Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-10-14
Ohio and West ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
This dag ,.is hir with the fate Of CKSAr

Onio ana WeSt suS1ua- WI huAlo'
This day "is big with the fate Of CESAR
and 81 Rome" Perhaps that is stale
quotation; but the remark Is more likely to,
prove true this time than al any other period
In tho pest. For the result OF the elections
In Ohio to-day depends, as we said In our
last issue. upon whether or not the Repub-
licsn minority can by the use Of money
land force, we would now add be convert
ed into Republican majority. II does seem
10 US that there canno: be any other expla-
nation made Of Republican victory In
olio gained under the circumstances which
exist in that State to-day.
Last year Governor HoADLY received
$4,000 votes--a number larger than the
half OF the total OF any vote that was ever
cast IN that State. He was elected by
twelve thousand majority. What could
that result mean except that on n full vote
Ohio Is Democratici Well, all parties and
persons agree that the vote to-day will be
the largest ever cast in the state. What
con result but a Democratic victory
Nothing. we repeat, unless money and
force produce Democratic defeat.
Agsin: The rural districts in Ohio are
Democratic. The voters OF those districts
never turn out In full force unless there
ere strong reasons impelhng them TO do so.
Mr.. BLATYE's "progress through Ohio.
after the manner OF the kings Of Engl,nd,
has alarmed these country Democrats.
They will muster their full strength to-day.
What. then, let us ask once more. can re-
suit but Democratic victory, unless money
aud force. bribery and intimidation. pro-
duce Democratic defeaty
The foregoing paragraphs are not TO be
read as forccaSting the result of to.day's
elections In OHIO, but as explaining that
result. We mean to say that according TO
our view OF The question there can be no
Republican victory in Ohio to-day unless it
is gained by the use OF money and OF the
power OF the Federal Government. IL a
Republican triumph is secured there to-day
by bribery and intimidation, and the ele-
walton Of BLAINE 10 the presidency should
follow, then and in that event there will
never be another President Of the United
States chosen by the unbought suffrsges
OF the people. Such victory OF money
and force must pave the way 10 mere formal
elections. The voters may thereafter go
through the forms OF an election, as the
voters OF France did when LOUIS NAPOLEON
was "chosen" emperor. but there will be
no real life in these forms. 1t will be mere
machine-work. Therefore, this day is
what we have declared 1t to be-big with
the fate Of BLAINE and Of America.
But YOU viii say, CLEVELAND may be
elected notwithstanding that Ohio may to-
day vote the Republican ticket. Undoubt-
eddy he may. AS IL appears to us now, we
might say, undoubtedly be ,oW. The signs
OF the times arc all propitious. All the
news that comes TO us rustles with victory.
New York and Indisna, together with the
southern States, win give CLEVELAND votes
enough to elect him. II Ohio goes Demo.
cratic to-day, the presidential election will
have been decided. II. on the other hand, the
Republicans carry the State to-day, the
methods by the use Of which they will have
gained their victory ought to serve 10 weld
the Democratic voters OF all the
other States. and ought to bethc producing
cause OF victories in New Jersey. Connec-
ticui, California, and Colorado, at least.
We have said heretofore. and we repeat
now, that GROVER CLEVELAND Is bound to
be the next President Of the United States.
BLAINE cannot successfully fight against
Destiny.
As TO West Virginia, we do not allow
ourselves te doubt the result there either
to-day OF in November. The Republicans
boast that they will carry that State; but
we shall not credit the story until it is told
by the returns OF the election. II West
Virginia should deceive lis, we should be
tempted TO doubt the election of CLEvE-
LAND.
After all, however. Virginia is our
charge. Virginia Is the ward OF the Vir-
gina Democratic party. Virginia is the
State TO which our eyes should all the time
be turned. Our hesrts, our hopes, but not
our fears, are all with her. II the machine
methods and the bribery aud intimidation
OF the Republican party are once more to
succeed I'm handing the northern States to-
gether against the southern, then all the
more important 10 II that no breach shall
be made in the solid South. The Democrs-
cy Of Virgiuis is no tree chsnce-sown by
the fountain" but Is tree OF which it may
be truthiully said:
"Tbe Armer he roots him The rudcr I, blows"
WASHINGTON once said in dark hour OF
the revolutionary war that should the
worst come to the worst he would retire to
the mountains OF West Augusta. aud there
make his final stand for the liberty OF Ame-
rlca- Let virymians resolve that the Old
Dominion shall be the last State to desert
the Democratic banner. Let her soil he a
SPOT upon which the Democratic party may
always rally TO prepare TO march 10 final
victory. Let us organize thoroughly. Let
us warn the voters. Let us encourage the
faint-hearted. Let us initiate the jealous.
Let us work, work. work, until Malone
Ism or Blaineism, now indlstinguishable In
Virginia, shall be buried.
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The Cholera.