New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-10-26

make a fatal mistake il we let it betray us
into any false confidence.
The friends of an honest currency and an
untarnished national credit must remember
that nothing is so important now as to COM
pleto the overthrow of the intiatiOnIsts, and
make them powerless for further mischief.
They have tried their strength in several
political demonstrations before this, and though
always defeated at last they have always re-
/ turned to the attack stronger and more daring
than before. Party leaders on both sides have
paltered and toyed with this issue altogether
too long. 1t will not do to play with gun
powder and live Goals. The abuses OF the
Washington Administration, the petty frauds
of paving contractors and Indian agents. the
operations of the Harrisburg Treasury Ring,
the despotism of John Kely,-all these
things are trihes light as air in COMPARE
son with the great que StiOn upon which
depends the prosperity OF every man, woman,
and child in the United States, and the good
name of our country among the nations OF the
earth Every vote should be cast next week
with reference TO its effect upon this issue, and
if sensible people only do their duty the dis
astrous dispute may he closed forever. Here
tonal interests both point i'll the same direc-
ton. Either party is sound enough on finance.
A great victory, however, for the hard-money
Democrats of New-YOrk, following close upon
defeat for the repudating Democrats of Ohio,
will have a most wholesome effect upon the cam
paign of 1876, as it will he demonstration too
plain for denial that Allen was beaten, not by
a Republican reaction but by his own her
esies If, on the contrary 0hough this is
hardly within the range OF possbilities), GOV.
Tilden should be beaten in New-York in spite
of his superb record in the Canal Reform, the
imitation newspapers of the West will cry.
so much for the coupon-clippers' candidate"
and the crazy crew will pluck up heart for
fresh attack upon credit and common sense.
From every point of view, therefore, tri-
umphant success of the Democracy IN TINS
State will be national blessing.
In PENNSYLVANIA the situation is somewhat
more complicated. The currency question has
almost dropped out of the campaign discus
sions, and the Republican party there Is III
general way the party of the thieves. 1t Is an
annoving dilemma, and yet the same reasons
which made it the duty of respectable men to
vote for HAYES in Ohio make it equally the
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ranft in PENNSYLVANIA. The subverSive prn-
ciplcs of the Democratic platform must
not he trihed with. All other considerations
give way to this, that the Democracy of Penn
sylvania profess doctrine which strikes at
the foundation of all values, paralyzes every
kind of commerce and labor, and obliterates
the distinction between right and wrong.
Though they dare not bring it into prominence
now, as Allen and Cary did IN Ohio-the
Pennsylvania Kelley actively helping them
nobody doubts that they would press it with
the utmost fury if Pennsylvania gave them
the slightest encouragement. Keep them at
arm's-length. We can't mince matters with
men who propose to abolish the Eighth Com
mandment.