The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-07-10
THE NATIONAL SITUATION IN
OHIO.

The Cleveland Advance invites us Il
fall into line in support of General Piatt
nominated by the Columbu GreenbacR
Convention for G jvernor of Ohio on 6
reputation platform. This We can moi
do. Our whole sympathy is with the
Toledo convention, which adopts the
best platform of the year. The Colum
bus platform could not command five
hundred votes in Connecticut. Had the
Maine Greenbackers adopted such a
platform, the Republicans would this
year gain their old time ascendancy, and
the first gun of the campaign would
therefore sound the death.knell of the
Greenback party. The Pomeroyites,
who are 80 indignant because their lead
ership is not accepted in Ohio by men
who were fighting for the people when
they were the slaves of the old parties,
are doing all they can to create discord
in Maine, where their ideas were reject
ed overwhelmingly.
1t is lamentable that in the face of the
most serious and determined opposition,
the followers of Pomeroy insist that the
wild views oftheir leader be beincorporated
in every State platform, If there was a
primary principle involved there would
be some excuse, but it is all matter of
personal vanity. Tie payment of the
bonds is a matter of txpediency. to be
settled by the Congress OF the United
States. But the Pomeroy faction insist
that this question of acute craftsmanship
shall be decided in advance by their
leader, and be made test of fidelity to
Greenback principles. And when these
promoters of discord are warned that
their diCtion is obnoxious to the pioneers
in the Greenback movement-to the
men who laid the foundation of the
present National GreenbaCk party, and
nursed it into a growth of over million
voters the answer is: your pioneer
GreenbaCkers are MOI to BIZ trusted; we
are the genuine, simon-pure article"
Men like Cary, Sherwood, Peter Cooper,
Moses W. Field, Henry z. Baird, Frank
Hughes, James Buchanan, Stephen job.
son and Solon Chase are placed in the
of traitors" because they dis
agree with the POmeroy wing regarding
details.
1t is easy to see that if this "rule or
Or ruin" element is tolerated to the ex
-ent of giving it possession of the party
organization in States / Ike Ohio, that the
next National convention of the Nation
II Greenback party will break up in dis
,rder. Pomeroy will attend with bis
Orces, and if not allowed to dictate the
platform and candidates he will bolt
he refuses now to call himself Ma. |
ional, and maintains an organization of
lis own. II he wants a party of his
'wn let him have one; but he has no
light to send his agents into the Nation.
j camp to create discord. Were he the
'aid tool of John Sherman and the
Vail street syndicate he could not pur.
ne course more gratifying to the mon
y power.
The action taken by the true Nationals
n Ohio at Toledo is eminently wise, and
aves the organization there from going
o wreck on the reputation rock. II
Ikewise saves us thousands of votes in
laine and all the Eastern States this
Ill by the way, which poll heavier
votes than any vest of the
.lleghanies. Under the circumstances
he best thing the Ohio Nationals can
o is to vote for Ewing and Rice, filling
ut the rest of the ticket with Nationals
10 man will be silly enough to hold
hat Ewings election will BIZ an injury
the Greenback cause. However loyal
9 may be to his party, be Is neverthe.
'ss an earnest Greenback man, and sin.
erely desires TO swing the masses Of bis
arty into line in opposition to the mon
7 power. He desires q Greenback sue.
,ss in Maine as ardently as does Solon
hsse. His own defeat is prayed for hy
10 hard money element In his party. II
. is elected, the Tildens, Bayards, Eat
% and Kernans will lose control of the
emocratic organization. Success for
reenback principles in the Presidential
ruggle will then depend upon the wis.
om displayed by the genuine leaders of
70 currency referm movement.-New
'dven Union.