The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-07-03
[Harper's " eekly.l
The Ohio Democratic Convention.

The Democratic and the Greenback
Convention in Ohio met upon the same
day. They did not formally unite, but
such action was made unnecessary by the
Democratic nomination as Governor of
the chief infationist and Greenbacker in
Congress, General Ewing The nomina-
ton shows either that the Democratic
party in Ohio is out of line with that of
the country, or that the Democratic is
the party of financial dishonesty and
trickery. How strong and threatening
this spirit is in Ohio is proved by the
avoidance of the question by the Repub-
lican Convention, and by the enthusiastic
selection of the chief represen tative of
initiation by the Democratic Convention.
The evasion of the Republicans will lose
them the support of some Democrats
who, disliking the pronounced position
of their own side, will yet stick to.their
party rather than desert it for another
which upon cardinal point has not the
courage of its opinions.
The Ohio Democratic platform is an
amusing illustration of feeble party clap
trap 1t accuses the Republican minority
in Congress of refusing to support the ar
nv unless it could be used to intimidate
voters, and the President of vetoing legis-
lation that is plainly constitutional. Is
the veto less constitutional than legisla-
ton? Such a charge, and the declaration
that the President ought not to have We
toed the bills because they had received
the most mature consideration of Con-
gress, are an illustration of characteristic
Democratic con ntempt for the intelligence
of the people of the United States. 1t is
an instructive commentary upon the ma
ture and tendency of existing parties that
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who, according to the report in the New
York Times, was drunk, nominated a
practical repudiator for the office of Gov
ernor, upon platform of ridiculous and
palpable untruth. The respectable citi-
zens of the country are invited to sdppose
that constitutional liberty, the equal
rights of citizens, the national honor, the
prosperity of labor and of the laboring
man, and the general welfare of all sec
tions of the country are safer in the
hands of party whose recent and most
important performances are the nomina-
ton of an inhationist to be Governor of
Ohio, and a threat of disorganization of
the national government if the President
does not surrender his constitutional
rights.
There was another observable incident
in the Convention besides those we have
meQllOQeu. U6u6Fdl CIGGuLudU, Iu0 I0tu-
porary chairman, following Senator Hill
in the Senate, announced that to the
Democratic party belonged the credit Of
suppressing the rebellion. There were
brave men and good soldiers in the Union
army who were Democrats That is glad
ly conceded by every Republican. But
since General Steedman and Senator Hill
raise the question, it is well to recall that
the last Democratic President announced
that the Union had no right to save itself
from rebellion-an opinion which he de-
rived from one of the chief of living
Democratic leaders, Mr. Black Every
one of the rebel chiefs was a Democrat.
They defended their rebellion upon Dem
ocratic doctrine Every Copperhead that
stung the soldiers from the rear was a
Democrat; and the Democratic National
Convention, in the midst Of the contest,
al Steedman and Senator Hill choose to
raise this question. They will have quite
enough of the answer. The Democratic
party in this country has been the party
of caste and aristOcracy and special privi-
lege the party of the most odlous inhu-
manty and injustice; the party of State
tyranny against the equal rights of Amer
lean citizens and the natural rights of
man the party of sycophancy to foreign
ignorance; the party of disunion and
national dishonor. What its leaders ex-
pect to gain by reViving in the political
contests of to day, recollections the most
damning to any party in q free and intel
ligent country, is not yet apparent.