The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-11-28
The Deluge in Ohis.

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The Deluge, In Ohio
Predictions respecting. the Ohio cleo
ton usually wound up with the state
ment that the result might be sur
prise. 1t is something Of a paradox,
therefore, that what nearly everyone
expected has happened, nand that the
happening thereof is SURPRISE People
expected to be surprised, and they are;
and those who call themselves Re-
publicans are sorely disappointed,
while the Democrats are correspond
ingly elated. Ohio has gone Democratic
by unexpectedly large figures. The
most sanguine Democrat in the State
hardly dared place his expectations at
more than 10000 beyond. the Republic
an vote. The talk OF 3 majority;larger
than that all came from the Republican
side. and was in the form of hints of
| possibilities of the magnitude 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 10000.
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 sanguifie of max
ing gains. They also show that the Re-
publicans lost heavily in the vote in the
Congressional districts. They deIiber-
ately gerry-mandered the State in hopes
of electing fifteen or sixteen of the
twenty-one Representatives. but their
schemes have miscarried disastrously.
The small nominal majorities which
they had erected in some of the districts
were impotent to save weak and unpop-
ular candidates in the face of the cur
over the State. The Republicans would
have done better in the Congressional
districts if the superintendent had been
fairly and honestly made As it is they
dug pit for themselves. and have con-
tributed materially toward iDsuring an
emphatic Democratic majority in the
next House of Representatives.
The wide extent of the Democratic
gains. made as they werein a very large
majority of the counties, Republican as
well as Democratic, shows that some
other influences besides those which af-
fected 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
! syivania and other States, in which its
utter want of conscience, and its de-
pendence upon bulldozing, fraud and
I 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 reck-
less and extravaganza body was not with
out weight; while the infamous cam
paign methods, as evidenced in the
Republican Campaign Text Book"
and in the remorseless raids upon office
holders. contributed to the vote Of GEN.
sure which has been passed by so en-
phatic majority.
Altogether the defeat is the most
significant and overwhelming the Re-
publicans of Ohio have ever received.
IL is positively crushing, and the Re-
publicans will have much difficulty in
recovering from the Decentralization into
which they are thrown. But its effect
will extend beyond the borders of Ohio.
It will give additional impetus to the
grand movement which is carrying Gro
yer Cleveland to the Governorship of
the State of New York; it will help the
Democratic cause in Pennsylvania, and
encourage the Democrats of Indiana.
1t will serve as an inspiration every
where, and not the least in our own State
of Michigan, where the battle against
Republicanism now goes on bravely and
encouragingly. Detroit Free Press.
illustrating the Unborn American