The New York herald., 1879-09-06

experienced politician said this afternoon
..Theres no use in relying the political stabil-
ity OF the farmers. Six big rains will make
ersault of the vote of an entire county Why,
in a farming section that 1 familiar with, the
farmers daughters used to do the washing and milk
the cows. BY aud by all this was changed. The
girls began to quit work about four IN the afternoon
and nut ON good clothes. No more washing milk
ing for them Extra hands had to be hired to do
With such changes the farmers began to feel a
up a pool and sent it to be used on msrgins in
Chicago. They all cleaned out and had
to begin o over ssa again a.. ana 50 so,n ald the the
queer thing is these farmers all greenback
before they failed and went into bankruptcy. They
were all hard money men when they began to
cover. One of them said to me the other day when
i asked him if he greenbacker still, Oh damn
your greenbacksl I've got 500 bushels of wheat to
SELL He didn't want any auctuating money market
to affect the price of his commodity. you see.'s
GREENBAcKEgs
After ALL it appears that there many flaws in
the popular impression of the national. green
back party in Ohio as it actually exists to-day. 1t
has State ticket in the field. headed by Piatt for
Governor. No man has hetter right to speak for
the party at such a juncture than colonel Dcnn
Piatt brother OF the candidate who came out here
to champion fraternal cause at few public meet
ings ana has just gone East 10 watch over the pro-
duction of his new play, in which Clara Morris is
appear in Brooklyn. / asked Colonel Piatt what
his view Of the political situation was, and he re-
plied:-
the begnning will be history in the end. The re-
publicans will elect the Governor and lose the Legs
lature."
to this and will it consent to such arrangement?
mot that ever heard of. The nationals concern
the two old parties. They are earnest. honest men,
striving to build up party OF their own.
"And will they poll the last years $4,000 votes in
Ohio, much talked ot?"
..Yes, and double that number, unless am greatly
mistaken. The attempt made to sell us out to the
democracy has aroused and excited the organization
to an extent that insures activity not before
pected. The manner in which the transfer was at
tempted is considered an insult. and has created
mo mol
the republicans.
you think. then. the infationists are gaining in
this statel'
Il am glad you used that word Imitation 1t
gives me opportunity to correct common error.
cial policy is mainly among the agriculturists. and
originated in the money famine that Followed the
crash five years since. farmer does his business
trust. He purchases through the year on crops
that come into the market but once in the year.
His wheat, corn. hogs and other products OF the
farm wipe Oft the charges made against him by
the merchants and mechanics of the towns and viii
lagos. He. therefore. handles very little money:
The effect OF panic is to destroy confidence and
and mechanic not getting credit themselves, refNse
it. of course, to their customers There is frantic
attempt do what is called cash business hence
the distress OF the money famine. The farmers are
slow Of study. but they learned that government
alter neglsSting our currency through all the hmsh
ton through contraction. The result was wide
spread ruin and universal distress and it gave this
currency question prominence over all others
Such men as Ewing aud Cary. who never stop to
think, and would not much helped in that way
they to STOP made it appear as If there were no
THE MONEY PLANK IN THE PLATFORM.
'There are other questions, them"
''Of course. The main plank in our platform Is
the resolve to have the government OF the country
much separated or divorced from the business Of
the country our fathers divorced Church and
State. We are making war on the fictitious indebt-
edness under which We labor; such. for example, as
the great body OF the bonded Indebtedness and the
watered stock of these railroads that make obli
cations four times greater than national ndebt-
edness, tor which every particle OF produce and the
entire business is pay the interest and divi
dends These railways public highways and
should be open and free as lakes and rivers We
want no standing army in time OF peace and no
used and utterly useless when needed We must
have this horde Of otice-holders taken from
stored to the political machine the fathers designed
1t from the financial job these fellows have made it.
That lis is cortsny aL new departure from fat money
TILDEN's MANIPULAT1oNs.
"But you spoke just now OF the result in Ohio
being what was intended. What did you mean?
Il mean that it designed from the start to give
Ohio to the republicans so as to kill senstor Thur
man and benefit Mr.. Tilden. This was done through
the nomination of General Ewing"
tionY'
democrats to vote the ticket you must put demo-
Gratis on as candidates. The other thing was tried
with Greeley Now, General Ewing born a
whig aud bred a republican, and the smell of the
coon skin as the boys say. is so strong upon him
that democrats to his meetings with clothes pins
on their sensitive He got into Congress
from heavy democratic district by the skin OF his
teeth. aud AZ candidate tor Governor he has
offended the hard money democrats, the Germans
Jews. bankers and bondholders by nursing the rag
baby, aud all our party by employing Sam Cary to
sell us out He will be badly beaten, mark my
words"
'You mean that the men nominating him all
thisY"
under the lead Of Thurman, had proposed the ques-
ton OF freedom and purity of the polls as the issue
The nomination OF Ewing sunk that aud substi-
tuted the financial issue, on which the democrats
are divided 1t has organized defeat All the men
concerned in it as soon as Ewing WAS nominated
lett the State. Mr. John q. Thompson. confidence
man of Thurman, feshy gentleman, who
ganizes. was put of the State Central Committee
and told to go hshing. and Frank Mckinny. good
fellow, who does not organize is put in his place.
THURMAN's SUCCESSOR.
.'Well should the republicans succeed. Colonel.
who viii be the next United states SenatorY'
..MSaisy "Staney Matthew's"
"Stanley Matthews-by far the ablest man in the
party-for that John sherman wills it,"
Colonel Piatts view of the national party objects
and mission may be rather chilly reading for some
OF the Ohio democrats, who are willing TO out-Herod
Herod in their anxiety to win over the greenback
vote.
HAMILTON COUNTY
Here in Hamilton county, where Cincinnati is
situated, the republicans have some special griev-
to revenge and the democrats special ad-
vanages 10 RETAIN which will add to the heat of tic
battle The groenback vote was comparatively
inconsderable last year that the two big parties
arrayed against each other without particular atten
tion to the currency issue. In 1876 the Board of
Public Works OF Cincinnati originated in law
passed by republican Legislature. 1t was author
iztd a board OF i've MEMBERS to be elected by
the people. and to the astonshnient OF republicans
the democrats captured 1t at the first following poll
by eecting three of the five. This gave the demo-
Gratis the extensive city patronage controlled by the
Board. Last spring. however, the republicans
ceeded in reversing the majority of in the Board
But u democratic Legislature was then in at
Columbus and within few weeks after tho new
republican member, A. q. Boyce. took his seat,
the Legislature repealed the law creating the Board
At the same time the Board reconstructed under
another title--namely. the Board of CITY Commis-
sioners, composed of the same number of persons.
Instead OF being elected, the members OF the
Board were made appointees OF the Police Judge,
who was then democrat. This Police Judge APP
pointed four democrats and one republican, none
of whom members of the former Board
of Public Works. The i've members hold their
Offices for one. two, three, tour and five years
respectively, the republicans tenure being the
shortest. The City Commissioners have en-
larged poMers. each being authorized TO appolnt