New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-10-21
WHIT PyN1INS 10 BE DONE.

We hope there arc to b. no premature re-
iolcings over The defeat of the intlatonsts in
Ohio, and especially that there is to be no
cessation in the work of cnlightcnng the minds
and consccnceS OF the people Ill every part ol
the country in regard to the vital subject of
national honesty and honor. We do not mean
f. dcpreciatc the value and importance of the
work done in Ohio. 1t is true that the
majority was Il very little one, and that
if the German vote OF the two cities
of Cleveland and Cincinnati had been
east the other way, the result would
have been different. II is a very serious mat
ter TO reflect that half the voters OF ONO
thought 81 wrongly or so carelessly upon tins
matter as to be willing to indorse the repudl-
alton platform and elect such lunatlc dcma-
gogucs as were placed upon it, Bat on the
otler hand we should consider that the state
had been counted as certainly Democratic !;
that il was thought to have shared more
than most other States in that strong
current of political change which
was bearing The Administration party
to defeat everywhere. The accurate cacula-
tlons which were given to the readers of TIE
TRIBINE before the election fixing the exact
generally believed. The inflationiSts counted
upon the State by large majority. Gov.
Allen, whose vanity is a. powerful as his
voice. talked about forty or fifty thousand. The
result seemed 50 certain when the PcnnSl Iva
MIA convention met that the timc-serVng poll
ticians thought they had only tomount the inila-
ton hobby at Erie 10 ride to easy victory.
We have certainly the right to congratulate
ourselves upon the fact that the Democrats, to
whom success seemed insured 10y the mere
force of Inertia, if they had only adopted an
honest platform ut Columbus. were chastiscd
by an unexpected defeat for having trifed
with so grave an issue as that of imitation
and incipicnt population. The majority
which elected GOV. Hayes WIS II
small one, but We have the right
to add to it the thousands OF vote which
would naturally have been given TO Allen by
persons Discontinued with the Administration,
when we come to consider the real value of
the late election as protest against the mis-
cradle heresies of the intationists. II Demo-
Gratis generally coud be made to STE tha they
threw away victory which was theirs,
when they adopted the initiation issue. there
would be reason for lively hopes a. To
the contest next year. The Republicans who
were trembling on the verge of imitation in the
early Summer have been hammered into some
thing like soundncSS in Ohio by the necessities
of the campaign. and if the braying in the
mortar of defeat could do Is much for the
Democrats, We might face the conflict of next
wear with the feeling that however it might
90. the honor aud welfare of the nation would
not be seriously compromised.
But we are not rs yet permitted to indulge
in such hopes. II is true that a few hard
money men have expressed their satisfaction
at their partys defeat. Gov. Allen has mys-
teriously announced that he was OycrlOadcd.'
But there is as yet no general dcuunciation of
the folly which brought on the check, and
those whose evil counscls caused the trouble
are a. loud aud foolish as ever In some other
States there is an omin0us rivalry between The
two parties as TO which shall have the imitation
vote. I'm the great State Of Illinois, We regret
TO say, there il more or less doubt Us to the
course the political organizations are 10 assume.
Several county conventions Of both sides have
declared for The Ohio lInacy. Ia Dewitt
County for instance, the pestilent little
knot of repudiationists who infeot the
such platform as might have been
expected from men silly and knavish
enough 20 think they can cheat and steal and
not suffer by it. As matters stand at this mo-
ment, the attitude of both parties in that state
is AZ much at the mercy of accident ~ was
the case in Ohio. when Thurman, Payne. and
their friends felt sure of a hard-money plat
forn and Messrs. Ewing and Mclean bullied
them out of the Convention.
The only remedy against the possible disas-
tiers which lie in the present chaotic condition
of parties is steady and persistent continual
ton of the measures which proved so effectual
in Ohio. Let independent men of all parties