Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-10-16

The state election held in Ohio on Tuesday
resulted in Republican victory more com.
plete and sweeping than even the Republi.
cans themselves had hoped for or predicted.
Before the election they we're satisfied with
claiming the state by 10000 plurality, but the
result shows the election of Judge Foraker,
the Republican candidate, by a plurality
which the Democrats concede will reach from
900 to 20, 900. Better aud more important
still, the Republicans will have a majority in
both branches of the legislature, thus assur-
ing the IT election of John Sherman to the
United States Senate, in place Of the disrepu-
table John r. Mclean, who was booked for
Senator Shermsn's place If the Democrats
we're successful This handsome victory was
won in spite of a heavy rain which fell until
noon on Tuesday-a circumstance counted
upon to operate decidedly against the Repub-
licans.
The prohibition vote is much larger than
was expected, reaching 25,OOO-the largest
ever polled in the state. At the last guber-
Material election, two years ago, the prohibi.
tion candidate received less than 5000 votes
II was expected that the vote of this year
would be drawn chiefly from the Republicans,
but the event proves that it was drawn in
about equal numbers from both parties, many
Democrats finding the position of their party
on state Issues so obnoxious that they voted
for Leonard, the prohibition candidate, know
ing that he could not be elected
The Ohio campaign was fought almost ex-
clusively on state Issues, and the result there
fore has little significance in national politics.
At the opening of the canvass Senator Sher-
man made much Of the Southern question,
aud his first two speeches were decidedly of
the bloody shirt type; but it was soon found
that the people condemned that method Of
attack and would not respond TO a call to the
polls based on the supposed popular feeling
against "the rebels, who, Mr.. Sherman had
unwtsely declared, are once more ION top. "
The Southern issue was thereupon quietly
dropped, and state issues were dwelt upon al
most exclusively.
In the election of two years ago the stale
came into the full control of the Democrats,
and they have now been overwhelmingly
defeated because they have shown themselves
unworthy of the trust which was given them
During this time Senator Pendleton has been
retired to private life because he advocated
civil-service reform, and his place has beer
sold to the Standard Oil monopoly; the par
ty, by its treatment of the Scott saloon bill
has declared its alliance With the liquor inter
est, and in various ways has shown its sym
patty with INSCRIPTIONS and disreputablt
political methods, while Gov. Hoady, who il
by several degrees better than his party, hal
yielded to popular clamor in his position OF
vital issues. One of his most indefensiblt
acts was his endorsement of the effort which
accomplished the notorious Mullen's pardon
by the President.
The Democratic party was given a squar,
chance to redeem itself in Ohio, a Republican
state but it failed to do this, and bas beef
beaten on its own record. A worse defea
awaits it in New York on November Sd.