Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-14
Effect of the Ohio Election on the Virginia Cam
Especial Dispatch 10 the Alexandria GAZETTE.j


fsnccial Dispotch TO the Alexandria GAZETTE.)
RICHMOND, Va, Oct. 1.-THE coolest
heads in this city are not only not disap-
pointed at the republican success in Ohio,
but they sincerely regard this natural and
looked for result in many of its aspects and
consequences as a most fortunate and bene-
fetal one to their party and campaign.
They are square and fair about the mat.
ter and freely concede that Malone will
now be helped by his "bloody-shir"
brethren in that State, the fire. eating part
of whose campaign was manufactured, they
know. from the most diabolical falsehoods
drawn from Mahone's own home in Peters
burg.
They also concede that Forak er-perhaps
Sherman-will soon personally come into
Virginia as Wise promised few days ago
they should. They fully recognize that the
death-stricken concern of Malone and Wise
will be a good deal revived and stimulated
by the tidings of this victory, and they not
ONLY see the bloody shirt with its broad
stripes and lurid stars again waving at the
head of the republican host in Ohio, but
thew expect to see the shattered lines of
Malone rallying as best they can and ad.
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shameful and barbarous emblem. In word,
thew look for an immediate forward move.
ment of Mahone's lines wherever, by any
means. his deluded followers can be slim
ulated and deceived into making the des-
perate effort he will now demand at their
hands.
They understand, moreover, that this de-
cisiye victory of Sherman on the line of the
bloody shirt was procured after the able
chairman of their party, John S. Barbour,
had out of the mouths of a large number of
representative negroes and other republi-
cans, white as we'll as black, given the most
complete and crushing answer TO the mon
strous calumnies which Malone, under his
agreement with Sherman, dating back to
the Danvile investigation, had crowded ID
to the columns of nearly all the radical
prints of the country They are proud OF
the valuable aid rendered voluntarily and
patrotically by Mr.. Barbour to their demo
cratic brethren of Ohio, but after all, these
veteran heads say they would like to know
if any sober-minded man ever calculated or
Ohio being carried by the democrats against
the combination of the Blaines, Shermans
and Fosters, with Sherman's seat in the
Senate the leading point in the contest
Is. not Overwhelming ly republican and
election when the republicans averc not d.
rided ? Did it not go for Blaine last year
by nearly forty thousand majority? Did
the democrat of Virginia ever falter on ac-
count of any October election in Ohio?
They beat Hayes thirty five thousand just |
after the October triumph OF his party. They
repeated the beating in Gariield's case after
losing both Ohio and Indiana in October,
and we'll knowing the loss was the certain
death of their candidate When Blaine
carried it so brilliantly in the October cleo
ton of last year it had no appreciate bad
effects on the democratic campaign, and also
failed of carrying New York or any other
democratic State.
There is no shock to the democratic mind
here, not even tremor. But there is u far
greater confidence than ever that Jno. S.
Barbour will now coolly as always, but more
actively than ever 60 forward with the cam
paign.
There is feeling more decided than be-
fore that the management of the fight will
now be more aggressive, more laborlous and
more mastery than if no Ohio election had
occurred.
The result has brought ont here expressions
of tho greatest confidence in Chairman Bar
hour aud tho disposition on all sides is to give
him the hearticst support. Tho Importance OF
the Virginia contest to the national democracy is
also greatly enhanced, The State looms up now
as the great grand gateway to the whole demo-
cratic territory of the South. No enemy must be
allowed to penetrate her walls. The Southern
possessions of the democratic party cannot be
given up. Once captured or even curtailcd to the
extent of all ELECTORAL vote and there remains not
n chance Of national victory. Held intact, but
little of Northern aid is needed to keep the ma
tion in democratic hands. And these and other
important facts are all brought the more strongly
out by the election of yesterday. Ifthe shcrmans
and Mahoncs and the other bloody shutters desire
to made national battle ground out of this State
they are welcome The war will be wholesome
let it come
NEWS OF THE DAY.
The Marseilles municipal council insists