The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-10-15
VICTORY IN OHIO !
FORAKER ELECTED BY $4,000
LEGISLATURE REPUBLICAN IN BOTH
BRANCHES.

LEGISLATURE REPUBLICAN IN BOTH
BRANCHES.
The special dispatch published below
from Judge J. B. Foraker, to the senior
editor of the YIRGINIAN, gives positive
and reliable information as to the result
of the election in that State on Tuesday
last. Notwithstanding Democratic frauds,
the pardoning out of the Penitentiary of a
convicted felon by the President, to join
the Democratic party workers, and the
combined influences of the 'sworld, the
flesh and the devil, - the Republicans have
achieved grand victory in the Buckeye
State. 1t is triumph which means more
than the mere election Of j. B. Foraker
to be Governor, and the certainty of John
Sherman succeeding himself in the United
States Senate. 1t is the assertion and the
vindication of great principle of political
liberty, the sanctity of the ballot, and the
equality of the States. 1t is unfair, it is
dishonest and mischieyoas, to attempt to
constIue this result into an unfriendly
feeling towards the South 1t is not in
any sense. 1t is simply a declaration in
favor of observing the Constitution and
demanding that its sanctities and guar
antees shall be re spected.
1t is rebuke to the partizanism of a
Democratic National Administration.
It's proclamation that the people still
repose confidence in the principles and
policies of the Republican party.
1t is the advertisement that in 1883 the
Republican party will again come into
power to enforce the measures which
originated with it, and have contributed
so much to national wealth ant. greatness.
1t is an announcement that American
labor End American industries are entitled
to and must receive tue protection Of
American laws.
It is broad platform of Liberalism in
its best meaning, and voices the con-
viction of the great State of Ohio upon
all the important questions which consti.
tute wise American policy.
1t is the election of one of the purest
and ablest of the young men of the coun-
try to preside over the destinies of that
great State for two years
And it is an invitation to Virginia and
New York to join their forces with that OF
Ohio, to make sure Republican triumph
in 1888.
The following is Judge Foraker's dis
patch, received last evening at A, p. NJ:
CINCINNATI, o., Oct IA, 1885.
S. III. Yost, Stdunton, Va =
My majority is about eighteen thousand.
The Legislature is Republican in both
branches. j. Is. FORAKER.
1t will be remembered that Judge For
aker, in his speech at the Opera House in
this place in 1884, promised that if ever
the chance was again given him he would
defeat Hoadley for Governor and atone for
the disaster of 1888. when Hoadly beat
him by 1000 plurality. He has been true
to his promise, and the country rejoices
over it.
1t is understood that the leading Repub-
lican papers in the Moth and West will
each have a correspondent in Virginia
during the latter weeks of the canvass,
and that what is called the BLACK Belt
will claim their especial attention on the
day of election. The boast has been made
that the negro vote will be divided, in the
counties composing the I'd and 4th dis
tricts. between Wise and Lee. Another
statement is made that there are fifteen
counties fixed upon for the application OF
Bourbon methods in turning out Bourbon
majorities, OF reducing Republican major
tiles, and that the returns from some OF
these counties will be held back until the
drift of the vote in other portions OF the
State is known. We do not know wheth-
or such intimation comes from responsible
parties Oh not, but it will not be am.ss fol
keen, intelligent correspondents to be on
the ground, and report what they see with
their own eyes and hearwith their own ears.
The great mass of the people of the State,
irrespective of party, want fair and full
vote, and with that, whatever the result,
they will be content. Tampering with the
ballot is as much disapproved by the better
element of one party as the other, for it is
corrupting our institutions at their foun-
tain source, and a reflection upon the char
acter of the whole people. A free ballot
and fair count will enure to the credit OF
both parties, and have the effect to recon-
Gle the defeated to the verdict of the peo-
pie.
The progressed. the campaign in Viz
ginia is Being watched in every portion of
the Union, and the methods OF conduct
ing it scrutinized with unusual interest
aud vigilance. The result will be with
equal solicitude carefully scanned and an
alyzed, and the party that seeks to avail of
illegal means to win, will be held to Sc
we're responsibility.
A vote for the Bourbon State and county
ticket is vote to approve the infamous