The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-11-07
The Result in Ohio.

The most careless as well as the most
careful observer of political forces and
results will see that the great Republic
an gains in Ohio over the nineteen
thousand Democratic majority of last
year, in the face of confusing counter
currents on the temperance question,
indicate returning health and strength.
There is no pretense that the election in
that State has been a struggle between
the two great parties into which the
people are divided on National policies.
The Republican party always suffers
from the agitation of moral and emo
tional questions, because it has larger
stock of morals and emotions than its
enemy. The people are greatly stirred
upon the subject of temperance. and
that means the Republican people. The
Democratic party, as now constituted,
being based on original sin, is but little
affected by divisions as to the best way
to treat moral evils. 1t unites in favor
of the evils, and allows its enemies to
contend with each other. There is a
great party everywhere, which has
an unconquerable desire to eradi-
cate all it does not approve by
acts of the Legislature. This
desire is bound to assert itself period
most part entertained by very earnest
and sincere people, interspersed here
and there with those who have inherited
a rancor against happiness. These
gales of opinion, and effort at enforce
ment of them. come like cyclones, and
so depart, leaving calm weather and q
clearer atmosphere. In a few weeks
the various State contests, involving
cnly State questions. will have ended.
1ne November elections will be the last
with which the people are to be agitat-
el before the Presidential struggle.
Then the voters will begin to look ear
nest.y for the leadership which is wise
enough To mark out the line of battle on
which they are to form in 1884. The
smaller the number into which the Re-
publican party shrinks in these prelim-
mary contests over side issues the more
apparent it will be to them afterward
that our next battle is TO be fought on
no narrow platform, but that, forgetting
all previous party or factional differ
ences, the opposition to the Democratic
party will have to unite or be over
whelmed in the Presidential election.
Last year, amid disaster and wreck,
the Old Dominion was as the ark after
the deluge. Let our liberal friends
tnere Ieel InaJ OnlO'S uruJln0 anna Vile
breakers OF home questions is no indica-
ton of what she wiz do next year. She
will then be out on he ocean of Nation
al politics, where she has always borne
herself like q staunch craft. knowing
this as we do, we are entirely reconciled
to any of the temporary set backs to
which in State elections she is subject,
because we know that faction Is more
certain to be hushed whcn ense is
needed. and that the Bourbon King can
never be crowned again when all his
foes are united against him. In short,
the Republican party is in such mani
fest need of allies that the firing from
within its lines upon those who are
marching against its enemies will have
to cease, and a great peoples party,
having the Republican party for its
nucleus, backbone and leadership, will
commence 10 form from this day for
ward to conquer in 18S4.-Nationd Re
publican.