The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-10-27
The DeIuge IN Ohio.

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Predictions respecting the Ohio cleo
ton usually wound up with the state
meut that the result. might be n snr-
prise. 1t is something 81 4 paradox
| therefore. that what nearly eyervona
expected has happened, and that the
happening hereof is surprise. People
expected to be surprised. and thew are.
and those who eau themselves Re,
publicans are sore disappointed.
while tile Democrats are correspond
ingly elated. Ohio bag gone Democratic
by unexpectedly laige sgufes. The
most sanguine Denoerat in the State
hardlyAared place his expeefations at
more than 10. 600 beyond TIE Republic
q p EaEs I elsss5li rs e ~; s1ss .;i ssfgss sss
sides and sgas ii the forsa OF hints ne
possibilities of the magnfttade. Of the
Republican victory, not in positive pre-
dictions of the majority by which that
victory would be achieved. When it
came to actual figures the Republicans
were not prepared, any more than DEM
ocrats, to claim more than 10, 600.
The returns, so far as they have been
received at this writing, show that the
Republicans not only lost where they
expected to lose. but lost where they
thought they would hold their own, and
lost where they were sanguine of max
Ing gains. They also show that the Re-
publicans lost heavily in the vote in the
Congressional districts. They deliber-
ately gerry -mandered the State in hopes
of electing fifteen or sixteen of the
twenty-one Representatives but .theiI
schemes have miscarried disastrously-
The small nominal majorities which
they had erected in some of the districts
were impotent to save weak and unpop-
ulas candidates in the face of the cur
rent against Republicanism which swept
over the State. The Republicans would
have done better in the Congressional
districts if the apportionment had been
fairly and honestly made. AS it is they
dug a pit for themselves, and have con-
tributed materially toward insuring an
emphatic Democratic majority in the
next House of Representatives
The wide extent of the Democratic
gains, made as they were in q very large
majority of the counties, Republican as
well as Democratic. shows that some
other influences besides those which af-
feeted the vote in Cincinnati. Cleveland
and other large cities were at work
against the Republican party. No
doubt, the exhibition which that party
has made of itself in New York. Penn
sylvania and other States, in which its
utter want of conscience, and its de-
pendence upon bulldozing, fraud and
forgery were conspicuous features, had
much to do with alternating voters from
Republican candidates No doubt, too,
the record which the first session of the
present Congress has made as a reck-
less and extraYagant body was not with
out weight; while the infamous cam
paign methods. as evidenced in tho
. Republican Campaign Text Book -
and in the remorseless raids upon office
holders. contributed to the vote of cep-
sure which has been passed by so Ell
phatic a majority.
Altogether the defeat is the nsst
and overwhelming the Re
publicans of Ohio have ever received.
Ii IS positively crushing. and the Re-
publicans will have much difficulty in
from the decentralization into
which they are thrown. But its effect |
will extend beyond the borders of Ohio. |
1t will give additional impetus to the |
grand movement which is carving Gro |
yer Cleveland to the Governorship of |
.he State of New York; it will help the |
Democratic cause in Pennsylvania, and |
encourage the Democrats of Indiana.
t will serve as an inspiration every
where, and not the least in our own State
lf Michigan, where the battle against
iepublieanism now goes on bravely and
Detroit Free Press.