Daily Kennebec journal., 1875-05-15
THE ONO CAMPAIGN.
May 4th, 1875,

THE ONO CAMPAIGN.
The campaign in Ohio this year prcmis-
es to be of very lively and earnest char
acter. Both sides are wide-awake. and
understand fully the Importance of the re-
suit of the election. The democrats have
decided to keep Governor Aliens name at
the head of their ticket. Senator Thur
man and Mr.. Pendleton, being candidates
for the democratic nomination for Presi-
dent, will put their whole strength into the
canvass in order to!prevent reverse to the
democracy in the State campaign, which
might be fatal to their hopes in the nation
al democratic convention. Though Thur
man and Pendleton are rivals for the dem
ocratic nomination for President. their In
terest in the success of the State campaign
is alike, for if the State is lost to the de-
mocracy neither of them will stand any
chance of being nominated for the Presl-
dency. If the State goes republican this
year it will be doubly sure to 60 the same
way next year, and the democrats will
nominate no man for President whose
State will not give a democratic majority
next year.
Thus the democrats have the advantage
in the campaign Of popular candidate
for Governor, and the stimulus that two
able and enterprising candidates for the
Presidential nomination, equally interest
ed in the success Of their party State tick
ct. can impart to it. They have also the
prestige of last years success at the polls.
and the benefit of compact and well or
ganized party.
The republicans thus far do not appear
to have succeeded in concentrating upon
any candidate for Governor. They have
many able men who would make strong
candidates, but the decision is not easily
made. 1t is felt that the occasion demands
the best nomination that can be made, and
doubtless this feeling will be able to ac.
complish the desired object. The great
est difficulty which our friends in Ohio have
to meet is their own divisions over local
and subordinate questions. These ran to
such an extent last year, and were so i'm
proved by the democrats, that the latter
gained substantial victory. If the re-
publicans 60 into the campaign no better
united than they were in 1874 they will be
beaten again. But if their action in their
nominating conventions and caucuses
tends to draw together the disaffected ell
ements in their party, so that the republi-
can strength may be united at the polls,
victory will be certain for the republican
ticket. The predominance Of national is
sues in the election is favorable to the re-
publicans. Ohio is emphatically a rcpub-
lican State. The principles of the repub-
lican party are firmly rooted in the hearts
of large majority of the people, as the
vote at the Presidential elections since the
formation of the republican party conclu-
sively proves. II the idea had obtained some
strength in Ohio last year, as it had in
some other States, that the mission of the
republican party was ended and that it
might safely be disbanded, the course OF
the democratic party in the North and
South since their victories last fall has de-
monstrated the tallacy of that idea and es-
tablished the opinion that the existence
and success of the republican party is as
necessary now for the safety CT the gov
ernment and country as in any former Pc
riod of its history. With union in their
ranks the republicans of Ohio are invinci-
BILE. The eyes of all the States are upon
them. May they win victory from
defeat, and roll up such majority next
October as will be the prelude of a grand
national republican victory in 1876.