The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-10-15
Later Reports more Favorable
to the Democrats,-Old
West Virginia Bobs up
Serenely with a Hand
some Majority,
THE RESULT IN OHIO.

The dispatches received last night show
quite republican gain in the Buckeye
state over the vote of 1888, when the
democrats had majority of 1889, al
though the ratio of gain would not give
the republicans as large majority as
their candidate for secretary of state re
ceived in 1880, which WAS 10000. The
total vote for governor last year was 49,
16S and as 500, 600 votes are claimed TO
have been cast yesterday, it is surely a
marvel that the republican majority is not
larger than the reports confirm.
Although the campaign of 1880 was
very warm contest, it does not compare
with the earnestness and zeal that has
made Ohio wild with excitement for the
past sixty days. The desperateness of
their case, spurred the republicans to re
newed energy, and they left nothing un>
done to carry the day. In fact their zeal
business has without doubt caused
them to corrupt the elective franchise, for
their gains in the larger cities is certainly
due to INSCRIPTIONS methods. A cor>
ruption fund of greater magnitude
than ever before thought necessa>
ry to carry single state, has
polluted Ohio, and its evil influences will
not he cradicated without smirching NOR
ality and political honesty with its filthy
touch. Large is the sacrifice on character,
and desperate the men, who endcavor to
Illustrate the popular will, by the unholy
prostitution of the ballot box.
We reiterate that the famous political
episode enacted in Ohio in 1880, pales
into insignficance with the contest just
closed There has been more money
used, more noise, more work, more part
isan rancor and more bare faced corrup-
tion. The republicans had the benefit of
imported election experts who are credit
the carrying of Indiana four years ago.
Then there is the other point in their
favor, that Ohio is naturally arepubican
state, and all that was necessary for them
to do was to hold their own This they
have not done when the vote of 1880 is
considered, which should be the compar
ison instead of 1883. The absence of any
republican revolt against Blaine, such as
distinguishes the states further east, has
rendered the task of the republican man
ayers more easy than it will be in New
York, for an instance. Whether this /!
caused by Blaine's pretentions to be the
heir of Garfield, or some other reason
the fact remains that the republican party
in Ohio is unit in support of the hero O
the Mulligan letters. In addition, the
candidate himself has lent the aid of hi!
personal presence.
The wild eXuberance of feeling which
the republicans are displaying over 1
probable 10000 majority in Ohio clearly
indicates their anxiety in regard to the re
suit Without Ohio they would be ST
badly crippled that defeat in Novembe
would have been inevitable. Their tenn
porary resuasitation from complete an
Inhalation, does not, however, lessen tn
chances for glorious democratic victor.
next month. Ohio has never entere,
into democratic calculations and the stat
was virtually conceded to the republican
at the democratic national convention a
Chicago, when the party representative
chose one of New Yorks illustrious son
to be their standard bearer. instead of on
of Ohio's prominent statesmen.
West Virginia has gone democratic
which accounts for the meagreness of til
returns.