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THE OHIO ELECTION.
THE DEMOCRATS CoScEDE A nEPrBLIcAS
VICTORY

| THE DEMOCRATS CoNCEDE y EEPCBLICAN
| VICTORY.
New YORK, Oct, IA Worlds Cincinnati
| special at midnight says there now remains no
doubt of the election of the republican state
ticket Reports from all parts of the State
show republican gains over last years vote,
which of itself gave the State to the repub-
| licans. The republicans claim the State by
| a majority of $1,000 to 81, 900. Most of the
| democrats concedc the State to the Repub
| licans, but claim the legislature. Hamilton
county, has. however, gone republican and
the margin for the legislature will he small.
Reports from sections where the green
back vote has been the strongest
show that many of those who former
ly voted that ticket returned to their
original party. Business people of the cities
it is learned were unwilling to support
Ewing because of his soft money doctrine.
Large numbers of lifelong democrats refused
to vote for him, many of them even voting
for Foster. There were good many arrests
for Illegal voting to-day but the judge sat
in chambers all day ready to grant habeas
corpus writs and dismiss arrested persons on
bail. There has been less money used
among voters than for many years past.
HANDSOME GAINS PROMISING A HANDSOME RE-
PUBLICAN MAJORITY.
CoLUMBUs, Oct. 15.-1:40 a. H. Returns
from over one-fourth of the state show re-
publican gains of seven thousand five hun
dred and indicate republican majority in
the state of not less than twenty five thOus-
and. The legislature is claimed by both
parties with chances in favor OF the republi-
cans.
WHAT THE NEW YORK PRESS SAYS.
The Tribune says of the Ohio election
This great victory must not be belittled by
assigning it to too narrow causes. 1t is not
the result of Fosters energetic canvass, nor
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 the currents
in the campaign have had their effect no
doubt but the one mighty cause
has been the profound conviction of the peo-
pie that the interests of the country would
not be safe for the next four years in demo
cratic hands. 1t is victory great in itself,
but vastly greater in its far reaching conse-
quences. 1t will give tremendous impet-
us to the republican cause in New York
Three weeks hence the empire state will have
substantially the same issue before it, She
will render substantially the same verdict
The republicans of Ohio have put initiation
and the shotgun democracy to flight
The Sun says, under the heading of '.Con-
solutions in Defeat" The returns from
Ohio indicate the election of Charles Foster,
the money-loving trader, who stayedat home
and kept store during the war, while his
opponent, the brave Gen. Ewing, was risking
his life in fighting the battles of his coun-
try While, however Gen. Ewing was put
forward as the democratic candidate. he was
known as an advocate of sOft-money and
of the oppressive inquisitorial, unconstitu-
tonal income tax. The circumstance that
he held to such unsOund and odious doctrines
goes far to reconcile us to his defeat