Daily globe., 1879-07-26
THE OHIO CAMPAIGN.
Conclusion Of Gen. E.vtnO's Speech at
Lancaster.

COsactNstOsa OF Gen. EscinO's Speech at
Lancaster.
The telegraph had not completed the
transmission of EwinR's Democratic nomi-
nee for Governor) Lancaster speech when
the GIoBE went to press yesterday morning
After discussing the silver question, he next
took up paper money, and said:
'sWho shall make and issue paper money
government or national banks? The Dem
| ocratic party in Congress has always favored
the substitution of the treasury notes for
bank notes. The Ohio Democracy this year
true to its past avowals, declares for gradual
withdrawal of national bank notes, and the
| substitution therefor of treasury notes,
which, in the language of the platform.
shall be receivable for all debts. and legal
tender equally with coin, such government
issues to be regulated upon principles es-
tablished by legislation and organic law. 80
as to secure the greatest possible stability of
values. The Republican party intended by
the resumption law, and still intends, to take
up and destroy every dollar of greenback
money"
This topic is discussed at some length
without developing anything specially new
or noteworthy. After the financial chapter
comes a section directed to what is called
free elections" He first recites what he
calls the great frand of 1876, and then
passes to the work of the
EXTRA SESSION,
where he says:
"Was it right to leave this party with law
full authority to spend millions of the peo.
ple's money in hiring bullies to threaten,
arrest and imprison State electors End State
judges and clerks of election? We deter
mined to make the issue on these laws now,
in the year preceding the great contest in
which we feared they would be employed to
thwart the will of the people. The result of
the struggle 80 far is the total repeal of tne
odious system of packing juries, prohibition
of the payment of money to send or main
tain troops at the polls, and the withholding
of appropriations for fees of marshals until
Congress can see what the fees are to be paid
for. We have appealed from the President
to the people. You have to decide the
controversy. If you went to pay hundreds
# thousands of dollars each congressional
election to have bayolets around the polls
and marshals and spies to inspect and con-
troll State election officers, vote the Repub
lican ticket, for the Democracy will never
spend dollar for the services.''
In discussing the supposed
CENTRAI.IZING TENDENCIES
of the federal government, Mr.. Ewing says
This assumption of sole supreme power
for the federal government illustrates the
fact that the pendulum is swinging from the
extreme of secession on the one side to an
equally dangerous extreme of consolidation
on the other. Secession held that the
Union might be divided whenever any State
believed that the constitution had been vio-
lated. On that theory the republic was but
a rope of sand. Consolidation demands that
the federal government shall exercise all
powers which the dominant party may think
expedient. On that theory all boundaries OF
federal power, SO carefully marked by our
forefatners, will be obliterated, and we shall
have one great imperial government, to which
States will have the same relations that
counties and townships now have to States.
Secession would have broken up the Union
into petty but free republics; consolidation
would swallow States and sink liberty in an
empire