Year: 1875

From Yesterdays Evening Edition.l


The defeat of Alien being almost if not
ouite an ascertained fact, there will be the
usnal speculation about the causes of that
result. Such speculation will be profitable
to the country at large, if it tends to show
how the people of Ohio and the West feel and
think respecting the issues most elaborately
discussed during long and very industrious
canvass Il will be prof table especially
to the Democratic party throughout the
States, Eas an indication OF the deep-seated
prejudices, the earnest party spirit, the cohe-
rency and the resourc IS of their combined ad-
versaries.


An easy victory in Ohio would have done as
much hurt by inspiring too much confidence
as it would have done good by continuing
reforms in one of the greater States; but de-
feat even by small majority ought to con-
vince anti Radicals in all sections that they have
task before them that will tax their strength
and spirit to the utmost. It will teach them
to beware Of dogmas on which all can not
agree, and of issues upon which there can be
no complete and cordial union Of ideas and
sentiments.


Ohio has for long time been Republican
State by large majority. In seventeen out
Of twenty elections it has given Wing, Amerl-
can or Radical majorities ranging from ten to
one hundred Thousand votes. Nor has the
Democr party at any one OF the three
other elections polled within eighteen thou
sand of half of the full vote of the State.


Allen had minority of the votes cast when
he was elected by about nine thousand, and that
when the total vote cast was eighty thousand
less than the vote of 1872. Ohio has evidently
been Radical to the core for very long
time, and no election has shown a settled
change of political character Aside from all
other causes this is enough to account for the
defeat of Allen.


On the eve of the Presidential election the
result in Ohio is usually regarded as of such
grave importance that each party strives to
make its vote as large as possible. This
motive operates in full force with the Radical
party, who were unanimously eager to have
victory in Ohio. There was no such unanim-
ity of wish or any enthusiastic general desire
whatever among Democrats outside OF Ohio,
for reasons we'll known, and for which the
political managers of that State are specially
and solely responsible.


That the Ohio policy, if adopted nation
ally and carried out by Congress, would have
damaged the banks of the country as now
organized, is very evident, but we have no
proof that the bankers therefore expended
vast sums Of money to defeat Gov. Allen
However strong the inducement may have
been, it is one of those reports which we are
not willing to accept until proved.


That prominent Democrats who are also
heavily interested in banking Joined in such
an operation is exceedingly improbable, to say
the least. Men who are able and judicious
enough to acquire and keep large amounts of
capital can hardly be supposed to engage in a
great scheme of electioneering, the certain
result of which must be the enmity of the
masses of the people against their banks.


Exciting elections usually bring out voters
in large numbers, and as the end of q heated
contest approaches, the old psrty feeling usu
ally dominates over everything else. The
currency issue made the Ohio canvass exciting
in an unusual manner and degree, and we pre-
sumo the returns will show the resulting
development Of strong party feeling and
strict party voting.


We have not time this evening to consider
what course anti-Radicals ought to pursue, or
to define in detail the lesson taught by this
great monetary debate and the resulting vote.