The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-18
The Imitation Triumph I'm the Ohio
Democratic Convention.

The followers Of Governor Allen verify
that proverb of Solomon, Though you bray
fool in q mortar yet will his foolishness
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, they persist in their soft
money policy and seem determined to ruin
the democratic party if they cannot
rule it. In the Committee on Resolu-
tons at Cincinnati yesterday there was
small majority of hard money
men. but the infationists were stiff and IN
yielding and agreement on platform was
found impossible. There was, accordingly,
hard money report by the majority and
soft money report by the minority. Tho
Convention adopted the latter by vote Of
1858 to 800, giving the infationists a 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 q
proportion of the delegates though not a
majority and he represents all the sound
hard money sentiment that exists in Ohio.
The stiff head winds which blow against
Mr.. Thurman in his own State cannot dam
age him in national estimation. Outside Of
Ohio the greenback opposition to him will
operate as the Tammany opposition to Gov
ernor Tilden does outside of New York. or
rs the persecution of the secessionists
affected the reputation of Southern Union
lists in the loyal States. Ordinarily Presi-
dental candidate who is not strongly
supported by his own party in his
own State is in bad way. But this rule
must be taken with some abatement in the
case of Senator Thurman. The most fatal
thing that could happen to him as Presi-
Dental candidate would be the cordial sup
port of the Ohio infationists. Their i'm
petuous opposition is valuable testimony
to his soundness on the financial question.
The infationists proclaim and advertise
that Senator Thurman is not with them
nor of them. 81 have not loved
the world nor the world me-" and it
is an advantage to Mr.. Thurman to have it
known that there is no love lost between
him and the followers of "Old Bill Allen" and
Sam Carey. In this respect the Ohio states
man stands before the country in much
better light than Governor Hendricks, who
is accepted and Endorsed by the soft money
democrats of Indiana and receives the unani-
nous support of his own State because his
hard money professions are believed to be
merely thin incrustation on the
surface of his opinions Scratch a
Muscovite and You find Tartar" scratch
Governor Hendricks and you find an infa-
ZIONIST The reception which Senator Thur
man meets from the Ohio infationists attests
the sincerity of his hard money convictions.
The Bill Allen and Sam Carey wing of the
party understand too well that Mr.. Thur
man is immovably hostile to their policy.
1t is for this reason that they breathe out
threatenings and slaughter" against him.
Notwithstanding the ingratitude of Ohio
the democrats of the United States will not
forget that the party is more deeply in
debted to Mr.. Thurman than to any other
man. He may justly claim the credit of
having rescued the party from dissolution.
After the disastrous Greeley campaign gloom
and discouragement settled upon all the
other democratic leaders. Most of them
despaired of setting the party on its
feet again, and movement was
started in Ohio for creating o new
organization to take its place. Judge
Groesbeck, an eminent and esteemed demo-
cratic citizen of Ohio, consented to be put
forward as the leader of that movement, and
he published an able and striking address
which was widely copied and Endorsed by
journals which had supported Mr.. Greeley.
That effort to disband the democratic party
and merge it in new organization with a
different name might have succeeded had it
not been for the resolute courage of Senator
Thurman, who evinced more foresight and
sagacity than any other democratic
statesman. He protested with vigor against
q removal of the old landmarks, declared his
invincible confidence in the future success
Of the party, exerted himself to the utmost
to separate it from the entangling alliance
and compromise of principle of the preced-
ing year, organized State campaign on
strictly democratic basis, went upon tho
stump and made an industrious canvass,
and rescued the State from the republicans
who had carried 1t for Grant against Greeley
by thirty-four thousand majority only
year before. 1t was by his advice that Mr..
Allen was made the candidate for Governor,
Senator Thurman having been governed in
his selection by his wish to make the canvass
SO distinctively and entirely democratic that
no outsiders could claim any share in the
victory. Mr.. Allen was known as steadfast
old-time democrat, and he had not then abb
jurcd the hard money principles, of which
he was sturdy, unfinching champion
in the United States Senate in the
last generation. Governor Allen owed
debt to Mr.. Thurman for bringing
him out of obscurity and long retreat and
uniting him at the head of the rovernman