The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-07-31
The Situation In Ohio,

1SDeCial correspondence
COLUMBUS, o., July 2S.-To all ntents and
purposes Cincinnati is the political capital OF
the State. True, the Legislature assemblies
here once year, the Governor lives here q
part of the time, and the conventions of both
narties have been held from time iInmemorial
here. But that is all. AS for feeling the
public pulse az this point in midsummer,
YOU can't do it. l have found two or three
political Ananiases about the respective
party Central Committee rooms, but these
so daily contradict one another that won't
try TO reconcile their statements. Suffice 1t
to say that they differed more than fifty thou
sand votes as to results.
..s .u.. PIG IRON REPUBLICANS.
have met several Republicans here as In
Cincinnati who will vote for the DEMOCRATIC
ticket and infl4tion. "Of course it won't
bring relief right away" said Hooking
Valley IRON woI ker to me, but 1t will scare
Congress from any further contraction, and
next year both parties will 60 into the presi.
dental fight demanding an increase of our
circulating medium adequate to our business
wants." Another Republican from the same
region gave as his reason for voting the same
way that if the Democrats carried this State
and PENNSYLVANIA on the currency issue they
could then 60 to Congress this wioter, and
not only get all The money they wanted but
get the tariff on pig.irOn put up twenty five
per cent, and then business would be all
right. Politically sbre~d Republicans, TOO,
in some instances, favor Democratic success,
but for very different reasons. III they 1.-THE
Demoerats) carry the State on that platform"
said foxy old fellow at the Neil House this
morning, we've got the dead wood on 'em,
sure, for next year." And thus do opinions
vary.
PARTY LINES.
But notwithstanding this openly avowed
support of the Democratic ticket by iufl ition
Republicans the liues were never more
sharply drawn. Uniess 1t be dissatisfied
hard-mouey Democrats, there are none OF
the political 81 middlemen". who have bad q
numerous existence in Ohio. The Liberal
Republicans In the Greeley campaign num-
bered probably $4,000; of these, more
than half have since acted with the
Democrats, while small portion have
gone back 10 the Republicans. In the
campaign of 1873 portion Of this eie.
ment, which would neither support Noyes
nor Allen, nominated candidate of their
own, and polled about ten thousand votes,
which would otherwise have largely gone
to Noyes. This independent vote is un.
doub. eddy unit for Hayes this year
on account of their hard-money predilec-
tions. In fact, cannot recall single name
of any prominence in the Liberal following
now allied with the Democracy. In Cincln-
natl such men as Hoadley, Stallo. Hassaurek,
Halstead, Matthews, and many others; 10
Cleveland, Robert F. Paine, Hutchins. and
Spalding will all vote against ipfl,tion. Gen.
eral Brinkerhof. editor Of the Ohio Liberal,
at Mansfield, IS working against Allen With
bis sharp teDgue and caustic pen. Add to
these the German Republicans. hitherto
estranged from the party, and you get very
nearly the strength OF the Democratic oppo-
sition. The Democrats. on the other hand,
have no allies. They are making the fight
unaided against odds, for count The support
Of the iufiltiou Republicans as OF little i'm.
por;ance, and cannot hope to poll the full par.
ty strength. 1t does not require elaborate ci.
phering 70 find that all the chances, therefore,
are against them. With 10000 Liberal votes,
as many more for the temperance ticket, and
an unpopular candidate against him, Allen
was oDy successful two years ago by thou.
sand majority, receiving the saelIest vote