Daily globe., 1883-06-06
THTsrLING FOE CoUE4GE's s-4KE

WHISTLING For COUR4GE'S SIhE.
Mr.. Murat Halstead, of the Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette, is a good talker as
well as a free lance journalist. He has
gratifed the Philadelphia Press by talk
on Ohio politics, protesting to believe the
Republicans can carry Ohio this year. But
while saying some bright things he does
not impress one with good and sufficient
reasons. He thinks Judge Hoadley will be
at the head of the Democratic ticket, but
he is uncertain about the head of the Re-
publican ticket. The Arthur administra-
ton, he processes to understand, has not
promoted dissensions among Republicans,
but he cannot say that it has inspired con-
fdence or created a desire for the colltin-
uance of Republican rule. The tariff, he
goes on to say, does not furnish any de-
termining issue, though he comedies
general Republican disaffection toward
the tariff tinkering by the last congress,
and testiies that there is abundance to
censure regarding the unfair treatment of
the wool interest. The excise issue he
assumes is at an end, and this, he thinks,
is by far the largest factor that will con-
tribute to Republican success.
For man generally so we'll
informed there seems to be an
absence of sound conclusion in the line of
prediction he is credited with.
The excise issue is by no manner of
means at an end, and that it is not is
owing to Republican stupidity and duplic-
NJ Ho1
and should have had the candor to admit.
If Mr.. Halstead does not know, every one
else does, that the Republican politicians
count on the tariff as a determining
issue," and thrust it forward in all
the discussions that arise, and propose to
force it into the campaign in a
way that not so very long ago
Mr.. Halstead would have pronounced as
the essence of de1nagogism. Mr.. Hal
stead has been absent from Ohio much of
the time of late, and has overlooked the
fact that at the spring elections the Re
publican losses in all sections of tbs state
were most discouraglrg 10 persons OF that
persuasion, ara the lessee were Of such
magnitude that any NTcctatiol of ratr,av-
ing them in October l., die and wo.se jhau
foolish. If Mr.. Halstead is correctly re-
ported ne is at present adrift without chart
or compass, and, to use a favorIte express
sion of his, he Is hardly to be trusted out
of doors, even if the wind don't blow.
These are not the days of miracles, and
only a miracle can provide Republican
success in Ohio this year. The case is
hopeless, and the Republicans feel the
Jeopardy of the situation, and are thor
oughly demoralized by the hopelessness of
the prospects. Brave talk will not turn
the current that set in year ago and has
been growing in volume against the Re-
publican party. The old soothsayers can
not this time make headway contrary to
the well-settled conviction that the Democ-
racy have success within their grasp.
The Republican grip has been re-
laxed, and it is not in the
nature of things that it may be imme-
diately reasserted. The despair which has
settled down upon the party cannot be
lifted by mere talk, no more than can the
stan OF victory be resurrected after having
been wholly turned to ashes by the popular
voice. If there are are no other reasons to
be assigned than those offered by the gen
tleman quoted, his expressions must be
understood as desperate attempt to keep
up courage, though he blows a weak
whistle in the endeavor. For thoro ugh
bred Ohio man Mr.. Halstead's talk
is wholly discouraging, and has the
flavor of defeat before the battle is fairly
begun.