The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-05-19
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
The proceedings OF the State Convention
Of the Democrats OF Ohio on Wednesday
have thrown ont Of the contest for the NOM
ination for the presidency one OF the abiest
men in this country more finished states
man. as we said a day or two ago. than Mr..
TrLpgN. Governor ENGLISH and Mr.. THoar-
son said to the reporters that the contest
was between TILDEN in the East and THOR
MAN in the West. Now THURMAN is gone,
and TlLDES alone IS left. We forcwarncd
our readers to throw Ohio out in making
their calculations. Only three days ago we
said:
"Ohio is hopelessly Republican; not
simply because OF the defeat OF Allen
last fall, but because the Cincinnati En-
ouircr, which has large following in Ohio,
has determined to defeat any candidate who
refuses to nurse the rag baby, allowing its
folly to carry it to the length OF opposing
the nomination OF the most distinguished
statesman in that State, Senator Thurman,
for no other reason than that he is hard
money man. We see no ground for hope
that this unfortunate state of things in the
Buckeye State can be changed by the nomi-
nation OF any aspirant for the presidency.
Hendricks would be utterly powcrless to
do it, as would Tilden we are free to own.
So that the question is narrowed down TO
this point: Shall we surrender the certainty
OF carrying New York, New Jersey, and
Connecticut in November for the GER
tainty OF carrying Indiana in October !?
Shall we exchange President OF the United
States for Governor OF Indiana"
Ohio is no longer to be taken into any
sane mans calculations. Indiana is all that
is left to those advocates o. Mr.. HEN
pRIcKs's nomination who have hitherto laid
so much stress upon the October elections
in Ohio ard Indiana. What now? Let the
Baltimore Gazette answer:
..Tle Ohio Democratic Convention has
covered itself with disgrace and derision.
II has placed George II. Pendleton in the
chair Il man that the Democratic party has
thrown overheard as a tainted companion
OF Eclknap; it has declared for rag mo-
ncv, in spite OF the warning OF last falls
election: and 1t has crowned its folly
bv nominating 'Old Bill Allen for
the presidency, who couldn't carry
his own State at the last election. This is
sheer idiocy, and Ohio must he left out OF
all calculations in the coming canvass. The
worst OF ii is that so good man as Mr..
Thurman is iniuriouSly affected by the pur-
blind folly OF his State. He is practically
laid out Of the question. Mr.. Hendricks is
also damaged; for in view Of the rag-money
idiocy OF the Ohio Convention the Demo-
cratic party will demand a man more de-
cidcdly in favor Of hard money than Mr..
Hendricks has shown himself to be. The
result will probably be to throw the contest
into the Atlantic States; and the chances OF
Tilden and Bayard are improved by the
lunacy OF the Ohio Democrats
The Gazette is BAYARD paper, and may
therefore he excused for narrowing the con-
test down to TILDEN and BAYARD. But, as
we have said before, to nominate BAYARD
would be to invite defeat and to render it
inevitable. The Baltimore american says
"Mr. Thurman was ctlectually 'snubbed,'
and may be considered out OF the prcsiden-
ta race"
The Gazette has had four leading Demo-
Gratis in Congress interviewed-thre Of
them from Maryland, and the fourth is Mr..
LAMAR. Evidently they were selected
because they were known to be for BAY
be in anybody's way, we add what the Go
zeite says as to those four gentlemen's Sc
cond choice:
"Governor Tilden would seem to be the
second choice OF the gentlemen whose opin-
ions we have given, and there can be no
question that upon this point also there is
not very wide difference between their
sentiments and those of their constituents"
Our correspondent at Washington writes
to us that in that city on Wednesday night
sit was not difficult to find many who were
absolutely confident that the action of the
Convention !" in Ohio "makeS certain, the
nomination of TILDEN." We would ask,
Where now are the men who are unwilling
to surrender Ohio? Shall we risk anything
upon such a State?