The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-06-03
The Democratic Situation In Ohlo-Un.
certainty Rules the Hour.


certainty Rules the Hour.
The Ohio Democratic State Convention
meets at Columbus tomorrow and the
leaders Of the party are in state Of trepi.
datiOn and Generalization over the very
unsettled condition OF their plans and
prospects. Thurman has his party, Bishop
has his party, Rice has his party and
Ewing his party, and the chances for a
satisfactory, much less an enthusiastic,
outcome are not Mt all ilattering. Thur.
man is badly torn up in his mind over the
the situation. He is dying to be Presi.
dental candidate. No man in the Coun.
Try, not even Tillen himself, is so pos.
scssed with the presidential craze" as
he. lie has been willing at any. time
for the past three years to "wheel about,
turn about and jump Jim Grow" if so by he
might advance his chances for nomina.
tion. y hard money man at heart, as
everybody knows, he has shown himself
ready to sell out to the Greenbackers for
The chances Of their support. He has sue.
cceded in disgusting a considerable nun.
her Of both hard and soft money men in
his own party, aud both would be willing
to see him go under as a politician as far
AS any interest in his personal fortunes is
concerned. We trust that he will receive
the Democratic nomination, for it is about
us certain as any event OF the future can
be that he would draw the hottest fire oi
the Republican party and come out OF the
canvass n used up candidate for all time
to come. In word, he is IN easy man to
beat.
Another man easy 10 beat would be
Ewing, the great soft money howler OIL
Congress. He issaid to be broken down
spcculOtor in coal lands and other wild
cat property, and his zeal for more
money is attributed to his desire
10 loat his personal schemes ire.
spective Of any concern for the public
good. 1.-The should happen to be the can
d,ate all these things would come out
and the people would see just what value
to attach 10 his persistent cry for more
money. aFt
Rice and Bishop are the two strongest
men who will DO before the Convention
Rice is II soldier who lost n leg in the war
and owes his availability as a candidate
and whatever prospect he has OF nomi
nation to that fact, The people Of Ohio
naturally respect a man OF such antece
dents but many Of them will prefer tc
honor the lost leg rather than the balance
otthe man. They will not coniound tlit
soldier with tho candidate at a time likt
the present. s.a
Governor Bishop is q popular mar
am0l!s the masses, but more on accoun
Of his excellent character and fine socia
qualities than because Of anyspecial fines
lOrthc office. He has astrong hold, howev
eEonthe office, but strong as tits thepresen
outlook is that the leaders will shake /
loose, in which case there will be coldnes
and resentment in the Governors caml
towards the nominee, whoever he may be
and that means a loss Of votes.
We repeat that Thurman aud Ewinl
are tho two easiest mon in Ohio to beat
and inasmuch as the former is the Cres
tioliah whom the Democratic Philistine
arc always lauding and paradiug bclor
the world as their champion, We hop
that they will put him up tomorrow.
will be his last put up.
But whoever may be the candidat
matters little. His defeat isonlya Questio
ofmajorities. Foster IS to all appearance
the clearly ordained Governor 81 ohic
lie has the great Republican party benin
him, and that great host will carry him
the front with tho banner OF victory in hi
hand on the second Tuesday oil octobe
next. ...l
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the usual diseases OF the baby Is DR.. Bull