The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-01-03
From the N. Y. Sun.
THE SENATORIAL CONTEST IN
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There is every prospect of strdg-
gle in the Legislature of Ohio for a
successor to STANLEY MATTHEWS,
whose term of service will expire in
March, 1879. A generation has
passed away since two Democrats at
anv one time represented Ohio in the
Senate of the United States. VIII
LIAM ALLEN and BENJAMIN TAPPAN
were the last. Thomas CoRwIN sue
ceeded ALLEN in 1919.
GEORGE E. PUGE, Democratic, fol-
lowed CHASE in 1856, ana, with that
exception, the Republicans held both
seats from 1861 forward, BENJAMIN
f. WADE and JOHN SHERMAN being
the Senators, until Judge THURMAN
broke the line of political succession
in 1869, and became the leader of his
party in the Senate. After a long
struggle, extending over more than
thirty years of Wing and Republican
rule, with occasional changes, this
great central State has passed into
Democratic hands, and fifteen months
hence will have two Senators to swell
the majority against the Fraudulent
Administration-should it still be in
power at hat time.
The principal competitors in the
present contest are GEORGE w. Nor
GAN, THOMAS EwING, and GEORGE H.
~PENDLEToN. In their political views
there is little to choose between these
three rivals. They all belong to the
same school, and ON the questions of
the day hold nearly the same opin-
ions. MI. PENDLEToN has been so
much pressed forward into promi-
nence that his name is familiar to
the country as an aspirant for hon
ors far above any real merit he may
fairly claim.
MI. PENDLEToN suffered seriously
in the incidental investigation which
grew out of the BELKNAP impeach-
ment, and his friends are pushing
him now as much for vindication as
for any other reason. But an cleo
tion cannot restore the purity which
was soiled by damaging exposures
that could not be denied. Mr..
EWING is a mar of ability, but who'll
" wanting in sound judgement or
sagacity, and is therefore unsafe as
a leader or as a follower, for he is
not content with a secondary place,
and is entirely unfit, from this de-
feet Of character, for the first.
Gen. MORGAN is known as a gal
liant soldier, and as a painstaking
and efficient member of Congress,
who, while in a minority of the House
of Representatives, labored constant
" to bring to light the frauds and
corruption in the Treasury. He was
the first to expose the contradictory
reports of the Secretary and Regis
ter, involving hundreds of millions,
and was foremost in resisting all sub
sides or corrupt schemes which were
then urged by the great Rings that
controlled the Republican majority.
Between these three candidates
the drift of opinion in the State is
toward Gen. MORGAN, though Mr..
PENDLEToN will start with the united
vote of Hamilton coahty, which is
regarded as a most important factor
in determining the election. He has
in addition, active partisans in Other
parts of the State, who for the last
ten years have been zealously press.
ing his name for the Presidency.
1t seems hardly probable that {
new name will be chosen because O
any combination. among these aspir
ants. Mr.. PAYNE and Mr.. HuRD are
both able men, but they are virtual
ly excluded from the canvass by
their financial convictions, which dis
agree with the sentiment that is nov
sweeping over the West and Soutf
without much distinction of party
The man who will do tie most homo
and render best service to the coun
try, is the candidate oil THE Sun.