Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-10-30


\ lily was growing beside the hedge
Beautiful, tall and white,
And il shone through the glossy leaves Of green
Like an angel clothed in light;
Aud it said to me, as il waved its head
On the breezes soft and free:
I'm only a ltly-a useless flower
But the Master cares for me-
Then it seemed that the hand of the loving Lord
Over my head was laid,
And He said to me, 30, faithless child,
Wherefore art thou dismayed2
clothe the lilies. I feed the birds.
Isee the sparrows fall;
Nothing escapes my watchful eye,
My kindness is over all
MRS. MATILDA c. EDWARDS.
Republican Impulse.
y. Y. Post.
The Republicans have done better than
/ they expected to do in Ohio. The cleo
| ton of Mr.. Foster and the whole State
ticket by a large majority is secured, and
! the Legislature is Republican in both
! branches. so that the election of RPpub-
| IiPan successor to Mr.. Thurman in the
! United States Senate is guaranteed.
The Democrats ought not to be sur
prised at this result. In the first plat
| they held fast to their financial heresies
] in defiance of the returning reason of the
| country. They put at the head of their
| ticket the very man who was committed
perhaps more hopelessly than any other
member of their party to these heresies-
a man who had predicted dire ca1amities
as the result of the restoration of a sound
| currency, vet, wherever he went. was
obliged to confront the unmistakable
| signs of reViving prosperity and cOnse-
quently to stand up under the ieers and
| laughter which always overt axe a deluded
and discounted prophet, whose dishonOr
is naturally greater in such circumstances
in his own country than elsewhere.
In the next place, the blundeTs of the
extra session of Congress were a load too
heavy for party stronger than the Demo-
cratic party is in Ohio to bear. Instead
of retreating from clearly mistaken posi-
ton, and so avoiding at least in part re-
sDOnsibility for the performances of the
Congressional majority, the Democrats
boldly challenged criticism on the score.
They approved the proceedings at Wash
ington which had half alarmed and half
disgusted the country. They promoted
the revival of sectional controversy in
the Ohio canvass, and from every plat
form in the State repeated and emphasized
the wild nonsense and worse which their
leaders had delivered in the Senate and
the House of Representatives Is it Won
derfuI that the voters of Ohio doubted
! not only that the administration of the
government should be turned over to the
hands of men who were managing Demo-
cratic affairs in the State, but that these
men were competent to organize a ma
tional party upon sure foundation or to
direct it in the promising path OF success
r EFLessOns' will be drawn abuntantly
from Ohio's election. We see that a
Democratic city contemporary has begun
already TO draw them with desperate de-
termination. What these lessons teach Is
obvious enough The trouble, however
\ is not with them but with the learners
The lessons were just as plain and impress
sive years ago as they are now, but they
seem to have been Intellectual. If the
/ Democrats should be sent for an in.
definitely prolonged term into opposition
| they may thank their own unGeachable-
ness for their exclusion. By and by, wher
recent events come to be calmly reviewed
it will seem almost incredible that OppOr
tunities could be so wasted, popular inYi
tations could be so rejected, as they hayt
| been by the statesmen of the Democratic
party. A steady advance upon the strong
holds of Republican power had brOugh
p them at last where, for the first time il
nearly twenty years, they controlled boil
branches of Congress. The most ordinary
prudential considerations showed then
how they ought to act in these promising
circumstances. Their obvious aim wa
to hold fast to what they had got and t.
get more; to avoid scrupulously repellin!
the voters who had trusted them and t.
cOnciliate the voters who still doubted
If ever party leaders were admOnishe
G, to act dispassionately, moderately, eau
- tiOusly, the Democrats were so admOn
ished as they gathered strength in til
long unfamiliar places of the federal LEG
islature. How they really have acted W
knOW-and evidently the people have
L fresh recollection of the facts. Th
Democratic statesmen-at least those c
them who were able to influence til
largest number of vOtes-signalized thei
return to power by a sturdy resistance
the measures which have brought some
thing like order out of financial ChaO
= While they were asking the country
trust them to lead it back to prosperity
the only way to prosperity was Opene
Notwithstanding their obstructive acti7
ity. Although the Republicans had lo
many thousands of votes because of the
real or supposed sectional attitude an
although the Republicans had been con
PEELED by public opinion to give up I'll
discussion of questions belonging to I'll
time of the war, the Democratic state
men actually reopened the discussion
Nd furnished their adveTsaries with banne
pc and legends worth far more than I'll
E'blOody shirt'' colors which had almO
ceased to wave land set the Republican
umn in motion again to the martial mus
which had nearly died away. Is it like
OF that so duh scholars will suddenly becon
apt pupils in the study of Ohio lesson
. 1t is of course idle for even our Dem
cratic friends to affect to deny that t
result in Ohio will give an impulse to t
Republican canvass everywhere. We a
sorry that the platform on which Mr.. F.
ter has been elected was not more distir
in its declaration in favor of q curren
that shall be permanently sound. But
Republican financial position in Ohio Il
elsewhere is so far in advance of t
l. Democratic position that the effect of 1
rAs vote is favorable to honest money, esl
PiallV the nominal (LVnnnho0lyarc
Ohio show great falling off in numbe
But the canvass in that state invoiN
rs chiefly the southern question which
been revived by the dOings of the
ira session of Congress. 1t would be a
ing too much of human nature to exp
ont. that the Republicans should refuse
ut Democratic challenge to a contest on
- very ground which they would HI
4 chosen, and on which they felt most
II cure. The effect of OhiO's vote will b
- stimulate in the Republican canvass
II this State the discussion of these revi
II questions, largely to the exclusion of {
H ers. We need scarcely say that we bell
that this result is unfortunate, for M
II reasons. There are new subjects, relat
II to the present and future business in
Il erests of the State and the nation
| which parties might we'll turn their
- tentiOn, agreeing to put behind them
tt ferences which should long ago have
u settled.
It would be affectation, however
shut ones eyes to actual facts. The
fashioned Republican impulse is on
these facts; and even Mr.. Curtis
other dissatisfied members of his pa
who refuse to shout for the machine
OAA forget their principles, will find it ha
-.e to make head against the momentu
the Republican mass than they w
have found it any other time in the
six years.