The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-07
philadelphia Press.l
The National Uprising.

The great Republican awakening in Ohio is
suggestive of the uprising of the intelligent,
patriotic and conservative classes all over the
country. In Ohio the Republicans, up to with
in very recent period, apprehended no dan
ger TO their well established supremacy They
knew that they have an honest majority of sew.
eral thousands ON q full vote, free ballot and
a fair count. They knew the popularity of the
Republican candidate for President in his own
State. They remembered the unbroken loyal
ty of Ohio to the cause of Republicanism in
Presidential years. and all the signs indicated
that the Democrats were preparing to acqui-
esce in the quadrennial defeat to which they
have regularly submitted ever since Fremont,
the first Republican candidate for President,
carried the State in 1856. The opposition, to
all appearances, was not even making its ordi-
nary contest. Even the irrepressible John G.
Thompson, whose claims of victory have been
the indexes to Republican majorities in previ-
ons years, was silent. 1t looked as il the De-
mocracy had abandoned the field, and had con-
centrated all their efforts to hold their own in
the State of Indiana, which gave Democratic
majority OF 5000 at the October election of
1876.
All this time, however, the party whose
methods are fraud and bribery, which is con-
Quoting this campaign on the basis of ''cash,"
and making converts to Democracy by buying
them, was insidiously at work in the State.
The ''still hunt" was being prosecuted with
more stealth and cunning than were ever be-
fore displayed in the history of political sneak
thievery, and every preparation had been
made to join the great loyal State which
spurned the Confederate sympathizer, Vallan-
digham, by hundred thousand majority, to
the solid-South column, when suddenly the
conspiracy was discovered.
The warning came not a moment too soon,
but it came in time. The Great Western Re-
serve the home of Giddings and Wade and
Garfeld-has been reused TO a fever heat of
enthusiasm by the speeches of Grant, Conk-
ling and Logan. In the central counties of
the State, at GAINESVILLE and Columbus, and
elsewhere the magnetic Blaine is now speak
ing to immense audiences, while in Cincinnati
and Hamilton County the party has been put
thoroughly on its guard against the contem-
is perfecting its organization
What has happened in Ohio is happening all
over the country. The intelligent and moral
elements OF the community are, everywhere
alarmed at the 'still hunt" and the fraud,
forgery and theft of the ballot which it implies
The whole country revolts at the nationaliZa-
;ion OF the practices of Tweed and Tammany
which were sanctioned by Tilden as Chairman
of the Democratic Committee of New York
first practiced on a general scale by; the Demo
cratic National Committee in 1876 The pat
riotism of the nation is indignant at the as
sumption OF the solid South, with its millions
of rebel claims, to dictate a President of I'm
ion 1t sought to destroy-at a canvass waged by
the ieutenants of Lee and jackson for the
principles Tor which they fought Business
men stand aghast at the consequences OF ths
success of party with no fixed financial poll
oy. Manufacturers and workingmen are fear
ful CT the effect to their capital and their Ia
Dor of tariff for revenue only" which must
inevitably destroy our industrial system. And,