The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-10-12
THE RESULT IN OHIO.

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The great state of Ohio has again gon'
democratic. after one OF the hottest cam
paigns that has occurred there tor many
years. Ii went democratic, since 1886, il
1862, 1878, 1874 and 1877, but during al
these years since the rebellion it has beer
regarded as a republican state, and must b.
so regarded still, indeed, notwithstanding
the present brilliant victory of the demo
Gratis. In 1880 fifteen out of the twenty dis
trcts elected republicans TO congress, anc
last year GOVERNOR FOSTER republican
carried the state by majority over the
democratic candidate of 2i,309, and oyel
the combined opposition by l,2ii, Oul
dispatches this morning show that
the democratic majority in the state will
reach nearly 5000 or more, and that the
democrats have carried u majority OF the
congressional districts. This is a square
turn around, and such u change indicates u
wonderful revolution OF opinion from some
cause. Primarily and chiefly the result must
be attributed to the stand taken by the two
parties on the temperance question The
republicans were Championing prohibition
and their opponents We're advocating the
personal freedom Of every man in matters
of diet and drink The verdict Of Ohio may
be taken as a set-olr in this matter to the
recent vote OF Iowa on the same question,
and is powerful rebuko to those who
would rc-enact in this day and time the
sumptuary laws of past age. It
is n great blow struck in behalf of
the cause OF the liberty of individual
choice in matters not properly
belonging to the functions and prerogatives
of government. The heavy German and
foreign vote generally in Ohio was cast for
the candidates OF the democracy, and the
agitation of this question practically set
tied the result. Thousands of the so, 600
who so changed the result this year from
this cause may reasonably be expected to
remain in the democratic ranks, but the
state will only be the closer hereafter, and
create greater excitement in presidential
elections. In some of the districts indeed
other questions controlled, notably in the
10th, where the issue OF tariff or free trade
was squarely made by FRANK HuRD,
the eminent and wcll-known free
trader, who is again returned.to congress
In Cincinnati too, BurrEEwogTH was de-
feated, partly on the liquor.question and no
doubt largely by the loss of caste, which he
sustained in the last session of congress.
Otherwise the republican defeat was occa-
stoned mainly by its advocacy OF prohibi-
ton and no calculations for the future can
be safely INDUCED at this time. Nationally
the election must have great effect, as it has
itself contributed largely of democratic
for the next national house OF
representatives, where now the republ-
can majority is very small, and
WILL no doubt, expert decided
influence on the elections in
New York, Pennsylvania and Indiana. In
fact, it may now safely and nationally DO
predicted that the next congress will be
largely democratic. 1t is, therefore, from
cause and in whatever light taken,
a great democratic victory, whether as re-
CARDS the triumph of thcprinciples and is
sues at stake, or the large maiorities cast
therefor, and cannot but have a powerful
hand in destroying shortly, throughout
the Union, the ill.advised and iliberal,
despotic and absurd, corrupt and shame.
less efforts OF TIE republican party
to laston upon the country for longer pc
riod their sumptuary, protective, unconsti-
tutional and ccntralaing statutes and
1t cannot but operate as both a
useful lesson and a pronounced warning to
those theorists and fanatics who would leg
islate Tor the few as against the many and
drive the masses into the pet and circum.
scribed morality and temperance of certain
sects and classes by denying to men the
rights of the fullest enjoyment OF the lib.
erty of individual conscience in matters ex.
clusiyely pertaining to conscience.