Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-10-19

THE New York Tribune, in explain
ing "The Real Trouble in Ohio" says
the temperance question undoubtedly
had great effect, but it cannot be held
responsible for revolt of such proper
tions as is indicated by the overwhelm
ing Democratic success. "The cause.
lies deeper than that, and has wider
application. Thousands of Republican
voters did not go to the polls. On the
Western Reserve, the stronghold of Re
publican faith and purpose, there was
an unpi ecsdented falling off in the Re-
publican vote. That tells the story.
The State of Garfield has refused to rex
ert itself, in an off year, to sustain',the
course of the Administrator which has
devoted itself chiefly to undoing the
/ work that Garfield began, and whose
chief supporters have busted themselves
mostly in slandering Garfield's memory"
The Tribune concludes some very plain
speaking on the subject by saying
This IS the first answer to the effort to
reinstate the machine in power above
the people, and it is SO plain that even
the Administration ought to be able to
understand it. The Administration
must be with the, party, or against it. 1t
will not be allowed to stand above it as
dictator. At the present rate of pro-
gress it will soon be an Administration
without party. il %
The Times says the party catastrophe
in Ohio "is not to be ACCOUNTED for by
the liquor issue. Causes of discomfort
and dissatisfaction have evidently been
undermining the Republican sentiment
of the State and producing apathy among
the people. The extravaganza and reck-
lessness of Congress, the indifference of
nominating conventions to questions of
reform and the abuses demanding rem
.edy, and the petty quarrels and c0nten
tions which resulted in mediocre nomi-
nations have evidently added a sullen
apathy to the decentralization produced
by lheliquor agitation. Republican pol
iticians seem destined toa rude awaken.
ing to the fact that they have been tax.
ing too little account lately of the real
convictions and: sentiments of those
upon whom the. party depends for, its
strength" ~. ..a- -3s..it ss.s;isas
Turning to Pennsylvania we find the
Philadelphia Press, which supports the
Regular" Republican ticket in /, ths
same way that its New York Republi-
can contemporaries support that made
at Saratoga, says '.tl:e most significant
feature of the election was the apathy
of the Republican interior districts. Th,
Republicans lose in the staunch an(
ever faithful Western Reserve as wei
as in the more capricious. cities. Thi:
detection cannot be explained by tn,
: temperance issue. The farmers of Ash
: tabula did not swell the Democratic
, vote like the Germans OF Cincinnati an,
/ Cleveland, but simply staid at home
They had no interest in resisting TEN
perance legislation, but every interes
: en- the other side. Their indifference
and refusal to vote can only be intelli
gently explained by their discontea
with the change at Washington. 1t wa
: their way of indicating their dissatisfac
ton with the influences which rule tn
> councils of the Administration. The
would not renounce their Republican
ism; they would not, on the other hant
G pass vote of confidence which they
; not feel; and so they remained ava
from the ballot box" The disaffectio
on the temperance question, it is admit
ted, played its part in the great Ger
0 ters of population but all through th
!. State where the people watch and thini
f the deep feeling of dissatisfaction wit
the accidental revolution which is
: change not merely in name butin spiri
+ has proved an equally potent cause .
r Republican defeat. There is no use i
q blinking the fact. 1t is. the, plain trut
;, and it may as we'll be recognized.
The Philadelphia Times, Independen
: Democrat, SAYS the. vote of Tuesday 81
e the answer of the Garfield Republican
( to the tannting pretensions of the me
] who have sought to wipe out not Onl
D his memery, but the principles wit
D which his name had become identified.
: Democrats will regard this as a; grea
{ party victory, in which they will natu
r rally rejoice. But" says the Times
S ''sineere Republicans will not regard i
t as party defeat. { They will see in i
: rather the revolt against machine domi
] natien, a arebuke to. the pIetensions O
accidental power and promise of TIN
time when the people shall regain
J the control of their own G0vernmen
+. and parties become again subservient q
| bpublic ends and not to personal advance
! Ement. This is the meaning of Repub
lican Ohio's Democratic majority"
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