Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1885 — OHIO. [ARTICLE]

OHIO.

A Great Republican Victory In the Buckeye State. [From the Chicago Tribune.] At the present writing the indications are that Foraker has been elected Governor of Ohio by 18,000 plurality. In spite of des-,: perate frauds in Cincinnati and unfavorable weather for Ute Republicans in all parts of the State, the result of two years ago has been reversed, and a stinging rebuae has been administered to the spoilsmen and party bosses of the State. The dupliciiy of St. Judas and Leonard was apparently well u derstood by the sincere temperance people of the State, whi e the nauseating subserviency of Hoadly co the saloon power must hate brought over to the Republican ranks many who would favor a prohibition amendment if it were to be submitted to the people as a distinct issue. The Prohibition vote in the State is estimated at 22,000, a large part, of which is drawn from Democratic loca ities. Doubtless many Democrats who did npt wish openly to bolt the party adopted this quiet method of voting in the air nnd at the same time expressing disgust with Hoadly's too flagrant coquetting with the rum power.

The legislative returns are not nearly complete, but enough have been received to permit a fair estimate that the Legislature will have fifteen Republican majority on joint ballot, insuring, the re-election of the Hon. John Sherman. The Republican triumph in Ohio may be ascribed to four distinct moving forces: . First —Public disgust at the magnificent pretensions and hollow performances of the “reform” administration in Washington, the sincerity of which was exhibited in the pardon of the ruffian Mullen by President Cleveland on the recommendation of Gov. Hoadly. Second—An exposure of the corrupt and degrading political alliance between the St Judas Prohibition cranks and the Democratic advocates of free rum. Third—The Germans came to their senses. They perceived that no attack was to be made upon their “personal liberty.” They realized that the effort to attach them permanently to the Democratic party on the issue of beer and boodle as opposed to patriotism and pure government was an insult to the Teuton race, and infinitely degrading to their own manhood and spit-respect. • Fourth—There was a healthy and vigorous reaction from the results of the election of 1883, which elevated the coal-oil syndicate to power in Ohio, and made Henry B. Payne Senator from that State by virtue of a corrupt coalition and an almost open traffic in the votes of the members of the Legislators. The boodle-bug was a little too conspicuous an object in the campaign. His phosphorescent glow reached too far and illuminated in too great a degree the dark transactions of those who introduced him into the politics of Ohio. Yesterday was a great day for the Republicans of Ohio and of the whole country. It was probably but a forecast of what is to happen in New York in November. The Republican party has gone out of power at Washington so that the money might b e counted and the books but how that everything has been found right, even to the cent that rolled undef the table, there is no reason why the party should not resume business at: the old stand in 1889. So long as Democrats hold office by the dishonest votes of seven Southern States we shall not believe that the Republican party has been put in the rear of the procession except as a temporary trial of its Christian graces and virtues.