West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-10-21
After the Ohio Battle.
FRIEND AND FOE DISCUSS.
ING THE SITUATION.
Prohibition Gets Another Set
back by Trebling its vote!
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.

Inc FREEMAN SO enjoys nearing
its neighbors talk, that it prefers
to give its readers the same enjoy
ment rather than to talk ITSELF so
it has gathered together from its
exchanges some editorial extracts
on the result of the Ohio election,
for the edification of all to whom
"these presents may come" In
gathering these editorials, the
FREEMAN takes sense and nonsense
just as it comes, leaving the reader
to sift it, So here comes:
NO FAULT TO FIND WITH THIS NEW
PARTY.
Piedmont Herald:
The Prohibition Party in Ohio
has doubled its vote in one year; if
they continue this rate of increase
till 1888, they will become a very
important factor in National poll
tics. The claim that the entire
Prohibition vote comes from the
Republican party, is shown to be
untrue in the Ohio election. We
have no fault to find with this par
ty. No one can deny that the
principles for which they are con.
tending are morally right. And
when the great masses of the people
learn that this country does not
depend on the success Of either of
the old parties, more men will join
their fortunes to the right.
BURIEs THE CRY OF LICENSE.
Marietta Register, Rep.
The Prohibition vote is upward
of $4,000. Hoadly and his party
did it. "Whom the gods destroy
they first make mad" Honest and
long forbearing Democrats were
driven by the license platform and
Hoadly's insults into voting prohi-
bition, and it is due the party to
admit that probably 10000 OF the
$4,000 votes came from the Democ-
racy. This will be a wholesome
influence in shaping future legis-
lation, and it buries the cry of Ii
cense forever.
IN A COMFORTABLE FRAME OF MIND.
Wellsburg Herald, Rep.
The Prohibitionists of Ohio are
probably in as comfortable a frame
of mind now, as any other set of
voters in the State.
Their vote in square contest,
in face of all discouragements, is
over q, 900, which considering the
up hill character of their canvass
and the absence of any well ground
ed expectation of Office or emolu-
ments, is fully equivalent to five
times that number had circum-
stances in these respects been diff
ferent. twenty-five thousand men
voting for principle and without
prospect of personal reward, at the
risk of considerable obloquy, is a
power in the State of Ohio that is
not to be derided, and one that
hereafter will not likely be.
RATHER EMBARRASSING.
Nea0 York World, Dem.
"The Prohibition vote will reach
fully 5000, and seems to have been
drawn about equally from the two
parties. This is the most unex-
pected feature of the returns"
4 X "The Prohibitionists have
increased their vote materially, but
they seem this time to have drawn
from both the great parties in a
rather embarrassing way"
PHENOMENAL VOTE.
The New York Tribune (Rep.)
has special dispatch from Spring
field, the home of DR.. Leonard, in
which, after saying that phenom-
email Prohibition vote was poled in
the County (Clarke), the following
statement is made: "The vote
comes as much from the Democrat
ic as Republican ranks"
HoADLY ovERDID 1T.
The Commercial Advertiser says
editorially: "Governor Hoadly's
declared unwillingness to refer the