The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-20

without 1t, the troubles in Turkey must
soon be brought to an end
A Cloud ON tho Democratic Prospect.
The silence of the leading democratic or
gan on the fresh folly perpetrated by its
party in Ohio is in striking contrast to the
scathing and contemptuous denunciations it
launched against the Ohio inflationists when
they first promulgated their heresy last fall
1t seemed possible then to bring so strong a
body of outside democratic opinion to bear
upon them as to prevent the spread of that
political epidemic. The denunciations how
ever. failed of their aim for within few
weeks the Pennsylvania democrats followed
the Ohio example. 1t then became the wish,
more or less openly expressed, of the party
in New York that the Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania tickets should be defeated, in order
that the infationists might learn whole
some lesson from experience and that the
democrats of other States might profit by
their punishment. Defeated they were, in
a most signal manner but the infationists
belong to that class of political Bourbons
WIZ AcoAA AothAuS unu lOfSc1 Aocii-
ing" The only effect of opposition and
denunciation from the hard money demo-
Gratis of other States WIS to arouse their re-
sentiment and cause them to ascribe this
defeat to outside interference rather than to
the inherent weakness of their cause In
they chung to the wreck, and they have
again put to sea in the same crazy craft. The
strength exhibited by the soft money wing
of the party in Congress during the winter
has strengthened and emboldened the fol-
lowers of Allen, and they are certain to make
National Convention.
The hard money democrats of other States,
seeing that such struggle at St Louis is in
evitable and that its issue is doubtful, do not
quite know what line Of tactics they ought to
adopt They do not dare to denounce the
infationists with the same unsparing vigor
with which they pursued them last year, be-
cause it would further infame and enrage
them and alarm the timid hard money demo-
Gratis of other States for the safety and unity
of the party. If the supporters of Governor
Tilden push the quarrel to extremities the
rag money men will bolt from the St. Louis
Convention if they cannot, control it, and
grand split in the democratic party now
would prove as disastrous as it did in 1860
The bold action and defiant attitude of the
Ohio Convention is most untoward event
for the democratic party. There is no GER
tainty that the hard money democrats would
win ct st. Louis if they should make an
aggressive fight The ability of the soft
money democrats in Congress to foil the
sounder wing of the party throughout the ses-
sion is bad omen which casts doubt on the
result of determined battle in the National
Convention. If the hard money men make
the fight and get beaten the party is utterly
ruined. If they make the fight and succeed
SO much violence of passion will be engen-
dered by the contest that the defeated infa-
tionists will bolt and run candidate of
their own, which will leave the party only
possibility-the bare shadow of q posi-
bility-of carrying the election into the
House. But this faint possibility is not
worth counting on. 1t is not likely that the
rag money democrats could get the electoral
votes of any State; and, in that event,
the election could not 60 into the House, for
the republicans would triumphantly elect
their ticket.
In any event the democratic schism on
the currency will strengthen the republican
party. It gives it all the political capital
that is to be made out of the hard money
issue. 1t will be ridiculous for the demo-
Gratis to ask the confidence of the country on
this important question in the face of the
deadlock which has prevailed during the
winter in Washington and the unabashed
boldness of the Western infationists.