New-York tribune., 1877-07-25
THE ONO DEMOCRACY.

BLISSFUL ANTTCIPAIIONS OF VICTORY.
OUTLINE OF THE STATE PLATFORM To BE ADOPTED
To-pAY-rHr LABOR TROUBLES To BE CHARGED
To THE REPUBLICAN FINANCIAL POLICY-GREEN-
BACK AND SILVER PLANKs-SOME OF THE CAN
pIDATrs FOR The GOVERNORsHIP AND TIE
sENATOHsnIP.
lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRrBUNEI
COLUMBUS, July 21.-1he excitement among the
laborlng population has not caused the Democrats
20 forego their State Convention. They are on the
ground already crowdng the hotels and sidewalks,
and merely discussing the chances of candidates
for places on ticket Yesterday the strikers AID
rioters at various places in the State disturbed the
leaders, VINO will have ne making of the platform.
Nine out of ten, at moderate estimate of the men
engaged in defying the law are Democrats.
To offend them by unfriendly expressions
in the resolutions of the Convention might
result in the loss of their votes. But
it would be equally dangerous to endorse
their rotous proceedings, for that would drive away
the respectable element in the party. The dilemma,
at first sight, seemed an awkward one, for, as the
Convention assemblies in the midst of the excite
ment, events agitating the whole country cannot
well be wholly overlooked. 4 happy thought strikes
the more sagacious managers. ." Let us not they
say. take the sides between the strikers and their
of affairs which produces the strike upon the iDan-
ciaI policy of the Republican party. We can put
il on heavy in that quarter to the tradesmcn and
transporters who are suffering from the strike.
We can say, The Republican party has put you into
this fix ; and to the laboring men we VIII declare
The Republican party has brought you down on
starvation wages" The idea is exclusively shrewd.
This morning The Cincinnati Enquirer gave the cue
in an editorial, which says:
The country today is app died before the protest OF
labor against tai merely but against the policy
OF the Republican arty as the party IN power ana tue
party that mas in power or nearly score wears ara
has made tac conditions when na1e lno ram oo slhg
possible. The Republican financial policy has depressed
our Industry. Whenever II acles lhe empower ne NJ
tuIlll shoVs tAc burden on the en- ''ofe IL - III & i
uvur that the Convention meets. IL Is not III umc
for the Democratic party OF Ohi5 to desert Ihe
cause uf tAe people women ana cLudgeh are hurucIcd
10y wrath nj lauOrcTs, while the poLcy OF the Govern
mont lies beneath the violence Men may not travel BE-
cause ne lOucy oil the D"Neinmeh' Is oe,h sucI s 10
make men burn railway cars 10y the III and and lcaNe
the corpses women and chi rcn as lis trophy The
cause Is behind the railroad ana Dtmhd ne pro est Oh
employees OF the rairua Is and Is be found III the Imam
cal policy OF The Gov rnlnent
Every delegate have talked with is "pipng" i'll
tins key tonight. As for the rest of the platform,
IT, too, can be found in The fnqares editorial fore
cast no doubt, by the who is carrying the doc
ument itself in his pocket. 1t is, in substance, hos
tnity to National Banks, maintenance of Greenback
circulation, restoration Of the silver dollar Of the
daddics" payment of the bonds according to the
contraction gold silver, and final singer III
the shape of a resolution about fraudulent Prcsl-
dent.
As to candidates, they are so numerous that
stick thrown at any crowd on Iligh-st Tonight
would hit half dozen for the Governorsnip, which
is alone worth teegraphug about. Gen. Thomas
Ewing whose friends say he ought 20 take the seat
in Congress to which he has been elected; Judge
Ramsey of Cleveland, who don't want the Office;
Henry b. Payne of the same city, who does; cx-
Speaker Converse who is accused by Gen. Ewing's
friends of selling himself while III the Leg
islature; ex-CongreSsman Vance, who made
something of figure in the fibustering
at Washington last Winter Gen. DarbIn Ward OF
Lebanon strong stumper; Americas Rice, who is
a member of Congress, and R. NJ. Bishop of Con-
necticut, business man with money which he is
supposed TO De wiling to give the politicians to
spend, are the leading candidates here. There are
haf-a-dozen more, bat the list IS already long
enough.
The Senatorial question comes il to complicate the
struggle for the Goycrnorship. Geo II. P,ndcton,
Gen. Ewing and Geo. W. Morgan are the leading
aspirants for the Senatorship and have already be-
gan the fight with each other 50 confident they
of carrying the legislature.
A happy confidence seems to possess the souls Of
all the Democrats assembled here. Every one be-
lievcs that the Democrats will sweep OhO next Fall,
carrying the State ticket and the Legislature with
the greatest ease. 1t is long time since have seen
a Democratic Convention radiant with biissfui
anucpatiOns of victory.
There are no evidences Of efforts to cut and dry
the Conventions work in advance. The usual
amount of wire-pulling and bargaining between
county delegations is going on but the field prom
ises TO be free Tomorrow Tor square honest fight
between the friends of the different candidates, and
the lack of any man of OvershadOwing influence 10
put up for Governor makes the aspirants unusually
numerous. The three four leading candidates are
called first rate men, and behind them is big field
of scrubs Nobody argues about the platform tonight
as there is little difference OF opinion, unless il be in
the length to which the silver plank shall be made
to reach. There is no need Of discussion.
All the talk and caucusing is over the candidates.
DurLin Ward is leading tonight and it looks as if
the tug will come between Lin and ex-Speaker
Converse, unless the Hamilton County men should
90 solid for Mir Bishop and make hin formidable
Ten days ago Converse could have been nominated,
but the charges against him have damaged him a
good deal