Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-23

The Republican Vote of Cincinnati.
Although it is not yet known what the
exact vote of Cincinnati was at the cleo
ton last week. there does not seem TO be
any doubt that the Republican vote was
much smaller than the Republican vote
was at the election last year.
II is claimed that this falling of in the
Republican vote was due 10 the hostility
of the merchants to the course of the Re-
publican leaders in insisting upon con-
Quoting the campaign upon sectional
issues.
1t Is probable that this claim is well
founded. The business men Of Cincin-
matt are much better informed with re-
soect TO the actual condition OF affairs at
the South than are the people in the rural
districts, because they are in constant
correspondence with Southern men, and
because their agents are all the time
travelling over the Southern country. They
know, of course, that about all that
the Republicans in their newspapers and
on the stump said, during the campaign,
about the impOssibility OF securing a free
ballot and fair count in the South was
without foundation. They were not dis
posed, therefore, to render assistance in
stirring up sectional feeling, especially
as they knew that the existence of such a
feeling tended to drive trade away from
them The Cincinnati merchants
are trying to build up a Southern trade,
and they therefore regard with cOnsidera-
bic alarm the efforts OF the dominant
party Of their State to excite a feeling of
hostility TO the South. Even those OF
them who are Republicans, although they
may be anxious for the success OF their
party, are not willing that 1t should sue
coed at their expense. Their experience
has been sufficient to teach them that the
southern people, though patient and
forbearinA are not disposed to continue
business relations with those who are do
ing ali they can to injure them.
Even the Commercial Gazette, the lead
ing Republican journal of Ohio, attempts
TO ind an excuse for the course that was
pursued by the Republicans during the
late campaign by saying that there was
really no intention to stir up a hostile
feeling towards the Southern people,
What the intention was can only be in
rerred from what was said and done, and
it is probable that no one will deny that if
the Ohio people believe all that Sherman
and Foraker told them respecting the po-
litical methods in the South, they cannot
have very good opinion of the Southern
people.
IL Is fully understood at the South that
John Sherman's doctrine of hate is not to
be abandoned because the election in Ohio
Is over. Judge Foraker is preaching it in
New York, and John Sherman and others
will soon begin-perhaps have already
begun-preaching it in Virginia. 1t is the
purpose Of the Republican party evl-
IDENTIFY, to preach il in every Northern
State as the campaigns occur in them,
until the opening of the national cam
paign, in 1888, and then to make it the
basis of the national canvass for the
Is not the spectacle Of John Sherman
and Judge Foraker preaching the doc
trine Of hate in New York and Virginia
while the people of the greatest city of
their own State are wrangling over the
election returns more than a week after
the election because OF the outrageous
frauds that have been committed in the
remarkable one? Why don't
they 90 home and preach the doctrine OF
honesty?