The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-10-15

rhe New York Herald, The Great POLL
teal weather Cock, VeerinE 10 the Re
publican Side.
H4ald Of wsinesdIy.
The vote is SO close in both Ohio and In
diana that complete returns will not be at
,siuAbIe for day or two; but the details
At hand show such Republican gains in
18th States asdenote decisive Democratic
lefear. In Ohio Hamilton county, the
Democratic stronghold, has gone Republi'
can. and the Republicans claim apluraltty
of twenty thousand on the State ticke. and
heavy gain in Congressman. indiana
Is in doubt; both parties claim 1t as We go
to press. But it ia apparent that even il
the Democrats carry 1t it will be by no
such majority as the fourteen thousand
they had two years ago.
Tha. is to say, the Democrats are sub
Nantially beaten. II 1t shall turn out that
.hev have elected their Governor by re-
Juced msiority this will be but small com
iOrt Tor Them considering the result in
Ohio. They hoped and looked Tor vote
which should show the other States that
the set Of the tide WAS sgainst the Repnb
licAns. On that they have acknowledged
that their chief expectation Of success de
pended in November. But the set OF the
,ide appears to be against themselves. II
il shall turn out that they have lost 1u'
LLAMA as we'll as Ohio the general, and. We
believe, correct impression, will be thai
his substantially decides the Presidential
contest and makes General Garfield the
next President. The party which carrier
the October States usually increases itk
majority in them in November; and the
Democratic disappointment In Ohio and
Indiana will shake their whole line and
cause desertions OF their allies everywhere,
In 1875 the Republicans carried Ohio 10
October BY 6 IA msiority, and in Novem'
Der nv 1907; the Democrats carried To-
iiana in October by 5,lS9, and in Novem
Der by 5,595.
Yesterdays result is surprise to the
managers Of both pauies, for while the
democrats have within the past week been
very confident, claiming Indiana by from
ten to twenty thousand, with possibility
Of carrying Ohio also, the Republican
managers gave up Indiana for lost, and
we're extremely uneasy about Ohio. Evil
IDENTIFY no politician has yet discovered the
art OF successfully guessing beforehand
what is in the minds OF the voters.
The American voter is a strict consersa'
tive. He holds on to an old horse until he
is sure OF a better one. 1.-THE Democrats
are disappointed they will do well
10 remember, for another time,
that they did not bid high enough.
The Republicans offered little enough
as everybody knows, but they had the
advantage II being in power. The Dem
Gratis offered really nothing except "a
change" and that, itturns out, as the Her.
aid has faithfully warned them, 10 not
sufficient inducement. 1t vii! be said, oil
course, on the Democratic side that the
party in power has very great advantages,
especially when it turns It's office-ho!dert
into jealous electioneering agents. But
the sensible reply is that change In ad.
ministration is 80 easily made by the peo'
pie in this country that they can well al.
'ord TO delay it until they really want II;
and when they do the efforts OF the office
holders areas very many instances have
shown of very little account.
II the Democrats had had "the courage
Of their opinions" and had made their
fight on tariff reform, free ships and the
old Democratic bard money policy, they
might have lost Indiana, but they would
have been stronger in Ohio, and might
have looked to carry Illinois and some
other Northwestern States, where these
questions are in the peoples minds.
The result OF yesterdays elections
makes Democratic union in this city-on
which Democratic success in the State de.
pepds-yery doubtful. In the general
anxiety the Democratic factions here will
look only TO their own security, and the
Republican managers are no less shrewd
now than they have been on previous oc-
cssions to take advantage OF this spirit
among their opponents. We may look,
therefore, for Dew alliance OF one or the
other Democratic faction with the Repub.
licaus, and possibly repetition OF the
unhappy experiences Of Mayor Cooper's
administration.