Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-17
REPUBLICAN DESPAIR.

The effect of the Ohio election upon the
Republican politicians at Washington Is
| illustrative of its effect throughout the
country. Before the election the stoutest
proclamations were made that the state
would give Republican majority. Gov.
Foster assured everybody that his man
Foraker would have not less than twenty
thousand majority, and sometimes warm
ed by rosy wine he put his figures at thirty
thousand. "Jay Hawker," the infamous
author of the lie that Judge Hoadley
paid $4,000 to secure the nomina
ton wrote to the New York
Tribune: 81 have been all over the state
and I know Foraker will have fifteen
thousand majority" The Cincinnati Com
mercial- Gazette predicted the election of
the Republican ticket all through the can
vass, and even efter the polls had closed.
Some of these prophets were honest
though mistaken IN their Judgment and
others were dishonest knaves, who knew
better. John Sherman never had any ex
pectation that the Republicans could car
ry the election. He was pressed to stand
as the candidate for governor, but he per-
emptorlly declined. He was appealed to
for speeches during the campaign, but
only spoke four times. He was solicited
to contribute money, but sent only 500.
He exhibited his faith, or tbs want Of 1t, by
his works.
Generally, the result has proven
c,io ArthOr
did not anticipate that Garfeld's state,
which is also the state of Sherman and
Hayes, the men who kicked him out of the
New York custom house, would repudiate
the Republican party and crush his hopes
of the presidential nomination
in 1884. But the blow fell
and his disappointment is
as crushing as his expectations had been
buoyant. Among the Republicans in the
departments at Washington the tidal wave
OF defeat has produced a profound i'm
preston. Their minds dwell upon the
fac. that the disaster occurred when the
vote cast was one of the largest ever
given in the State, and they had
counted on full vote to give
the Republicans victory. A veteran
Republican observer who has been in pub
lie life at Washington for twenty years
sensibly accounts for the result upon the
ground that ''there has been changes
among the voters" He said, at is where
outside questi ons are least exciting that
we suffered most in Ohio. 1t was not the
temperance question il the
cities, but dissatisfaction with
the party and the administration
in the country districts that has defeated
US. The returns show it."
No man of sense will doubt for NC
ment the soundness Of that understanding
OF the result, and the opinion prevailing at
Washington is obtaining through
out the country. A profound
effect from the Ohio defeat
is already discernable in the important
states of New York, Pennsylvania, Massa-
chusetts, New Jersey, yet to vote. In Vir-
ginia the depressing effect has about
crushed out the prospects that Malone and
the Administration had counted on
to carry the state in Novem
Der and put it in line for 1884. When
a state like Ohio pronounces against
Arthur and his Administration, Malone
says he cannot carry them any longer.
The load is too great. The Republican
bosses are in despair. They concede that
the Democrats will carry Ohio next year,
and as Ohio goes, the country will go,
The people have been witnesses of and
sufferers from the extravaganza and cor
ruption of the Republican administration
of public affairs. They want good gov
eminent and purity and efficiency in pub
lie life, and naturally they look
to the Democratic party to provide
those things. Such expectations are just
and reasonable and the country will only
sustain that party which gives the fullest
scope to sueh an end. Patriotic men, ev-
erywhere are joining the ranks against the
Republican party. Now is the time for
Minnesota to assert that her people will
be on the right side and assist in securing
once more government of the people, by
the people and for the people, and not
government maintained for the Office
holders.