New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-07-17

associates, lOOkeu On Will pIolounu uioe"'v
while the infationist took possession of the Con-
vention, and wrung the neck of the hard
money Democracy of Ohio. They made their
little mental reservations. They promised them
selves and each other to be true to their prin-
ciples, and to "fefOrm their party from the
"inside." But the work was done. Mr.. Thur
man and his friends ceased to exist rs repre-
septatives of the better class of the national De-
mOcracy. They are as respectable and as clever
as they ever were but they can no longer claim
TO represent the Ohio Democrats, without beng
false to every recent profession which has
gained them tho confidence of thinking people
out of the State They have been beaten, in short,
and fifty thousand majority for the ticket this
Fall would not regain for them the position
they lost at the State Convention. If they win
victory, it will not be they, but the rag
money men who will say, and who VIII have
right to say, what shall be done with 1t.
So far the disaster is complete and ire
trievable We shall see IN short time
whether it goes farther than this and destroys
The personal standing and good rcpute OF these
gentlemen among their fellOwcitizcns. We
expected to see this question solved on the
DIST at Gallipolis, where both Allen and lhnr-
man were advertised to open the campaign
But Mr.. Thurman has postponed ms opening
address until the 3lst, and Mr.. Allen has can
cclcd his appointment without making another
II is n serious business, and Will scarcely get
any better by delay. For while these deieateu
champions of sound currency and an honest
financial policy hesitate, the ground Is occu-
pied by their blatant and triumphant enemies.
Mr. Sam Cary has no scruplcs TO keep him
tongue-tied He is screaming all over the
State as loudly for grcenbaclls and
free whisky as lie ever clamorcd fer
penal prohibition. AIr. Pendleton Is also
busy in the field though his scheme
of reputation is moderate beside the ravlngS
of later inhationists. In fact, the prospect Is
that if the Democrats carry the State 1t VIII
be claimed rather as a lag-moncy victory IMAM
Democratic. For the strongest speech thus
far made on their side is that of Mr.. kelley
at YOUNGSTOWN, in which that radical RIpub-
lican went far beyond the worst of Democrats
in abusln: capitalists and melting the mob to
acts of violence. IL i not Mr. TnurInln'S KIND
of Democracy which VIII profit by such shame
less communism as that which NJ Kelley de-
IiYcred TO the labOTing men OF Youngstown on
Saturday last. Nor can men like Inn take
much comfort from the fact that Gen. Butler
supports the platform upon which Nil Allen IS
running. The canvass has passed ont Of the
hands of the best men in the party and they
need not hope at this late day to posses, them
selves of their lost leadership
But the greatest damage which men ever
incur is in the efforts they max" to re-
trieyc losses. If Mr.. Thurman and the able
and honorable gentlemen who think with linn
would now frankly admit to themselves their
defeat, and cease 10 follow on in the dust and
dirt behind the tricksters and lunatics who
have committed their party TO imitation and
dishonesty, they would still have time to save
something far more valuable than their party
standing. \ victory for the initiation platform
will complete their overthrow as Democratic
leaders, besides crippling perhaps fatally, the
Democratic national party. Its defeat would
be, even to men like Thurman and Payne, an
event far less injurious. We do not include
MIR. Allen in these considerations lie natu-
rally wants to be elected, and would rather II,
Governor than nothing.