The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-07-29
THE OHIO CAMPAIGN.
VIEWS OF AN OUTSIDER.


II -PENDLETON'S LITTLE GAME BILL AL
LENS ONLY SUPPORTER FOR THE PRRs1
DBNCY-HALsTEAD MAD ON THE CATHoII
Observation-Disclosures THE REAL FAvoRITl
IN THE ENQUIRER OPPICE-THE PROSPECT
A. G. Buell. writes an interesting lette
from Cincinnati to the st. Louis Republican
in regard to the political outlook In Ohio
The campaign, as you have already bsen I'd
vised by telegraph, opened yesterday at ,
small town over near the West Virgins
shore called Gallipolis. The papers her,
this morning are redundant with Columbian
oratory in consequence, from the oleaai-
nous sopbistry Of that communistiC
aristocrat, Pendleton, to the stentorian non.
committal words of our Uncle William AL.
len. The philosopher who said that the
proper use OF language is to conceal thought
must have had our Uncle William in bis
prophetic eye. Though, perhaps, Talleyrand
and the venerable Bill were boys together
Mr.. Halstead, talking on this topic last even
ing, declared that Uncle William had no
thought TO conceal, and said that the trouble
was not with the speeches. but with
Old Bill himself. ..Dotage'' was the
term used by Mr.. Halstead to describe
the condition of Gov. Allen. Speak.
log of Mr.. Halstead, 1t may be of interest to
reproduce the substance OF our interview.
/ He was confident that the republicans
would carry the state. He said that the
Commercial was the same old independent
paper 1t always was, and that its support OF
the republican ticket was not because OF
any desire to help Administration republi-
cAnism on its feet again, but because of an
Intense longing to lay Billallenism on its
back and compose the clods of the valley
over it. MIR. Hslstead said that Mr.. Wash
Mclean and Mr.. Pendleton were merely
making use of Gov. Aliens vanity and
idle aspirations to kill of Thurman with.
THEIR OBJECT
he intimated was to force Mr.. Thurman out
of the Democratic party, and thus get him
out of their way. Some time ago, said Mr..
Halstead, proposition was conveyed to Mr..
Thurman from Mr.. Mclean looking to the
arrangement of some programme, which the
| former, actuated by a sense of the dignity
of his position, repealed. Since that time
pursued Mr. H., the warfare upon Thurman
has been unrelenting. There is rumor, which
Mr.. Halstead says is not without foundation.
to the effect that Pendleton and Mclean in
tend to capture the Ohio delegation in the
next national democratic convention and
cast its vote solid for Senator Bayard of
Delaware. But all this is idle speculation.
The folly Of forecasting year in advance the
action OF an Ohio polIticisn long ago became
apparent. In year from now the Enquirer
may be swearing by all the gods that
the best way to the resump-
ton of specie payments is to resume and
Pendleton may be Tipping twenty-dollar
gold pieces before large audiences as knock
! down arguments in favor of the central
plank in the national democratic platform
In the course of Mr.. Halstead's conversation
he branched off into the religious aspect of
the Ohio campaign, and it was instantly ap-
parent that there is cbasm in his head on
the subject of mo popery." It is grievous
to hear a gentleman OF Mr.. Halstead's av-
| aro a cor1 cot adr11r S,,e.
CANT AND RANT
as this Hno popery" yell of the despairing
Ohio radicals. If it had been some raying
Methodist from Oberlin talking to me about
the scarlet woman OF Babylon 1 should not
have thought much about it. But did not
like 10 have my admiration for the dashine
editor of the Commercial wet blanketed
with that sort of inanity. All
great men have their foibles and
fn om is mo Sonery 6haf the he T P5sD
In the course of these summer ssunteringsI
wentup to the Enquirer establishment to
see if there was any method in the madness
of that peculiar organ. About all l could
find out in this direction was that the con-
trolling mind of the Enquirer is afflicted
with mild form of communism; neither
the raving lunacy of Kari Marx and George
Francis Train, nor the mild asininity of Pig
iron Kelley, but something like mean be-
tween them; not golden mean, but green
back mean, so to speak. The Enquirer
people deny that they cherish any personal
malice toward Senator Thurman; but they
ssy-and there is large sized grain OF truth
in it-that Thurman is utterly untitled by
nature and social tradition for a leader of
the conservative democracy. Thew declare
that his taste and inclinations all tend to-
ward the preparation of the moneysd aris-
tOcracy which has grown up under the segis
of radicalism, and that he is hence disquali-
fed for the leadership of the popular host.
From all 1 could learn about the Enquirer
Office, it would seem that
HENDRICKS Is THE REAL FAvoRITE
there. There is, indeed, great deal of loud
talk about the rising up OF William Allen,
but it is too loud. 1t has hollow sound. 1
don't believe there is prominent democrat
in Ohio who is sincerely in favor of Old Bill
as the nominee of the democracy next year
except that robust valetudinsrian himself.
Both sides pretend to be confident of victory
But it is easy to see that all the
the side of the democracy. There
are too many mechanics out of
employment in Ohio; too many iron mills
with smokeless chimneys, too many coal
mines with deserted shafts, and too many
men loafing about X-roads with nothing to
do and no prospect of anything to augur well
for the success of the party under whose
regime all these troubles have come about.
Platforms go for very little when men are
hungry and the rent of the cottage Is un-
paid. Ever since the panic of 1873 the work
ingmen of Ohio and Pennsylvania and
every other locality have been looking an
grily toward Washington as the source
of all their ills. The Enquirerites
aud the Allenites and the Pendle-
tonites go about telling these idle and des-
perate workmen that the republican party
in power at Washington wrings every year
from the tobacco they smoke, from the
whisky and beer they drink, rom the clothes
they wear, $500, 000, 900 in taxes" More than
two fifths of the entire volume of the GU
rency," is their knock down argument, sis
annually drained from your pockets to be
filtered through the treasury into the pock-
cts of the bondholders and the riugsters of
the republican party" There is no use to
hot