The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-07-19
Saturday, July 10. 1879.
The Coming Campaign i'm Ohio.

election IN Ohio this fall will be
warmly contested and will probably
bring out the largest vote that has
ever been cast in that State. AL
though the choice of a Governor is
ostensibly the most important object
of the struggle between the two par-
tics, it really yields to other consider
ations. Ohio is one CT the so=called
pivotal States, and it is of the utmost
consequence to the Republicans and
to the Democrats alike that the cleo
ton which precedes the Presidential
campaign should be so determined as
to make the State reasonably sure in
1880.
In the first place, therefore, it is to
be fight for position next year, and
whichever side carries the State will
necessarily gain prestige and capt
tai. In the second place, the Legis-
lature will elect Senator to succeed
Mr.. Thurman. The Republicans
will make desperate efforts to recov-
er majority in the Senate, and their
hope rests upon gains to be made in
Ohio, New York, New Jersey, Penn
sylania and Connecticut
Even with all these gains the Re
publicans would be one short of a
majority, for Senator Bruce will 90
outin 1881, to certainly be replaced by
Democrat from Mississippi, But
the margin would be inconveniently
narrow for the Democrats, especially
if Judge Davis should throw his
weight into the scale and make tie.
If this contingency should occur, if
not quite sure,that Kellogg of Louisi-
ana would be voted out of the seat
which he holds.
The contest in Ohio is not only inn
portant for those reasons affecting
national politics, but it also has
personal aspect hardly less consider
able. John Sherman is a self-an-
nounced candidate for President. He
is shrewd and INSCRIPTIONS leader,
" hose qualities in these respects
we re Illustrated in the management
of the Returning Board fraud in
Loul sia.na. Without his presence,
mid, eeno engagement, and promises,
that ~ eat crime would not have been
,consana. mated. 1t was prominently
,the.wark Of John Sherman, for Wells
and Ay5t RS on and their colored CON
federates we re mere tools with which
de worked.
He is ne. his backed by the Fraud
ulent Adsnai listration, and is upheld
bv peS banks and other moneyed DOW
ers that have priofited enormously bv
his favor. II lie necessity of the DO
sition which n has assumed eo,npels
him to antagoI ize Grant, who other.
wise would hav almost clea,r field.
but who must n ow confront all the
influence Of patti onage, and a division
IN the circles w here money is king.
and upon which. he largely depended
for support.
In the first trial of strength in
Ohio, Sherman carried his point by
the nomination of Foster over Taft
as candidate for Govern or. The lat
ter really represented Grant. That
success animated SherI nan with fresh
zeal, and now he has staked his polit
ical future upon carrying Ohio this
fall. If be wins, he will be a forbid
able aspirant for the Republics-, nom
nation in 1880, though or .nosaJ 70
the bitter end by C,onkl;ng and
Blaine, who, in spite of tbeir mptual
hostility, would make common canse
against acorlEnon foe.
Hays would like to be candidate
mlseif He was encouraged in that
absurd idea by the stalwarts in order
to induce him to veto the original
Army and Legislative bills. His
second choice is Sherman, and he
will spare no pains and stop at no
means within reach of Executive
power to elect Foster and Republi-
can Legislature in October. Already
a very large sum of money has been
raised in the Treasury and other de-
partments at Washington, for the
preliminary work of the campaign,
from the officeholders who were taxed
last fall for the Congressional cleo
tions. And this is only the begin
ming of the system Of voluntary con-
tributions.
The word has been passed round
that the assessments will be general,
and that refusal will be followed by
prompt election from office. Civil
service reformers now laugh in each
others faces when they meet. Eyarts
and Schurz have come to re
gard the thing as practical joke,
and have burned their elegant
rules. The sham is at last self-ex-
posed.
Money is to be the great motive
power of the campaign on the Re
publican side At no former time
was money so influential as now in
determining elections. The genera
distress and the corruption in poll
tics have enhanced its influence. The
banks and the combinations which
have made millions by the adroit ia
vor of John Sherman are quite will
ing to disgorge part Of their gains
with the knowledge that the invest
ment will be more than repaid in The
near future.-N. Y. Sun
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