New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-09-03

after a financial panic, and 1t is only far that
the Republicans should take their turn. And
the Credit Mobilier too-several Administration
men were mixed up in that, and this is
another excellent reason for voting for Allen.
Anything, in his eyes, is better as an issue
this year than this money question, about which
people arc making such bother.
If a great man struggling with adversely is
a sight for tho admiration of the gods, a
clever and honest man. who is not quite great,
struggling in a false political position, is a
sight for the charity and the compassion of
men. 1t is scarcely possible that Mr. Thur
man should think that any issue is more i'm
pOrtant than that of national honesty. But he
is not strong enough nor sufficiently self-sacri-
fcing to see his true and highest interest in
denouncing the ma,iness and folly of his asso-
ciates in the present campaign, and he
does not seem to perceive the lu-
dcrOusness of his attempt to beguile
the public mind away from the only mo-
mentOus question before it. 1t is true that
Postmaster Edmunds's performance, striking
the clerks and employees of the Government
for an assessment on their salaries, is shame
full and disgusting thing, but man must be
sadly wanting in logic who should be driven
by that piece of official mcanness to vote for
Mr.. Allen and his platform of incipient repu-
diation. An orator wastes his words in talk
ing about the thefts and the extravaganza Of
the Republican party, if the object of his talk
ing is to induce sensible men to vote for a
policy which is in itself the worst possible
expression OF dishonesty and unthrift. The
nation can better endure any quantity OF black
mailing Edmundses and servile postmasters,
than submit to the adoption of scheme of
finance which is in its very essence thicvish,
and in its results so far az tested by the expe-
ricnce of ages, ruinOus and ruinOus only. In
short, Mr.. Thurman, and not he alone, but MIR.
Payne, Judge Spalding, Mr. Groesbeck, and
other honest and intelligent Democrats of Ohio,
ought at once to see that when any party puts
forth plan of imitation and reputation, and
supports it by the believing of demagogues
like Cary and Allen there is only one question
before honest men, and that is how best to
meet and put down this lawless and impudent
scheme.
Unfortunately the charges of dishonesty and
incompetency brought against the Republicans
are not as effective as they were last year.
We have seen the results of an opposition
victory in Ohio and in Illinois, and they are not
such as to give one party the right to indulge
in accusations of the other. All decent people
agree that the last Ohio Legislature was one
of the meanest and most worthless bodies That
ever sat in Columbus, and the i'll odOr Of that
corral of wild cattle that came together III
Springfield as the result OF the uprising of the
people against the politicians, will linger for
years in the nostils of Illinoisans. Neither party
will make anything this year by calling names
or making faces at their opponents. Voters
will look at their works and not at their banners
In Ohio the two platforms are practically
identical, with one exception. The Republic
cans timidly ard reluctantly declared in favor
of an honest currency, and the Democrats
boldly and defantly declared against it. There
is no other issue in the two platforms. In the
State, and out of it, all who are not blind see
where the fight lies. Morton, Sherman, Hayes,
and NOyes make speeches in favor of national
honesty. Allen, Cary, Ewing and the swarm
of obscure spouters with them clamor for more
money, and denounce the wickedness of cred
itors and assert the right of every to as much
cash as he wants. IL does not lie i'll the power
of Mr.. Thurman or of q thousand like HIM to
turn this controversy into another current