The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-07-09
The Contest i'm Ohio.

The Contest i'm Ohio.
Both parties will do their utmost this fall
TO carry Ohio looking To the political effect
on the nominations and election for Prcsi-
dent In 1880. The officers TO be chosen are of
the secondary class, and their personal in
nucncc on the canvass will be limited. But
II the Republicans should bc defeated in
ils great central State, SO long Il seat Of
their power, they can hardly hope TO re-
cover from the shock Of that blow.
For more than twenty years the Repub-
leans have held continuous possession of
Ohio. and always carried 1t when full vote
was brought out, with rare exceptions. The
Democrats elected their Secretary of State
In 1862 by scratch, and the ancient ALLEN
as Governor in 1873, when the remainder of
the Republican ticket was chosen. BISHOP,
the present Democratic Governor, defeated
WEST last year, when the Nationals and
Workngmen pollcd together some thirty
thousand votes In this long period, per-
haps the severest struggle made by the
Democrats to wrest possession from their
adversaries, took place in 1867, when
THURMAN. as the candidate for Gov
ernor made Il most energetic canvass
and was beaten only by 1888 votes,
though the Republicans had majority OF
1906 the year before. In 1865 the Demo-
Gratis carried the Legislature, and sent
THURMAN. to the Senate In 1873 the real
issue was the reelection Of THURMAN, and
the Democrats again won the Legislature,
though GRANT had n majority Of "a, 26s for
President the year before.
With these few exceptions. from 1855 down
to the present time, the Republicans have
held Ohio as they have held Massachusetts,
or Iowa, sometimes by immense maiorites,
from one hundred thousand downward.
There as in other States, the corruption, ex-
travagance, rings. iobbcry, vcnality and
frauds in which leading Republicans have
been caught and exposed, gradually and
surely disguised the masses and UNDER
mined the party strength Finallythe great
crime, by means of which the Presidency was
stolen, was the last ounce that broke the
sickencd and weary camcls back. Eighty
one thousand refused to swallow the WEST
ticket last year, while the bulk Of the thirty
thousand Nationals were bolting Republic
cans At their recent State Convention, Gen.
BEATTY and others equally conspicuous
openly assaulted the Fraudulent Administra-
tOn, and were suppressed not for the sake
~ llAl -, IuA III lll' liA'l'0A va Ah' lblAl
sun. the feeling Of resentment is not en-
tnguished, and the causes that impcllcd it
exist moro strongly now than they did then.
owing to the developments that have since
been made before the POTTER Committee,
involving nearly all the Ohio leaders in the
Presidential Fraud.
The event, which have demoralized the
Republicans If Ohio have insprited the
Democrats and harmonzcd their iarrng
. factions into n confident party, whose
greatest present danger lies in the be-
lief that success may be achieved without
effort. Their Convention at Columbus the
other day was, for the first time In many
years, entirely free from discords and self
ish rivalrics PENDLEToN had been vim
dicatcd" by an election TO the Senate, and
is no longer candidate for President
THURMAN il complete master Of the stua'
ton; and success this iall means, unqucs
tionably, that whatever else may happen
HENDRICKS is to have his comb cut as q
Western candidate for 1880
Handicapped as the Republicans are will
exposed fraud, stll their case is less drspc
rate in Ohio, when analysed candidly, than
would seem at the first glance. There are
tens of thousands who dcspise HAYES
SHERMAN, MATTHEWS, GARFIELD, MOVES
and other chiefs that have prollted by the
conspiracy in which they We're all actors
but who cling to the traditions IDEAS an'
organization of theirparty with sturdy dcVo
ton and affection; the more 50, perhaps, be
cause IL has been betrayed on the one hand
and is vigorously assaulted On tine other fu
causes in which they had no lot or part
The discipline of the party has Away
been rcmalkabic lightning as it did will
patriotic aud well directed minds for lead
ors, aud constantly drilled 10y the demands
of four years of civil war, The masses ear
nothing for platforms or patronage. The.
see before them the Old enemy, threatening
to gain control of the Government, and tina
sight rouscs the ancient antagonism in al
its intensity. The managers Of the ma
chinery, Of course, know how to seize am
utilize this advantage.
No means that II mind wholly unscrupu
lous can invent, or influence that prost
tutcd station can exert will he left unen
ploycd by SHERMAN and his associates I
carry Ohio. To advance this object, til
hundred thousand oficcholdcrs are assesse
by voluntary contributions at a iiXc
sum, regulated by their salary, just as the
We're under GRANT and ZACH CHANDLER
Reformer SCHURZ walks humbly in the foot
steps of his illustrious predecessor. TIL
bulk OF this blackmail will be thrown int
Ohio, TO say nothing OF the sums that wi
he raised through favorltlsm In the Treas