Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-10-18
THE RESULT In OHIO.
Comments of the Press---What Cover
nor Foster SAYS.

nor Foster Says.
New York Tribune, republican,:
'The Ohio election means that the
presidential contest of next year will
be one of peculiar earnestness. The
great parties present the appearance
of being SO evenly balanced that .
few hard blows may turn the scale
one way or the other. There will be
no tidal wave, unless some existing
cause now unforeseen, arises The re-
publican party will not have an easy
victory. It must prepare fer the
tiercest attack it has ever withstood.
The democrats will be SO much en-,
couraged by showing much better
than any of their own leaders expect
ed that they viii gather up oil their
strength for the struggle OF next
year." M
Philadelphia Press, rep: Though
the result is due wholly to the local
phases of the temperance que stion, 1t
viii not be without political influence.
1t will be misinterpreted by the de-
mocracy, and will give them loose
rein when for their own best press
poets they need to be checked. 1t
will put the. republicans everywhere
on their mettle, and will lead them to
make their strongest nomination and
take their highest stand as they enter
upon the presidential fight"
Philadelphia RECORD, democrat:
''As tho election has tu; ned almost
wholly upon the local prohibition
issue, it can hardly have much iniiu-
ence upon national politics aud the
future of parties except to increase
the decentralization oftho republicans
and strengthen tho hopes of their OPP.
ponents." -@.v......-
The Philadelphia Inquirer, repub-
liean, thinks the deceased democrats
ic majority, compared with last year..
sspayes. the way for au assured repub-
Iican success in 1854. and is, there
fore, sufficiently satisfactory"
The Washington Republican takes
hope from the decreased democratic
majority, and then turns to Virginia,
as follows: '.Last .yoar, amid disaster
and wreck, the Old Dominion was as
the ark after the dclage. Let our
liberal friends there feel that Ohio's
drifting amid the breakers of home.
questions is no indication of what
Sue will do next year. She will then
be out on the ocean of national poil'
tics, where she has always borne her
self like a staunch craft, The repub-
lican part, is in such manifest need
of allies that the firing from within
its lines upon those who are marcir-
ing against its enemies will have to
cease 81 tA@ a
Washington Post, dem +: TO come
out of SO unlueky u canvass, III what
was once SD reliable republican
State, in such splendid shape as tue
Ohio democrats find themselves is to
come out victorious. The result is u
serious disaster to tho republican
party
PROMINENT MEN on THE REsUI T.
Mr.. Murlt Hllstead, of the Cincifl-
natl Commercial Gazette. says:
",Vith democratic Legislature 20
wrostIe with. tho liquor law, aided to
IL Democratic House of Representa-
twas. and Judge Hoadly the foremost
candidate for the presidency, and
man of Just those sparkling qualities
that are unsafe. the republicans will
have a booming prospect in Ohio in
the presidential year.
Mr. John Mclean, of the Cincin~
natl Enquirer, says the result is the
initial perforinsnea of the work OF
throwing the republican party out OF
power in the. United States and
turning over ofthc books to the de-
mocracy for examination. 1t means
general change"
Gov. Foster sail: "fhe returns
this year show that the great bulk OF
the !sermrn republicans have come
back to the fold. If they would
stick this year there is no danger for
the future. Next ye1r we will he free
from prohibition agitation SO far as
we are concerned, and will have only
the national questions to handle. In
such contest have no fsar of Ohio. .