, 1879-06-09
WASHINGTON.
Complications Precipitated
by the Resurrection
OF the Ohio Idea.
Probability that Thompson Will
Have to Stand Down
and Out.
Certainty that Tilden Will
Work Earnestly to De.
feat Gen. Ewing.
Decent Democrats Alarmed
by the Vitality Of the
"Lost Cause"
Some Facts Brought Forward Tn.
pleasantly by the Winches-
ter Affair.
Gen. Charles N. Mandors0n, of
Omaha, Named tor Secre-
tary OF War.
operations Of the Delegation Of Illinois
Politicians Now at the
Capital.
Indications that All The Democrats De-
afre 10 foto Supplies In
n1edfatcly.
Some Facts Brought Forward Tn
pleasantly by the Winches-
ter Affair.
Gen. Charles N. n1andors0n, of
Omaha, Named tor Secre-
tary OF War.
Operations Of the Delegation Of Illinois
Politicians Now at the
Capital.
Indications tllat All The Democrats De-
afre 10 Toto Supplies In
medfatcly.

HtlS u fVkD SunQ4lE3 1uQs
r,ea,otclx
TIIE OHIO TDEA.
uysxprcrrn CHANGES WHICH IT WILL MAKE
In THE WHOLE POLITICAL OUTLOOK.
Sprctai Dispatch to 1ac Tribune.
WAsu1HuroN, D. c., juno S.-1l,e Ohio poll
t.cIans arc here IN conference, Gen. R[ce, nom.
mated for Lieutenant Govcrnor on the ttakct
With Gen. Ewing, having arrived last night.
Their councils arc npt harmonious. The spccfal
object OF Gen. hicc's visit is to confer with
Ewing, first as to the retention Of John G..
Thompson, Seraeant-at-Arms, as Chairman Of
the Ohio Democratic State Central Committee,
Notwithstanding hts avowcd hostility 10 Ewing;
accoad, to focm gcnerul plans for tho campaign
In the event TINT Rice accepts. REPORTS having
reached hero from Ohio that Rice was withhold
L[eutenant- t-Gorernornhip until lIc should
obtaiu guarantee from EwlnE tiat
Thompson should be retained ut tho
head of tie State Committee, telegrams
we're immediately sent BY Congressman from
various States to Ohio, notifying Tho1npson's
friends that, II he attempted any bulldozlnk oS
that sort, he might not only loss the Chairinnn-
shlp OF tho Ohio State Central Committee, hut
be Quoted from bis positEon ~ scrgesnt-at-
Arns Of tue Houuc Of Representatives. hers: 1t
Is probable, therefore, TINT
THOMPSON MILL IL oUsIEp1
md EWsnE'a tr[end, Len Harrls, put In hls
place, aud that ltcc will accept. There is another
difficulty in tho way Of the Ohio Democratic
campaign. Drsp!BinE the Tilden wing and the
hard .monoy wing Of their party Al the Demo-
crats Of Ohio Idea do. they are vary willing
and anxious to obtain Eastern money
for campaign purposes. Information re-
ceiycd from Now York, however, shows
that tho Eastern Democrats do not intend to
contribute one dollar 10 tho Success Of tile E"-
Ing f0.-monc} Hskct' oh tne eoHtiaFYs 1H'
ttInAti0ns have been received 1ere tliat Itldcu's
influence would be quietly exertel in the caul-
paign, but against the iutc1csts Of Ewing.
Eastern Democrats, indeed, arc beginning 70
THE rNRtL TO THEIR PARTY
on tile development Of the Ohio Idea, for they
know that, II 1t /. suecessfu In Ohio, It may bo
successful in tho National Convention, and TINT
means utter annlhla.ion to the Democracy Of
tle East. The most astu te Eastern Democratic
leaders realize tic situation, and say they pre-
fer to have tho contest mado this fall, and
choose to lhavs tho Oh!o Idea beaten In Ohio IT,
selt rather thau to meot 1t In tho National Can
yeutton In 1880, with tho rtsk that the Enstsrl,
Democracy may bo overthrow BY the Imitation
movement,
n1cR wrAxEss.
8p<ctat Dis,sseh IL 7ns 7'4aan&
WARRINGTON, D. G., juno Sill p. m.-Gcn.
Rlra IA here nnt bas failed tn an effort to save