The annual election of a Governor of Ohio came off
on Wed- nesday. It was this year of great importance, as the struggle had become one between the advocates of "hard" and "soft" money, and was expected to show the feeling of the Western men on that important point. The Democrat candidate, Mr. Allen, is a leader of the Inflationists, while his Republican opponent, Mr. Hayes, is strongly for a resumption of cash payments. Up to the very day of the election both parties were confident, as the Democrats carried the State in 1874, and the Republicans have the Administration behind them. The result was the election of Mr. Hayes, by a majority of 4,000, in an unusually heavy vote. In Iowa also, which the Democrats felt confident of carrying, they have been defeated by crushing majorities, the House of Representa- tives being almost unanimously Republican. The Democrats will allege that this change is owing in great part to General Grant's " appeal to Protestant feeling "—that is, to his denuncia- tion of State grants for sectarian education—but though that may have had some influence, the vote is understood to show that a paper-currency platform will ruin the party which adopts it.
