The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-09-03

test now being waged between the two
great parties. Fos number of years
Ohio has been intensely radical, with
now and then CLEAN of light penetrat-
ing the murky gloom. The Republi-
cans have counted their majorities by
fifty. seventy-fve and hundred thou
sand and over. There is no State in
the Union where the people are more
intelligent, in the ordinary acceptation
Of the term, and yet SO ignorant and
impracticsble. In population and
wealth it ranks as third; in the produc-
ton of great statesmen it is practically
a failure. 1t has failed to furnish q
man of commanding craftsmanship
since the death of Chase. Ewing and
Corwin, except Thurman and one or
two others who are under a cloud. The
hoodlum element of the Democracy
and the scallawags of the Republican
party, obtained control of the Demo-
cratic party in that State, adopted an
initiation platform, and nominated that
good old weak man William Allen for
Governor. 1t seems that Allen and the
whole State ticket will be elected by
large majorities. This result will be
brought about through the intense dis
gust the people have there for Grant
ism. They can swallow greenbacks
and unlimited imitation rather than
indorse Grant, Delano, Garfield and
poker Schenk by supporting the Re-
publican ticket. The currency ques-
ton is one of the great issues of the
county, AID will enter largely into the
next Presidential election. 1t is to be
regretted that the Democracy of Ohio
made such fatal mistake. Should
Allen be elected it will be claimed by
the infationists South and West as an
emphatic Endorsement of that policy.
This however is not a fair deduction;
the people of Ohio unfortunately,
through the manipulation Of political
tricksters, are called upon to choose
between the Washington Ring and in
dation, and they feel that it would be
a burning shame and an everlasting
disgrace to indorse tho former. What
ever may be the result il that election
upon the great question of finance,
greenbacks and gold, there can be no
mistake in the position OF the National
Democratic party. The sentiments of
the party are so clearly and forciby
expressed in a speech of the great Con-
stitutional expounder, Daniel Webster,
that we quote therefrom:
Most unquestionably there is no le-
gal tender III this country, under the
authority OF this Government or any
other, but gold and silver, either the
coinage of our own minis, or foreign
coins, at rates regulated by Congress.
This is Constitutional principle, per-
fectly plain and of the very highest i'm
portance. The States are expressly
prohibited from making anything but
gold and silver legal tender in pay
ment Of debts, and although no such
express prohibition is applied to Con-
gress, yet as Congress has no power
granted TO it in this respect, but to
coin money. and to regulate the value
of foreign coins. it clearly has no pow
er to substitute paper or anything else
for coin as tender in payment ofdebts
and in discharge of contracts. Con-
gress has exercised this power fully in
both its branches. 1t has coined
money and still coins it; it has regu-
lated the value of foreign coins, and
still regulates their value. The legal
tender, therefore, the constitutional
standard Of value, is established and
cannot be overthrown. To overthrow
it would be to shake the whole system.
OF all the coatrivances for cheating the
laboring classes of mankind, none has
been more effectual than that which de-
ludes them with paper money. Ordi-
nary tyranny, oppression, excessive
taxation-these bear lightly on the
happiness of the mass of the COM
munity, compared with a fraudulent
currency, and the robberies committed
by deprecated paper. Our own his
tory has recorded for our instruction
enough and more than enough of the
demoralizing tendency. the injustice
and intolerable oppression on the
virtuous and well disposed, of degraded
paper currency authorized, or in any
way countenanced by tho Government.