The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-03-14

they differ only as to candidates auI not as
to measures, which are left for next years
events to finally decide But with the
Democrats it is very different Their can
didates represent different policies. Thur
man, who heads the "Ohio movement"
represents the policy of paper money in.
ftation, and he has of late made him
self also the ally of the peculiarly Bourbon
lst element of the South, which is found
mainly in Kentucky, and which led the
,hhbustering movement during the Electoral
nhsvehTs Sor; az u al Il 6asards, I rcpeaffag tfc T
Federal election laws. Hendricks, who
hopes to hold whatever of the soft-money
West Thurman cannot get, is not much
more than Thurman and water. Both are
alike unacceptable to Eastern Democrats.
MIR. TILDEN's CANVASS.
In the East Mr.. Tlden is here un-
dcrstood to be making a secret but very
energetic canvass, stretching his opera
tlons over considerable part of the
South and into some Western localities
His methods are often discussed here
and are sufficiently curious He avoids
the real leaders Of public opinion in the
different sections, and seeks to place under
obligations to himself less prominent class
country editors who need little help for
their papors, and country Congressman who
have needed little help in their districts.
Ills aim seems to be to get control of tho
local leaders, the men who manage county
conventions and send delegates to State
conventions. OF course this is only rep
ctition of the maneuvrcs of 1876, when
MIR. Tilden was found to have the greatest
number of votes at St. Louis, without pos
sessinS either the favor or the confidence Of
the leaders of his party
MCCLELLAN AS AN ALTERNATE.
1t is asserted here that while Mr. Tilden
is managing for himself, the Tilden men
whoever they may behave some doubts
about his "lasting long enough" and have
provided against so awkward Il contingency
as their candidate dropping out just when
they completed the machinery necessary for
his nomination, by settling upon an alter.
nate, and this chosen alternate is said to be
Gen. Mcclellan 1t is singular selection;
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wishes to appoint his own heir, and will not
in any case give his support to either Mr..
Bayard or Mr.. Thurman or any other con-
spicuous Democrat. AS to policies, Mr.
Tidcn is supposed to be willing to stand on
a platform as good as the Convention will
accept. In 1876 he swallowed denuncia-
tion of che resumption act and demand
for its repeal, and in 1880 he will, it is
thought, be at least equally complaisant.
WHAT DAYARD REPRESENTS.
Mr. Bayard represents, Of course, sound
currency, and in addition prudeu@ and
conservative policy in general. On the
currency question he is understood to occu-
py position which is more Jsolutoly safe
and sound than that of most Of the Rcpub-
licans. He is understood to hold that the
government ought not to issue the paper
money Of the country that the legal tcn>
der act ought to be repealed or declared
unconstitutional, and that the national bank
ing system, with such amendments rs it
may be found to need from time to time,
is the safest system this country has ever
had for the bill holders, who, being the
great body Of laboring people, are the per-
sons whom it is the duty of the govern
mcnt to make absolutely secure.
The Eastern Democrats here have made
up their minds that they will not support
in 1880 any candidate who stands on an
initiation platform or who is personally com
mittcd to currency hcrcscs, but they hope
that this question will be substantially "out
Of politics" before next year.
TIE OHIO IDEA
The Western men, in their turn, profess
determination not to surrender the "Ohio
idca,' so.called, but they are getting ready
to modify it, and there is q movement on
foot which has for its object an alliance
between the Western Dcmocrtc party and
the Grccnbackers, OH platform of war on
National banks and the issue Of paper mon
ey only by the government and in the shape
Of legal tender notes. The Western Dem
ocrats believe that if they can consolidate
the Grcenback vote with their own they
can carry enough Western States, with the
solid South, to enable them to do without
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
The Greenbackers, some of whom are shrewd
men, are not unwilling to make such an
alliance and to accept such a PLATFORM
They say that it will be at least the enter.
ing of the small end of the wedge
"If we can destroy the National banks"
| they say, "wc can always demand larger
issue Of grcenbacks, and the rest will come
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