Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-10-15
County Ticket.
THE OHIO ELECTION.


 Ohio election is the repofted siLs Of
 the Democratic majoritv ThHt the
 State wVuIn go Democratic was not Tor
 moment doubted by the we'll informed,
 but we were hardly prepared for the
 announcement that the State had gone
 Democratic by S5,0Oo majority.
 For the country at large, 1t IS for
 tunste that the causes which have led
 to this Waterloo are purely local,
 otherwise such an apparent Democratic
 gain might have considerable political
 significance. The causes operating to
 produce this disaster are entirely dis
 connected with national politics, and
 grew out of local questions upon which the Republican party pursued very unvise course.
 The principal cause of this political change is the recent legislAtion upon the hquor question. The German ele- ment in Ohio is large and influential political factor, and it has usually acted with the Republican party. It is numerically strong enough to hold the balance of power, snd it has upon previous occasions given the party to | understand that it would not put up with sumptusry laws.
 Outside of the German population l the liquor interest is powerful and an immense amount of capital is invested in the business of manufacturing and l selling it. All this was arrsyed against the Republican party this fall and this is alone sufficient to account for the result.
 There is nothing in the character of this defeat upon which to predicate dis aster in the coming presidential cleo ton. This defeat will prove a whole some lesson to the party to keep such questions outside of politics. A defeat in Ohio has been a quite common thing the of year, but it has never been follow ed by defeat at national election. This disaster has none of the significance which the defeat of 1874 had. Then general depression existed all over the country, The question that produced defeat at that time was common to the whole country. But the elections of 1876 and 1880 shows that when the na- tion is at stake, the country is not yet ready to trust Democracy. The Con a misfortune rather than benefit. If they succeed now in capturing the lower house of Congress, they can be relied upon to abuse the-r privielge and dis gust the country before 1884.
 There is large element in the Re- publican party that acts independently i and objects to the control of the ma ,hine. At the of election, when there ( s little pr nothing at stake the lnde- | usually take occasion to burst I he machine. The independent voter ( considered this his opportu- V lity to punish the machine with the T east damage to the country, or the V 'rinciples which the Republican party a epresent,
 There is not the slightest ground for to fear or Democrats to ' ope that Ohio, or any other Northern U tate, except Delaware and possibly U Jew Jersey, will go Democratic in 1884 . here is no precedent that warrants it nd certainly nothing in the causes of ' lls local defeat, even if it is followed U ' like disasters in New York aud Penn VI the result of local to any such conclusion. i' We do not believe that the country is o' filing to trust the Democracy. It would u 0t do 1t when the country WAS in fnan- sl al distress, when the masses were oI the verge of starvation and the '' emagogue was demanding 8 political n' as remedy for all the ills of 'e e body polite, and ve hardly think it 'i ready to chance change now when o' erything is prosperous financially, or Id the masses are at work and con- CD nted. The Republican party will re- H pear after this trihing defeat strength led and will surely win the campaign II 1884.