Daily globe., 1879-06-27
OHIO CAMPAIGN.
THE DEMOCRATS ORGANIZE FOR
TIE CONTEST.


Opening Speech by General Ewing-Com-
prehensive Review of the Issues Dividing
the Parties-Eloquent and Forcible AR
Abandonment of the Masses for the
Favored Few.
COLUMBUS, o., June 26.-The Democratic
State central committee and candidates met
here to-day for consultation. The committee
meeting was without jar or special point of
| interest. The central committee was organized
by electing Jno. G. Thompson chairman. The
following executive committee was chosen
J. Frank Mckinney, of Piqua, chairman;
Irving DUNCAN, of Jackson. vice-chairman; J.
G. Rinehart, Columbus, treasurer; g. W. Ho6-
man, Cincinnati; DE-. McConnville, Steubens.
vile; Jas. Estill, Millersburg; and ]. h. An
derson, Columbus.
Gen. Ewing was serenaded tonight. In re-
sponse to loud calls, Ewing appeared, and after
an enthusiastic reception made speech. Ewing
referred to the Democratic platform, saying it
needed no interpreter. and no man had q right
when sPesking in it's name to aeads word
too far Oh the money question to suit some
Democrats. it may fall short of the views Of
others, but it is the deliberate exposition of
the issues of this campaign on which the Ohio
Democrats have chosen to ask the endorsement
of The people.
Further along Ewing said, the fight this year
is for position in the great battle of 1880. The
whichever party secures Ohio hz. point of ad-
vantage which will probably turn the tide of
battle in its favor. shall cutter on the can
vass fully realizing the popularity, ability,
and capacity for organization of the distin-
guished gentleman who heads the Republican
ticket, and the mighty power of wealth, priv.
iege, patronage and plunder which will be ar
rayed against me, but confident of the triumph
of constitutional government and popular
right, I shall obey the voice which called me
to the front, and aided by others, far older
than myself will submit our great cause to
the considerate judgment of the people.
After declaring that there were no feuds
among the Ohio Democracy, and that thei,
tight was not for man or faction, but for
cause, and that honored and trusted leaders in
Office and out are in enthusiastic accord, and
not one would think of degrading himself or
imperllling the cause by an untimely struggle
propose to make the campaign, calm, earnest,
patriotic. appeal to the people of Ohio. We
expect to show them that whatever may have
been the service of the Republican party in the
past, the material interest of the masses and
safety of local self-government demand q
change in administration. No party that ever
Republican party has held it without detri-
ment to the public welfare. 1t is high time
for change It can't be worse. Il will
certainly be for better. The Republican party
emerged from the war amid the plaudits of the
vast majority of the people of The North, but
with Lincoln's assassination and Johnson's DO
itical murder it lost it's popular leadership and
fell into the hands and under the control, not
of the men who bore the heat and burden of
the war, but of the money aristocracy which
grew and fattened on their sacrifices. Itturned
its back to the soldiers and its face to the
bondholders. It confscated the interests of
tunes of favored few. Fearing to submit its
finance measures to the judgment of the peo-
pie, it exacted them in secret, stunned popular
admission of them, and blinded the people with
passion and prejudice on false issues invented
te deceive them.
Ten years have passed since all the constitu-
tional amendments and all the legislation
adopted or proposed by the Republican party
tosecure the results of the war have been in.
scribed on our statute books, administered by
our courts, and acquisced in by the whole peo-
pie. But sectional distrust, prejudice and
passion are still kept alive by that party, not
lOF your SOOU, 1ellON.CltlZeLS, QOG 1Or Gl0 Sc.
curity of the toiling millions, black or white
North or South but solely for party advantage.
The Republican party has thus become the foe
of that restored harmonious and prosperous
union for which the best blood of the North
was nsnr shed IT. lit, Il has ,d., become me the
moter of discord. the obstacle to fraternal
Union. For these years it has SO managed our
debt, currency and revenue as to lift the bur
dens of government from the shoulders of the
rich and lay them on the shoulders of the in
dustrial masses, to double the wealth of the
holders of money securities and double the
burdens of the people groaning under the &C
cumulated load of debt and taxation, SO as to
strengthen its relaxing hold On power by en-
riching the privileged class and corporations
| whose means and disposition to sustain it in
crease in tie ratio of the Impeachment OF
the masses.
In referring to federal interference in cleo
tions Ewing said: The Republican party has
further fortified itself by usurping federal
control over elections. which has heretofore
never been assailed since the formation of our
government, and that our fathers never knew
which President Hayes and Mr.. Foster &c
! glibly use, and the attempts of the Republican
| party to coerce and control State officers when
conducting State elections under State laws by
use of the federal army and swarms of hireling
| spies and marshals is fagrant, monstrous
| and intolerable usurpatlon.
While speaking on this subject he said: Eel
low citizens, this assumption OF power, il
recognized and established, tends
and will, I believe, lead to the utter
destruction of the bencfcient system OF
government established by our fathers. Unde,
that system the constitutional powers of the
federal government are strictly defined and linn
themselves all power not delegated to the gen
eral government, are sovereign in far wide
sphere than is the general governn ent. I speal
in no spirit of partisanship, but in the cando
of convic ion, when say that the obliteratiol
of the reserved rights of the State and people
of all, regardless of political power, has be
come the controlling tendency, if not the fna
aim of the Republican party. These policie
of the Republican party, by which they are i'm
p.)ver1shing the masses and absorbing unlimit
Led power in the general government, are onl
steps toward the ultimate subversion of on
popular liberty and the establishment of rul
of the money aristocracy.
He said, never in the history of our govern
ment have the principles and methods oppose
to true Democracy been 30 boldly and power
fully maintained as by the Republican party
In the past twelve years its long and firm hol
of rapidly expanding power and enormou
growth of concentrated wealth, have develope
and ripened forces inimical to popular goverr
ment. until nov, having reduced the ]aborin
masses almost to pauperism, having strippe
the middle classes of large share of the
wealth, having learned how to exact enormou
tribute from corporations it has enriched b
unjust legislation, it seeks by corruption I
| bribe. and by force to overawe electors to PEI
) petuate its power in either contempt of th
tconstitntion and of free unboueht su.
Ifrages of the people.
Ewing closed by appealing for support
the State ticket to the wagemen whose emplo,
ment is cut off by the depression of values,
the debtors and payers whose burdens a,
doubled by that depression, to the men wh
know change tends to reform abuses, to thoe
who love free government, to the soldiers 9