Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-07-24
THE CAMPAIGN.
I'm the States of Ohio and New
York.

I'm the states of Ohio and New
York.
There will be elections this year
in Kentucky, California, Maine, Ohio,
Maryland, Massachusetts,, Minnesota,
Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wiscon-
sin but present interest is concen-
trated upon those of Ohio and New
York. In the former, state conven
tions have been held and nomination s
made ;but in the latter, standard bear
rers have yet to be selected.
Both New York and Ohio may be
classified as pivotal states, that is liza
BILE to. 60 either Democratic or Re-
publican, as influence may be brought
to bear upon voters. This imparts
great importance to the methods,
that may be resorted TO in the APP
preaching campaigns in them. The
contest in Ohio derives additional in
terest from its personal aspects, and
the bearing it may have upon the cleo
ton of presidential candidates. The
Legislature to be elected in that state
will chose a Senator to succeed Mr..
Thurman, and John Sherman, the
self-announced administration aspi-
rant for the presidency will, through
Foster, conduct Republican tactics.
He is a shrewd and INSCRIPTIONS
manager, whose qualities were illus
trated in his manipulation of the
Louisiana Returning Board and with
out which the great crime of defraud-
ing the voters of this country OF their
choice for President would not have
been consummated. In addition to
his own wealth, he commands that of
the corporations and dependents he
has enriched during his control OF
the treasury. The position he has
assumed, of necessity, antagonists
the candidature of General Grant,
who is confronted in his own party
with the influence of patronage, and
the decentralization of division in
rings, where money is omnipotent and
on which he is largely dependent for
support. In the first trial Of relative
strength between the friends of these
aspirants in the Republican CONVEX
ton of Ohio, Sherman carried his
point in the selection of Foster for
Gubernatorial candidate, and should
his ward be successful. he will be a
formidable competitor for Republican
nomination in 1880, Notwithstanding
the we'll known opposition of Blaine
and Conkling. On the other hand If
Gen. Ewing, the Democratic candi-
date should be successful, that gen
tleman will probably rise to the plane
of a hopeful presidential prestige, and
in that event the Democratic choice
might be between him and Thurman
and Hendricks but If Ewing should
be beaten and the state of New Yorl
won, then there might be some show
for Tilden OF Bayard.
The champaign in Ohio is scarcely
opened yet, and still it is apparent
that the Republican party will seel
both there and New York,t to make it:
main fight on the issue raised by the
President with Congress. The ques
ton of marshals and troops at thu
polls is a fundamental one. 1t carries
us back to the very springs of gu
political existence. 1t is connected
with popular rights, WHICH even TIT
EXTREMIST infiationist must realize thu
necessity of helping to sustain. With
out free elections, how can any re
former hope for success? 1t is an Is
u which the Democracy can ant
will accept everywhere. But not
w~ithstanding this, substitution o
greenbacks for national bank notes
and coinage of silver must play al
important role in the Ohio campaign
There is no probability, there is NJ
possibility OF abandoning them. Th'
western Democracy is too determined
in it's demand for them, and the policy
of the Republicans themselves forbid
such action. They may affect to con
slider that successful, resumption
has removed all necessity for thei
paying any more attention to green
backsond coinage of silver, whic|
they deEounce as a species of infa
ton, nevertheless they are stirring u
the Nationals in hopes of separating
them from the Democrats. On thi
account if for no other, it will be in
cumbent On Gen. Ewing to give fui
expression to his we'll known ~financia
sentiments. At the same time h
will not forget that free elections con
stitnte the overriding issue of tn
hour, that without them there can b
no Democratic success, or reform
of any sort, either financial or politi
cal, nor will he fail to show their ne
cessity or to explain fully the reason
given by Congress for its deman
that troops and marshals should b
kept from the polls.
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