New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-06-12
THE CAuP4yGN IN OHIO.

| lican ranks; second, by the WISE ac'ioh VI vi"
| Republican State Convention and, third, by
the discords and folles of the Democracy
| The Republicans have forgotten all recent
differences of opinion, and are once more I'M
| bued with the old spirit and energy which
animated them in the years Immediately fol-
| lowing the war. Then their motive was to
| secure the fruits of the war by legislative
| and constitutional enactment; now they are
aroused by the danger to all they have
| achieved for National supremacy and equal
| rights. from the coalition between the Sohd
| South and the reactOnary Democratic party
| of the North They see the laws for the pro-
| lection of the ballot assaled, the doctrine OF
| State sovereignty revived and glOrifed IN
| Democratic Congress controlled by ex-C0n-
| federate Brigadiers, and the Fifteenth
| Amendment virtually nullifed in every State
which went into the rebellion. A Bourbon
counter-revoution for the benefit OF the late
| Confederacy is not only prosperously begun,
but is already we'll along toward consumma-
ton. No wonder the patriotic men of Ohio
| feel the importance of opposing Its further
progress with the solid wall of their united
votes.
The iudicOus action of the Cincinnati Con-
yention gave added force to the great wave
of revived Republicanism which Is nowhere
running stronger than in Ohio. The platform
adopted clearly presents the main issues upon
which the Republicans intend to force the
fighting. Ii does not set forth the financial
ouestion rs broadly as it would have done had
IT'S trainers supposed the Democrats likely to
commit the folly of placing mt the head OF
their ticket one of the chief nurses OF the rag
baby, but in Its terse defence of honest money
there is no doubtful sound. The nominee for
Governor is all the stronger from the fact
that he favored the experiment OF liberal policy
toward the South as long as there was any
reason to hope that the Southern leaders
would keep their promises of respecting the
rights of the blacks and maintaining the set
Elements of the war. Men who like MIR. FOs-
ter held out the olive branch TO the South III
1876, now take their places in the front rank OF
aggressive Republicanism, because that is
where they belong of right. The logic OF
their position is unassallable. No one can de-
liver more effective blows than they. In
Charles Foster the Ohio Republicans have not
only an excellent leader and representative
they have also an experienced and indoml-
table canpaigneT, whose zeal, sagaclty and en-
ergy will prove an Invaluable assistance III
carrying the close counties and gaining the
Legislature, and with it Uuited States Sen
ator in place of Nh. Thurman.
The folly of the Democrats is conspicuous
and many sided The platform they adopted
at Columbus reads if it had been palmed
off on them by some practical joker. 1t de-
tends the positions the Democrats in Congress
have deliberately backed down from because
afraid OF public sentiment, and 1t makes yI0-
lent attack upon the President for vetoes
which the country cordially approves. From
the wreck of the Ohio idea it picks up only
the anti-bank plank on which the Democracy
rode to defeat last year. The ticket Is as
grotesque as the platform. Falling into an
angry controversy over the claims of two RI
val candidates for the gubernatOrial nOmina-
ton, the convention allowed itself to be
stampeded into selecting a man who was
Republican until 1868 and turned his pOliti-
cal coat only after the Kansas Republicans
refused to elect him to the Senate; man
who as late as 1874 saw no reason for keep
ing the Democratic party alive, and who only
became attached to that party when 1t es
poused soft-money doctrines which it dare
not now avOw. General Ewing is in reality
a Greenback infationist and only sort of
accidental assistant Democrat. The old cop
per bottomed Ohio BouIbOns detest him, and the
honest hard-mOney Democrats will scratch
his name from their tickets. In the face of
successful resumption the nomination of this
high priest of exploded financial vagaries is a
blunder of the worst kind. 1t gives the Re-
pubcans a line of attack on which they were
successful when their party was at the lowest
point of the decline that followed Grants
second election. To make General Ewings
position the more absurd he is harnessed with
n candidate for Lieutenant overnOr who
keeps a bank, and is thus representa-
tive of the "money power" against which
Ewing has hurled so many invechves.
General Rice is not National banker, it
is true his concern is of more private variety
but he makes his living by shaving the notes
of his neighbors, and EFFORTS from them a high
rate of interest for money which Ewing thinks
the Government should freely furnish.
The advantages in the Ohio contest are,
therefore, all OH the side Of the Republicans.
They are united and earnest and they have
sound platform and good ticket. They have
taken their stand for honest money. an honest
ballot, the supremacy OF National authority
and the maintenance OF the results of the
war, and with organization and the hard work
which they know how to put into canvass when
thoroughly aroused, they will win a brilliant
victory. We heartily congratulate them on
the ausplcious opening of their campaign.
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