Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-08-01
From the Cincinnati Commercial.
For President in 1880, Samuel
j. Tilden; for Vice President,
Thomas Ewing.
subject to the Decision of the People
ofOhiO.

Ewing, Democratic candidate for Cover
nor Of Ohio, has entered into an alliance
with Mr. Samuel J. Tilden for offensive
purposes in one of the highest political
interest.
Certainly the story that Tilden and Ew.
ing are pulling together, is not unlikely,
for there are antecedents of both that point
to probabilities Of their affinity.
1t mas not been forgotten that Ewing
was the leader of the Allen movement fol
the Presidency in 1876, by which the Ohio
delegation was divided, Thurman'S chance
destroyed, and Tilden made the inevitable
candidate.
Ewing is the man who oYerthrew the
Thurman arrangements in the Ohio State
Convention held in this city in 1876. John
g. Thompson and Frank Hurd were in
charge Of the Senator's interests, and had,
as they thought, secure majority of the
Convention, but Ewing swung it around
with roaring speech, and Thurman was
slaughtered.
Perhaps this was a fine triumph. 1t
answered the purpose of cutting Thurman's
throat. Ewing and those associated with
him knew perfectly that the candidacy
of Allen could have but one result. It
meant political death TO Thurman. OF
course it was invented for that purpose.
Tilden was the gamer
The ostensible reason for striking at
Thurman was that he did not yield to the
inhatiOnist doctrine. He had then knowI-
edge and sense on the money question. BE
was not in favor Of an unlimited issue OF
greenbacks to be redeemed by wearing out.
Therefore he was killed of, and Tilden,
who was harder on the money question
than Thurman, nominated at St. Louis.
Ewing, therefore, stands to TilGen as
the man who put his most dangerous ri
val for the Presidential nomination in
1876, out of the way, and who is in a po-
sition, especially if elected Governor of
Ohio, to do the same thing again.
These are the circumstances that made
the nomination Of Ewing by the Democra-
cy for Governor Of Ohio, so bitter a blow
to Thurman ard his friends 1t happened
through the confusion, spite and wrath of
the Bishop party, who, themselves beaten
by the Thurman interest, turned suddenly
and made the matter as grevious as posi-
bic for the old Senator and his followers.
After this the first thing heard from
the friends Of Thurman was the consent
OF Rice to run as Lieutenant Governor,
and letter from Hurd announcing that
he would support Ewing. Either could
easily and without damage have refused to
take the part in which he had been cast,
and thus have dealt Ewing a staggering
blow, but they came forward with gener-
Gus confidence.
The first thing from Ewing after his
fiat dispatch acknowledging the nomina-
ton and proposing to defeat the power OF
the dollar and the bayonet, was his i'm
placable urgency that his old antagonist,
Thurman's TREND, John G. Thompson,
should be depoSed from his historical DO
sition in the management of Democratic
campaigns in the State, in favor of a man
who wouldn't, to save the party from per-
dition, refrain from going on a three
months fishing excursion. The full mean
ing of this is, that Mr.. Ewing, confident
in his position, and determined on his own
course, did not care for kindly overtures
from Thurman, and thought he eould af-
ford to turn his back on the Senator's
friends, and go forward upon his own
course.
The second step of General Ewing, after
he felt fixed as candidate of his adopted
party in the great contest of this year, was
to 60 to Mr.. Tilden. The Leavenworth
Press of July 10, says it has no such con-
fdencein thetestimony from which it reach
es certain conclusions and states certain
facts, ''that were.human life at stake, we
could only say we know them to be true. y
The Press says, under the emphasis of
this solemn declaration:
General Ewing visited. New York city
very soon after his nomination. A meeting
was arranged between him and Tilden at
Gramercy Park. They met at II O'clock al
night, and the meeting lasted till after in
the morning. At this meeting, in the solita-
ry hours of the night, a programme was
mapped out for the campaign in Ohio in
1873, and of the Nation in 1880. For the cam
paign in Ohio, Mr.. Tilden agreed to conn.,
mence by contributing $500 and to con-
tribute enough more to make the election OF
Ewing certain, If money could do it. AS a
consideration for Mr.. Tilden's money and
other manipulating powers, General Ewing
was to see to it that John G. Thompson should
have nothing to do with the canvass, nor
should he in any manner have the use or the
the expenditure of any portion OF this mon
ey but ii should be expended for Tilden's
benefit as well as Ewing's. That though EW-
ing might direct how and where portion OF
the money should be expended, the money
should be handled and dfsbursed by TiIden's
chosen agents. That for 1880 Ewing should
aid Tilden to obtain the delegates from Ohio
in the Democratic National Convention:
but If that was found impossible, then to
obtain for Ewing and transfer them TO Til
den. But at all hazards tosnow under Thur
man and Hendricks"
These very explicit statements have for
some days been before the country, and
we have not noticed that they have been
The Press proceeded to
name Harry Finley as Tilden's agent, and
added:
"Ifany man in Ohio disbelieves the truth
of these statements or the correctness of
conclusions, let him wait till near the
election and he will find Finley moving
around Cincinnati in particular, and every
other large city in Ohio in general, with the
stealth Of a cat, but with the purpose Of a
Hon.
Upon General Ewing's return to Ohio
he made keynote speech at Columbus,
bearing evidence of the most careful pre-
paration; and there was not sentence in
that speech characteristic of General Ew-
ing as the champion infiationist of Ohio.
He took shelter on the subject upon which
he had been bold and rampant, under the
platform, itself a manifest equivocation.
The platform opposes the 'perpetuation
of the present National banking system"
and demands ds:-''The gradual substitution
of Treasury notes for National bank cur
reney, to be made rectrvable for all dues
and legal tender equally with coin, such
issues to be regulated upon
principles established by legislation or or
ganio law so as to secure the greatest pos
sible stability Of value"
This means absolutely nothing. 1t
doesn't say whether the Treasury notes are
to be restricted by convertibility into coin
or not. There is no definition Of the ''prin-
,iples established by legislation or organic
law" General Ewing recognizes no such
How, then, are Government
issues to be regulated by that which does
not exist? It was said Mr.. Ewing's can
lidacy was in itself platform, and must
be taken as constituting the platform. But
he falls down before the platform and
nodifes himself by it. Tilden can stand
IN that platform il he may oonstrue it to
mean that the Treasury notes shall be gold
md silver certificates; and the mighty
Ewing is PROSTATE on his belly before the
awful phases OF the platform which sud
lenly becomes in his sight sacred thing,
.hough he despised the st. Louis deolara-
lOn, and was not on his knees before it for
/ moment. Is Mr.. Ewing preparing him
elf by sudden and deep devotion to a fla
yrantly equivOeal resolution, to take the
1laee made vacant by the retirement Of Mr..
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