 1t means that
| the people of Ohio have considered the ten
denotes of the Democratic party, as exhibited
in Congress, and have decided that it is time
to call halt before turning the Government
over completely to the control of the rebel brig
| adiers and their Northern allies. 1t means
that they are disgusted with party which has
no regard for principles but is willing to sur
render everything in the shape OF principle iof
the chance Of success 1t means that in the 1udg-
ment of the voters of Ohio the United States IS
Nation, and not mere confederacy OF "sov-
ereign States"
| baltimore Gazette]
1t is to be sincerely hoped that the false and
| narrow-minded leaders of the Democratic par
ty, who have marshalled the Democratic hosts
! to ienominious defeat no less than half-dozen
times, have now taken their final lesson.
They have been defeated upon issues which
have been repeatedly rejected at the polls and
if it be at all possible to quicken the appre-
| hension of q fool by braying him in mortar,
| we may believe that the financial quacks have
| at last accumulated wisdom enough to sit down
by the rivers of Babylon and weep when they
remember their follies. When the standard OF
the true faith is raised i'll every State there
will be a chance for political salvation, and
not until then.
The canvass in Ohio involved chiefly the
Southern questions which have been revived
by the asking too much of human nature to
expect that the Republicans should refuse the
Democratic challenge to contest on the very
ground which they would have chosen, and on
which they felt most secure. The effect OF
Tuesdays vote will be to stimulate in the
Republican canvass in this State the discus
sion of these revived questions, largely to the
exclusion of others. We need scarcely say
that we believe that this result is unfortunate
for many reasons. There are new subjects re-
lating to the present ard future business inter
ests Of the State and the Nation, to which par
ties might well turn their attention, agreeing
to put behind them differences which should
long ago have been settled. 1t would be affec-
tation, however, to shut ones eyes to actual
facts; and even Mr.. Curtis and other dissatis-
fled members of his party, who refuse to shout
for the machine or to forget their principles,
will find it harder to make head against the