The New York herald., 1879-08-25

tion the party cannot be fairly said to bo
divided. II 1t has two wings they
folded. We are solid-with difference Of opinion.
When republicans say. that resumption has
parayzed the financial questions We have insisted
upon agitating they are mistaken The pressure
of the hard times is still felt by voters. Many
oppressed pecuniarily badly as ever. There
republican voters who feel this oppression just
as democratic voters do, and they may turn into
democratic voters before the end of the campaign.
Yet the financial issue will take its place behind the
question which fought over in Congress. to be
settled the polls Shall the federal military and
marshals control popular elections? This is the
question upon which all democrats can and will
unite. General Ewing has no need to fear deser-
tions. That Thurman will fit away from him is q
mere ghost story. Up here on the Western Reserve
the democratic policy is to fight shy. The republi-
cans have such normal majority here that We don't
care to stir them up to increase it to abnormal
one Our pushing work must be done in other
tions OF the State. In short General Ewing has
fair chance"
SOLID REPUBLICANS
The republican view is less obscured by party
problems. That party is not embarrassed by inter-
nal differences 1t is united compact resoute; and
it is openly backed secretly sympathized with by
the property interests OF the State. The
democrats and republicans banded together.
Capital. held by whomsoever. does not nat
uray sympathize with the imitation doctrines
urged upon the people by the democratic candidate
for Governor and his allies. Fresh from the Con-
gressional conflict. where they upheld In their
opposition to the democratic majority by the vetoes
of President Hayes the Ohio republicans hereabouts
eager for the local fray. There be doubt
the firm action OF the President and the support
given him by his Cabinet did much to straighten the
republican battle line all the country. On the
Western it is rectilnear as that Of regi
ment on parade. The points on which the repub-
lcans are agreed are these:--
l. Opposition to the old doctrine Of State rights
alleged to have been revived by the democrats in
Congress.
2. The financial queston-tne republicans being
for resumption and against currency imitation.
8. State afairs-republicans charging the recent
democratic management with fragrant dishonesty,
injustice and corruption, especially in connection
with penal reformatory and benevolent institutions.
In regard to the first point. Ohio republicans have
their party from end Of the Union to the other
to back them in their effort to indorse the Presi-
dents hostlership. to speak, in unsaddling the
Appropriation bills at the session Congress.
There such a party godsend that
extra session. On the financial plank the repub-
licans stand not only backed. I have said.
by the great property interest but
tanned by facts that appeal to the man.
.urng. agricultural and working classes of the
State. Ohio this year has big grain crop; the dairy
interest is the only that suffers. Business has
revived and is improving. Manufactures in full
blast In Cleveland, for example. the furnaces and
rolling mills all running and you idle
hands. The iron interest has made moro progress
during the last six weeks than 1t had made in the
previous period since the panic All this much
stie the cry of hard times and will be deity
tied by republican speakers to the party in power
which has brought back specie payments. The State
affairs plank is a sword that the democrats per-
haps sharpen ON the other edge. The republicans
however. say they it u deadly bludgeon in
certain localities.
WILL THE oRHENBAcKEns SWELL THE REPUBLICAN
| The strength and composition of the greenback
| party assume a and interesting aspect when
looked at from the standpoint OF the republicans.
They profess to be able to win tho eection-as they
it last year-without the Rrecnbackers at all.
But they confident that in the the cam
paign the greenbackers. or many Of them, will re-
solve themselves into their original political ele-
ments and they claim that most of the
| In Ohio were originally republicans. This Is sur
| prising claim. which, II well founded. amounts to
political revelation. calculation which I
|
| inquiry by one OF the most distinguished
and competent Investigators in Ohio. appears to
confirm it. The Western Reserve includes twelve
countics-viz.. Ashtabula. Trumbull. Mahoning
Lake. Genuga. Portage. Summit. Cuyahoga. Medina.
Loran, Erie and Huron. OF these Mahoning and
Erie only reckoned by republicans doubtful
Erie county includes tho city of sandusky. Mahon-
ing embraces iron works and coal Mines and the
depression there had tendency to breed green
hackers until now, when all the mills and furnaces
in operation and all the men employed.
Tho whole Western Reserve. which last
year gave o republican majority Of 2O,OOO is
this yesr counted solid by the republicans
and expected to pive majority of % 600. These re-
publican counties. comprising the Western Reserve.
gave 500 Tor one-hrd Of the greenback vote last
year. Of which two thirds estimated re-
publican. The counties of Northwestern Ohio
Henry, Hancock, Lucas. Sandusky. Seneca. WILL
Jams. Defiance. Wood. Ottawa. Paulding. Van Vert
and Allen counties-also republican, furnished
another third of the greenback vote. The rest of
the State furnished the last third. The sanguine
republican opinion is that the greenback party is
mainly made up Of discontsnted republican Sore
heads. sympathizers and deluded followers. VINO
may and will DO gradually won back to their
old allegiance. Unless the greenbackers OF
Maine should repeat on the 9th Of septem-
Der their astonishing Of 1t thought by
republicans and democrats alike that the grecnback
here this TALL will exceed ten thousand or
twelve thousand. But the greenbackers themselves
and their advocates have still q good deal TO say
about this. Colonel Dom Pistt is about TO take the
field for his relative, the greenback nominee. and
time will tell whether the soft money will MAIN
tain. lose surrender . balance of power between
the two big parties. There will be life the green
back carnpaign-interest. instruction. eioquence.
atv md WIN thov
ist who sat the bench tho judicial brother
OF Senator Thurman. whom now he is to tackle
and be- tackled by. Any who has ever seen
the Senator and the correspondent in the mood for
social chaf must yearn in his very bowels to
them meet In some back county for q political dis