New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-08-25


party to attempt to follow after and cooperate
with these furious madmen in the hope OF
muzzing them after they have gained their
victory and got taste of blood. II they could
not keep them from capturing convention
whose leading members were the authors VI
the admirable CuyahOga platform, and the
foremost personssin the community, 1t is the
extreme of faulty to suppose they can control
the same reckless and unprincipled element IN
a National Convention, when their doctrines
shall have received the sanction OF popular
majority In great State, after hard-fought
and exciting campaign. They will claim,
and with some justice also, that their VIC
tory has been won without the help OF the
hard money men. They will say that the
cautious and hedging speeches of Thurman
and Mcdonald did their cause as much harm
as good, and that the success of the ticket de-
pended upon its audacOus and unreserved sup
porters. 1t is hard Tor any man to admit that
he is beaten inside his own party. But 1t
would be far less disagrecablo for Mr.. Thur
man and those like him to admit this now,
than to be compelled to swallow the cup OF
bitterness which wOnld be commended to their
lips by the rcpuiiaiOni-ts of the party, AFTER
Allen should be elected. They would no longer
be treated with even q semblancc OF courtesy
or respect.
There is another consideration of special
gravity in connection with this matter. Con-
gress will come together soon after the Autumn
elections are over. For the first time In many
years the House of Representatives will be
controlled by Democratic majority. Who
hat nff.. imitation
victory will have upon these new and I'M
questionable members They are not gem
crally of such seasoned material IA to with
stand such blast of popular influence I'M
moved We have already seen too much of
the effect of party discipline upon the prin-
cples of hard money Democrats. Thurman
going about in chains, yet asserting his free
dom, is a painful spectacle; Cox making
ratification speech over platform he deSplsed
j, not an encouraging sight Mcdonald declar-
ing that, although he believed unalterably in a
specie basis, he saw no objection to the Govern
ment issuing as many Treasury notes a. seemed
necessary for business, does not give us much
hope for the next Congress. III Mr.. Allen Is
elected, what would virtue like this be worth
against an energetic attack from a caucus OF
inHationistsY There would be little hope from
the Republicans, in that case. If honest cur
rency was shown to have few friends in the
West, who imagines that Morton would stand
by ito Would Ogiesby wandering in the
doubts bred of honest ignorance, come out on
the successful or the beaten sidel Logan at
titude is already known to all men. He is an
open and loud mOuthed defender of the worst
forms of imitation. If a day should come next
Winter when the fate of the National credit
and sovency depended upon the vote OF the
Senate, what reason have we for confluence In
the result, if Ohio should this Autumn throw
her influence on the wrong side.
We do not ask the intelligent men in the
Democratic party to indulge in any Illusions
They arc i'm a bad dilemma. If they elect
Allen, they give their party over to ruinous
heresy. If they defeat him. they check for
moment the tide OF success which seems to be
bearing them on TO national victory, and
must take the chances of rcgainng the ground
thus lost, before next year. The damage was
done at Columbus, and cannot now be undone.
1t only remains for them to decide whether
they will aid in the triumph of principles
which they know to be dangerous and even
criminal, or rcbuke at all hazards the turbu-
lent and reckless minority in their own party,
which has placed them in this predicament.
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