New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-09-24
Administration peases to disfranchisc illegally
the Democratic voters Of New-Iork.
DEvocEATIc observation-disclosures.

DEMOCRATIC DISCOURAGENEffS
No wonder the Democrats are discouraged
ms TO Ohio. The party is in even worse con-
dition there than III New-Iork, for the saw
age antaconism between factions here VIII
tend TO bring out full Democratic vote, even
though it will be divided. In OHIO, on the
other hand. General Ewing's friends have lit
tie hope of his success, while Senator Thur
mans friends have 10 desire for that result
There is no room to doubt that the especial
friends Of Mr.. Thurman are treating the STATE
ticket, which, it will be remembered was
forced upon them In spite of many protests
with marked indifference. Tho whisper mas
gone around the State that Mr.. Thurman
friends should look to the Legislative uche''
which means that they should trade votes LOT
Foster. wherever they can. in order to gam
votes that may help Mr.. Humans return 10
the Senate. TO add to the Encouragement OF
the Ewing Democracy, it has been fouhd tla'
hard-money Democrats in considerable mum
Der will vote against him. and that the Green
back party, instead of accepting Ewing as
emInently satisfactory to them, VIII pIopapS
poll large vote for their own candidate
There are old Confederates and CoppeIheaus
who will vote against Ewing because he did
not shoot on the side TO please them, ana ola
Union soldiers who will vote against HIM De-
cause he does not vote as he shot.
I'm short. the chances of General Ewing
election are slender and he and his TRENDS
know it, They have apparently come 10 tne
conclusion that they can trade off votes rs
well rs the Thurman party and why not
If MIR. Ewing is beaten now, 1t is evidently
and his friends, and the more Democratic
rotos Fv;pc loses. the greater will seem the
offence of Thurman. But the votes lost ior
Governor can be turned into vOtes gaIneu ~,
senator. and so it comes to pass that General
Ewing is probably as much interested as any
bodv else IN Ohio in selling out himself. His
chances for the Governorship are DIM, but he
will have a chance for the Senatorship SO
long as the unjust Democratic apportionment
stands.
In some country fairs the favorite race Is
donkey race, in which the animal that comes
in last wins the prize. Messre. Ewing and
Thurman seem to be each engaged III trying
TO divert votes from the Democratic state
ticket, and, as the lrishman would say, More
.'power to them both r But Nj. Tllden also
has his part in the little game. He is well
suited as long as the two Ohio champions Xii
off each other and particularly II an over
whelming Democratic defeat on the soft money
platform prepares The way for his own NOM
nation. He is too cunning a politician TO at
tempt, like ,lr. Thurman, TO vault from hard
10 soft money in a day. But he has not for
gotten to ngratate himself with the Green
back party Of Maine and the Ewing party OF
Ohio by sundry tappings of the barrel, ana
meanwhile looks on with much comracency
while hard and soft money Democrats play
the Kilkenny cat game III both States Then
ne will point to the Sage of Cipher Alley and
remark, Nobody else can VIM
The defeat Of the Democratic party in Ohio,
which now seems certain, will follow defeats
in California and Maine, and will soon be fol-
lowed by defeat in NewYOrk and the effect
upon the next Presidential election VIII be great.
The Democratic party will then see the need
of putting up its strongest candidate, and yet
IL will have Mr.. Tildon's mortgage TO pay off.
He will not only demand another nomination
rs pavmcnt, but will tell his party clearly
that it will not be permitted to carry
New-Yorli for anybody else. On the
other hand, the Tammany party will tell
them that Mr.. Tildcn is the one Democratic
candidate who cannot carry New-YOrk, and
will take all necessary pains to make good
their boasts. Under these circumstances, the
marty would almost surely turn to Il Western
candidate and Western ideas. ii General
Ewing should succeed in Ohio, and would
abandon the hope of carrying Newly ork for
any candidate. But for that reason, if there
were no other, Mr.. Tilden will take care that
General Ewing does not succeed. lie will
make fine professions, as usual, but the quiet
and subtle work, which Il well-handled barrel
prompts, will be felt If ever General Ewing
has chance of success. Hence Ewing is
wise. if, as men report, he has already turned
his attention mainly to the Legislative ticket,
hoping to save the Legislature if he cannot
the Goverorship.
The Republicans of Ohio have everything
to encourage them, and yet it would be folly
I'm them to relax their efforts. They ought to
make the victory so complete and overwhem-
ing that there should be no attempt to carry
OHIO for any Democratic candidate next year.
They cannot afford to trust to Democratic dis
sensions, as the Republicans of New-York
cannot At the last moment something may
be done to bring the warning Democratic
factions together But the Republicans can
defeat all forms of opposition, if they will,
and they ought to do IL.
TIE GOURD And TIE form.
1t is announced that County Clerk Hubert
O. Thompson offers an elegant silver
10, al, l.t,o A