Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-10-23
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
THURSDAY. OCTOBER %, 1884.
Detroit Evening News (Ind.) Oct. Is.


Detroit Evening News Qnd.) Oct. 10.
The Democrats staked all on Ohio and
lost. In spite of the splendid Organiza-
ti0n OF which their papers boasted; in
spite of the plentiful supply of money
raised among themselves and sent them
from the national committee; in spite of
their boasts of OBJECTIONS by Prohibition
lists, defectiOns by Germans, OBJECTIONS
by wOrkingmen; in spite, finally, of the
NEST desperately energetic campaign
they eyer made in any state of the Union,
Ohio remains just about as she always
was, staunch, reliable Republican
state.
The results of yesterdays election are
so complete, the Republican victory is so
nicely rounded, that its net profits can
te stated ia very few words. The
Democratic majority OF 1850, which
gave the state to that party in 1883. has
been changed to Republican majority
on the whole state ticket, ranging any
where's, according 80 the latest returns,
from $4,000 upwards; while the congress
siOnal delegation is changed from 10
Democrats and Republicans to IA Re.
publicans and 7 Democrats.
The most significant thing about the
affair, too. is that the unhappy Demo-
Gratis were most severely wounded in
those very places where they f1attered
themselves yesterday morning that they
were dOubly armed and armOred. All
their claims Of gains among the Ger.
mans, of OBJECTIONS amORg the PrOhibi-
ti0nists. or stampedes among the d is
tressed mining populations, were will.
o-tha- wisps which led them blindly into
the quagmire of disaster. There has
been no defeetiOns among the Germans
to speak of, no Prohibition vote worth
mentioning, no change among the in
dustrial population that has not been
more than offset by counter changes.
They are beaten, horse foot and dra-
go0ns. on the ground they selected Hr--..1
selves. and With more advantages in
their favor than they ever had before, or
are likely to ever have again for several
years to come.
The defeat. crushing as it is, is one
over which honest citizens, who believe
in politics with principles, have little
cause to grieve. They richly deserved
their fate. From the beginning. of the
campaign to the hour of opening the
polls yesterday morning, the Democrats
have offered not single ineligible ar
power. In Ohio, more than in any other
state in the country, their programme
was utterly devoid of principle. 1t was a
contemplate game Of huckstering with
this class and with that, pandering to
the prejudices of natiOnalities, and
races, and trades, and classes. Instead
of Offering to all the people OF the c0un-
try an Ineligible programme OF nation:
al policy which would antagOniZe that
to which their opponents are fully com :.
mitted, they depended upOh the supposed
popular desire for change of any sort,
impudently set themselves up as of gu
perior virtue to their rivals, and gave up
the management of their campaign to
the notorious Johnny Mclean, of Cincin-
natl, and gang of the most corrupt
AID INSCRIPTIONS lieutenants which that
exemplar of all that is rotten in politics
could gather about him. These men,
having no notion themselves of what a
principle is, devoted themselves wholly
TO the arts Of the small ward politician
who sees In money and personal interest
the only factors that have potency in an
election. An enormous campaign fund
was collected, and so far as argument
was concerned the people was told not
ho,r the Democratic party proposed to
benefit the country, that Mr.. Blaine was
very bad man, that Republicans were
generally corrupt. aud that better gov
eminent would necessarily flow from
the superior purity of Democrats If they
were Entrusted with power. For the rest,
the beer and whisky makers and dealers
were told that under Democratic admin
istration in Ohio they would have every
thing their own way. That was the be
ginning and end Of the Democratic ar
gument. On the great question of taxa
ton, which Is the only one that seriously
affects the real interests Of the people,
they were dumb, incoherent. or We'd with
their opponents in defense and glorifca-
ton of the present system. In only one
district in the state did Democrat utter
an ineligible sound on that most vital
subject. and he, like a man crying out
among a babel of confusing sounds,
found little heed even in his own dis.
trict. What with all Ohio ringing with
the rubbish of Mulligan letters, whisky,
beer and prohibition. Mr.. Hurd found
people in and about Toledo too enfren-
lied with excitement to listen to the
calm and dispassiOnate discussion Of Sc
prosaic subject as their own material
interests in the matter Of economical
government.
The Democratic party seems incapable
of learning any lesson until 1t Is too late
to put 1t into practice. The lesson Oi
Ohio comes tee late for use this year. II
has, however. high historical interest
and 1t may be profitable to put 1t down
as 1t passes.
1. No party can make the public be-
lieve that 1t Is inherent y more virtuouf