Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-06-13
THE OHIO TICKETS.

The two no limitations in Ohio show that
both parties attribute great Importance to
carrying that State, and both have chosen
candidates rather off color on the matter
of finance, with the hope of securing the
largest amount of votes possible. Hon.
Chas. Foster is by no means the represen-
tatiye of the much-vaunted Republican
theory of sound money, as his votes for
the Bland silver bill and Stanley Mat
thews' resolution, to pay the debt in sill
yer. is evidence. If the Democrats pro-
posed to permit the campaign in Ohio to
be made on the question of finance, which
we take it from their own nominations
they do not, we do not see how MIR. Eos
ter's platform, as gathered from his votes,
would excite much enthusiasm with that
great mass of Republican voters, who are
REPRESENTED by their press as making f.
nance their daily study and the honest
dollar their confession of faith. We pre-
sume. from the character of the men they
have chosen as leaders, that the Ohio De
mocracy proposes to make straight-out
FIGHT for a ballot-box free from the bayonet
and poll free from the marshal's bludgeon.
First Of all the franchise of the country is
to be free. To accomplish this they have
chosen aggressive men, about whose
aunionismn there can be no discussion.
Gen. Thomas Ewing was educated at
Brown University, Rhode Island, went TO
Kansas. where he was chosen Chief JUS
flee of the State, and the civil war coming
on he organized the Eleventh Kansas in
fantry. He was successfully brevetted
brigadier general and major general for
valuable service in the field. While al
ways Democrat, he has been pronounced
in his proclivities for the Greenbackers.
Gen. Americas V. Rice, the nominee for
1t. Governor on the Democratic ticket,
was studying law when the civil war
came on. and enlisted as private in the
Twenty first Ohio, from which position he
rose step by step to be brigadier general.
He served in the forty fourth and forty
fifth congresses, and is now banker.
At the last congressional election in
Ohio it will be recollected that, taking thu
Democratic and Greenback votes together
the Republican vote was in a minority OF
many thousands, and this will &C
count for both parties throwing out bats
to those inclined towards soft money. Tht
Democratic party have offered certainl!
the one most tempting to the Green
hackers in that State, and will likely drag
the prize in their net, as there is hardly {
possibility that the Greenbackers' organi
cation will fight much against Tom Ew
ing. Ewing will have the sympathy o.
even the hardest money Democracy
throughout the country in his fight for the
governorship. There are two principles
at stake in the United States-one sound
currency, and the other the preservation
of the freedom of the ballot box-the lat
ter, the one the success of which is neces
sary to the very life Of this Republic
Foster stands before the people as the re-
preventative of "hard currency" and
bayonets at the polls; Tom Ewing stands
as the representative of s'soft money! and
freedom at the polls. We cannot see how
any Democrat who regards his country
can have any but the heartiest wishes fol
the success OF the latter in Ohio. He re
presents the vital principle in the govern
ment Of this Republics ballot-box fret
from Federal interference by troops, AM
his defeat, should it occur. will be deplor
able in that light.