Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-09-04
Political Leaders in ohio.
From the New York Tribune-l
Hnrrrnr.m Ann % lShI

and to-day the old "war-horse of Ohio,
Ben. Wade" opens his battery at Ma
rietta.
Thurman, the Democratic candidate
for Governor, is not, and never was, a
popular man even with his III party.
His well-known sympathy with the Re-
bellion has caused many an honest
Democratic farmer to gravely shake his
head and seriously doubt If he al vote
for such a man. Ii is still worse with
the soldiers, and we doubt if they can
get up their Democracy to the point OF
voting for one who wished for their de-
feat in the field, and would have been
glad to see them come home beaten
Deserving to the enemy in the Heat OF
the battle, or firing into the backs of
their comrades, would have been no
worse tseaehery than 10 desert now,
when the results of the war are to be
fixed at the ballot-box. The Demo
cratic leaders do not, indeed, expect
to win over any considerable number
of the soldiers. The bringing of Val
landigham into the canvass will do
much to drive of, not only the soldier
vote, but these honest men who, while
they do not believe in Radiealism, hate
and despise q traitor. The fact that
he is in favor of Thurman's election
viii cost that gentleman at least 10000
votes. The trouble in Vallandigham's
case is, that he has more brains than
the rest of the Ohio Democrats, and no
sooner is he cast up to the political sur
face than he shines like q putrescent
fish on the sea shore, attracting the no
tice Of everybody by his brightness,
yet disgusting ali by his unsoundness.
/ The Democrats of Ohio should have
remembered the examples set them by
| the Philadelphia Convention, and re-
quested the man who had been convict
ed of ~disloyslty by a Court-martial,
District Court, and Supreme Court, to
retire'out of the sight Of loyal men yet
a while. If it was not for his previous
record, Vallandigham would make the
best showing for his party of any man
on the Democratic stump. His speech
es, so far, have been terse, able, and
interesting, whila the wstery stuff OF
Ranney and Thurman presents neither
ideas, nor logic; indeed, it Il pretty
certain both Ranney and Thurman
train under the Great Expelled, and
that he will have to Trrnish the Demo
cratic side with brains for their canvass.
We have read two of Humans
speeches, and he makes a poor enough
hand at it, dear k1oYs. In the first
he reads from an English book long
extracts, TO show that the negroes IN
Jamaica did not get along so well after
they were set free as before. The book
has long ago been c~outradicted but
2 if it were true, we cannot see what
bearing it has upon the GoEernorship
Of Ohio, CT even the negro question in
America. This excellent candidate for
chief ruler of Ohio then goes IN to ar
que the inferioritY of the negro race,
forgetting entirely that n of the nm
est speakers now on the stump in the
State is the ReF. G. II. Graham, a ne
gro, and that John n. Langston. one
of Ohio's most noted lawyers snd elo-
ouent men, is black. In his second
speech, MI. Thurman touches the f.
nsncial question but with nervous
fear. like a child playing with fire, who
is afraid every moment of burning its
fingers. He Is evidently IN favor of re-
pudiation, but knowing how uppalatR-
bic that doctrine would be to the peo-
pie of Ohio, he Whips the devil round
the stump by proposing that the bonds
shall be retired and gre5Ibacks issued
in their stead. He hopes the people
will not see that this move is nothing
more nor less than reputation IN an
other form, since it would not be posi-
bic to retire the bonds without render
ing the grsenbaeks worthless. Under
cover of reducing tbs taEes the Cover
nor addresses himself to the task OF
persuading the people TO destroy their
banks, and with them half their prop
ertv. but he frets over the subject, and
after laboring down a column abandons
it in alaim. Ysllandighhm and Ran
ney boldly approach the financial cues
ton aud earnestly argue in favor oil re-
placing the bonds with paper money,
and thus lowering the taxes. This
bond and tax question is to be made
the clap-trap of the campaign, and the
orators hope to catch many an honest
farmers vote with the promise of low
taxes. The demsgogism of their plan
will scoE be exposed, however, and
when the farmers sse population / n
IL. they will be apt to give cot cEly the
plan. but the men who advocate it, q
cold shoulder.
Ranney is a fine old fossil, who has
been handed down to US from bygone
generations. He is violently opposed
to railroads, steamboats,, and ali kinds
of modern improvements. Give him
his own way, and he would prove a
bull in a china shop among the inVen-
tors and their "infernal devices for des-
troying useful manual labor" AcCor-
mick and his reaper would be burned
Howe scalped, and his sewing-machine
smashed, while such devilish old fel-
Logs as Fulton and Ben Franklin would
have theiF hopes exhnmed and cast in
to the sea as unworthy TO lie buried on
the land. Ranney is furiously opposed
to our present system of finance
though what kind of a system he would
have he does not say. | asked a gen.
tlemsn the other day if he knew what
kind OF money Ranney wanted put in
cIrculation7 He replied he did not,
but thought the Judge believed in a
valuation of sill animals and goods, and
their exchange in lieu of money. If
we remember correctly, ARENAS Ward
explained in one of his lectures the
working of such a currency in Utah
The first man brought a cat TO pay his
way into the show, the next a pig, and
received the cat in change; the next
a goat, and got the pig in change then
a man brought a COW, and got a dog,
two pigs, and q cat in change, and SO
on to the end of the exhibition. The
shoYman ASSERTS that the people all car
ried their change into The audience
with them, and that there vas fire.
unently. during the performance, great
financial disturbances. He also tells us
that the fellow making change at the
window with the pigs greatly disturbed
his lecture. For his enlightenment,
we heartily commend the experience
of the renowned Snowman to the great
financial Judge. The antipathy of the
Judge to the Pacific Railroad is mar
velors. Say Pacific Road" to him,
and he is jrstprtly affected as much as
the sight of water affects s Tsbi9 dog.
After the election, IVerily believe he
will buy a blanket and tomahswk, and
Join Spotted Tail and his braves. How
it would delight the soul of the Judge
to lie in the long prairie grass and blaze
away at that cussed engine as it passed!
Perhaps the most intensely earnest
and learned man lin his own estima- a;