Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-16
OHIO'N VERDICT.

victory in 1880.
OHIOS VERDICT.
The result of the Ohio election has proved
surprise to nearly every one, for
1t is safe to say that even the
Republicans who predicted the result
most accurately did not expect but
merely hoped that it would come to pass.
What is that result? 1t is the defeat of two
honorable, patriotic gentlemen and soldiers
who, at the first blast of danger, rushed to
the field of battle and endangered their
lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor
that the Union might be preserved, and the
conspicuous only for his demagoguery, for
his avarice and as a politician of the most
disreputable sort. This man was elected by
the party which, ever since the war, has as
sumed to be possessed of a sincere love for
the soldiers-an all-consuming desire to be-
friend them and elevate them to places of
public trust-and by the soldiers themselves.
Men who, while fighting the battles of their
Foster and his ilk who were in the rear rob-
bine their wives and children, went to the
polls in solid phalanx and cast their ballots
for their oppressor, passing by contempt
uously or denouncing as traitorous the men
who imperilled all and sacrificed much in
the days of the nations sore need. It is a
spectacle that should make the angels weep.
What has the Republican party done In
the past to deserve the endorsement it re-
ceived in Ohio on Tuesday? True, it happen
ed to be in power when the civil war began,
and was forced by the people-the Demo-
cratic people-to prosecute the war against
the shareholders rebellion to a success.
full termination. When the war closed the
grandest opportunity that has ever
been presented to any party was offered it
to emblazon it's name on the brightest pages
of history. But that opportunity was neg
lected, or shamefully misconceived. In"
stead of adopting wise policy of recon-
struction towards the Southern States, which
should bring them back to the Union with
kindly feelings towards their conquerors, the
party first subjected them to the rigors of
military despotism, and afterwards turned
them over as legitimate prey to a few favored
and INSCRIPTIONS partisans, to be robbed of
what little remained from the havoc of war
and to be deprived of all tbs rights of oiti-
zenship.
In other respects than those purely politi-
cal the past history of the Republican party
has been unsavory. The gigantic credit
mobilier frauds, the corruption in the navy
department, the sale of post traderships,
the whisky ring frauds, the reck-
less squandering Of the public
domain for the benefit of monopolies, the
syndicate iniquities aud others too numer,
GUS to mention have all fourished under Re-
publican rule. Each has cost the people
millions upon millions Of dollars, the aggre-
gate OF the robberies perpetrated far exceed
ing the present total of the public debt.
These millions have come out of the pockets
of the poor, and have gone to swell the COT
fers of the rich.
A high protective tariff originated with
and fourished under the domination of this
party. Its effect has been to enable manu-
faoturers to charge an exorbitant price
for inferior goods which the mass of the
people must use, and its tendency has been
to degrade the workingman and elevate the
employer.
Though protesting undying gratitude to
the soldiers who fought for the preservation
of the Union, the party has repeatedly
ignored them and even arrayed itself
against them. 1t tonight the arr arages of
pensions bill, an act of long-delayed
justice, and its leaders used every endeav u
to induce MIR. Hayes to veto it. The Demo-
cratic party was the champion Of that act,
and Gen. Rice its chief promoter. Union
soldiers have been turned out of the treas
ury department by scores, and their places
given to those who wore the gray in the
late war.
Processing to favor a free ballot in all
parts of the country, the Republican party
has perpetrated the most fragrant outrages
upon the liberties of the citizen. Beginning
with intimidation by the military at the
polls it ended in rape of the Presidency,
accomplished by means of the most
audacious corruption and bribery
that is of record in the history
of the world. Men who assisted in that
scheme of iniquity have been elevated to the
chief places of honor in the nation, while
honest soldiers and patriots, capable of fill
ing any Office in the gift of the government,
and entitled to preferment by reason of
their services, have gone begging for bread
This is in part the record of the Republi-
can party which the people of Ohio have ap-
proved. 1t is humiliating to conceive of the
fact that men can be so blind to their own
interests and to the honor and welfare of the
country as to give their endorsement of. so
much iniquity-so many fragrant villainies.
But it has been done, and we must abide the
consequences, no matter what they may be,
"PERSON4L ATTACKS"