New-York tribune., 1879-10-15
NOU FOR NJ " YORK !

The Republicans of Ohio have won a
splendid victory, surprising the expectations
of their most sangune friends. and recalling,
by the spirit of the contest and the size OF
tie majority, the magnificent battle in which
Nalandigham was routed. Mr.. Foster is
elected Governor by plurality over Ewing,
which is estimated at over 10000 votes. The
Legislature is considered as surely Republican.
Cincinnati, the great fighting-ground of the
State, has gone Republican by a handsome
majority and there are great gains In Cleve-
land and Columbus. The first returns are
necessarily incomplete. but enough is known
to settle the politics Of 1879. General
Ewing drops like shot from his proud
position as a possible Presidential candidate
to the place of rather uninfuential Con-
gresham. Mr.. Thurman's extinction Is COM
plete. He is cut off both from reelection to
the Senate and from a nomination to the
Presidency. His downfall is. In one sense
pitiable, for the whole country is looking at
it, Ohio is enrolled among tho surely Repub-
lican States in 1880. The Solid North is be-
ginning to loom up before the Solid South.
This great victory must not be belittlcd 10y
assigning it to too narrow causes III Is not
the result of Mr.. Fosters energetic canvass,
nor of the labors of any one man, however
able and sincere 1t is not the result OF the
Sherman boom, nor of the Grant boom,
nor of the Blaine boom, nor OF the
HAYES BOOM All these currents III the
campaign have had their effect, no doubt,
but the one mighty cause has been the pro-
found conviction of the people that the inter
eSts of the country would not he safe for the
next four years in Democratic hands. They
were forced to this conclusion when they saw.
on the one hand, the tendency of the control
ling element in the Democratic party toward
soft money, initiation and reputation theories ;
and confronted. on the other, the aggressive i'll
science of the Solid South. The people of Ohio
realized, perhaps for the first time, how little
aid the South needed from its Northern allies
TO conquer the country, and how near we
were to the rule of a party which has repu-
dated $500, 600. .O00 of debts, which made
the chief of inhatonists its leader in this
very campaign, which has virtually abol-
ished the ballot in mt least SIX States
and murders even women and children for the
crime of Rcpublicanism If Ohio voters have
been repealed from the Democratic party by
the sense of danger both TO the stability of
the finances and to the political liberty OF
millions of the citizens of the South, they
have been Mt the same time drawn toward
the Republican party by powerful influences.
Resumption was Republican achievement.
The revival of business was known to
be the result of the Republican financial
policy The whole country was aroused, and
the old war feeling famed out again in re-
sentiment at the course of the Confederate
Brigadiers in Congress. The vetOes of Presi-
dent Hayes and his recent speeches, helped.
The innate love of the people for pnbic hon
esty helped. The American dislike to seeing
a man shot for his political opinions helped.
Many things worked together, aud the result
is splendid triumph for the right.
1t is a victory great in itself, but vastly
greater in its far-reaching consequences. Ii
will give tremendous impetus to the Republic
can cause in York. Three weeks hence
the Empire State will have substantially the
same issue before it. She will render sub
stantially the same verdict. Let every Republi-
can do his best in the time that remains. The
Republicans of Ohio have put the initiation
and shotgun Democracy to flight. Now let
the men of New-York rise in their might, and
smite them hip and thgh