The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-06-01
r,,,e CHIC co.yen,ion.

It was an inpatient and vacillating
faction Of the Democracy of Ohio which,
in 1868. insisted in loading down Sey-
mour with that miserable greenback
twaddle which concentrated on the side
of Grant the combined money owe of
the country. Paying the public debt
in irredeemable greenbacks was equiva-
lent to reputation. The people at
large saw the inevitable tendency of
such q proposition, and the result was
the disaster of 1868. The same faction
three years later, under the lead OF
Vallandigham, shot out into ''the new
departure" and proposed to shake hands
with the Republican party across the
reconstruction acts and across p negro
lied South. This was the fatal step
which, despite the protestations OF the
South, paved the way for that Cincin-
natl Convention which, engineered
Inv the successors Of the Nallandlgham
beresy. named Greeley as a candidate
and entered upon shaking OF bands
across the bloody chasm. Under their
Guidance it seemed as though the Dem.
~ocratic party had broken from its an
cient moorings and was drifting out
upon a sea of endless speculation. with
ont sail or rndder, and tossed about by
~contending questions, no wonder the
craft went down in the storm 1872.
After this disaster, Senator Thurman
raised the old Democratic banner IN
Ohio. and advocated Mr.. Allen for Gov
ernor as a Democrat of the old school
and old faith. He won the victory.
and YVES returned TO the Senate. But
| before Governor Aliens term was over
the same impatient faction which had
already twice pointed the way to ma
| tional disaster its delusIVe
cry about paper money being the peo-
Piles money and being better than sill
yer and gold. They raised a great hue
and cry in the middle West as though
the mas ses of that uncertain section, OF
both parties, were ready and anxious to
rally to such an insane issue. Cover
nor Allen himself gave way to the de-
fusion, seduced no doubt by the asser-
ted strength of the greenback faction
and by the hope ofhigh Federal honors.
The result was what every man of rea-
son feared. Ohio went down, taking
| PENNSYLVANIA with her.
One year later Pennsylvania FASTENED
to return to the time honored doctrine
of our fathers. But Ohio appeared
welded to the absurd position she had
assumed under Allen and Gary.
1t was hoped, when the Democratic
Convention met last week, that not
withstanding the obstinacy of the lea
ders of the greenback faction, Ohio
would return to the Democratic plat
form of hard money and a redeemable
currency. Instead Of doing SO she has
adhered to her hcresv by avote of 1866
in favor of the resolutions from the mi
nority of the committee as against 30S
in favor of the majority report. A
change of % votes. in a total OF GA,
would have sustained the anti green
back faction, so close was the division
in a convention which the rag none
men had claimed to represent nine
tenths of the people.
The result of the vote proves con-
clusively that the rag party have no
certain hold upon Ohio, or at the worst
that she is about equally divided upon
the question whether gold is better
than greenbacks: whether honesty is
better than reputation; whether solv-
ency is better Thar bankruptcy. 1t
proves what all the Democratic States
have seen since 1868, that Ohio is an
unsafe counsellor and a disastrous lea
der. 1t proves that the Convention at
St. Louis would be idiotic to throw
away a great State which votes for the
Democratic Presidential candidate for a
lesser State which never votes for our
candidate. 1t proves that the green
back heresv, having died quietly in
Pennsylvania, is in rapid process of be-
ing choked to death in Ohio, and
should be kicked ANONYMOUSLY ont of
the st. I1oufs Convention. ~
Mobile Register.