New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-10-29
THE CRisIS AND IT'S DUTY.

CREATfR-PRhSENT DU11 IN MEN AOish AND
PENNsYLyANIA-YILL PROPERTY PROTECT
IrsELFi
TO me Editor Of rae TribUne.
SIR: All sensible people certainly share with You
the satisfaction expressed by THE TRIBUNE over
the escape of the State Of Ohio from the danger
which has recently threatened it. The defeat Of
tie Republican State ticket would have been moth
ng less than q national disaster. Withou: the IN
tention Of the leading men on either side the iinan
oial issue became suddenly and sharply defined be
tween the two parties, by which the Republicans
were made the representatives, of simple conserve
tive honesty and the Democrats were pat IN ihe a.
titude Of hostility to the public credit. Over both
parties hung the new organization Of the
Nationals whose strength nO one could measure
and whose purposes were merely destructive At
first they were an equal menace 10 both sides,
hut by that singular law Of politics whose opera
tons we have 50 often observed the presence Of the
Nationals in the field soon became copiagIon 70 the
Democratic and "a disiniccaut 10 the Republicans.
Mr.. Thurman and his friends went through the
Summer IN i most cquyocai attitude Of subseTyi-
ency Ia these crazy azitators while the Rcpnbli-
cans under thc lead OF GeneTal Garfield, intulged
i'm campaign OF perfect honesty ard sincerity.
The result showed the sngacty Of this courageous
course. The Republican vote was nearly every
where slightly increased in spite o. 1hc 10000 Re-
publican votes thrown away on the Prohibition
ticket while the infstion-rcpudIation-C Communist
vote. the voice of the plain people who do not
want to pay th6ir debts. - divided that they
lost the state. which il united they might have
possessed and diseTaeod.
Ycb while We are duly thankful for danger
ayertcd, we must own there is no room for jublla-
ton The dangers before Us are StIil real and sub
staniial This election shows how rotten Is the
putlic sentiment OF this State in financial matter
The Democrats have gone half way 10 the Nation
ais. which is to ssy. half way 10 Bedlam. and the
two parties combined are a majority. in Indiana
the Republicans arc none too sound, aud tho Demo
Gratis would join The Nationals il they had not
clear majority OF the State without them. la Iowa
a complete fusion Of the two rsc-Inoney parties has
resulted in the loss of two Republican Congressman,
and they are now plotting a swinde which. il the
next Congress IL as bad the last. will them
the whole delegation. The Nationals and Demo
crafts naturally ask themselves why they should
court defeat by keeping up separate organizations
when they might wan easy victories by fusion. and
The answer is moi hard 70 guess In the course o.
the next year IL is altogether probable that III
every Western State the National party will dsap-
near IA n separate A,ody and that the Democratic
party viii adopt il, votes and platforms together.
In this STATE Of things the Republican party II the
only organization winch can resist thus downward
ten eney la oar politics. II is idle 10 inquire whether
all its aims are worthy and all lis leaders irrepiOach
able. The simple truth is that II it does not carry
New-York and Pepnsyly ania no man can pnc,lirt
the disgrace and calamties which the Democratic
party, united with and degraded b. the Nationals.
| may inhict upon the cOuntry. man must be blind
and deaf not To the tendency Of the Democratic
party IN this respect All Tie Ohio Idea men arc
now stumpng Pennsylvania talking perniciOusnon-
sense. In New-YOf even such a straw rs Congress
man Cox shows the course Of the foul wind II the
Democracy should win in either Of these States il
viii be with compromises and commitments which
will cStop their Congressman from doing any thing
/ IN opposition TO tine craziest schemes of like
Ewing and Saylcr. who have helped them 20 victory
| TO resist this attack 81 lunatie lawlessness the
Republican party must carry the coming elections
and TO do this We inust have Democratic votes.
These votes must be obtained from the highest and
! the lowest strata of the party. We must get the
help Of the most Intelligent honest and respecta-
bic men, men who have s0me interest in public orler
and the pnbiic credit. and who have sense enough
10 zee that these are both endangered by the sue
| orss Of their own party under present eiroumstan-
zee. Aad we must have also the votes Of the more
/ worthless material ia that party-tbe men who a.
with the winning side, with the large meetings. the
snowy banners, the noisy brass bands-the trash
and rf-Faff of the community, whose votes count
as heavily as those OF judges and bishops. To gain
] the votes of both Of these classes n free
expenditure of money is needed. The better class
| are reached by speeches. documents, careful and
constantly reiterated publications. Of fact aud argu-
inent the lower class by striking and imposing
demonstrations of strength and enthusiasm,
| and by personal and unceasIng solicitation
| by means of men OF their own class, who
! should be hired by the week for tho pur-
pose. 1t is euperhnous 10 saS that not one dollar
ought 10 be spent corraptiy, but the experience OF
/, England shows that elections conducted honestly
| are still enormously expensive. vote for men,
Der of Parliament is hardly ever bought nowadays,
and yet il costs candidate from ten TO fifty.
thousand dollars to be elected. Eternal vigilance
and liberal expenditure are the price Of liberty
| j believe thoroughly in moral forces" and honor
Mr. Marble FOR his reverence for them, but the bill
poster and the tTombone-player are each worthy of
hrs hire all the same and il is cheap in the end TO
pay legitimate expenses before election as to buy
| eanvassing boards aftcrward.
IL IL be true, rs We think that public order and
the pnblie credit are endangered by the success of
this impending coalition of the Democrats with the
Socialists is IL not the duty as well as the interest
OF every man who regards law and order as vitally
important things TO contribute by any means in bis
power TO avert sneh calamity II is an old maxim
4 that property always protects ItselLD Hmay be
long time before il has better opportunity for pro-
teefing itself than now. il Is distinctly and plainly
threatened in public speeches and in printed docu
rpents day by day. III in spite of all warnings men
OF properly and standing neglect the evident
of defending the common veal against ignorance
and knavcry, they will have only themselves 90
thank for what may Gene upon them.