New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-05-18
THE OHIO ELECTION.

We publish elsewhere letter from Ohio
touching the coming election in that State. i
Convention Of the Fusion party that tTiumphed
so completely last autumn, has been called TO
meet on the 18th OF July. That Convention his
important duties to discharge. 1t is 10 nominate
a Governor Lieutenant-Goyernor, two Judges
of the Supreme Court, Acknowledgement and
two or three other State officers. For the sake
Of the great cause which Ohio 40 nobly and tri
umphantly sustained in 1854, we trust the ac-
ton Of that Convention may be wise and har-
moniOus.
We see that the name of Sir. Chase is promi
nent among the men named for Governor There
would certainly be an appropriateness in the
nomination Of that gentleman, considering the
eminent position he has held in the Anti-Ne-
braska conflict, such as would mark that of no
other man connected with the movement in that
State. He has been succeeded in the Senate by
nan representing ideas totally antagonistic to
his on the Nebraska question, and there IS
therefore fitness in submitting the question of
the approval Of his senatorial career directly TO
the people Lie has represented. The indorse-
ment of Mr.. Chase's course b. the people of
Ohio at this juncture would be more fatal to the
political influence of his successor than any
other expression of the popular sentiment how
ever distinctly il might be made. Mr..
Chase seems to us also to have advantages
On the score of availability over almost any
name the Convention is likely to suggest.
If nominated BY it, We presume no doubt
&c IL lu
whelming majority; while an attempt to subOr-
dinste the Anti-Nebraska sentiment OF the State
BY nomination less distinctly representing it
II ight be followed by fatal division We are
assuming that in this contest the old di-
visions of Wing, Democrat, and Indcpend-
ent Democrat, are dropped by common con-
sent and that the members of each
party, who went shoulder to shoulder through
the last contest on the Nebraska issue, propose
an equally complete combination now. And there
fore we do not feel at liberty to rake up old divi
sions existing between the several branches of
the Fusion party, or Friends of Freedom"
While We know that Mr.. Chase was never
Wing. and that upon at least one important
political question his opinions are opposed to
ours; and while in times past, forreasons we need
not here recapitulate, we have considered it our
duty very frankly to criticise his course, We
should nevertheless have hailed his reelection to
the Senate with unfeigned satisfaction His
career in that body marked by great ability
and by unHinching firmness on the Nebraska fues-
ton 1t was likewise distinguished by the high
merit of habtual resistance to all schemes of
public plumber. Against stealing in all its forms
Mr. Chase never failed to oppose his decided
hostility, and in Congress as debauched as the
last, this is merit of no ordinary character.
As he declined to connive at the robbery of the
Treasury by others, so was he guilty of no lit
tie piliering on his own account. He left his
constructive mileage in the Treasury. And so
far as we know, on general questions of legisla-
ton no mans record stands clearer or more de-
serving Of respect and appreciation.
Such being our position in regard to Mr..
Chase as a Senator, We cannot see any fair
ground Of opposition to him as the candidate of
the Fusion party for Governor. That he might
be changed for the better We do not doubt
and the nearer he approached to our standard
of opinion, no doubt the more perfect We should
consider him. But his ability and integrity in
the discharge of his legislative duties and
especially his active and important exer!ions in
opposing the Nebraska iniquity, compel US to
acknowledge that in our judgment he is the
most suitable man for the State of Ohio TO elect
as her next Governor.