Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-10-11
DE. McCLuRE'S DIAGNOSIS.
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Promise OF Future Democratic
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The Democrats yesterday swept Ohio
c!Ccting tho governor and other state off
Gers aud both branches of the Legislature
| Tho victory is no halfway scratch givinl
glittering shadows without substance.
| is a complete Democratic triumph, II,
matter by what causes achieved, rs il
makes all the state officers Democratic
gives the Democrats the first control o
the supreme court, the board of publ,
works and all the boards of state charitabl,
and other institutions they have hat
since the organization Cf the Republican
party in 1855 aud secures the 70 election
OF Pcndloton or some other Democrat t,
| the Senate.
Such are the substantial fruits of the
Democratic success of yesterday. But
there are not only possible but probable
results OF tho victory in the frtu".. snrch
must be even more appalling to the dis
comtted Republican leaders. This is the
first time the Democrats have ever carried
Ohio twice in consecutive contests since
the Republicans won their first victory
with Chase twenty y-cight years ago, and 1t
is the first time that they have won in
Ohio with full vote pOlled. They car
rted Ohio in 1862 in the general Republ-
eau decentralization over the emancipation
proclamation, but Nallandigham was
beaten for governor 100 600 the next year.
They elected Allen governor IN 1873 by a
scratch on very light vote, bat lost all
their other state candidates. In 1874 Ohio
was engulCed in the anti.Grant tide along
with Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, ard
many other Republican states. But 1879
brought her back TO her old Republican
mOOrlng by the election of Hayes as gov
ernOr. In 1877 another light voto and
general Republican decentralization gave
the Democrats the state by default. In
1873 the Republicans regaincd the state
and held it until last year, when it was
again carried by the Democrats, presuma
bly, by the liquor issue, but largely By
Gtay-at-home Republicans.
Tuesday both parties voted, both digni
lied the contest into national Importance
as one of the most vital preliminary bat
ties of lsS4. Tho Republican machinery
and means were extensively employed to
save the state for tho presidential race.
ana what have heretofore been accidents
OF Democratic victory in Ohio now com
mand the respect due n really victorious
party with an apparent lease OF power
limited to good behavior. According to
modern Democratic precodentS, that may
not be regarded rs promise of long con
tinucd Democratic rule in Ohio, but if the
Republicans leaders suppose that Ohio is
a certain or 0yen probable Republican
state tor 1884 they gravely misunderstood
the situation. II looks like the breaking
up of a long Republican winter in the
Buckeye state and only Democratic blund.
ors OF crimes can restore tho lost Republi.
can power. Its organization is visibly
afflicted with dry rot its vitality is gone
It's leadership is weakened by selfshness.
jealousy and senility, and its rallying
power has perished. Tho Republican
paralysis that gave the Democrats victory
Tuesday WAS not clearly visible before tho
election, as It was Obs3urGd by tho greatly
exaggerated liquor issue. But calm
uryey OF the field to day must convince
my Intelligent observer that tho much
cared liquor issue was ono OF the least
important factors in the Republican de |
eat Hamilton utterly failed the Demo
rats and astOnished both sides by the loss |
Il thousands 10 llOldly in the German |
Yards and CuyaLOga falls thousands short
1 what seemed TO b3 warranted Demo
ratio expectations. Tho wine makers of |
ho lake shore present the only material
republican revolt and they arc small
Icment in vote of seven hundred thOu
and.
The two causes which most contributed
, defeat tho Republicans were First,
40 PrOhlbltiOnistS voting for their own
ate ticket, and second, the wool grow
x counties representing the reduced tariff
wool. Strange rs 1t may appear,
lOusRnds Of Republican wool growers
1Led squarcly for the Democrats because
,natOr Sherman aud tho Republican
'ngrossmen from OHIO voted for the re.
lced protection in wool, while Senator
endletOn and tho Democratic congress-.
en- voted against the new tariff, and tho
emocratic gains in tho wool growing
gions startled both parties. In every
ool growing county tho Democrats
lined on their vote of last year, and in | ,
me districts very largely. The Prohibi-
'nists are mainly Republicans and their :
ting for third ticket was an act of !
perlatiVe folly viewed from any com. ,
On sense standpoint but political Prohi. ,
tionists are not amenablo to common ;
nso laws in politics. They believe that ,
tail ia the dog, and If tho Prohibition /,
] cant wag the political dog, they care ,
tlo who or what wins by them throwing :
cir votes away. IL was not tho liquor !
TO of Ohio that elected the proclaimed =
ldidate OF the liquor interest d; il was tho /,
who stultified thom. J.
YES by giving tho liquor men most u
portant victory and tho wool growers a
% deserted the party of protection in 7
10 and voted for party that is largely r
o trade, to resent the encroachment of -
o trade upon the wool interest. 1t has =
IN by such q succession of conflicting :,
rposes and actions that the Republicans -
not only beaten but routed in Ohio
had the Republican party and organi
'lon been vigorous and equal to it's great ,
Movements of tho past it would have
iled the Prohibtionists and the wool
wing Republicans to the party standard O
It has made tho bravest battles 10 re. "
ain the evils of the liquor traffic and to M
intain the protective policy. 1t was Ii,
publican disintegration rather than M
mocratic unity or strength or integrity re
Z made Ohio Democratic yesterday, and in
vas vastly less Of a local contest than M
leaders of both sides havo supposed, pl
The Prohibition amendment is defeated nI
1t has poled an immense vote-a vote M
Z will make the Prohibtonists disinclin. IA
TO take farback pews in tho political dC
gregation hereafter, and q vote that va