Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-10-09
Al GORGEOUS CARMIkE.
The Buckeye State Red Hot and
Still Heating.
THE ENoUIRERs BueLE BLAST
Usual Performance ofthe Republican Hip
prodrome With "SpIendid" Results
for that Party---In Horn.
OHIO TO GO DEMOCRATIC,

CINCINNATI, O., October S.-The En-
quirer, in double loaded editorial says:
The excitement and excuses ofa ho
Presidential campaign shall not divert the
Enquirer from it cardinal principle, which
is to tell its readers the truth-the facts, O.
near as they can be ascertained-without
regard to whose interests may be advanced
or impaired. II believes that Grover Cleye-
land will be elected President and sees
splendid indications that Ohio will, at the
coming State election, give plain index
of that result 1t does not ask the public
to accept party brag and bluster as the as
surance of Democratic victory, but invites a
cool, deliberate and unbiased considera'
ton Of
The Controlling Conditions.
The time is past when all parties accept
ed the proposition that Ohio was Republi.
can on full vote, For many years the
curse OF the Democracy OF this State was
an Indifferent management, and an impres
sion among thousands of Democrats that il
was a waste of time for them to go to the
polls, and that there was nothing for their
nominees except through the occasional
lethargy of the Republicans in an "off
year, when there was nothing at stake
Two Years of Democratic Success
have destroyed this illusion. and students Of
statistics have found that the increase and
changes in population during the last de-
cade have been largely in favor Of the par
ty of the people.
Two years ago the Democrats elected
Newman Secretary Of State by majority
over Townsend of 1915, in large VOTE
Last year Hoadly was elected Governor
by majority over Foraker of IL, ,529, in the
largest vote ever cast at State election in
Ohio, and which was only about 5000 less
than the largest vote ever cast at Presi-
dental election in Ohio.
The Republican claim that
The Germans
who changed their party allegiance on ac-
count of Republican sumptuary legislation
have all returned to them is not warranted
by the most authentic accounts. If there
was relapse of the German vote to the Re-
publican fold, it was last year. when, as we
have stated, Ohio went Democratic by a
majority of more than twelve thousand.
But there was not a relapse There we're
localities where the German vote for the
Democratic ticket was much less last year
than two years ago. but there are abun-
dant indications that the Democrats will
receive next Tuesday their German support
of 1883, with great additions.
The Temperance Que stiOn
has got beyond the Scott law and the iber-
al element is alive to the signs Of the times.
The intimate association Of Mr.. Blaine with
the Prohibition triumphs in his State, the
record of General Robinson as a crusader,
the presence of Republican missionaries
from the Prohibition States of Kansas and
Iowa, and the general tendency Of the dis
integrating party now in power toward the
Prohibition organization are notes of alarm
which will WELD tremendous influence.
The trip of the Republican candidate for
President in Ohio has been a failure
Crowds of people have turned out to look
upon the caravan just as they would to gaze
upon procession Of
Circus Wagons;
and it is significant that the receptions in
small towns and at rural railroad stations,
where entertainment is scarce, have been
larger in proportion to population than in
the cities.
The arguments, the enthusiasm, the
logical drift, are with the Democracy.
The dispensers of the corruption fund, the
election repeaters and ballot-box burglars.
and the desperate oflice-holders, are with the
Republicans.
The success of the Democratic candidates
next Tuesday depends on full, united vote,
and fair count.