New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-08-02
THO OR THREE ILLNESSES.

such platform ~ they are standing ON, and
such claims TO public favor as they have put
forward. il pItiiul failure-a melancholy dis
play of moral cOwardice. 1t does not become
Senator Thurman to rcprOach the Administration
majority in the last Congress for asking
"What is best for the Republican party 7" in
stead of "What is best for tho Republic y
The course that he has now taken shows that
he at least il unable to give a practical an
swcr to either question. What he has done Is
not good either for himself or his party, or
his country. 10 men of common intelligence
who see tie Importance of the issue presented
to tho voters of Ohio. Senator Humans
speech rcfutc5 itself. 1t is rope OF sand.
No thread of logic runs through it. Like u
ripple on the surface OF mill pond it seems
for moment to exist, then vanishes and
leaves no trace. 1t is sign OF nothing ex-
cept that something has sunk beneath the
waters.
The currency question, he tells IA. is unlm-
portant. There are other questions OF more
consequences, of which he mentions the rcli-
gious question. The triumph OF tho Ohio Re
pubicans is likely, in his opinion ito drag
"rligon INTO politics from one end of the
"Rcpublc to the other, TO prostitute it to the
"bilse purposes OF partisan triumph, to create
"a union between the dominant sects and the
"ruing party in the State, and to CONFUSE
"socicty to its very foundations as 1t never
" has been conyulscd i'll the United States
This dreadful prospect " makes 1t the impera-
:" tive duty of every Democrat to give
chs support to his ticket Then, as
though this was not enough, he says that
4 r.
and that the election of State officers in Ohio
has nothing to 90 with it. But, strange to
say, he makes the staple of his speech
tedious dcnunciati0n OF the conduct OF the
National Administration. Do the Louisiana
troubles, the Credit Mobilcr, the Pacific Mail
Subsidy, the briberies and populations OF the
New York CustOm-liOuse officials, the Whisky
Ring, the Indian frauds the theits OF
the U. S. Treasury clerks, etc, have
superior claims to the issues of Infla-
ton and Reputation Oh the atten
ton of the Ohio voter? Senator Thurman
knows as well as any man who will read this
that the question in Ohio is Paper against
Gold, and that that question involves public
and private credit, the rights of property and
the integrity OF the Constitution OF the United
States. 1t is not the platform alone or
the platform chiefly, but the course of
the press and the utteances of the candi-
d;hcs which have given the issue in Ohio a
SHARPNESS and distnctness that defy all the
ingenuity of Humans and Pendlotons to ex-
plain away.
We have, summed up in a few lines, what
Daniel Webster conceived to be one of the
main purposes of the Constitution These
lines are not found in political speech. but in
Il grave argument before the Supreme Court
of the United States on the cOnstitutiOnallty
of an net of the New-Yorx Legislature. What
Webster in the folio aing extract states to
have been the mOnstrOus evils which it was
the purpose of the Constitution to remedy it is
now the object of the Ohio Democracy to Gre
ate anew by violation of that very Constitu
ton:
commerce. credit. and confidence were the principal
things which Id no! exist under ne Old Con cctaton.
and which il IA main object Of the present Consu-
non create and establish vicious system or leSsla
ton SISTER, OF Japer money and tender arS. had
pieteiy iaraiy-ea sdustry, Mreaened 70 beJgar
ma, NJ prOpsIty 0hW ultimately % run the couty Tno
rca0n between debtor and creditor. always delicate and
always whenever II divides Socity and draws
classes was in such condition the years 1887. 1855
and 1889. 10 MreaieI ne ODe'thr0w Of al goecrn
aHd aini1ning bGd Mdf through uhich nc country had
recently passed. The object OF the nov onsItItion
security property to establish cOnd, noe cIedit anu
e. so I sa ,n M IN the case sS fU OK
den aud SAUNDERS, WOrhs. Vol. o. p. Oh
TO us these words of Webster, uttered Is
wears ago. when tho Constitution WAS but 30
wears old, convey u solemn warning. But II
Senator Allen G.. Thurman, the nephew, thinks
tho contest in Ohio ia OF merely local import
anco, so far as the question OF paper money Is
involved, William Allen, the uncle and eY-
hard-money- Senator, holds no such opinion.
Language was not given him to conceal his
thoughts, as he showed when he gave utter
ance to tho following words at Parkersburg,
West Virginia, on tho 10th of July:
We are ubout si'e OF the river TO engage in
state election and II II were state election aud moth
ing tne people on this side OF the river wond take
very interest In il. But IL IL state election that
has reference to great approaching National struggle,
that VIII by its determination settle the great question
whether the Aner people snail be tree and dePcn!
cut saves To the M ancst despO ism that the world
has contaned-thc d,spctsn of the money power
lapplause The despotsm OF avarice. the 6a5rs aud
inOst mcrciless passion III the human heart Govern
neut the hands OF stock obDels and brokers, who
other object than a. rule that they may rob- Is
the worst Government In the world. Applause That
Is the power fighting; that Is the power mean
Ia TINT puwor mean reDuke and over
WHICH We are sworn 10 triumph.
Here, for once, the uncle shows himself the
superior of the nephew in candOr and courage.
The last witness we shall bring against Sen
ator Thurman Is the Senator himself. In
speech in the senate, June II, 1874. Mr..
Thurman gave i'll the annexed words his esti-
mate OF the Importance of the paper money
question and of the practcability of dodg-
ing il
The real question that mis- country has 10 seie and that
II may take some years 10 settle that cannot Do avoided
10y any legislation We may adopt here IN Tie question
whc1er you viii d Oneiizc the precious metals
and have wholly irrdeemable paper CURRENCY In al time
coc, whether you will have TINT ncy of specie
s.cle wing nMprr which the rhneIlnncc OF all