Evening star., 1925-10-18
Significant
Elections.

We're better than they had been for
,c 10 years. owing to the
olS HlHcdHt various scandals TINT
p1oo+;opo had developed during
the eight year admins
tration of Grant. the
Republican party quarrelS over recon
struCtion in the South and the hard
I times" that had been experienced for
! nearly four years. The state elections
! Of 1875 were regarded as of especial
, significance Such elections occurred
! in October in Ohio. Iowa and Nebras-
ka, Republican strongholds. The Ohio
election was OF particular interest. In
; The Star of October Is, 1873, is the
; following:
! THE success of the Republicans yes
! terday in Ohio can hardly bs called a
party victory. $ the whole solid bust
ness interests of the country were
/ united in hoping. if :,ot actively work
, ing. for the defeat OF lien DemocraU
and the madness of Imitation. The dis
; patches tell US, indeed. that the sound
/ business Democrats of Ohio voted an
open ticket yesterday against Allen
! and rag money. and this is but n in
dication of the feeling everywhere
! throughout the country amongst
/ thoughtful intelligent men, without re-
gard to party, on this issue. The result
! in Ohio, and Iowa as well, where the
!
! issue. Is a wholesome lesson to the
specializing politicians of both parties.
| teaching them not to underrate the
| intelligence of the people. and to sup
pose they can succeed with them by
| demagogue appeals and the claptrap
! Of cheap money. 1t was by an acCi-
dent. perhaps. that the Republicans of
! Ohio did not get tarred with the same
imitation stick. but they are now com
. ,N.l Il
/ learned lesson. Initiation may be
said to be dead. for no party will care
| to burn it's fingers with it hereafter >
Rutherford B. Hayes was elected
| Governor of Ohio by a ma jority of
about 400. This was an important re-
suit. as it placed Hayes in line for the
presidential nomination the next year.
| That the Imitation issue" was not
dead was proved in later campaigns
The closeness of the Ohio vote in 1875
foreshadowed the 1876 race, which was
| decided by the narrowest margin in
| the political history of the United
! States. Hayes carrying his own State
, in the presidential fight by only $500
ma jority.
Criticism has often been directed to
! the appearance of the south front Of
the Patent once, on r
1atent street between Seventh and
O%o. Ninth, which has been rated
| 0e as an architectural blunder.
| Attention was called to this in The
Star of October Is. 1875, follows:
| "The symmetry of the south front
of the Patent Office Building is sadly
marred by the lately completed south
| entrance, the flight of steps being al
most as high as the building itself,
and to add to this the beautiful wavy
marble of the central portion of the
south front has been entirely hidden
| by several coats of white paint. The
| entrance under the circumstances,
perhaps could not have been much i'm
| proved, but for the DETACHMENT Of the
building with paint some one ought to
be held responsible. The building
being one of the finest of our public
structures. it always comes in for a
good share of admiration from visitors
on account of its plain solidity of
style and the beauty of the material
used in it's construction, and 1t seems
a pity that its walls should be daubed
with paint"
! In connection with the fire at the
District Jail last Monday it will be in
New District Jail that in The Star Star
Nearly Finished. 81 9s7s ofsooer IS . news yo;
item which states that the supervising
architect had just reported that the
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