New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-05-30

tiOnal affairs nave Deen Taiseu' "Pon "
the verdict of Ohio may probably oe decisive
| 1t cannot be Justly said that their position IN
| cauiyoca rs to any of these issues. Inc
rebel Democracy attempts to cripple the
| power of the Nation. and to make 1T sub
| ordinate to the States and the Republicans OF
Ohio resist. The rebel Democracy tries 10
deprive the United States of power to enforce
it's laws. by prohibiting any use OF the army
to uphold the civil officers where those laws
NAV be set at naught. The Republicans OF
Ohio heartily sustain the veto OF the PreSi-
dent The rebel Democracy tries TO repeal
laws which are designed to prevent fraud IN
elections and it Is not many days since the
Democrat who is by his position the Official
leader of the House declared that the Demo
cratic party could not carry this State unless
these laws should be repealed. But the Re-
publican President and the Republicans OF
Ohio resist, not merely because those who are
now conspiring to carry elections by fraud
are Democrats, but because they MAINTAIN
that self-goyernment cannot exist without
protection of the purity of elections. Inc
rebel Democracy attempts to defeat resuInp-
ton, to rob public creditors, to cheat the
working people. and to favor ring OF spec
ulators In silver, by a bill providing that
these spectators shall have opportunity TO
corner the market. and to put up the price
of silver at their pleasure, and that the Gov
crnment shall he obliged to issue to them
certificates at their own price for all silver
they may hold, which certificates the wOrkmen
and the public creditors shall be compelled
to take at par. But the Republicans
of Ohio denounce these "persistent efforts in
hostility 10 the resumption OF specie pay
"ments, already happily accomplished" and
this tampering with currency system I'M
surpassed in the world" and most emphati-
caly Indorse ." the financial administration OF
" the Government" There is nothing equiv
ocaI in this utterance. Finally, the rebel
Democracy has threatened TO starve the Army
and the Government. unless the President
surrenders his constitutional rights, and APP
proves measures plainly intended TO allow
80 free course 10 fraud, violence and corrup-
Z" ton in the National elections. and to impair
:" the constitutional supremacy OF the Ma
"ton.n The Republicans of Ohio justly de-
nOunce these threats as revolutionary and
reasonable, and appeal to the people Tor
support in resistance to them.
Do the Democrats of OHIO dare to take as
manly and uDequiyocal postion' We shall
see. There are signs that they mean, if they
can, to evade the issues which they have
raised and forced upon the country. Prob
ably they will not dare to nominate Mr.. Thur
man, the Senator who is mainly responsible
for the extra session and the revolutionary
and coercve policy of which it was the fruit.
But Senator Thurman himself has begun to
hedge, having become aware that the people
are ready to trlmple any new rebellion under
foot. In the recent Democratic caucus, be ~
reported to have declared that "the proper
appropriation bills must be passed, OF
"coursen Whether the Democrats of Ohio
back down as ANONYMOUSLY or not, the people
will rightly judge them, not by tardy profess
sions of repentance that they may make when
confronted by defeat and punishment, but by
the open declarations of leaders and persistent
conduct OF the party, when it fancied itself
strong enough to defy opposition. In Mr..
Thurman OF to-day, and in the probable
action of the Democratic Convention in Ohio,
we have the Democratic party carefully masked.
But the mask slipped off during the extra ses-
sion at Washington, and the people will pass
Judgment, not upon the mask, but upon the
traitor behind it,
OF the verdict Of Ohio there ought to be no
room for doubt. Loyal to the core, that State
once startled the whole Nation by Its vote
against Vallandigham and his brood of traitors.
There is occasion for another such verdict
against the consprators who have attempted
a new rebellion. It will disappoint the loyal
men of other States if Ohio does not speak
out again with great emphasis. Copperhead-
ism was killed by her vote in 1868. The more
dangerous disloyalty of this day ought to be
crushed by the vote of Ohio in 1879.