Year: 1875

We answer, the Republicans-andp pro-
pose to state the case carefully and can
didly.


Aliens majority over Noyes was less
than a thousand and there were ten
thousand votes thrown for the Liberal
and ten thousand for the Temperance
candidate. Allen was therefore in a mi
nority of nineteen thousand, and he had
exceptional advantages that are not to
be found in the present conditions, Civ
ing him the narrow margin Of plurality
by which he ran in.


General Noyes, as everybody knew,
was running, not for Governor, for he
was weary of the Office, but for the Sen
ate, and in that enterprise he encoun-
tered quiet but deadly antagonisms Mr..
Delano, Secretary of the Interior, was SO
vicious in his hostility that Noyes visited
him, on peril of sacrificing the State, to
restrain theSecretary; but this was only
done in part.


Politicians will see the importance of
this incident, itself ample to account for
the loss of Ohio by the. Republican
party; and there is another related to it.
and of equal size and pertinence While
Noyes was laboring in the close counties,
fighting on the fine points for the Leg
islature, the Western Reserve was neg
lected, and fell far below her reliable
Republican strength. So Noyes had the
singularly i'll fortune to pick up several
of the sharply contested counties and
lose those in which there were decisive
Republican majorities a


The Western Reserve was not happy
about that time anyhow. The Republi-
cans were in trouble over Garfield; and
the bankruptcy of the Northern Pacific
Railroad, in which they had largely in
vested their earnings, was just apparent.
Besides, as Noyes was running for the
Senate, they did not feel deeply enliven-
ed about the general result 1t was a
real case of apathy, and cost thousands
of Republican votes.


Another point that we would not be
justified in omitting to review, is that
Noyes was fercely traduced here in his
home, especially by the Enquirer news
paper, as an extravagant public officer,
and the most persistent efforts made to
associate him with transactions of public
profigacy, while the Times, the Republi-
can organ, being personally unfriendly,
made melancholy showing in the de-
fense, and the Gazette awoke from its
slumbers at late hour. The CONNER
cial, we may remark, was otherwise en-
gagged, fixing the foundations of third
party, so to speak. Now, Allen was be-
fore the people at this time as case of
icy purity, and the extravagant charges
against Noyes, associated with exalted
assumptions for Allen, seemed to shed
sweetness and light over the Democracy.
and made the party redolent with the
flavor of the reformation that the great
and virtuous people always demand and
never achieve.


The appearance of Allen in the cam
paign had considerable influence He
was accepted by his party as a phenome-
non and prodigy, and aroused in his
partisans an enthusiasm to which they
had long been strangers. His voice was
like trumpet call to arms. He was one
of the venerable men who had come
down to us from former generation.
After a retirement for u generation there
was something romantic and captivating
in his return. His stately figure and
snowy head, his powerful lungs and the
ardor with which he entered the cam
paign, drew away attention from the es-
sential weakness of his harangues and
| the tokens in mind and body OF the de-
cay of faculties. He was new force in