Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-10-29
ONO AND rIfs PRESIDENT.


whit our southern Journals have l
10 say.
The New Orleans PicayuRe says: "The |
effect of the Ohio election on the fortunes |
of President Cleveland and on the party
at large will be nothing Mt ALL II is so |
universally recognized that the Ohio
leaders were not sound on the main priu-
ciple of this administration that their
defeat will be regarded us u reblke to
them personally, in which the admins
tration at Washington has no share what
eSer The Democracy of the nation at
large will not shrink from the plain recog-
milton of the facts in this cnse, and will
allow the whipped leaders to carry the
whole burden of the defeat. The ma
tional Democratic platform was not de
vlsed rs n cover and defense for such
leaders, aud it as broad and as strong to-
day as it was before the Ohio managers
covertly assailed it by putting in practice
tenets which il does not contain md
cannot be warped to shield. Let the
Ohio Democracy cleanse itself of its I'M
projections, and renew the battle on n
different basis"
The Galveston Mems says: 'IIad the
Democrats made an issue between Thur
man and Sherman, they would probably
have gained Legislative majority nj
least. But it was generally understood
that If the Democrats won the legisl -. =
John Mclean, or some person. lrrmture,
him, would be sent to the fn-A named by
Senate, instead SoS,.@sz@St| United States
less, kept II ~ Thurman. This, doubt
zssassl ! A.hany Democrats away fran the
polls. In order to defeat an obnoxious
machine it is sometimes necessary to de
feat the party, and this seems 10 have
been done In Ohio. Let no person think,
however that the administration OF
President Cleveland was on trial aud that
the result of the election is I'm adverse
verdict.
The Little Rock (Ark.) Gdzotte closes
IN article on the subject us follows
"Governor Hoadly is not loved by the
genuine Democrats. He is recognized rs
leader of the element voiced by Johnny
McLean's Ehqni7e5-an element who's,
forces, fair and foul, have laborcd fol
years to break down such men ms Allel
G.. Thurman, Durbin Ward and George
II. Pendleton. The old Democrats o
Ohio-the men who believe in sount
principles and clean men, and not il
bullying and 'boodle'-c cannot forget this
And in addition, it was becoming apparent
that Mclean was working for tile senatorial
succession with which the Democrats
masses desire to again reward Judg
Thurman. All this had its effect. Their
is no Democrat in Ohio so distasteful tt
the rank and file of the party us john,
Mclean, who uses the ERgWrer t
scourge and destroy every pronlinrn
Democrat whose decency rey0lts 1t tn
methods which the country knows hes
by the name of Tweedism.N
And the Savannah Jf0rAiRg NarS says
''~'Ihe effort TO make the President respon
sible for the loss of Ohio, or for the los
of New York, if that state should be cnl
ried by the Republicans, will not succeed
When the people become dissatisfied wit
the President they will indicate il in
way that cannot and will not be NH
understood Tho expressions OF lissagi.
faction of those Democratic politician
who are now criticising the President III
not the expressions of the public