New-York tribune., 1879-05-29
THE ONO CONTENTION.

The campaign of 1879 opens well. The
Republicans of Ohio have planted their flag
high on the enemy's works, and have chosen
strong leaders for the assault. The plat
form adopted is not a mere cOllec-
ton of stale reiterations. but is alive
in every line with the Kepublicanism
of the hour, leaving the dead. issues to bury
their dead. 1t puts foremost, as first III I'M
portance the protest of Republicans against
the policy by which the Democratic party
seeks, at one and the same time, to break
down the barriers to fraud upon the ballot
box and to remove all the personal safe
guards which the law nOw, at least in shadow,
if not i'll substance, throws about the helpless
blacks of the South. 1t denOunces the organ
lied effort of men lately in arms against the Gov
crnment to overthrow by legislation that Ma
tional supremacy which they could not de-
stroy 10y force it condemns the attempted in
timidation of the President, the needless and
vexatious extra session of Congress, the per-
petual disturbance of the country by the
Democratic party, and the beartleSs expulsion
of Union veterans from public Offices which
are their only support, in terms which every
Republican can echo. The warm indOrSe-
1oents of the President and the Secretary of
the Treasury are not to be ascribed TO the
local pride Of Ohio, for their achievements, in
resisting the lawless encroachments of the De-
Inocracy upon the National authority, and in
carving to a brilliant climax the great work
of resumption, belong to the whole Republi-
can party.
Upon this most virile platform, to which
the whole party can subscribe, the Repub-
licans of Ohio have placed strong candidates.
For Governor. they have nominated ex-COn-
cres,man Charles Foster, one of the best
political organizers in the State, man
of long public experience, unblemished
record, and great popularity; for Lieu
tenant Governor, they have nominated
an excellent candidate, General Andrew
Hickenlo0per, of Cincinnati, whose achieve
ments in the War of the Union well qualify him
TO stand upon Union platform. The remaining
candidates seem to have been selected with
equal judgment, and with an equal abb
sence of contention among the delegates.
There could not be better certificate of har-
mony than the fact that there was at no time
any manifestation Of bad temper, though Mr.
Foster outstripped Judge Taft by barely eight
votes in convention of nearly six hundred.
III is nov 700 t;ilIy, HohcNtI, W warn Int
Republicans of Ohio, even in the first flush
of their enthusiasm over their work OF yester-
day, that there is one real danger before them
the danger Of Over-cOniidence. The victory
will not come by being sure of it
too often in that case the victory goes 10
the other side. The Republican margin is not
SO great that 1t will be safe to neglect any
effort to increase it. Last year their majority
over the Democrats was only 1854, and a
union of the Democratic and National vote
| would probably have defeated the Republican
ticket by majority of many thousands.
! The Democrats will strain every nerve, will
probably nominate Mr.. Thurman, and will
use every political trick at their COM
msnd TO win over the Nationals, to
whom Mr.. Thurman has recently com
mended himself by betraying the convic-
tions of lifetime. There is every proba-
bility that Ohio will give splendid Republi-
can majority next October, but there should
DO the Same effort made to obtain Ii. as if the