The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-05-24

struggle, in which all their courage
would be needed.
Once more we reiterate the warming
These repudiators are In dead earnest
They do not care II their party gets
beaten, unless Il can 80 prevail as to So
cure triumph OF their ideas. Among
them are corrupt and desperate specu.
lators, as we'll as wild-eyed fanatics. but
they rival each other In terrible earnest
ness. Any man who fancies that this
spirit can be subdued or whipped into
silence in q Democratic National Con
vention, or by anything 1t can do or say
does not know the creatures with whom
he has TO deal. As well try to quiet q
mob OF raving lunatios by reading the
riot act. Republicans are making q
serious mistake IL they suppose that
this attitude will necessarily W weaken aan
the Democratic party. On the con,
trary, the teachings OF Mr.. Morton and
other conspicuous Republicans have
been such as to make the rag-money
heresy almost irresistible In several
Western States.
The greenback men mean business.
They have tried In vain to catch the
Republican party and the Democratic
party, and each OF these great organiza-
tions will declare tselfthrough its Ma
tional Convention in favor OF paying the
debts OF the Government without fraud.
Neither of them will accept or tolerate
imitation; and the greenback men are
thus left out In the cold.
The next thing for them Is to set UP a
party and an organization of their own ;
and the signs Of such purpose are
broad and plain. In Ohio the majority
OF the greenbackers are Democrats.
They are the same fellows who made
such stir in that State last year, and
succeeded in committing the Demo
cratic party to their dogma, and In get
ting it crushed in the State election
Now they have done their best to got
entire control OF the delegation to st.
Louis, and have failed yet they have
number OF the delegates, and are going
to make in that convention a square
issue on the question Of more irredeem
able paper money.
Apparently, the purpose OF these gen
tlemen is to bolt when they are finally
voted down at St. Louis, to have a new
convention Of their own, and to nomi-
nate that aged statesman, Bill Allen,
as their candidate for President. With
him they will probably take for Vice
President some greenbacker OF Repub-
lican antecedents, William d. Kelley, Of
Pennsylvania. for instance: and thus
we shall have to fight it out again in
the election of November.
IN. Y. Herald.I
The followers OF Gov. Allen verify
that proverb Of Solomon, Though you
bray fool in mortar yet will his fool
ishness not depart from him" In spite
OF their overwhelming defeat last fall,
and the defeat OF the party in every
State, which adopted their platform,
hox in
and seem rather determined to ruin the
Democratic party il they cannot rule it.
In the Committee on Resolutions at
Yesterday there was small
majority Of hard money men, but the |
were stiff and unyieldiDg, |
and agreement on platform was found |
in npossible. There was, accordingly, a |
hard money report by the majority and |
q soft money report by the minority. |
The Convention adopted the latter by a
vote OF 1863 to 800, giving the infiationists
q decided victory. This result destroys
all the chances that Senator Thurman
ever had OF being strongly supported at
st. Louis by his own State. He will,
nevertheless, have quite proportion OF
the delegates, though not a majority,
and he represents all the sound hard
money sentiment that exists in Ohio.
Notwithstanding the ingratitude of
Ohio the Democrats OF the United
States will not forget that the party is
more deeply indebted to Mr.. Thurman
than any other man. He may justly
claim the credit Of having rescued the
party from dissolution. The victory Of
The imitation Democrats in Ohio does
not help the chances Of Governor
HAYES. Had the result been different,
had the Democratic Convention be-
haved reasonably yesterday, there
would have been a possibility OF the
party carrying Ohio in Oc-
tober, and 1t might have been thought
expedient to nominate Hayes as the
strongest candidate for carrying that
State. But the infiatiOnists have given
away Ohio, and any candidate the Re-
publicans may nominate will carry 1t
With as much certainty as Hayes.
Hartford Timesl
The Democrats OF Ohio have defeated
The Democratic party in two Presiden-
;ial elections by their combinations and
lcts in the National Conventions. In
he present canvass they are pursuing
course that would IL followed destroy
The party. But we do not believe their
will prevail this year. They
and the rest OF the country will oppose
them. Fortunately, the vote Of Ohio is
not necessary to Democratic success In
The coming election. The State is con-
,eded to the Republicans. Bill Allenism
has defeated the true Democracy in that
State, throwing it into the hands Of the
at time when the Demo
Gratis held the State and were growing
stronger. II was wicked performance,
md the Democracy OF the whole coun-
Try are beginning to understand 1t in its
rue light. The Democracy Of Ohio will
stand almost alone in their demOralized
condition at the coming election. And
his is the moresto be deplored, as it is
evident that the Democracy Of sound
,iews are actually in majority in that
State and are beaten in the conventions
~ the more active work of the Allen
nen.
boston Postl
A party that locally persists in adopt
ng the principles and practice Of its
llready condemned opponents can
hardly expect to name q Presidential
who shall draw to his support