The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-11-10
From the Springfield Transcript.
Some Interesting Figures of the
recent Ohio Election.

Some Interesting Figures of the
ece Ohio Election.
Democratic success in Ohio, as
every one conversant with the poll
tics of the State is aware, is contin,
gent upon Indifference or ~disaffection
on the part of the Republicans, and
is possible under no other circum-
stances. In other words, the State
is uniformly Republican on o full
vote. The Republican vote in the
most recent of the "off years" was
249,105 for West in 1877, and 274,l2O
for Barnes in 1878. The present
was regarded as an "off year. until
the tragedy at Washington took it
out of that category. The shot fired
by Guiteau was not only "a shot
heard round the world" but it vas
also a shot which in an instant
changed the whole aspect of the po-
litical situation in Ohio, and trans
formed q probable result into an i'm
possible one. The largest vote cast
on the Democratic side was 288,32S
for Mr.. Bookwalter for Governor,
and as against the usual light Re-
publican vote of an "of year," would
have elected him by a handsome
majority. But an intensified Repub-
lican sentiment, born not of political
reasons, but of a natural human
sympathy, brought the vote for Gov
ernor Foster-the. smallest on the
Republican side-up TO 3l2,735. In
short, it was not so much Governor
Foster as a deceased Ohio President,
the idol of his State and the victim
Of a cruel murder, by whom Mr..
Bookwalter unexpectedly found him
self antagonized. 1t must be sur
prising to every one, not excepting
Mr.. Bookwalter himself, that the re-
suit was not even more decisive and
overwhelming.
The inclination in some quarters
to cast upon the Democratic candi-
date for Governor the blame of the
defeat is not at all supported by the
figures of the election, which are now
fully before u.s. Aside from the fact
that defeat under the circumstances
was inevitable, it further appears
that in no previous election vas the
head of the Democratic ticket so
manifestly and uniformly its strong
est point. This is true, whether it
be measured against the other can
didates on the State ticket or the
Legislative nominees in the several
counties. The total vote for MIR.
Bookwalter is 60 more than for John
son, LOTS more than for Bingham,
S5S more than for Daugherty, 1,737
more than for Winslow, and 683 more
than for Grove. These were his as
sociates on the State. ticket. The
aggregate majority against the Dem
ocratic candidates for Representa-
tive in the SO counties of the State
was 25,115; against the Democratic
Senatorial candidates, 24,371; a
gainst Mr.. Bookwalter, 24,309, his
lead on the former being SOC, and
on the latter 90. Outside of Hamll-
ton county (where the declaration Of
the liquor interest in favor of Gov.
Foster considerably decreased Mr..
Bookwalter's vote) this disparity is
still more striking. In the entire
State, excluding Hamilton county,
the majority against the Democratic
nominees for Representative is l,S46,
and against the Democratic nomi-
nees for Senator 1856, more than
against the Democratic candi date for
Governor.
In many single instances, Mr..
Bookwalter's lead of the local ticket
was something extraordinary. The
Democratic counties of Ottawa, Vim
ton, Tuscarawas, Defiance and Knox
all elected Republican representa-
tives; but Mr.. Bookwalter carried
them all-Ottawa by 972 majority,
Vinton by 260, Tuscarawas by 507,
and Knox by II. Madison county,
which is always close, elected a Re-
publican representative, but gave
MI. Bookwalter ITO majority. He
ran, as compared with the nominee
of his party for Senator, 166 ahead
in Defiance county, 1876 in Wayne,
298 in Henry, 800 in Lucas, 143 in
Darke, 142 in Hooking and from 25
to 100 in a dozen other counties. AS
compared with the nominees for
Representative, he ran 408 ahead in
Tuscarawas county, 300 in Knox,
219 in Fairfield, 245 in Butler, 271
in Defiance, 129 in Licking, 119 in
Wayne, sill in Ottawa, where he
had 976 majority, while the Demo
cratic Representative was beaten by
SO votes, 1913 in Seneca, 133 in Mer-
Ger, and so on, in varying degree,
through half the counties in the
State.
The largest gain made by either
party in any county in the State was
by Mr.. Bookwalter in his own county
of Clark-1131. In the adjoining
county of Greene his gain was $50,
in Champaign 1859, in Miami 100, in
Madison S3-a total Democratic gain
of about 1000 voters in the neighbor
hood of his own home, where he is
Familiarity known. As this is an anal,
ysis Of personal strength, it is per
tinent to remark that Gov. Fosters
own county of Seneca did not stand
by him in this fashion, but also
shows a Democratic gain of 215.
The figures tell a plain story, and
furnish their own comment. 1t ap.
pears that in every part of the field
or phase of the contest, Mr.. Book.
walter has proved to be stronger than
his party. But for his energetic lead.
ership, which in many cases over.
came the disadvantage of an unpop.
ular local ticket, the adverse MAORI.
ty in the State would have been many
thousands larger than it is. Had, he
received no more votes than Gov.
Bishop in 1877 (271, 925) he would
have been beaten by Al, 900 majority.
Had his vote haen no larper hon