The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-10-01
The Double Dealing Of the Ohio Re-
publicans.

Among the many reasons why the Re
pubhcans OF Ohio ought to he beaten. there
are two or three that appeal with peculiar
force TO all men who despse hypocrisy and
double dealing, and love frankness IN the
expression of opinions, and "A straightfor-
ward course In pursuing an end.
When the very harmless and highly
proper GEGuAN law was passed last spring,
the Republicans, after playing fast aud
loose with the measure finally determined
10 make it the prctext for raising hue and
cry in the coming elections about Catho-
lie plot to divide the common school fund
and previous 10 the meeting of their state
Convention IN June, some OF the Republic
can newspapers had begun TO agtate this
subject in cautious tones rs il feeling the
public pulse.
The Republican party OF Ohio, under the
lead of Senator SHERMAN, had long since
become impregnated with soft-monev
theories As we have shown heretofore in
I'm elaborate examination of the journals
OF the last Congress, when the battle be-
tween paper and coin was fought the
Republican members from Ohio gave
much larger percentage OF votes in favor
of initiating the currency than the Demo-
cratic members from that state. The
financial plank in the platform of the Con-
vention that nominated HAYES for Gov
ernor L. not a particle sOunder on the sub
tect OF hard money and n speedy return to
specie payment than is the platform Of the
Convention that nominated ALLEN. A
careful examination Of each viii show
that the Democrats merely took the previ-
tod Do
and hammered ii out so thin that every
body saw right through it. This fact
tends TO demonstrate that the Republicans
did not at the outset contemplate making
the currency n leading issue in the cam
paign, and much less intend to assn me
high hard-money ground.
But, acting on the advice OF friends out
side OF the state, the Republicans by and
by dropped the GEGHAN issue, and believ-
ting they could take advantage OF the
broad terms in which the Democrats had
proclaimed their financial problems, com
menced laundering away in favor Of hard
money. The false pretence was 80 trans
parent that the Republicans soon got the
worst OF 1t on the currency question, not
withstanding they had indirect help from
wiz N'fN'''Ntf Asfff"ffti WIN Wv.
ALLEN and Gen. SAM CARY. They were
almost ready 10 quit the field in de-
spair when Senator MORTON visited the
State, unfurled the bloody shirt, and tried
10 rally the broken columns under that
battle-stained banner. MORTON quickly
saw that this woIn-out scarecrow excited
nobody, not even the old women in the
Republican ranks. He then advised the
Republicans to again change the issue 10
the Catholic question, letting hard money
20 TO the dogs while they opened an attack
upon the Pope under the false pretext
that he was going to carry off a part of the
common school fund
For about four weeks this ne W scare ran
IKE wild fire-or rather, to speak with pre-
eision, IL seemed TO run so Protestant
olergymen delivered political ha rangues
from tho pulpit Sabbath school children
did not dare to stay out late at night. an
eient ladies took snuff and read tr acts in
unusual quantities, while demagogues who
could hardly tell the Bible from the Koran
swore that the only sure way to pres erve
true religion and the school fund was to
beat BILL ALLEN for Governor. But this
dodge was too preposterous to last long
II took about month Of earnest work 10
expose its hollowness; and with the ex-
ception Of a few bigots and simpletons no.
body will be influenced by it in casting his
vote in October.
The eifigy Of Plus TX, not having fright
ened the great State of Ohio from its pro-
prlety, the desperate Republicans nave
surned the corner again, and are now en-
c-s,u,,,-- for the second time tn nolm
themselves of as n hard-money party. In
this forlorn hope they claim that they
nave the sympathy and even the material
aid OF small section OF the Democrats
and Liberals OF New York. We denounce
this claim as naked pre- tence, because it
cannot be that any one who sincerely de-
sires the overthrow OF the Republicans in
the next Presidential election can be so I'M
wise as to contribute TO the success of that
party in Ohio in the year preceding the
great national contest.
The Republicans OF Ohio deserve 10 be
oVerthrown on general grounds Bnt the
hhsincerlty, hypocrisy, and shutlliug course
Ney nave pursued in lis campaign ought