New-York tribune., 1879-06-07
THE OHIO DEMOCRATS.
THEIR TICKET THE RESULT OF SPITE.
THE REVENGE WHICH GOVERNOR BISHOPS FRIENDS
, TOoK-EwING's ELEMENTS OF WEAKNESS AND


THE REVENGE WHICH GOVERNOR BISHOPS FRIENDS
|, TOOK-EwING's ELEMENTS OF WEAKNESS AND
STRENGTH.
iFRoM STAFF CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE1
COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 5.-A spite-work ticket 1s
never a strong ticket 1t represents the anger and
animosities of a convention instead Of It's prefer
ences and sober Judgment. The Ohio Democratic
ticket nominated Yesterday is purely the outcome
Of spite. Among the 633 delegates composing tho
convention, only $50 favored Ewing as their first
choice. All the votes he gained on the second bal
lot were the votes of men who came to him because
they saw Bishops nomination impossible.
and were eager to take swift revenge for his de-
feat by striking blow at General Rice
and his backer John G.Thompson. Ewing's nomina-
ton the product of dscords that will survive to
vox and weaken his canvass The Bishop faction
does not like him any the better for having sup
ported him, and the effort to reconcile the Rice
faction by giving their the second place on the
ticket is puerile. Whether he accepts the place or
not, his followers will not be consoled. The Rice
men are Thurman's friends. and they know that
Ewing's election will enable HIM to carry out his
ambitious plan of crowding the veteran Demo-
cratic chief out Of the leadership OF tho party
and stepping into his place. Thurman is
growing old, and new generation of Demo-
Gratis has come up that does not reverence
him. Inc times are 1aVOraDie 1Or young
bilious leader with the prestige of to push
the old Senator into retirement. II Ewing is ted,
the Legislature chosen at the same time will be
Democratic. 1t will choose Senator, and Ewing
will undoubtedly dispute Thurman's right to be
his own successor. Should he succeed in this eff
fort he will loom up as a candidate for the Presi-
dency divide the Ohio delegation to the convention
of 1850 with Thurman, and thus kill him off, while
standing himself in a favorable position for light
ming to strike, or for bargaining with Tilden. The
Thurman men see all this very clearly, aud are
sulky prophesying Ewings defeat.
The Bishop, men, who used Ewing as a crooked
stick to beat dog feel like throwing away the
stick after they have accomplished their purpose.
They have had their revenge and still rolling it
as a sweet morsel under their tongues, but they
have acquired no new fondness for Ewing. The old
Governor walked about the Neal House un-
til midnight last night, chuckling over the
black eye he had given John Thompson
and Thompson's Rice, but he had not
a good word to say for Ewing. The personal
friends of Bishop in Cincinnati who worked hard
and spent their money freely to elect him two years
ago. and the members of the Disciples Church all
over the State who voted for him without regard
to their party ties, will do nothing for Ewing.
The successful candidate has elements of weak
ness not growing out of the strife in the conven-
tOn. The Old-tlme Democrats 0eSplSe llm as an
upstart and pretender, who came into the party
through the crooked and dirty road of Johnsonsm,
and has ever since been proposing new departures
inconsistent with the ancient Bourbon faith. They
do not trust him. His greed for office is unbOunded
and if he has any fixed principles they think he
would not allow them to stand III the way of his
ambitiOn.>WIth the few remaining Democrats who
cling to the old JacksoDian belief IN hard money
Ewing is the most unpopular man in the party, be-
cause more than any other man he represents the
financial heresIes they deplOTe.
Do not imagine however, that Ewing is without
any elements of positive strength. He Is a broad
chested vigorous, aggressive style of man, first
rate caInpaigner a. far work the stump is
cerned, agreeable III conversation, polite in his
manners, a thorough politician, and he does not
| lack the brains and saGacity to see the line on
energetic canvass OF the state, and will arouse n
great deal OF cnt husasm among the younger Democ-
racV, He will win back some of the Democratic
Greenbackers who have joined the National party
how many cannot be predicted until II is seen what
comes of the movement for convention
| of Sam Cary's malcOntents in Toledo. The Cary
faction contains the men who wanted 10 trade with
the Democrats and were beaten at Columbus. Now
they pretend they do not like the plat form adopted
though il is difficult to wherein 1t is
than the lunacy they have been advocating for
wears. Ii their boiling convention amounts to any
thing they will succeed In giving the final coup de
1Jdce to the National movement by rendering ii
ridiculous. Then Ewing Will be able to pick up
large share of the fragments of the demOralized
party. Perhaps IN that contingency he may gain
enough To compensate for the loss Of hard-money
Democratic votes. Weaker candidates than Ewing
might doubtless be found, but no cool-headed
Democrat will say that he is the man to stem the
rising tide OF Repubhcanisn and beat Charles
Foster f.. B.