The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-10
THE OHIO DEMOCRACY.
From the N. Y. Herald.


The Ohio Democracy have made discovery
They have been long time about it, but
they have hit it at last. They have found
out that their Copperhead leaders lead them
only to defeat, and so the party, in solemn
State Convention assembled, have taken a
new departure. They have dropped Vallan-
digham and all his tribe and have drawn upon
the Union army of the war for their standard
bearer, and General Rosecrans is their man
for next Governor of Ohio 1t seems that
this forward movement was not made with
out stubborn resistance, but that even the
powerful name of Pendleton was vainly
brought into the convention to head off the
Union hero of Murfreesboro. This is very
remarkable, in view of the fact that during
the war, as a Rebel sympathizer, Vallandig-
ham, from Burnside's military court in Ohio,
was sent under guard to Rosecrans in Ten
nessee, and by him passed over to the South
ern Confederacy, where it was thought said
Vallandigham properly belonged; but the
change of front in question is not so re-
markable, in view of another fact, that on
returning from the South Vallandigham was
made the Democratic candidate for Governor
of Ohio, only to be beaten by hundred
| thousand majority.
We incline to the opinion, however, that
Mr.. Vallandigham and his followers will
cheerfully support this new movement of the
Ohio Democracy. With all his Copperhead
crotchets, he is Democrat of progressive
| ideas; and we think he has mastered this diff
cult problem to the Bourbon, that there has
been a deluge which has changed the face of
the whole political world. At all events,
General Rosecrans is strong candidate and
will be hard to beat. His military record,
down to his disastrous day at Chickamauga,
is one of the most brilliant of the half dozen
leading Union generals of the war. That day
at Chickamauga, however, ended his military
career. But still his great services in the
field were not forgotten, for when nominated
for the Mexican mission by President John
son, he was promptly confirmed by the Senate
as a recognition of the deserving soldier
patriot, gentleman, and scholar.
From this point we may date the political
Towering out of General Rosecrans, in hi
| volunteer diplomatic mission to the famous
constellation of generals of the late Southern
Confederacy, assembled last summer at th
Virginia White Sulphur Springs. His con
ciliatory negotiations with those general
placed him, by common consent, en- rdpp0r
with the grand national Democratic reunion
in Tammany Hall. His recall from Mckee
by President Grant, we presume, has, iron
the political laws of gravitation, landed Gene
raj Rosecrans full-hedged Democrat one
f more in Ohio His nomination, we say, is
hit as a new departure for the Ohio Demo
cracy. 1t relieves them of the stigma of Cop
perheadism and in spiking that radical gu
r they gain, perhaps, not less than thirty thou
: sand votes.
In the new Democratic platform set up fc
General Rosecrans, there is not much of gene
raj importance that is new The party
Ohio adhere to these doctrines-that the Co
ernment bonds ought to be taxed that I'll
/ bondholders in their redemption ought to
satisfied with greenbaeks that a high prote
r tive tariff serves only to enrich New Englan
t manufacturers; that each State should reg
+ late the elective franchise for itself; and tn
the fifteenth amendment is subverslve OF I'll
a principles of the Federal Constitution, as
s an amendment, good or bad, could have al
g other purpose than to change the Constit
: ton. The convention further declares tn
the radical policy is tending to consolidate
= despotism; that our national banking syste
Q (AIr .Chase's) is one of the worst outgrowtl
of the bonded debt; and that the doings
n the military commissions in Texas, und
d President Grant, ''are violations OF the me
II sacred rights of American citizens, etc,
/ The issue, then, in Ohio is sharply draw
% against the administration; but, strange
n enough, Cuba, Mexico, and the AlabaI
j. claims are left out. But to sum up:-I
II nomination of General Rosecrans, OF itself,
% a great step forward by the Ohio Democrat
,t 1t falls far behind the forward movement
the Virginia conservatives, but it is still
il, movement in the same direction; and in
of same direction, it will doubtless soon appe
st all the opposition forces of the country
a. ! drifting In short, the elements of new