The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-10-14
Comments Of the Press.

NhAhLESION; . u, oct. III he
Neaos and Courier says: Happily the
Democracy is not unused to reverses and
the defeat of Tuesday will spur the party
to redoubled efforts during the next three
weeks in every state in the union. In the
new phase which the presidential struggle
has now assumed we cannot afford to take
any risks, Hancock will be likely to need
every electoral vote that the southern
states can give them. But even if Ohio
and Indiana should vote iu November as
they have voted in October there are
other Northern states which may have as
unpleasant q surprise in store for the
Republicans as Maine gave them last
month.
RICHMOND. Va. OCT. I4.-The State.
evening newspaper. commenting On the
result IN Ohio says: 1t Is neither a sur
prise nor disaster for Us, because we never
had the least hope of carrying the state;
but Indiana. if 1t has gone against us as
claimed bg the latest dispatches, We admit
1t is disappointment and disaster We
confess We did count upon carrying Indi,
ana, and do yet, and as We have not in the
past concealed our belief in its Importance
neither are we now, if it is defeat, we are
disposed to treat lightly it's effect upon the
real issue in Noyember. Yet we by no
means give up the fight, even with Indiana
against Us.
The Daily Dispatch says: The results
of the elections OF Tuesday show that our
misealled Northern brethren are not only
bitter writer's, hbellers and slanderers of
the southern people. but are our enemies.
They would not allow the southern people
to go. Like Pharaoh they hardened their
hearts and forwarded US Unlike him
| they had not yet been overwhelmed in the
Ind
inviOc!ble intolerance still rule the people,
BY the bayouets the states OF the union
were pinned together. They will never
allow US to be their equals outside Of the
union nor within the union. We are
still enemies We offered, in 1872, to
elect the prince of unionists and abo-
| litionists president, and his own
section repudiated him. In 1876 We
elected a distinguished ed New Yorker
president and he was not permitted to
| take his seat. In 1880 we propose TO
elect the most accom- plished officer in the
Federal army to that high Office. and the
people OF the North band themselves to-
gsther as his and our deadly enemies.
More in sorrow than in anger do Wo say
these things. Deeply do we regret it that
we OF The South are TO continue to be
aliens aud strangers in the land of our
fathers. We confidently counted upon
success in Indiana, entertained hopes of
| carrying Ohio, our theory being that both
states would go the same way. The result
rs We haze already said, is evident enough
that the Northern people look upon US of
the South as enemies. They have solidi-
fed the North as an Offset to the solid
South. Let US trust that the wrongs of
the reconstruction days are not to be re-
peated.
LOUISVILLE, Oct. 13.-The Courier
Journal. speaking of the result of the
election 10 ludiRna and Ohio, Gays; Pre-
oleey as the gain ia Maine does not
seem to have helped the Democrats 10 the
West may the gain of Indiana fail to help
the Republicans in the East Moreover
the history of politics. like that of arms,
show many instances of battle losses 10 de-
tails which have been more than recovered
10 the 6nal engagement. lp onr sectional
con hict the Confederates Won more isolated
victories than the Federals. It was when
the resources OF the combatants were
stretched to their fullest tension and the
conbat deepened into fierce and final
struggle all along the lines that force
against force prevailed and numbers
proved decisive. The Democratic party
ho!9s numericai ma iority iu this country
In Ohio and Indiana i, has sim ply exhibited
itself unable to cope with the massed ma
terial which the Republicans we're able to
put in the field. In November the Re
publleaus will have TO contend for twenty
instead OF two states. and thus spread out.
Ii remains to be seen whether they can
hold their own. Our hope is that the
question is sufficiently opeu to Justify
| thoughtful men 10 renewed exertion and
| to make it crime 10 those charged with
| the campaign to relax single nerve.