Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-06-24
THE CINCINNATI PLATFORM.

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1t is a strong point in a political can
vass to have the platform harmonic
with the record Of the candidate.
B~laine,or Morton, or WASH burne would
have been more at home than Hayes
on the Cincinnati platform. The trouble
seems to have resulted from the max
ing of the platform before the candi.
date. The plank on The school ques-
ton, which is in itself right, is strange
at variance with the record of Gov
ernor Hayes, who, If not an avowed
Catholic, is represented as leaning very
decidedly to that faith. 1t was solely
for this reason that he was nominated
for Governor at the last election in
Ohio. Judge Taft, now Attorney Gen.
eral of the United States, vas his prin-
cipal competitor. Taft had rendered
himself obnoxious to the Catholic SEN
timent of Ohio, and, as a consequence.
Hayes, who, if not in accord with that
sentiment, had done nothing to affront
it, was nominated as the most avail
able man. 1t therefore follows that
this portion of the Cincinnati platform
is si~ngularly out OF joint with the Gin
cinnati candidate. Nor is Wheeler any
better suited to the anti-subsidy plank.
His whole record in Congress teems
with affirmative votes on grants of
land to railway corporations. Not an
acre Of the public domain has ever
been given away that Wheeler did not
assist by his vote to transfer. He did
more than this. As the chairman of
the Committee on Railroads., he was at
all times the trusted friend of the cor
porations, invariably aiding by his re-
ports and speeches and explanations
in enriching these soulless institutions
at the expense of the landless and
homeless poor of the country. With
this record familiar TO the world, Mr..
Wheeler cuts a pretty figure indeed on
an anti-subsidy platform.
But the currency portion Of the Gin
cinnati platform is perhapst the weakest
plank in it. In the contest between
Allen and Hayes. last fall. the election
turned on the merits of the act of Con
gress requiring a resumption of specie
payments in 1879. Every speaker on
the Hayes side defended and eulogized
that act; every speaker on the Allen
IL .o.11 that not thu ntiaf forin IF
d~enunciation; and, in the later stages
Of the canvass, the Democrats rested
their whole claim to Endorsement On
their opposition to the forced resump
ton for which that law provides.
But the Cincinnati platform r
renders all the ground on
which Governor Hayes stood in the
Ohio election last October. Instead OF
insisting on resumption in 1879 the Gin,
cinnati platform retreats behind a va
que assertion that specie payments
ought to be resumed ''at the earliest
practicable period" treating the ques-
ton precisely as ii the act of 1879 had
not been passed, and as if the Republic
can party hadnot bound itself by a SOL
emn Congressional pledge to resume at
a definite, specified date. This is the
Allen, platform and not the Hayes plat.
form, of last year. 1t relinquishes the
great advantage which Governor Hayes
might have had from his signal tri-
umph wei Allen last year. II shifts
the Republican canvass to the Allen
ground, and virtually ~withdraws the
currency as a presidential issue.
In q local sense, the anti Chinese
plank will also be found a source of
weakness. It is wishy- washy and
meaningless as touching the great and
growing evil of Chinese immigration.
1t asserts nothing and demands moth
ing, c%ontenting itself with a simple
recommendation that the subject is a
proper one for Congressional investiga-
ton.
These are some of the vulnerable
points on the Republican side of the
Impending contest. 1t remains to be
sseh whether the Democrats will per-
pe.uate fewer glaring inconsistenc ics at
st. Louis.
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