Daily Kennebec journal., 1879-10-18
Daily Gsnnsbet suurnal.
Augusta, Saturday Morning Oct. lS, 1879.
Completeness of the Ohio Victory.

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The completeness of the Ohio victory is
now beyond the least doubt. All uncer-
taintv about the Legislature has been dis
PEELED by the latest returns. Fosters
majority has sunk "A little below the fig
ures first reported, but the Legislature Is
more strongly republican than the returns
indicated or than the republicans have
ever estimated The House has ii mem
bers; OF these the republicans have elect
ed 10, which gives them majority IN
that branch of 20. The Senate consists OF
81 members; the republicans have - IN
that branch. a majority of I. On Joint
ballot the republicans have majority OF
33. In the last Legislature the democrats
had a majority on joint ballot of A. So
confident were the democrats that they
had the legislature fixed beyond the pos
sibilty of failure to elect democratic ma
jority, that they have all along ridiculed
the idea that the republicans could gain
control of it.
A correspondent of the New York Times
writing from Cleveland, says: 1.-The
Legislature is securely republican.
and the election of Gen. Garfield to the
United States Senate is as certain as any
thing in the future can be. The republi-
can gains have been legitimate and uni
form throughout the State, but most no.
ticeable in the mining and manufacturing
districts. The votes which give Mr.. Fos-
ter his large majority have been cast MAIN
ly by miners, railroad employees, and oper-
atives in the various departments of iron
manufacture Some of these men have
hitherto been greenbackers, and few Of
them have been democrats. Men who
have voted the democratic ticket steadily
since the war have this year supported the
republican candidates, through convic-
ton that in SO doing they were voting for
peace, prosperity, and integrity in nation
al affairs. In many ofthe mining and iron
districts wages have recently been paid in
gold, and with that the last muir
has been lulled. As a consequence the
greenback party of Ohio has been ami
hilated. 1t is now only the unhappy ghost
of political power. In this county [Cuy-
ahogal which east last year 5,743 votes
for the national candidate, there remain
only S58 adhcrents of the fiat delusion.
Even in Toledo, the part of Ohio most dis
turbed by the greenback influence. the re-
publicans have given Foster majority,
and elected their entire county and Leg
islative ticket. No republican could have
reasonably expected victory so substan-
tial and complete
The republican victory is admitted by
the editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer, the
leading democratic paper of the State, in
a dispatch which concludes as follows:
.sThe victory in Hamilton county for the
republicans is overwhelming. Shermans
great wealth, insane democratic legislation,
and disgraceful mismanagement on the part
of the democrats has turned Ohio into
State of the most stalwart character. 1t is
hardly necessary to say that the Ohio demo-
Gratis will not henceforth look to S. Jones
Tilden.'
Ohio is all right. The victory is COM
plete. Now for Massachusetts and New
York. After the republican victories of
the year thus far. they ought to come
along in November with the greatest victo-
ries of all.