The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-07-20
POLITICAL NEWS.

BALTIMORE, July Ex-senator Thurman, @
Ohio, has been for several days the guest Q
Senator Davis of West Virginia at Deer Par
Hotel, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Yesterday reporter of the Baltimore Gael
interviewed Senator Thurman on the financia
plank of the Columbus, Ohio, platform, ant
the Gazette furnishes the following as the re
suit of the interview:
Judge Thurman talked quite freely on til,
situation in Ohio, and his own relations to i
which he thoaght had been misunderstood
In reply to inquiries he said the Democratic
party In Ohio Is divided on the currency
question. The financial opinions contained
In the Columbus platform should only be re-
garded as the expression of local opinion and
nothing could be more unjust than the at
tempt to charge on this account that the De-
mocratic party as national organization is
animated by spirit Of imitation.
In all times of commercial depression the
cry of more money is raised, the present
period being no exception. Infationists are
to be found in both political parties. and
it is very unbecomiDg for Republican jour
nails to denounce the Democracy as an
initiation party, while SO prominent
q Republican as Judge Kelly is harranguing
the iron workers of Pennsylvania in favor OF
his 1865 bond scheme and greenback heresies.
He also referred to other Republican leaders
who have been first and foremost in the de-
tense of greenback as the best currency the
world ever saw.
Touching the desire for Republican sue
cess in the present Ohio canvass, in the In
terest of Democratic principles, Senator Thur
man said 4: No man who comprehends the
political situation and hopes for the success OF
the Democrats in the next Presidential election
should desire Republican victory in Ohio, in
the foolish belief that such result will con-
tribute to Republican defeat in 1876. Moth
ing could be more erroneous. Democratic
defeat in the approaching State cleo
ton is simply suicidal; it is true
that serious errors were inserted in the
platform. L did my best to avoid the threat
ened evil, but because others disagreed with
me, see no reason why should bolster up
the Republican party.
If errors have been committed in Ohio they
can be corrected. They need not be the ex-
cuse for greater ones. The Republican party
OF Ohio is also divided on the currency ques-
ton.
The financial plank in their platform can
be construed to mean ''hard' or "soft money,
and prominent Ohio Republican Congress
men are in favor of more greenbacks.
Replying to the charge that he evinced a
lack OF moral courage for not denouncing the |
initiation plank of the Columbus platform at |
the ratification meeting, he said the place and |
time were not appropriate. 1t is a great in
justice to condemn one for opinions never
uttered.
have said or done nothing to warrant the
charges brought against me. My record in
the Senate is before the country, and on that
record | yet stand. / am to make my first
speech of the Ohio campaign OF Mansfield,
D., July 81, and shall then announce my dis
agreement with the financial provisions of the
platform, and throughout the campaign I
shall say nothing to discredit the convictions
Of lifetime