New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-21
PENNSYLVANJ1-OHIO.

Five or six States hold elections OIL Tuesday
October 18th; but the deepest interest centers
upon PENNSYLVANIA and Ohio. Gen. Geary, the
Republican Governor of PENNSYLVANIA, who
served his country acceptaby i'll the War for
the Union, is candidate for reelection, OPP
posed by Asa Packer, Copperhead Congress
man of 1.-THE times that tried mems souls
Gen. Hays the Republican Governor of Ohio,
is in like manner opposed by George ii. Pen
detOn, who was in Congress from 1861 to 1865,
and there steadfastly resisted as unconstltu-
tiOnal and aggressive every effort to oppose
force to force in defense OF the Union.
If Mr.. Pendleton is right, then the overthrow OF
the COnfederacy was wrong, and we ought forth
with to withdraw the authority and flag of the
Union from the South and pay her the damage
wrongfully, wantOnly inflicted on her. ovote
George II. Pendleton into the office of Gov
ernor is to vote that the loyal sons of Ohio
who for love of the Union poured out their
blood like water at Pittsburgh Landing, at
Stone River around Vicksburgh, at Chicka-
manga, and in Shermans bloody Atlanta cam
paign, died as the fool dietl, inhicting injury
and outrage on a heroic and long suffering peo
pie.
We do not believe Pendleton can be elected !;
we should have no doubt on the subject if the
| Republicans of Ohio had been wisely cOunseled
and nobly led by their politicians. But some
| of these have been blowing with the Greenback
| heifer and talking the anti-Tarff sophstry
| which their fathers would have spurned and
| all this is grist to the Copperhead mill. The
voter who is convinced, no matter by whose
arguments, that the bonds given for money
borrowed to save.thc Union with perfect I'M
derstanding on both sides that they would be
paid at maturity in coin-borrowed on the faith
of assurances from the head of the Federal
Treasury that they certainly should be so paid
may nevertheless be paid off in Greenbacks
fabricated in reams for the purpose, and paya-
bic at no definite time or place-will vote for
the author of that gigantic swndle, and not for
his paltry aud cowardly followers. They will
know that he means it, and that the Republi-
can who tries to steal his thunder is time
serving bypOcrite, who processes rascality be-
cause he supposes it the fashion. The voter
who really means to pay the Debt in Green
backs, and to cut down the Tariff so that it
ca ut be .paid in anything else is very unlikely
to stand by the party which sends Schenck and
Garfield to Congress, and mOurns the exclusion
from the National Councils, by minority vote,
of faithful and fearless Ben. Wade.
In Ohio, the Democratic politicians hope to
make votes by opposing Protection, and are
outspoken Free Traders in Pennsylvania. they
know that Protection is overwhelmingly strong,
| and so say nothing about it. Yet the defeat
of Geary will be shouted over from Maine to
Texas, no matter how uDjustly, as u triumph
of Free Trade over Protection, and will give a
| powerful impetus to the anti-Tariff hurrah in
| Congress. Every Free Trader in the State is
for Packer, and his election will powerfully
| tend to quench half the furnace-fres of the
| Keystone State. Whenever the Democratic
party get the upper hand in Congress, Protec-
| ton is doomed, and q hundred Packers cannot
save it if they would.
The Republicans of neither State can make
anything by seeking to evade the great issues
which divide the country. The Republicans
of California might have been beaten anyhow
they sealed their doom when they tried to
pronounce the Democratic shibboleth with re-
gard to the Chinese. When the Republican
party ceases to be the champion of Equal
Rights, regardless of race or color its grave
will be dug. Ii Can give no reason why its
life should be prolonged one. hour after il
ceases to stand up f0r Government of the
People, by the People, for the People" Who
ever contends that q quarter of the adult male
citizens living in a county or district ought to
make all the laws levy all the taxes and hold
all the Offices, because the rest are nothing but
ringers" Black or Yellow, is a Sham Demo
Graf, and ought to own it. To call himself O
| Republican while lac thinks and feels like n