Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1878 — The October Elections. [ARTICLE]

The October Elections.

The returns from the four States— Zl* ■ I »■ „ T/ittrn nvirl 17*1 Im —in which elections were held on Tuesday last—though not yet complete, afford substantial cause for rejoicing by the friends of honest money and politiespousea the National-Greenback doctrine, and, in order to secure votes, became a mere tender to the Greenback movement. Judge Thurman gave the key-note of the new departure, and it has been proved, by the r6sult of Tuesday’s wont, to have been -Hie deathknell of his Presidential aspirations, if not the end and funeral-dirge of his political career. Last year he and his party carried‘ the State of Ohio bv 22,000 majority; this year they have lost it by 10,000 votes. ’ Even the carrying out the order from tbe Speaker of the National House of Representatives, the Hon. Sam Randall, to redistrict the State in the ioterestof their party.has failed signally ol the sweeping results expected. In fact, some of the most prominent Democratic members who aided in securing legislation in favor of the nefarious scheme, have already been lolitically ignored and defeated. The Republicans in Ohio return at least ninq

members to the House of Representative*. Banning failed of a rejtomipation in Cincinnati, and Sayler of a reelection. Two Republican members succeed them in representing the city. Indiana, according to latest returns, will have one Greenback, six Republican and six Democratic members in the next House of Representatives. lowa will Ixj represented by two Greenback and seven Republican members. The State went Republican by about 16,000 majority. West Virginia will return its three Representatives, all Democrats. The State, as usual, elected Democratic State officers, but by greatly reduced majorities. The result of Tuesday’s work presents the Republican party to the country with a slight decrease in their National representation, but to the world, At home and abroad, as the advocates of honest money—the world’s money of account and exchange—while the Democratic party, committed through Thurman and other party leaders to the rag-baby, have in their political platforms and later in campaign speeches, indorsed and become a tender to the Greenback movement, thus going back upon all their former financial declarations, and leaving themselves, as a party, without a party policy pr prestige upon which to count upon any degree of success in the November elections. On the other hand the Republican .party, after seventeen years of brilliant achievements, stands squhrelyTTOt' only upon its honest-money platform but upon its entire past record. Upon these claims it will win, or it will court defeat rather than become the advocate of a depreciated currency and the tender of an upstart political faction. The result of Tuesday’s work cannot fail to leave a lasting impression upon the better judgment of the communities, the influence of which in the November elections will secure to the Republican party a decisive victory and to the country an escape from the villainies of Democratic rule, and ultimate repudiation and financial ruin.— The New Republic.