Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-02
SIGNIFICANT POINTS.
Can the Republicans Carry Gar7ie,ds States

ON~'e
ICincinnati Enquirer.
Ohio has been regarded as Republican
State. 1t has been Republican State
The Republicans assume that Ohio will be
Republican this year, Let us for moment
examine the grounds for this assumption.
The majority for Hayes in 1876 was but
2,747. His majority over Tilden was but
1916. This was in total vote of 659,771.
What were the conditions then as compared
with the conditions now?
Hayes was an Ohio man. He had the
warm support of the Ohio delegation to the
National convention from the beginning OF
the balloting till he was nominated. There
was no treachery. There were no conspira-
cies against his nomination that left sting
behind. He had the entire and cordial sup
port of his own party in Ohio. He had not
offended and betrayed secretary of the
treasury of the United States, and candidate
for the Presidency of his own party. He
was himself governor, and had not involved
! the governor of the State in any intrigue.
He had stainless record. He had been re-
peatedly before all the people of Ohio as a
| candidate, and his personal or official integ-
rity had never been assailed. He had State
pride in his favor, and a name that after
trials had been SO unassailable as to have
been unassailed. His several candidates.
had given him personal acquaintance in
every corner of Ohio.
Mr.. Tilden was not an originally popular
candidate in Ohio. He had no Ohio friends
in the convention that nominated him. He
was reg arded as 30 weak a candidate in this
State that no effort, practically, was made
by the national Democratic managers to
carry Ohio. To all intents and purposes the
representatives of the national Democratic
party allowed Ohio to go by default. 1t was
under these circumstances, and others al
most equally unfavorable to the Democracy,
that Hayes secured majority over Tilden of
1916.
The conditions are now entirely changed.
Garfield is by no means SO strong in Ohio as
was Hayes. Garfield has never appeared as
a candidate before the people of Ohio. He
has only appeared before the people of one
district. In that district conven-
ton, composed wholly of Republi-
cans, called on him to resign his seat.
Republican resolutions were adopted de-
nouncing his public acts with painful
explicitness. In that district Garfield loosen
ed the Republican majority about eight
thousand votes, and was saved from defeat
for Congress and for every elective office
afterward alone by the fact that there was
Republican majority of eleven thousand in
the district. This is the test of his popu
larity in his own district. General
Garfield was not nominated in
so open and straightforward manner as
was Hayes. He was not nominated without
leaving serious Ohio bitter1.esses behind.
Garfeld's second on the ticket is by no
means popular candidate in Ohio. The
whole ticket has bowed to machine politics
in two letters of acceptance, and this is not
altogether liked by the voters of Ohio.
These are few of the elements of the
situation in Ohio. There is, in addition, the
soldier vote of this State, There are, per-
haps, fifty thousand votes of Union soldiers
in Ohio. There may be seventyzfive
thousand such votes. General Hancock
was one of the four conspicuous COM
manders in the army of the Union. His
brave and splendid services throughout the
war, and at the most critical moment of the
war, can never be forgotten by his fellow
soldiers. The Union soldiers of Ohio will
not forget General Winfield Scott Hancock,
the hero of Gettysburg. Can the Republi-
cans of Ohio gather much hope from this