The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-20
Comments on the Ohio Election.

tell whether the Democrats or Re
puollcans have elected the State ticket
Or Legislature in Ohio, or divided the
h0n0rs between them. Possibly oul
DISPATCHES received too late for edi
toKal continent may throw some
! hght upon what happened Tuesday
Dut. whether they do or not, opinions
O Democrats as to Federal politics
ought not to be influenced the one
way or the other by the returns. Ohio
has been uniformly Republican in
ResldentIal years since the forma-
ton Of the Republican party. She
began with Fremont and continued
50 Tar as Garfield, generally giving
malofitles by tens of thousands. fall
ing hel6w them only in the case OF
] II The Ohio election turned, as
1--WE have before pointed out, upon the
action of the German Republicans
and the Prohibitionists. If Judge
Hoadly be elected it will be due to
German Republicans who voted for
him, and, perhaps, though it now
seems doubtful, of Republican Prohi-
bitionists who supported their own
State ticket. Now, so far as national
politics are concerted, this proves
nothing, and it does not indicate any,
thing of Importance! If Republican
Germans in Ohio chose to aid in the
election of the Democratic State ticket
in 1882 and 1888 it is no sign that they
will help us in October or November
of 1884. On account of the LIQUOR
agitation they voted for us last year,
and have to agreat extent this year !;
but no man can tell whether or not
they so despise the Republican party
as to determine to vote against it un-
der all circumstances. There is not,
therefore, much to be said about
Ohio'S action Tuesday. 1t simply
shows that on account of an issue
which relates to the State alone the
Democratic party is strong just where
the Republicans are weak, and it
leaves the State. so far as the convass
of next year is concerned, doubtful,
with the chances fav6ring the Re-
publicans.
TFfom the New Y0-k Times.1
If the election is comparatively
barren of Significance in regard to ma.
tional politics, it is far from being so
as regards the temperance question,
which, though it has yet appeared
only in the arena of State affairs, has
anational Importance. There
was no possible chance of electing the
Prohibition State ticket or of Pro.
hibition majority in the Legislature.
There was a chance, and a very good
one. of securing prohibition amend
ment to the constitution. Yet the
firmest and most Jealous advocates of
prohibition voted to put the enforce
ment of this amendment into the
hands of its enemies. The State OF
Ohio presents, if the amendment be
carried; the curlodsspectacle of a com.
munity embodying principle in its
fundamental law, while a party op-
posed to that principle is given con-
troll of the State government.
[From the New York Herald.]
The results of the election indicate
that had the contest been waged on
strictly party instead of purely local
issues the Republicans would have
carried the State by handsome ma
jority. 1t does not, therefore, follow
that Tuesdays Democratic victory in
the Buckeye State means Demo.
cratic victory there next year. On
the contrary, the Republicans may
claim, with no little confidence, that
then, as heretofore in Presidential
years, Ohio will be found in the col
unln of Republican States. But the
coming year may bring forth surpris-
ing changes.
LFrom tte New York Tribune. .
IF the Prohibition voters haye put
in Hoadly and Democratic Legisla-
ture, they are in fair way to see
the Scott law repealed, or broken
down, and all the ground lost that
has been gained in this attempt to
regulate the liquor traffic, The read
mess of the Republican party to deal
fairly by the temperance movement
was shown in Iowa, where the party
pledged itself to carry out, if it con-
trolled the legislature, the policy of
the prohibitory constitutional amend
ment which the people adopted last
year, but which the Supreme Court
decided to be invalid, owing to infor-
malities. The Republican party is
to-day, as it has long been, the only
effective political agency for temper,
ance reform.
Take little annoyances out of the