Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-06-24
TNeao York Tribune.
The Disastrous Blunder of the
Ohio Democracy.

Gov. Aliens foolish notion that ne is
a possible President of the United
States, has been encouraged by the fl
nanciers of Ohio who long for the Con-
federate paper money system, and his
influence in aid of their policy produ-
ced the infationist and repudiationist
platform enthusiastically adopted at
Columbus yesterday.
This platform is a declaration of war
upon the National credit. Its PROPOSE
tions, carried out in public affairs,
would unquestionably plunge the coun-
try into ruinous extravaganza, ending
in bankruptcy and dishonor. The pro-
gramme of reputation is made partic-
ularly clear. The result is not only
manifest-the design is hardly dis
guised.
Gov. Aliens public record is that of
a hard-money man. He has many
times exposed the sophistries, the peu-
rilities and the dishonesties of the poll
cy of initiation, and he knows, too, that
the further issue of currency already
irredeemable, regulated by no fixed
laws, but intended to stuff the pockets
of speculators, means the proportion OF
enormous schemes of public profligacy,
and the robbery and jmpoverishment
If the people for the enrichment of the
swarms of schemers and sharpers. He
knows, also, if the currency were infia'
ted until everybody was satisfied, and
one-half of the customs dues paid with
the trash, that it would be impossible
for Government to pay the interest on
its bonds in coin, and that the public
credit would be at once swamped
There cannot be any doubt about this
The Confederate financiers here pro-
vide the very measures to reduce the
National debt to the condition of the
Confederate debt. The plan is to equal
ize the credit of the conquering Nation
with the conquered Confederacy, an6
it is precisely as plain as if it had beer
announced in terms. Nothing but thai
peculiar insanity which springs up in
the mind of a man who fancies him
self a candidate for the Presidency
can account for the consent to and sup
port of this shameful platform by Gov
Allen.
The talk about public honesty in con.
nection with the proposed cornstalk
and cabbage-leaf currency is preposter.
GUS and insolent. There is not thie
in America who wonld not thrive, moi
rascal who earns nothing but lives ri.
tics, who would not fatten-not bum.
mer looking to dirty public job who
would not bloat and grow greasy-ii
this sort of Democratic doctrine should
prevail. The programme is intended
to carry the jobs, from Newport News
to the jetties of the Mississippi, and
blow South Sea bubbles through the
land.
The platform is cry of: run here ev.
erybody unwilling to pay your honest
debts, and we will comfort you; gather
to this standard all who are interested
in public corruption, and you shall be
profited; come all ye fools who believe
/ in profits without earnings and riches
without labor, and we will help you!
The intelligence and the integrity OF
the people are disbelieved, their public
faith discredited, and their sense OF
honor doubted, and, more than all, their
common sense forgotten.
1t is precisely as consistent and hon.
orable for Gov. Allen to stand upon
the shinplaster platform and exalt the
glories of unlimited rag money as it is
for Gen. Cary to be associated with and
the candidate of a party that denounces
sumptuary laws, with especial reference
to the liquor traffic-the very sort of leg
islation that Cary spent quarter of a
century in advocating with his charac-
teristic vehemence, and fury of invec-
tive lavished upon all who dared to
make or sell the accursed stuff The
spectacle Of Allen and Cary on q rag