Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-14
Rus nIuOCRAcY AND TEE cur
RENCY QUESTION.

10 to pieces on the financial qnes'ion.
The Democracy of New England. New
York and the Middle States are for hard
money. In the West they are for ID
The difference is as absolutely
as protection and free
trade The Ohio Democracy" says
III. New York Herald. ''have given
great advantage 10 the enemy by reopen
;ue nusessonably a controversy whose
further prosecution at this time tends to
consolidate the Republicans and divide
the Democrats of the country ut large.
The unity of the party will not be pro-
NOTED by the fir~brnnd which has been
flung into the Democratic camp. The
Ohio Convection should have foreseen
thu, Their platform would provoke dissent
aud dcnunciation in the Eastern organs
Of the party. and that an internal war this
year forsbodes something very different
lum harmony in the Democratic Nation
n Convention. next year. 1t Was to have
been hoped that the Western and South
srn Democratic inaationists would
ouis,Iy have como around to tho ira
lisional bard money views OF tho party
without being forced to . notifying re-
ANNEXATION. Had tho question been per-
mitsed to r-st for year or two sound
declaration ON the currency question
eould have been inserted in the national
platform next yesr. and party fsalty
vonld have done the rest. But the Ohio
bluuil.r will carry the controversy into
the National Convention. and the in-
Asaiou Dsmocrais will snrr-uder only
after . hard fight in that body. The
tr.n.f.r Of the quarrel I" that arena IS
inevitable unieas the Democratic party
il badly beaten in Ohio next October.
and That result might be preferable to
strengthening the Democratic imitation
lists of the West and South by = local
success on such . platform. If the
Democracy of Ohio should be a"un'lly
whipped this year the hard money men
will easily have their own ~ay in the
National Convrntion. 1t II m nnfor-
tun.t- predieament for the party At large
n be pi>ces in. 1t is ''between the a.~il
and the deep sea- The loss ri Obi"
will encourage the Republicans :" I've
kevs that the Tidal wave" has h-en
saved anil turned back; and. On III
other hand, a Democratic victory on IN
irfission platform sill enable the II
pnbsicAna to use the same weapon" With
which they 80 4. cisively Put dow" the
D mn~rsey in 1868. A relapse I" Pen
6lrt..nism worli he fatal. and thu dancer
Of snrh q r-in,.s- will he imminent if the
Democrats carry Ohio this ye,E on their
imitation platform.
II the Democrats carry Ohio 'hi- i'll
om~ne,l controversy will be famed into
nov fervor ny the per-onrl sspira'i"n- 81
rival candidates. Tilden's friends and
B,ysri's friends will strain every nerve
to secure a bard money majority in thu
Convention. and the supporters OF every
Western candidate will he equally ar'iss
on The other side. The Illumination. ~
betue~n the East and West, will br con
troil.d by tho result Of the preliminar,
struggle IN the platform; for neithe'
Thurman nor Hendricks will have .
mich better chance than Pendleton him
self in Convention which prorlains 1T
unsIterahle devotion to hard money
Thurman has stood ny and held the gar
ments Of bard money while it vas stoned
BIZ the infi,tionists at Columbus. and hi
will be regarded as concerning party tt
its martyrdom. Moreover. he la
promised to take the stump. and will b
compelled by his antecedents to duar
and b. little the question. Hendricks i
in no better plight. In the State o
which he is Governor the Democrat:
adopted an imitation platform last yea
without protest or opposition from him
Neither he nor Thurman has any chance
nj all in n Convention which readopts /,
substance the New York Democrats
platform Of last year. They resemble
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