New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-05
A HARD TASK.

Mr., UUadly comes forward again in Ohio,
but only to break down at Sandusky.
For his illness, the friends of the man may ex-
press sincere sympathy, but the average voter
must feel that very sick man is not exactly
the one to select for new and labOriOus duties,
and the political opponent is compelled to be-
lieve that DISAGREEMENT and the intolerable
torture of fractional strife have Mt least rs much
to DO with his physical disability as any dis
ease.
Judge Hoadly undertook large job. He had
no party behind him, and had to get nOmlna-
ton by means which We may well suppose were
distasteful, aud which correspondent OF The
Cincinnati Enquirer insists were costly. lie
became involved at the outset IN struggle for
life or death with some of the strongest men III
his party Yet he undertook to defeat the Re
publcans of Ohio; not a holiday task at any
time. Presently he found that the bummers
and strikers, who could pack primary meetings,
were not exactly tho right men to win him
votes on the day of election. Then he found,
too. that the bulk of his party did not want ii
new Democracy, but an old Democracy-old in
ideas and reactionary in aims. And then he
found that his position "a champion of the op-
DOSllOu W IIt DOOtL iIluOA ''' '''' '~'J AA'''N
stronger in the saloons than it was With the
people who care for families and own property.
No wonder he went away seriously i'll and is
again Frustrated.
He comes back to learn that the advocates OF
prohibition have been making earnest aud very
effective appeals to the people. True. they
favor neither party. But full vote Of those
who are hostile to Judge Hoadly's course on
the liauOr question does not promise well Tor
the Democratic ticket. He mt least cannot
change front he Is hostile to any and all re-
strction, and would lose half his probable vote
If it were supposed that he was not. The ad-
yOcates of temperance restriction make no fight
against him or against bis opponent, but they
are working hard to get out full vote, and Il
full vote In Ohio means mischief to Democratic
candidates.
The Democratic candidate has been embar-
raised, too 10y tile conduct Of his party on the
tariff question. He has not dared TO make q
single speech in the campaign affirming or de-
Tending his old and well known views on that
subject. Empty catter about "hOstility to
monopolieS" does not go far with workingmcn
who know what the tariff has done for them.
Evasion of the question seems to them to indi-
cate a stronger desire to get Office than to serve
the people of Ohio. 1t is too late to say any
thing that might set him in moro favorable
| light before the people on such question. All
the cutlery about the wool tarilt is treated with
contempt by voters who know how the Dem
ocrats in Congress struggled to defeat any and
every form of protection.
Judge HOadly has taken large contract.
1t is probably beyond his ability. The Repub-
| licans of Ohio are not beaten by a few fine
| phrases, nor by glowing rhetoric, nor by much
! tricky talk about the Cronn case. We have
| faith that they are not beaten either by the
| opening Of barrel OF money on election day.