New-York tribune., 1879-10-30
OPINIONS OF MUBAT HALSTEAD.

great Republican meeting al the Brooklyn RINK
OPINIONS OF MURAT HALSTEAD.
SURPRISE AT TIE DEMOCRATIC STRENGTH STILL
REMAINING N Omo-VIEws OF The NEw-YoRX
CANVASS.
Murat Halstead. the Editor of Tie Cincinnati
Commercial was in this city Yesterday and was re-
Gn,sted by TRIBUNE reporter 10 give his views ~
10 the recent Republican victory m Ohio and the
situation lu New-York Mr. Halstoad said;
AS 10 Ohio. do not after all feel a sense of eN-
nhaton over the defeat of the Democracy tins Fall
The most remarkable thing about that election
seems to me I, be that when the Democracy were
so mauifcstly M the wrong on the National. state
and municipal ISSUES; when the assassination of
Dixon and ths;cquittal of the Chsoim mulueierS
had intensified The public feeling about the
methods that insure the sohdiy Of the south;
when tine Democratic candidate Tor Governor
was the most hagraut representative Of imitation
IDEAS and was persistent ln asserting them To lhc
last i'm the face OF accomplished resumption; Wi.h
millions of gold pouring into the country every
week. with our -rcat harvcsts, with the very
weather coming, even in the early days oi oci"ovI'
hot and dry to perfect the corn toy hardening il in
the ear and making all thc crops good; when every
furnace in Ohio was lighted uu ard the smoke Of the
chrnnevs greeted you at every manufacturing
centre; with the Democratic candidate on record
rs declaring that resumption would bring ruin. and
that il would take IN army of 100000 men 10 keep
the people down in ease they undcrt ok TO force
resumption when, ownet To the jcalousies arising in
the fight they had thrown away their eeueralsslno.
John g.. Thompson who had managed their cam
paigns many years with singular energy and
aHitness: when the Democratic manag. .mcnt Of
fbSheucVOlcnt Institutions of the state nad hceu
offensive: when their ueddl0 - ~ muin'pii
affairs in Cincinnati. Cleveland and the central
cities OF the state was al unpopular ana
Nsrtfff NN.
Ewing should have received more tuau
$4,000 vo,cs-morc votes than any man
ever got who ran for state office il ONO. with The
single exception OF ihc vOic> mat Foster got tins
time. when ms piuranty was ONLY lrOuO % p1H
oi over 65OOOO VOtes-Secms 10 show the luruld-
ableneSs Oi the Democrat c party aS "rsah-
izluOn and the great force of discipline III the
party, as no oth'r incident IN the history "i me
country mas done. Ondcrall these sl,couraermeh's,
with the wind aud the tide and the boom OF hisi-
ness lnd everything possible against them, That
they should have displayed such strength shows
what there il to he c1utrnded with II The country
is not hc gwen ~ to thcm Looking at the hglIcS
it plaiu that the German Republican Vote oil the
State was necessary 90 save L."
What do YOU thuk OF the situation IN New
York r. ,.n.,.n, rho .i,.,o,ion in yer.york Ire
gret Go see those who have been known as soml.s-
ing the Liberal element IA he ground against Mi
Cornell. against whom am nor aware lha,
there Is any personal objection. ana AGA h>t
whose political methods the TcadicSt crliIcHm Is
that they are perhaps too much IKE those oi the
Democracy that hc believes IN discipline and the
comuactue>S and force of zatioH. IL t. qucs-
fiomable whether the Repuplcans w'll Loi
find IL to their advantage 10 be more particular
about their olgan izaiiOn. coucedc the Importance
OF the assertion of the right Of uisctl!ualioh-ol
scraichi. z the tickct-'ut tuat which / icgI IN
The position taken by Mr. Cunt IS, aud. rs see. 10y
MI Horace White and others. IS that fear they
are wasting IN comparatively iuViai matter "a
WHOLESOME influence that may nc much needed In
a greater ala ucNt year. | should have been giad
To have seen the influence Of MI. Gurus un impaired
for useful work ln the canvass Tor the approaching
nominee of tine Republicans FOR the Presidency. /
fear that he will NOT Dee strong as ne might have
beluN