The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-10-06
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The Ohio.EIeefion.

The Cincinnati LOnWuetdt VI yehleIuhy
confidently expresses the opinion that
Judge West, the Republican candidate
for Governor in Ohio, will be elected
mex, Tuesday. 1t thinks. his majority
will be larger than that OF Hayes two
years ago, and for the reason that his
election will, in the estimation Of the
peopIe, mean, substantially, appreciation
Of the administration and n tendency to.
ward besIcrmenl Of the currency"
We think this judgment OF tie Commr
tal will be borne out by the result next
Tue.day. There il a feeling in tic air,
iGAa. there waN two years ago, ilat the
current has ret in towards the Republi.
clGs. 1t will be remembered how decid.
ed wa the change in this respect two
years $50 just before the election. The
same thing is said to he plainly discerni'
bic this year.
The Ga:,Hc Of yesterday asks the ques.
ton, "Why should any business man, or
any man who lives by his own industry
vote to place the Democratic party in
power? This is question that should
come home to every voter in Ohio. The
working people Of Eastern Ohio who read
such Democratic papers as the S!eubeni
vile Ga.cl,e, an arden! greenback paper
may think that they will reap some ben
eft by voting the Democratic tick.
ct, but this is pure delusion on
their part. The Democracy Of New
York, and the Eastern Democracy
generally, have resolved that they will not
20 into the paper money again. They
have even gone further than this and re.
solved that they will take no steps back
ward on the issue Of a sound currency.
This settles the question 80 far as the
Democracy is concerned, for the party
cannot afford to ignore this attitude Of
the monied end Of their organization.
The premium on gold is now SO weak
that all mea Of any financial intelligence
whatever sec how ridiculous it would be
to go into a re.inilation OF the currency.
We're We to do so the civilized world would
uaile in pronouncing us a nation Of In.
n4iics. We would be regarded as a
doomed people in an industrial point st
view, because the end would certainly he
agreat crash and general repudiation.
While we are discussing the currency
question, day after day, all values, in
spite Of our talk, are settling down to
specie level. We cannot stop this pro.
cess, it seems, even by the threat 10 re.
initiate, because the natural tendency in
that direction is so strong in country
that is drawing gold from Europe to pay
for its heavy exports that the premium
sinks Of its own weight. Our immense
crops and the European war are factors
in the matter Of our salvation which the
greenbackers cannot neutralize.
II the people of Ohio will only regard
their interests in the spirit ofcnlightened
'eli.hness next Tuesday, they will vote
the Republican ticket. A few more steps
and We shall be on solid basis for
business revival that will Last. We can
then build on foundation Of real instead
Of fictitious values. We can produce on
apar with all nations that do business
with real money, and thus not only hold
our own market against them, bnt take
all the markets Of this Continent away
from them.
A state OF things OF this kind means
prosperity to the people of Ohio, MS it
does to the people OF every State in the
Union. The party that moves in this di.
rection, rather than in the direction Of
reinAation, is the Republican party. I'm.
der the stress OF great temptation, time
alter time since the close OF the war, ii
has 'tood up for the gradual bstterment
Of the currency and for the preservation
0f the National credit. But for This
standing up Of the Republican party for
the right, backed by the virtue and intel.
ligence Of the people, the country would
be to-day in hopeless slough Of ire.
deeRable paper money, just as France
was at the close OF the last century.
We appeal to the Republicans Of East
eIn Ohio, wherever our paper is read
among them, not TO be deceived by any
shOrt'sighted view Of their true interests
into an abandonment Of the position
which the party has maintained
throughout the long struggle over
the currency question. Stand by the
teachings Of all history on this
important issue. No nation ever tam
peFed with its credit with impunity.
Nothing is truer than that whatever n
people COW that shall they also reap in
financial matters. It is Just as impossi.
ble 10 produce real riches by printing
certificates Of debt as it ia by taking
thought to add a cubit to ones stature.
Both teats are alikeimpossibIe.
The Episcopal Convention.