Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-27

No wonder that in view OF this spleu-
did record OF voting power-nOt always
successful, but never diSmaycd-the
Cincinnati Commercial, the leading
journal OF the Ohio Republicans, is forced
10 these admissions:
We are never more impressed with
the wonderful vitality and rugged power
of the Democratic party than N the
DAYS Of its defeat. The surprise is not
in the election OF last Tuesday that the
Democrats, burdened as they were, sui
fered defeat, but that they were able 10
exhibit such strength and resolution.
Surely there never WAS more unklnd-
ness shown a party in preparing it for
combat. The issues were awful, yet
under these ClrCumStanCeS-SuC h that 1t
ought 10 be matter of surprise that
there is Democratic vote 10 each Ohio
tOwnship-the old party comes out as
grim as an army of veterans, and fights
10 the bitter end, in the spirit OF the
soldiers of Russia, OF whom it is said il
is not sufficient to kill them, they must
be knocked down after they are dead.
Nov, we are able 10 rejoice that THIS
surprising host was Observation-Disclosures
a few per cent. i'm prodigiOus vote, and
We know that under the gloom OF their
defeat there may be disappointment
and resentment, but never discourage
ment. On the next occasion they Will
turn out again with full ranks.
Most assuredly they will turn out
again next year with full ranks, and
with the expectation of winning. The
Republican majority on the total vote Is
less than three-QuarterS OF one per cent.
and the plurality over Ewing less than
three per cent.
The annexed extract from an inter
view with Governor-eleCt Foster, at
New York, on Tuesday, is OF interest IN
connection with the official result. Eos
ter is reported as saying:
The total vote was heavier than IN
1876. Nv estimate was $4,000. Ii has
gone over that. The official count will,
/ think. bring it up close to 100000.
Our committees polling lists showed
~, 900 voters i'm the State all told. The
mistake in General Ewing's calculations
was i'm undertaking the aggregate vote
likely TO be cast. When | told him
some time before the election that 60
600 was nv estimate he appeared sur
prised. His own figure was 10000.
Taking that Is basis he was able TO
cipher out his own success by counting
the voters returned by the Democratic
canvassers as certain 10 20 Tor him. He
underestimate the strength of the Re-
publican reserves, which were all
brought out BY our vigorous campaign.
The total vote was about midway be-
tween the calculations OF Ewing and
Foster. The Greenback vote did not
help Ewing 10 any great extent, and the
virtual DISARMAMENT of the party pro-
badly added more votes to Foster than
Ewing, while the latter lost heavily from
the detection OF Democratic hard money
men, who regarded General Ewing rs
the champion of an irredeemable cur
rencv, imitation, and the upsetting OF
specie resumption. This was not Just,
but Ewing lost heavy by it in Cincinnati,
Cleveland and other cities probably
fully as much as the sum of Foster
plurality.
Ewing and Rice, it seems from the
official canvass, got the votes OF about
1000 Nationals who voted for the re-
mainder of the National ticket. That is,
they lead the other candidates on the
Democratic ticket about 1000 votes,
while Piatt, National candidate Tor Gov
ernor. falls below his associates about
that figure. Where the other 10000
National votes went TO, that We're pollcd
in 1873, is only matter of conjecture,
but il looks very much as ii two-thirds
Of them had gone 10 Foster.