New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-27
THE OHIO CONTEST.

Ii takes the average Democrat a long time
to see anything and then it is generally too
late. The Democrats of Ohio are just begin
ming TO awake to the fact which The TRIBUNE
stated for their edifcation long while ago,
that Judge Hoadly was for them an impossible
candidate. The speech of Senator Sherman on
Saturday, at Findiay, not only presented most
forcibly the chief issues of the campaign, but
it called attention to the fact that the Demo
Gratis of OHIO have not dared to nominate a
Democrat for Governor since 1877. Even in
that year, Mr.. Bishop was nominated because
he was not well known, and the last real
Democratic candidate of any force or reputa-
ton was Allen, when he was beaten by Hayes
IN 1875. In 1879 General Ewing, who had
been an ardent Republican, was beaten by
Governor Foster; in 1881 the noted Pocket
Bookwalter ran into the ground; and now, in
1888, the party is trying Judge Hoady,
who, as Senator Sherman says, "has
"been rather more free in his denunciation OF
Z" the Democratic party than Senator Sherman
himself" How can party expect to meet
with anything but bunlers and defeats when
1t puts ITS forces under the command of late
deserters from the Republican ranks, who
crossed over only because their merits were
| not in their judgment sufficiently recognized
by promotion
Judge Hoady started with so little concep-
ton of Democratic temper that he proposed
to set up a "new Democracy" He conceived
that money and the support of the saloons
WAS enough, and therefore offended the old
fashioned Democrats, the free-traders, the
moderate temperance men, and the former
10 ha,ro o;,
been acting with the Democratic party, and,
to crown all, proceeded to make some sort of
| alliance with B0Okwater for Senator
| thereby offending the friends Of Senator
| .Pendleton, and permitted it to appear that his
own election would put him on the high road
to the Presidency, thereby inviting the cut
direct by the friends of other Presidential
candidates Finally he deserted the friends
who had nominated him, just as he had de-
serted the Republican party, and went over to
Mr. Mclean, their pet aversion. Not many
men could cOntrive to crowd so many bunders
into so short time.
|. The Republicans, meanwhile, continue TO
appeal most fOrcibly to the people on the
great questions of public interest involved in
this battle of outposts. MIR. Sherman has
rarely spoken to better purpose than in his
discussion of the tariff question, and of the
pretence that the Democrats would be found
harmless even if they should get the power.
A Democratic victory in OHIO would mean
| very long stride toward the election of a
| Democratic President and Congress next year,
| and that would mean breaking down of the
protective system. 1t would make no differ
| ence what Ohio or Pennsylvania Democrats
might want in that event their party is
controlled by the Democracy of the South,
and would do Its bidding. MI. Sherman's
statement of the Republican position Oh the
Temperance question was also calculated to do
good. The Scott law has given the Republic
cans an enormous advantage on that question,
because, whether any constitutional amend