New-York tribune., 1879-06-11

a failure. and that meant much. 1t is worthy
of note that they have never nomina.eu
a Union soldier for Office without having
practically the same end In view. lhae iS
what they mean, whatever they may say OF
however shrewdly they may conceal tneir
real purpose They arc not proclamlng
openly in Ohio to-day that the war
was n failure, but they are throwing
ont lures for the votes of Union soldiers IN
favor of q policy which, either by the success
of an initiation and reputation programme OF
| by the reversal of the verdict of the war; I'D
the establishment of State supremacy ana
National subserviency, will amount to just
that. Let this party now dominant IN Con-
| gress but come into full possession OF po"er'
and the costly war to maintain the Union Is
as much failure as though it had ended
with the first Bull Run or been settled by Mr.
Vallandigham.
In all the congratulations which the Demo
cratic newspapers are exchanging WIN each
other over the nomination OF two
Union soldiers in Ohio, there Is
reading between the lines that can
not escape the observation or men
of ordinary intelligence who know the
party and its history. 1t is a perceptiDle
cbuckle; the chuckle of professional conii-
dence-men over new dodge that promises
profit. One newspaper speaks OF the ticket
as n work of genuine inspiration. Another
saws these two Union soldiers will have an
onportunity now to learn how insincere
and hollow are Republican professions OF
regard for the soldiers, and how impu-
IDENTIFY inconsistent party Is WHICH
| Claws so much stress upon the war
"records of candidates, yet cOolly repudlates
"eyery Democratic soldier Oh account
:" of his politics. But the inspiration is very
much the same as that out of which came
General McClellan's nomination-the insplra-
ton of the thimble-rigger. And General NC
Clelan had the opportunity which one OF
these newspapers says Messrs. Ewing and Klce
will have of seeing Democratic soldier re-
undated on account of his politics. And we
venture to say that the action, III the
sicht of any intelligent man not blinded
by partisanship, will be called Doth
intelligible and consistent. Republicans
were charged with acting lnconslst-
emily in voting against General McCIeilan'
with the declaration tackled on to him that
the WAR was a failure. The war bad not
ended then. and Democrats talked with less
reserve than now. They nominate soldiers
now. and. without declaring the war failure
proceed TO practically make it so.
If this were merely a question OF personal
advancement and there were no larger issues
hanging upon it; or if it were question OF
appointments to be made, az, Tor instance, to
Offices in the Senate and House. by party
in power, Republicans would be 1Ouhd
considering the war records OF the gen
temen in question in their favor with
the same readiness that the Democrats
in Congress practise the opposite. When
Democrats have an Office squarely within
their gift and no public favor to be solicited
loyal war record is to the prejudice
Of the applicant. Their use of Union
soldiers and loyal war records is simply III the
way of lures and bats. But Republicans in
Ohio and everywhere else believe that the
election Of Messrs. Ewing and Rice would be
the very furthest thing possible from an IN
dorsement of their course as soldiers in
the maintenance of the Union and sup-
presson of the rebellion. They believe, and
their belief is justified by the action of the
dominant party Congress, that what
ever the past record of these gentle
men may have been, they are now al
lied with, and representing, the Solid
South that raised the rebellion and the
Northern Democracy who sympathized with
if; and that in all the essential features of
their belief, their purposes and their hopes,
they are both unchanged. And Republicans
| believe that the success of this ticket
would go far to fasten upon the country
| the rule of party whose history
proves it to be selfish, unpatriOtic. dishonest,
and in the last degree dangerous to the pres
eryatIon of the honor, the credit and the
very existence of the Nation. Against such
considerations war records cannot have much
weight; especially since the nomination is so
transparent a trick, and the whole talk about
| it so unmstakablc a chuckle.