National Republican., 1883-10-11
hopeless unconsciousness of your hypocrisy,
which it so perfectly describes.
The Result In ohio.

The Result In OHIO.
Tho most careless as woll rs tho most caro-.
full observer of political forces and results
will sec that the great republican gains in
Ohio over tho 10000 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 tho election in that state has
boon struggle between tho two
great parties into which tho people are
divided on national policies. The
republican party always suffers from the
agitation of moral and emotional questions,
because it has larger stock Of morals and
emotions than its enemy. The people are
greatly stirred on the subject of temperance,
democratic party, as now constituted, being
based on original sin, is but little affected
by divisions as to tho best way to
treat moral evils. 1t unites in favor
of the evils. and allows its enc
mics to contend with each other. There
is II great party everywhere, which has an
unconquerable desire to eradicate all it does
not approve by acts of tho legislature This
desire is bound TO assert itself period
ically, and to have its run. 1t is for
tho most part entertained by very
earnest and sincere people, interspcrsod
here and there with those who have inherited
u rancor against happiness. These gales OF
opinion, and effort at enforcement Of them,
como like cyclones and 30 depart, leav-
ing calm weather and a clearer atmos-
phere. In few weeks the various
state contests, involving only state questions,
will have ended. The November elections
will be the last with which the people are to
be agitated before the presidential struggle.
Then the voters will begin to look earnestly
| 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 numbers into which the republican party
shrinks in these preliminary 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, for
getting all previous party or factional diff
ferences, the opposition to the democratic
party will have to unite or be overwhelmed
in the presidential election.
Last year, amid disaster and wreck, the
Old Dominion was as tho ark after the
deuge. Let our liberal friends there feel
that Ohio's drifting amid the breakers OF
will do next year. She will then be out OH
the ocean of national politics, where
she has always borne herself like
a 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 when sense 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 manifest need of allies that
the firing from within its lines upon those
who are marching against its enemies will
have to cease, and great peoples party
having the republican party for its nucleus,
backbone, and leadership, will commence to
form from this day forward to conquer in
| 1884