New-York tribune., 1879-06-05

Pres lent. the decentralization of silver, the
increase of the bonded debt, and the National
banking system. 1t demands repeal OF the
National election and jury laws.
TIE NOMINATION A MISTAKE.
vuy EWING is NOT so STRONG AS SOME OTHER MAN
WOULD HAVE BrES-THg RESOLUTIONS TIMID
N FINANCE AND REvoLUTIoNARY IN POLITICS.
Ipr TELEGRAPH TO THE TRtRuNE.i
Co1uMBUs. Ohio, June 4.-The Ohio Democrats
have to-day announced to the country that they are
the very humble servants of the Confederate caucus
nj Washington. They indorse in unstinted phrases
Of praise all the measures the Democrats in Con-
rss have supported at the dictation of the caucus
IN complete the transfer of the Government to the
hands of the Southern brigaders. They denounce
tbe laws for preserving the purity of the ballot
They violently assal the President for performing
his constitutional duty and vetoing bills he could
not approve. They were prevented from gong ms
far as the caucus would like to go but dare not, and
demanding the starving to death of the United
Stares Army. only by two Congressmen rushing INTO
the breach and warning them not to venture on
such dangerous ground.
In their financial resolutions they are cautious 10
the verge of timidity. and abandon half of the
Ohio idea BY falling TO speak out against resump-
tioD and in favor of initiation, and by cOntenting
renewal of last years attack the National banks
fbev do nothing to amcliorate the feelings of the
Groenbackers and only raise again question on
which their party went to the people last year
under the lead of Mr.. Thurman. and was beaten
The only new features of the platform not copied
from the speeches Of the Democrats In Congress
are an Endorsement Of the unpopular Ohio Legisla-
ture and little weak sop for the German voters in
the shape of a resolution for the better protection Of
naturalized citizens returning to Germany.
Inits nomination for Governor the convention
made one of the mistakes which the Democratic
party is so apt to make at critical moments. Its
best course to win prospect for victory was evil
IDENTIFY to have taken up the one-legged soldier.
General Rice whose recent advocacy OF the Arrears
of Pensions bill gave him a new claim to the sup
port of the soldier element. BY putting him for
ward for the Governorship, the Democrats could
have broken the force of the Republican attack
upon them for their subservency to the chiefs Of
the rebellion. The. next best thing to do was to
renominate Governor Bishop, and thus preserve the
two-term tradition of the party, relying upon his
freedom from an assailable record and his remark
able powers a hand shaker and mixer " to carry
him through. Instead of taking either Of these
courses the convention allowed itself to be stam-
peded for General Ewing, who, although soldier,
has no special hold on the soldier element, who has
candidate for some Office or other almost ever SINCE
and who has been of late hanging half way over
the verge of the Democracy with both legs in the
Greenbackers' camp.
If this nomination could secure the alliance Of
the Greenbackers there would be some sense in it,
but the convention of the Nationals to-day re-
iected the notion of coalition with contempt, and
put up full ticket of its own. Ewing VIII repci
the hard-money Democrats without gaining over
any of the the extreme soft-m0ney men from the
third party. His nomination gives the Republ-
cans the opportunity to make the fight largely on
the question of resumption and honest money, upon
which they have always carried Ohio, and where
they are much stronger to-day than ever before
The convention sought to concilate the angry
partisans of Rice by nominating him for Lieuten-
antGovernor in the face of the statements of three
OF his friends that they had his authority to say
that he would not accept the place under any cir
cumstances. This performance was as if military
company should seize hold of a man who asked to
be made its captain and force him to march in the
ranks as a corporal.