, 1876-05-12
OHIO.

OHIO.
THE HOT CONTEST BETWEEN THURMAN AND
ALLES.-spECrMES sTKAW5 SHOWING TILE
DRIFT OF REPUBLICAN, OPINION.
Spccful Correspondence gf The Tribune
CoLUMgCs, O., May s--Senator Thurman
and his Uncle William arc dividing the atten-
tion Of the Democratic politicians of Ohio just
now il, q manner such as could hardly havc been
auticipated BY the nephew three years ago.
When he brought out his predecessor in the Ma
tional Senate from retirement of twenty years,
and made the name Of William Allen rallyingg
cry for the Democracy in the State campaign "a
forlorn hope for the twcnty-ycars-beaten parity,
the act was regarded as clever bit OF strategy
to reunite the forces which had been demorul-
lied in the Greeley campaign, and not as raising
IN q formidable rival for the Presidential race.
At that time, the few men who remembered
that
WILLIAM ALLEN
vas not physically dead, only va1iqd tn their
gucsscs as to how much over 50
years old the venerable ex-senator
was; end when the pretty conceit was invented
of calling the new visitor to the pale glfmpses OF
the (uoliticaD moon but 6S years old, it was only
by persistent iterating that the conccit was
made to take with the mass Of the Democratic
party. They only remembered that some time
in the carly part Of the half century preceding
the Civil War such man had represented the
Democratic party in the Senate Of the United
States. The stroke ct
sEABLASCz OF RESURRECTION
yas bold one, and characteristic Of the au-
dacity which used to mark the political move
mcnts of Judge Thurman before hc had been
rs much talked Of as available for Prcsiden-
tial candidate as he has been Of late It
foec1Susu So the epidemic q Of dissatisfacton that
had surgcd upon the masses Of the Republican par
EG{ectiop- The uncle was chosen Governor BY On
actual vote in his favor many thousanos less than
the nephew had Tceeiyed age yea1s Il oe1ore o IN
With him came also Democratic Legislature,
| and the election OF Judge Thurman to q second
| term in the Senate. Here ...-
TIE PATHS OF UECLE AND NEPHEW PARTED,
and within three months after the inauguration o.
| Gov. Allen, it WAS painfully evident to the msu
who had wrought for years for Thurman that the
now Governor had concluded to drive the team
headed toward the White House and remit the
| young man Thurman, who still hcked some year.
of three score and ten to the 1utufo lot Ill
Time wouid fail mic now to detail the workings
and the conntcr-y.orkinGs, the plotnnEs anu the
plottings here at this state Caplto, g5ow
| ~. The contest seemed TO all observers to have
| reached premature end in q manner quite uncx-
THCfcd to f1q 4fnmE0I21e supporters III
| ants. when last October Gov. Allen was defeated
fol election. lie himself, no doubt, 20 regarded Il
atthat time, but Is tue progress OF cvents IN Wash
inCtou sent into retirement one after another OF Int
faSoritc sons Of Democracy and the contest for th
nomination at ST. Louis narrowed. but still show
ing chance for the survival Of Thurman as the
| dtfcst it becomes apparent TINT Ohio was Eradnat
| IL but steadily turning towards him, and the mer
| who had staked all upon his defeat became al al
once, Is 1t we're,
The old mans vanity was always unlimited nnt
is not Of that quality that subsidies with advancing
years. Wholly oblivionE of that TACT; t when 4 u
less chance OF that nomination ut St Lou1s than b
hns Of being strnck by lightning, and equal,
Of ', eaoy tact aa n ri fhe
benefit Or advancement, and that It Is for Inc dc
fest OF his nephew the old man en1oyE, no doubt
philosophy a tSa a !ae Of
It looks now as though the rusc had already sue
| ceedcd, and the -----...-
sKnLFC1 AASPuLAI1oSs oF Tub RURAL CON
ostensibly for Allen had disposed of the Thurma1
interest IN ohio and Therefore in the noIlnatin
knowing what is the *ttzue inwardness" OF thes
recent demonstrations, insist that zuch Is not
the very delegates who have been formally instruct
ed by the local Conventions for Allen are friendl
to Thurman, and will rally to him after the Allie
chosen delegates to St: Louis. OF these the si1t]
{Toledo) and Eleventh uaw!ence} Districts In
srructed for Allen, while uf the delegates chose
from those two districts only Gen steedman, q
Tnledo. is regarded as personally hostile to Thur
mnn. In the Eleventh District Vance predicate
| Ills hopes OF reelection to Congress largely O.
the disturbance on the currency ques
ton he may be able to get up among th
vas natural that his Convention should be for tn
man who had the nerve to declare, from Demo
cratic stump, that specie payments wesc SO barre
In Tie Fifth Congressional District, very Glib
| 1altar OF Democracy, resolution instructing 10
| Allen ,xas voted down by vote Of nearly two I
| one md. the .3alegates are said to stand On
| neutral a1ad one for Thurman.