Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-10-09
THE woEDERFUL oAMpAIGN IN OHIO

Very seldom. if ever, has there been more
earnest and warmly contested State campaign
than that which will close on Tuesday in Ohio
and never has there been one which has more
entirely drawn upon it the attention Of the
nation. In fact, that State, great in itself, but
small when compared with the immense area
of the Republic, is but an arena wherein the
contestants struggle while the whole people
look on With the deepest interest. Ohio is nov
truly the centre Of the country observation.
The financial issue though question con-
cerning the whole country, ID being fought out
in that single State. 1t may be practically dir
posed Of, there. II Hayes should be elected,
and Allen defeated, by decisive msjoritY,
imitation theories will be put down before they
can get into the national campaign, for pennsy-
rania, following suit, will strike them
second heavy blow, by defeating Pershing,
and the Erie platform. But il, on the other
hand, Allen should yet carry the State, after tie
exhaustive and square discussion which tue f.
nances have had, then we may well fear that
fennsylyania will be lost to the Republic ans,
and that inf alton, triumphant in the one State,
will sweep both. In that case it will sweep like
wise, the Democratic party. New York has put
on the boldest front. and Mr.. Tilden had his Con-
vention to adopt the most positive and rigid Of
hard.money platforms. Yet within his organi.
zatlon, in his own State, there are the same ell
ements that manipulated the Columbus Con.
yention, and manipulated the Erie Convention
and put the Democrats of both Ohio and Penn
sylvsnia on an initiation platform These ele-
menta Mr. Tilden holds nov by tho threat. but
as sure as fate, if Ohio goes Democratic Oh
Tuesday, and Pennsylvania follows her in No.
vember, they will burst from his control ard he
will see his party rush like an insen.ate moi At
the heela of Allen. Cary, Piollett, and Frank
Hughes. Initiation is prairie fire. fit not
got under in Ohio, it will ohlige Mr.. Ti!den to
run for his life.
Ofcourse, this applies almost az we'll to Mr. Bay-
ard. He has taken his etand, like his New York
competitor, on the hard-money position II has
not, it is true, been 30 bitterly denounced by the
Cincinnati Enquirer, speaking in behalf OF the
ONO Democrats, for he has less prominently and
loss extensively uttered defiance OF their propo-
sitions But if they succeed they Will sweep him
away, also, and their candidates both for the
Presidency and Vice Presidency will be taken
from amongst their own faction. So far az can
hard money Democratic leaders heng upon this
Ohio vote and all their hopes rez. IN a Republi-
cal success We 81 not ignore the ablity of
Mr.. Bayard to hedge to accommodate. toipr test
and yield, as he did in the Greeley bnsineas, bnt
We think, nevertheless, that when Alien and
Gary, with Pendleton and Wash Mclean, grarp
the reins in the national Democratic Convention,
they will slash NJ. Bayard across the face il lie
seeks ever 20 humbly to climb into the party
chariot.
In any event. tue Republicans get the beat of
it. II they lose this time, the Allen craze will
seize upon and disrupt the Democracy as e ma
honal organization, driving the hard-money
Democrats out Of it, and If they win both it and
Pennsylvania they will have started most en-
courasingly for the greater campaign Of 1873.
II Allen be elected on Tuesdar, it will be yery
bad for the Democrats if Hayes be elected, it
will be very good for the Republicans