New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-08-10


cruel extortioners who have worked hard and
saved money. and who do not want 1t made
worthless by act Of Congress.
We do not know any considerations OF mo-
rality or courtesy which should prevent the adj
vOcates of honesty in finance from saying TO
these people that they have no right to such
pretense as this. Mr.. Allen was, as far as ne
was anything, n hard money man until the IN
fationists captured the Columbus Convention.
Not having any embarrassment OF principles
he accented the nomination and the platform,
and goes about roaring for imitation and repn-
diatiOn Just a. he would have beloved for
hard money if the Convention had adopted, as
he expected and desired, the Cuyahoga plat
form. He has no right to denOunce deceh
people for sustaining sound principles, rs ROD
bers and spoilers, without being told with
sober sincerity that he is an unprinclpled
and noxious nuisance, who knows nothing
of what he is talking about, and who
has no higher interest i'm this matter than sim
ply to be elected once more to place in which
he has gained no credit and done no service.
AS for Mr. Cary, words are wanting to char
actcrize the meanness of his motives in this
campaign. What little political prominence he
has was acquired by perpetual spouting in favor
of the prohibition by law of the sale of liquor.
All his life time mp to the hour the Conven-
ton met at Columbus he has talked unccas-
ingly on this theme. Now, in the hope of an
office, he il going through the State, talking
for free whisky ticket, and saying that, al
though he is not a drinking man himself, he
has nothing to say about his neighbOrs tOddy.
This another man might say without reproach.
but Mr. Cary cannot say it without disgrace.
Yet he has the impudcnce to put himself for
ward as the defender of the rights OF labor
the chattering mountebank who has never
worked a muscle but these of his iaw-and to
pour out his fluent slang against people who
are trying to employ. befriend, and instruct
the lahcring classes, whom he is trying to flat
ter and befool
Mr.. Ewing il man of better timber than
either ef these, but because he is more capable,
more decent, and more plausible, he is able to
do more harm when he goes on the stump and
saws to the voters of Ohio that their blood is
being sucked by capitalists, and that they will
never see good times again until money Is
made easy and free tn the people. Honest
iaboring men will naturally ask, What motive
"can Gen. Ewing have to mislead usg lie Is
" rich and respectable, and is not running for
coffee. lie is not roaring humbug like
Allen, nor bltherskte like Cary" 1t Is
for this that the voters of Ohio. to whom Gen.
Ewing is daily preaching imitation and abusing
the hard money men as tyrantS and vampires,
should understand that he too is pleading his
own cause, mistakenly and desperately wa are
sure but still as he thinks in his own interest.
He is man of large and deeply involved es-
tate, to whom money is scarce because he has
no proper security on which to borrow it, and
who thinks that, if the country could be Hooded
with greenbacks, i'm some indefinite way he
might get his share and cxtricate himself
from his embarrassments. While he is de-
nouncing more prudent men "a robbers of the
people, it is perfectly legitimate for them to
reply that his cry for imitation is the plea of
SPECTATOR in distress. He il recently re-
ported as having gone to Indiana and induced
Mr. Hendricks to come out III favor OF lnfa-
ton, and take part in the Ohio campaign.
What earthly motives could he have brought
to bear Oh Mr.. Hendricks which will endure
the light of dayf He could only have appealed
to low considerations. such as that Imitation
"is sure to VIM Thurman has lost his place
Gin the party; no Eastern Democrat can get
" the nomination it is clear field for you
"next year if you come now and help Us
" through" If MIR. Hendricks has yielded to
such an appeal he has done no more than
better and wiser men have done before.
But wo think that all these politicians would
do well to take comprehensive view of
themselves before they go any father in ac-
cusing men of selfish motives, because they
insist upon currency recognized by the rest
of the civilized world, and Opposc.a policy of
imitation and liquidation, which will bring not
only disaster but disgrace upon the country.
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