Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-07-17
Ewing's FOred0Omed Fate.

Ewing's FOred00med Fate.
The prospects of the Republicans for
carrying Ohio at the election next fall
grow brighter daily. So far as we can
judge from the reports of our correspOn-
dents in different portions of the State,
there is no enthusiasm whatever on the
part of the Democrats for Mr.. Ewing,
and he has little or no hearty support
from the people. 1t grows palmer every
day that his nomination was mistake,
and that he brings no strength to the
ticket. Neither the friends of Bishop,
Thurman, Rice, nor Thompson are salts
fled with the ticket,and such hard-money
organs as the Plain Dealer vote and
support Mr.. Ewing with great reluc-
tance. The fact that Mr.. Ewing was a
soldier finds him no favor with the Demo-
cratic party in Ohio, because that party
was opposed to the war, and nominated
over the head of every War Democrat,
during the very crisis of the struggle, its
boldest enemy, Vallandigham, for Gov
ernOr. The representatives of the party
went to Chicago, and voted that the war
was failure and should cease. None of
the old party leaders have changed their
minds upon this subject. Not one of
them would support Union soldier for
Governor unless compelled to do so by
party discipline.
The attempt to revive the currency ques-
ton and make it an issue this fall will
utterly fail. That gunpowder has
been burned once, and cannot
be lighted second time. The
money issue will not help Mr.. Ewing in
any manner. Amy attempt on his part to
induce the Democratic party to endorse
his views upon the Greenback question
will hopelessly fail. The country wants
no more experiments-nO more trials
as to its powers of endurance. After a
long and wearisOme struggle, and at great
sacrifice, the country has resumed specie
payments. Gold, silver, and paper are
interchangeable at par. The money of
the United States is now equal in value
to any in the world, and supplies the
wants of all. The rates of interest have
fallen, money is plenty, and values fixed
and certain. The men who would for
any selfish purposes destroy this state of
things, reopen the old controversy of
greenbacks Uersus gold. plunge the Ma
ton once more into the era of specula-
tiOn, strife, bad blood, uncertain values,
and irredeemable paper money, is not
only neither patriot nor statesman, but
he is vile demagogue and common
enemy of his race. The people, we be-
lieve, understand this. They have learn
ed something in the school of adversity,
and men who have anything to lose will
not hazard it by playing a game of fraud
and cheat, merely to see how far the
Government credit can be used without
absolute ruin. Honest men wish to pay
their debts in honest money and receive
their dues in the same material. A
State or Nation cannot afford to legis-
late merely to benefit its rogues or ad-
venturers. Hence Mr.. Ewing will find it
difficult to raise in Ohio the flag of re-
pudiatiOn, unlimited greenbacks, fiat
money, destruction of the National
banks, or any other demagogical issues of
like character.
The truth is, the great champion of all
these reforms was Kearney. He came
before the country as the representative
of class that was powerful and needed
aid. His eloquent appeals are still re-
membered. But when he failed there
was nothing left for his class of thinkers
to do but to follow him into his hole,
and pull the hole in after them. He
drew appalling pictures of the misery
and wretchedness that would follow in
the train of resumption and specie pay
ments. His frantic horror of every man
who owned anything. and his appeals to
those who had nothing, to put an end to
the unjust laws Of human society are
still fresh in our recollections. He
roared, raved, gushed, beloved, swore,
but the world went calmly on its way.
The voters quietly voted for law, order,
property, and honest dealing-the dupes
he made became at last his fiercest oppo-
nents and boldest enemies, and Kearney
sank out Of public sight as a pebble be-
meath the waves of the ocean. Mr.. Ew-
ing can learn lesson from the fate of
this great leader in the contest for dis
honest money, and draw his own moral
as to his chances of success in the same
field of labor.-Cleveland Herald.