Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-06-30
REPUBLICAN NOMINATION.
FOR GOVERNOR.
SELDEN CONNoR
OF AUGUSTA.
COLD CONFORT.

OLD CUhl va l.
The New York World tries to comfort
itself under the infiction of the rag money
democratic platform Of Ohio, with the idea
that it will not amount to much. The way
however in which it goes to work to ex-
tract this consolation from the awkward
condition in which its party is plunged is
yerv peculiar. 1t is by reasoning that
Ohio is not a democratic State, has not
been for the last twenty years. and prob
ably will not be in the next Presidential
election, and therefore the initiation planks
in the democratic platform being doomed
to defeat they can exercise no bad IN
auence. We think We heard last fall il
the rejoicings of the democrats over the
election of uncle Bill Allen the cry that
the victory was due to tidal wave in IA
yor of democracy which was to sweep
higher and higher until it carried the de-
mocracy into power in 1876, but we learn
now from the World that that was only an
accidental victory for the democracy. o.
casioned by the diversion which the tenn
perance ticket made in uncle Bill's favor
OF course we are not going TO dispute con-
corning this matter with the World. In
deed we declared our opinion immediate
" after the Ohio election last November
that the success of the democracy was
transient; that the State was republican
ON q fair and full trial, and would give its
electoral vote for the candidate of the ma
tional republican party in 1876. We are
pleased to learn even at this late day that
the World has come round to our
opinion.
But the remarkable feature of the posi-
ton of the World is not in conceding that
Ohio is republican and will be next year,
but that it bases the salvation OF the State
from the rotten principles OF the demo-
cratic platform on the fact that the repub-
licans are in the majority. We said in
speaking of the Maine and Ohio platforms
in relation to the currency, that the posi-
ton which the Maine democrats might
take upon that question was OF no conse-
quence, but that we must look to the
States which were considered as having
possible democratic majoritios in 1876 to
establish the principles upon which the
democracy would contest the Presidential
campaign. 1t is to escape the force OF this
argument that the World now reckons
Ohio on the republican side, conserving to
put itself in the attitude Of desiring DEM
ocratic defeat in Ohio this year in order to
weaken her influence in the democratic
national convention next year.
But suppose Ohio is yielded to the re-
publicans, how much does this improve
the situation of the hard money democrats
The Ohio platform meets the appreciation
of the strongest democratic States. The
West and the South where the democratic
States are if there be any. where the party
expects to have its chief support in 1876,
agree ia sentiment with Ohio on the cur
rency question. They will control the
national convention on this matter; let
the democrats Of Maine and New York
deny it if they can.
1t is not often that the leading organ of
a great party consoles itself for the bad
principles adopted by its own party with
the consideration that the opposite party
is strong enough to prevent harm being
done. 1t is a confession so exceedingly
humiliating. so terribly eloquent against
the party itself, such an act Of political
hari-kari, that only desperation could
nerve hard money democrat TO make it.
1t has been the fortune of the republican
party at various times to save the demo-
cratic party from the ruin which it would
have brought upon itself as well as the
country had it been in the majority. For
example. could the democratic party have
had its way this Union would have been
destroyed and the country turned into an
other Mexico or Pandemonium. but the re-
publican party was able to defeat the de-
mocracy and save the Union and the gov
eminent. the blessings of which are now
enjoyed by democrats as well as republic
cans. The confidence of the World in the
ability of the republicans TO take care that
the ag-money democrats do no injury, is
not misplaced we are quite sure. But if
democrats cannot trust their own party,
the reasonable course is to abandon it and
join the party to which they trust for sal
walton from the dangerous principles up
held by the democracy. They did that
during the rebellion, and doubtless they
will be compelled to do ii again unless
they support principles which they de-
spise.
Gazing upon the rag money plank of the Ohio
Democratic platform, and the hard money plank
Of the Maine Democratic platform, and rejecting
that the Ohio and the Maine democrats call them
selves by the same name, and profess to belong to
the same political church, the Chicago Times con-
cludes that the democratic party must be the great