Wilmington journal., 1875-09-17
lssE oEEsO C1lIpAEaS.
rFrom tha Nashxflle American

[frron tha Nashville Amrri:in1
! The Ohio Radicals and National
Bank In,n,polis:.s IL have undoubtedly
/ h'o"m" satisfied that they cannot ,rry
. The STAT, upon their financial platform,
hence they have gone earnestly at
work 10 change the issue They say
rs little uE possible about the currency
and devote their time iii the vain effort
to friEhten the people by feigned fears
of til" Pope ard the Church Of Rome.
The Ra,i;cai c,.. ,!id4te for Governor,
Gtn"TaI Hays, boldly announced that
the fight which he and his party were
making against the u ,m0crucy of
Ohio was the same which Bismarck
and Gladstone and Victor Emanuel
Were making IN Eur"pe against the
Pope. III Othtr words, the Eudica is
Of Ohio are endenyorlng to get up
another Know Nothing party. When
fully discussed ard und-rstOod, it will
meet with as iguuble fate as did the
Know Nothingism of 1855.
IT. Y. r., correspondent of the Gin
Gin lati COHtnCrciUl, has been cam
paigning through the length and
brea It'll of Ohio, attending the po!it;-
cal meetings i'll different portions Of
tho State ana fUrri hing campaign-
ing views - tn his paper. He sees the
mistake the Radicnls have n ,de. and
he does unt hesitate to expose it, al
though the COD11terciul is ardent in
the support of the Radical ticK"t. In
a recent letter from Cleveland, Ohio,
he SAYS:
Tho fnarcial ISSUE is all important.
There Is not, rs I can see, any school
Issue involved and the fact that the
Republican speakers are trying TO
make an issue ut of II, knowing that
nineteen out of twenty voters favor the
free schools just rs they are. looks as
though, as Gov. lien would say, that
they had about run out of soap.
If Ohio is carried by the Democrats,
it viii be upon the financial issues.
Times are hard, business has had a
fearful buckset, and thousands are ont
of employment who wonld be glad to
get work, or are laboring for half pay.
near Leetolin, the men get but 81 05
per day, and at other furnaces they
only get 81. The furnace owners are
not to blame. Many say that they are
not making a cent, but keep the ma
chine i'll motion ont of pure pity for
the workmen who have labOred for
them SO long, and who otherwise would
be thrown out without bread, without
even the half loaf they get now.
For man who gets only a dollar
(Which Is not a dollar) a day for his
exactng labor in an iron furnace, and
has a family to support and rent to
pay out of that, he is not in state OF
the keenest anxiety about the Geghan
bill. As one of them told me Mt Lee
the Catholic question. We want to
know if the Republican party is res
ponsible for these awful hard times.-
II they arc wen put 'em ont quicker'n
flash.
Little do these men care for the Ge-
CHAN bill and the Pope's toe. With
their own toes ont and their knees and
elbows out, their attention is taken up
this side of Rome.
The Democratic speakers get before
these men and charge in the boldest
plainest. mos unmistakable terms
that the Republican party is RESPONSE
BILE for the bard times and for the
stagnation in all branches of business.
They picture that great farce. cheat,
fraud and sell the specie resumption
bill, and make it appear that it means
something, when in fact, the same
number of words commanding
tho Mississippi river to cease flowing
in Januarv 1879, would mean just as
much and affect az much. They say
this Republican measure is the cause
of the distress by unsetting values,
making men 10th to engage in busi-
ness, and causing a contraction of the
currency, and don't know what all.