The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-20
THE OHIO ELECTION:
Interview with One Who Was In It-Greater
Issues than Civil-Service Reform.

Interview with One Who Was In It-Greater
Issues than Civil-Service Reform.
| New York Mail and Express.
| An Ohio Republican. with special opportuni-
| ties for understanding the political situation
| there, gave his views when asked today what
| he thought of the Ohio election:
| Il proves the strength of John Sherman with
the property class. including the Germans. and
| with the educated people who respect his long
| and unretaliaEing career. He has been abused
| for years without anything being known against
him and especially by the trimming Republican
| papers of this city. like Joness Times, which
| stood ready, probably, had Foraker been de-
| feated. to ascribe it to John Shermans unpopu-
| larity. Sherman can always carry Ohio where
| his own election is involved In the battle"
did the bloody shirt speech of Sherman do
| Foraker good or harmP
1.-The result answers that. Ohio changed So
| 600 votes, elected the same man whom Hoadly
| beat before, and refused to make either civil
service reform or prohibition an issue of the
| test Ohio has no cranks in it. The witch burn
| er does not flourish there. Hoadly was the es-
| pecial exponent in Ohio of new isms new depart
ures and party instability. He was the pet of Til
den, the great reformer,' and was renominated by
Cleveland, the little reformer. A radical Repub
| lcan, he became from uncomfortable small
| prejudices radical Democrat. The only national
| issue he raised in the campaign was Tilden's
| grievance in 1876 when that whited sepulchre
| lost the presidency. Mr. Hoadly fell down and
| worshiped whisky and called it liberty. His
political life will now be like Poe's manuscript
| found in bottle. He shows the danger of loose
ly-jointed men leaving their party relations and
hanging in the air on their coat-tails."
| was John r. Mclean an issue in the Ohio
electiong"
mot that can see. except that he was &C
cused of being candidate for the United States
Senate. He and Mr. Whitney, of the Cabinet,
and others carried the Legislature to elect Sena-
tor Payne, who great improvement on
George Pendleton and if Mr.. Mclean was now
a candidate he appears to have made the Legis-
| lature very close Pendleton attacked the valid
ity of both our bonds and currency, and ran for
Vice president on the platform that the war was
a failure and yet he is now considered reformer
for doing ipservice to the shibboleth which is de-
stroyng his party, and i'll which he never would
have believed but to extricate himself from the
Bourbon errors of the past He wanted to bring
Cabinet ministers into Congress. also, and have
the English system, which is going to pieces fast
in England, replace the triumphant democracy
of our congressional system. The old Bourbon
finds his last refuge in destroying political activ
itY, which is our salvation. How CALAMITY do
Foraker and his young men represent our times,
upkolding the old banner of the. Union party,
instead of getting under tub and saying mean
things against their times. There are only two
lines in war, and the deSerter and the renegade
camp together"
How does this election in Ohio affect Presi-
dent ClevelandP
1T shows that he is no factor at all in the
of the East, where self-mportance is always look
ing for some had-tempered magistrate to spoil
the manners of the Nation and punish popularity.
Cleveland is still high sheriff, and not of the gen
tie line of our presidents. You see Luke Frugal
in the White House and not King Duncan. The
issue he is big on is typical of his breadth of
mind. The clerks must be given their brim-
| stone and treacle, says Wackford Squeers, and
| then all will be peace and harmony. Strange
that this never occurred to Washington and
selecting the scullions of the govern
! ment RACES among national issues we shall
neglect true policy and descend to be
tattling and back biting nation. The Republic
an party might wisely have established the clerk
ships on some permanent base, but civilservice
reform never can be a willing measure of the
Democratic party, and until it is supported by
| the understanding national conscience it never
| will remain fixture. 1t cannot be vaccinated
| into our system by the trimming phrases of
| party conventions. and thus far hypocrisy is the
| chief gamer by this reform. The devil jumps
| for joy every time lying State convention in
dorseS civil-servlce reform"
| ''What are great issues of the present dayf"
''The first of all issues is to reclaim the South
ern States from the solidarity of ignorance.
pref udice and false count of the ballots. That
| affects the basis of government and the apathy
| of the North on the subject is disgraceful
| Shall quarrel with any party about the method
| of selecting clerks and permit the old Giant
Despair of slavery to count out my votel
| Ihey USED TO count three-hfthS or their
negroes in Congress-; they stultify
iveffths. and count them. They mean
to count out Virginia If they cannot
carry it. The result may soon be that the solid
South and the Northern mugwumps, uniting tho
Puritan and the bl ,ckeg. will elect all the
| Presidents, and nulify the benefits of the late
war Then shall have such jobs as Attorney
| general Garand's launched against all sorts of
| Northern investors and stockholders, as in other
days New York negro or book was confscated
| in the slave States. The reputabiiitY of the
| South does not want the Republican party to
expire, but deeply disappointed at Cleve-
lands election. They look to that party to give
them freedom of opinion, freedom from ruffian-
ism, general education, and a pure elective
franchise. Let the bloody shirt be washed in a
contrite spirit, and dried in the breath of free
| ballot The Democratic party in the North will
| go to pieces in a few such victories as that of
| Ohio, and when it is gone the South will cut
| loose from the past, and not before. l hope
| Virginia will rebuke such insensate and rebel
| ous performances that of Fitzhugh Lee riding
| with cavalry in peaceful election times. The
| South will never come heartily back into the
| Union till it comes into the great party of the
war instead of the little party Then reconcilia-
ton will be natural and complete"