Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-06-21
THE INDICATIONS IN OHIO.

Al li,e sign. If ''.r Ohio campaign
point 10 All overwhelming victory Tor
~" democratic ticket.
Although the election - four
month, If, i, is apparent t',ai the
powerful continuation of political
clements represented by the nonina-
,i,n of Gems. Ewing and Rice has de-
n."raiized the republican party, and
attracted TO the democratic orgAniza.
ton the greatest majority of those
non-partisan voters, who believe that
the candidates of the Cincinnati con-
ventiOn are committed to the oresi-
dental schemes of the head Of the
treasury department.
Moreover, the attitude of Gen.
Ewing upon financial questions COM
mehds him to the favor of forty or
fifty thousand greenbackers, who re-
gard the action of the Columbia cou-
vention as a deliberate betrayal of
the sOft-mOney cause.
Whatever else this large aud i'm
portant element does it will not be
bribed or bulldczed into voting for
any man who is subject to the con-
troll and prepared to do the bidding
of John Sherman.
backer in Ohio who is ignorant of
the fact that Sherman's influence and
money procured the nomination Of
the ticket with General Piatt at its
head.
He went to Ohio for that very pur-
pose, because he knew that if man
like Ewing was put into the field by
the democrats the great mass of the
l,o <I.or xu0r.lH ho Hiornood m
| adopt him as the candidate of their
| organization.
Only by inducing the Columbus
convention to refuse coalition.with
the democracy could he hope for the
success of the republican nominees
and secure vantage-ground for his
own presidential intrigue.
Gen. Cary, the ablest, purest and
most influential soft money leader in
the state, was prompt to discern ths
object of the crafty secretary, and
when he bOlted from the convention
nine-tenths of the Ohio greenbackerI
are certain to pursue.
There is no division of opinion al
to what action the convention that
is to assemble at Toledo on tho oath
| inst. will take.
Gen. Ewing's nomination 10 un-
questionably to be indorsed, and
such Endorsement must place his
election beyond all doubt.
Even granting that ten or fifteen
thousand greenback men with repub-
lican atiiliatiop abide by the bargain
and sale effected at Columbus, that
would still leave. some twenty-five
thousand votes to be added to the
strength of the regular democratic
organization, an accession sufficient
to raise Ewing's majority to the
ueighborhood of 10000.
There is therefore every encourage
ment for the Ohio Democracy to
push the campaign with vigor and
cheerfuness. Although we have not
esteemed the issue of the election
there of such importance as pos
sible factor i'll the succeeding presi-
Dental struggle as have some of our
contemporaries, we fully realize the
value of the impulse which demo-
cratic victory would give to the eft
forts of our party friends throughout
the Union. If there are any vino
doubt that the American people will
take full satisfaction for the great
fraud committed in 1867, aud re-
buke the arbitrary spirit which the
presiden. has shown in reference TO
the appropriation bills, democratic
triumph in Ohio next October will
do much to relieve them Of their
misgivings.