The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-10-18
PRESS COMMENTS.
DEMOCRATIC.

From the New York SUM-
One of the singular features of the election
is the different ways in which the prohibition
vote affected the Republicans. The rural
counties, where they pushed the defeated
prohibition amendment strongly, responded
with big majoritics for the amendment, hut
with hardly the average Republican vote
In the cities, where the Republicans were
afraid TO push the amendment, they made
their chief gains from the Democrats.
Yet the beaten Republicans are at u loss to
explain their defeat even In their own satisfac-
ton. Deacon Richard Smith thinks the wool
growers did 1t. Field Marshal Halstead thinks
the wine-growcrs did il. John sherman b.
lieyes Foster did IL: and Foster probably
hasn't recovered from his daZed condition
sufficiently to do anything about ii.
At any rate. II Is done, brethren. and well
done. We imagine that you ill ind that you
all contributed to IL unawares. The people
have simply registered their decree that the
Republican party must 20. That il the
meaning of q Democratic Governor and u
Democratic Legislature in Ohio.
from the Cincinnati Enquirerl
The Democracy of Ohio won significant
victory on Tuesday. They carried the State
for the sixth time since the organization OF
the Republican party, more than twenty-five
years ago. They gained the Governor and
the majority Of the Legislature In the anti
j
the national contest and the hot excitement
growing out of State questions and local con-
tentions tended to bringing out the electors
In force. They oyercame nm enemy which
was under the Gencraship of the hest Rc-
publican politician in Ohio. who was thor
oughly equipped for the contest, ana whose
| political fortunes were at stake. They sur
| vived the fractional differences and the bitter
ness growing out OF u warm fight for the
nomination for Governor. They successfully
resisted the effort To place On them the oppro-
| brium OF opposition 10 what the Republicans
claimed to be the great moral reform u
/ the period. They gallantiy opposed the
| long fortincafion of the Republican
/ party In Office In the State and In the United
States. They went tn the front in spite of
the embarrassincnts sought to be heaped on
them by u pestiierous ring of barnaclcs which
had been ousted from the control Of the
Democratic organization. They opposed
trcachery within and Islander without their
| lines. and achieved victory which every
thoughtful man must look upon as one of
| the guiding elements in the great contest of
| lssa. Ohio Is still the October State, and she
will IRE the FIRST gun i'm the prcsd. MT al year,
| The Democrats now have command or tho
artillery. The scrried ranks OF the Repuhli-
| cans have been broken, and the party intoxi-
| Gated with power has been taught that il in
not inyuinerable in IA State which IL has relied
on as u Gibraltar In every national contest
since its birth. The result OF Tuesday election
means that the books are To b. OVERLAP lied /.
that We are tn have u much needed change in
the administration Of State affairs: that the
| i"opl. have come To understand hollow Re-
publican pretensss: that there is "A tretu,n-
duous sentiment against fanaticism and on
preston af special interest. that there Is
popular desire in this State for u chang. of
party control IN this country. that there is u
| healthy and Mell-organized opposition To an
aristDcratic system I'm the distribution of pub
| lie Offices. that the cisil-ssrsice should be ar
| ranged In the interest Of the people rather
than In the interest OF the Office holding class
| with the responsible party in control In every
| place, major and minor. that Ohio is fighfiag
ground next year, and that preliminary Ia
that contest the people prefer the best of the
two men running for Governor.
| REPUBLICAN.
| from the Chicago Tribunel
1t Is now clear that the defeat OF the Re-
publican ticket I'm Ohio was brought about by
the Prohibitionists. The losses I'm the cities
| in last years election, mainly due To the de-
| lection Of the Germans growing out Of the
| Pond law" and the ..smiih" and anti.
! Sunday law, which were declared uneonstitti-
tionai, were regained for the most part this
year, but unexpected losses were met i'm the
, country districts. The latter were due to TN.
ireachery Of the Prohibiiionists, who voted
some for their separate ticket and others for
the Democratic candidates In exchange for
Democratic votes for the prohibition amend.
mcnt.
The prohibitionists. who had secured tho
submission Of the amendment from a ltepll,-
iicaa Legislature. exhibited their iagratitude