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Show OHIO. Ohio has gjrc Republican. Ohio has always been a doubtful State, with a leaning lean-ing to Republicanism. Much of the importance im-portance attaching .he way the Buckeye Buck-eye State goes if owing to the fact that it has always been an Octn'-r State, and in ' Presidential years it - . ways decided in October howhwimH November. Novem-ber. Henceforth it w'ui v :i Hoveinber State, and then the Oh. o okction will have lost much of iis impo- ti:xo as Indicating Indi-cating which way the winj blows. The result of Tuesday's election can really j have but little effect upon the ailment of the. nation as regards the Administration. Adminis-tration. ' In 1883 Hoadly was elected Governor by a majority of 12,oJ over Judge Foraker, the succc-vful candidate can-didate of Tuesday last. That was a Gubernatorial year, while 18S4 was a Presidential year. In 1884 Ohio was for Blaine by a majority of 31,802. There remain four counties to hear from, and they may reduce For-aker's For-aker's plurality or increase it, but let it be assumed that it will remain as now given, namely, 19,595. Foraker's gain over Hoadley is 7,(KU, while the Vote for Blaine in 1SS4 was a gain of 19,273 over Hoadly's majority in 18S3. From this it will be seen that the Republican gain in the Gubernatorial year of 1S85 is not nearly so great as in the President ial year of 1S34. So far as the result of the Ohio election being an endorsement or condemnation condem-nation of the Administration, it is neither one nor the other. It could not be expected that the Republicans would endorse a Democratic Administration, and if there . .has, been a defection in the Democratic ranks in Ohio on account of the policy of the Administration, then such defection is owing to the close adherence of the - Admimstration to the platform, and particularly par-ticularly that part which referred to civil- service reform. If the Administration can only have an endorsement by the Democrats oOhio, that is, the portion supposed sup-posed to have been defected, only upon the doctrine that to the victors belong the spoils, then the Administration is much the same as Rip Van Winkle said about the whisky it is better without it. A cartoon in the last number of Puck puts the question of civil-service reform better than we have seen it put any where. It represents Cleveland standing upon a street-car platform, and John Kelly looking look-ing out and calling to him that it is-against is-against the rules to stand ' upon the platform. Cleveland retorts that he thought the platform was made to stand upon. Cleveland was sincere about the platform, but the politicians are not. The politicians have run the country for a great many years, but now the rule of the people has begun, and it is the politicians alone who are complaining about adherence ad-herence to civil-service reform. If there was much dissatisfaction in" Hamilton county on account of the President's course it came chiefly from the politicians who have a large force right under their thumb there. The result of the - Ohio election is chiefly to be regretted because it is an assurance that John Sherman will be again sent to the Senate, and John Sherman in the Senate means hostility hos-tility to the Administration for hostility's sake. |
