The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-03-31
Spohn to Throckmorton.
CINCINNATI, March %, Is

CINCINNATI, March 2S, 1879.
To the Editor of the Star:
The Enquirer of Monday last published a
communication from J. l. Throckmorton,
of Chillicothe, suggesting fusion of the
National Party with the Democracy in the
coming State canvass. Having always re-
garded Mr. Throckmorton as Greenbacker
who earnestly and sincerely desired the
success of the National Party, we were sur
prised that he should respond so readily
and favorably to the Democratic demand
that the thirty-eight thousand Nationals of
Ohio should be driven into the Democratic
camp to become hewers of wood and draw
ers of water for those who are striving tor
the official flesh pots. We know that with
out the accession of at least a ajOrity of
the National vote certain defeat awaits the
Democracy in the coming fall campaign.
So let it be- for no honest National can wish
the result to be otherwise, for the success
of that party will not increase our party
organization-it will not be a triumph of
the National party principles-it will not
increase our party membership, or even
keep within the party fold those who raj
lied to our standard last autumn. If coali-
ton that means the disruption of the Ma
tional Party and the success of the Democ-
racy, it means triumph Of party, not of
principle: it means to take thirty-eight
thousand citizens who have severed old
party alliances; who have struggled for the
Organization and upouilding OF an nde.
pendent party and attach them as tail to
be wagged by the Democratic dog.
They tell us that our principles are iden-
tical, that we are all striving for the success
Of the so-called OAio Idea. This idea as an
issue, SO far as the Democracy is concerned,
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cymbal, for the party is controlled by the
dominant Eastern Idea, as represented by
Mr.. Randall who received the support of
every so-called Democratic Greenback Rep
resentative in Congress. This Eastern Idea
has triumphed in the past and will shape
the policy of the party in the future.
Many who compose our organization left
the ranks of the Democracy because of its
inconsistencies and false pretensons. They
were Greenback Democrats who rallied to
the party standard in support of William
Allen in the canvass of 1875 and did what
they could for the success of the Ohio Idea.
They were defeated through the influence
and Vaccinations OF the hard money Dem
ocp,cy of the East, who saw in the success
of the Ohio Idea the probable defeat of that
wing in the coming National Convention.
In that convention the Greenback Democ-
Was lepIeStuJeu NY lllcll SbTOHSIN I'LL
bued with the Ohio Idea. They were there
to make good the promises made by the
Greenback Democracy, but the Ohio Idea
was impolitic. The Eastern Idea tri-
umphed and the hard money candidacy
was placed in the hands of Mr. Tilden, the
advocate of national banks, the counselor
of monopolies and associate of hard money
rings.
In 1877 the Democracy carried our State
by handsome majority. The idea had at
last triumphed in the State of its concep-
ton. What was the result of this Green
back Democratic victory2 The party Sc.
cured the spoils Of Office, while Mr.. Pendle.
ton realized the great desire Of his life-the
United States Senatorship.
Remembering all this as the history of
the party can the consistent National SUBJ
nit to Democratic dictation?
Can he desert platform which not only
embodies the Ohio idea, but which is at war
with the Eastern dominant ideas of the
Democratic party? We claim that the OBJ.
ject of the organization of the National
party was not to secure the success of a
single idea only, or ta become the allies of
the so-called Greenback Democracy. 1t has
q nohler mission than this; mission that