New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-26
TIE OHIO OUTLOOK.


Democratic dispatches now admit that MAJOR
MoKinley has altogether the best chance in the
Ohio contest, and only hold out hopes to Demo
Gratis that they may be able to secure the Legs
lature. by aid Of the Peoples party in some as
tricts, and thus to defeat Senator sherman IL
is even asserted that the Democrats are seinng
out their State ticket in desperate e1IOft 10
secure the Legislature. This is not credltaofe,
hut neither is it improbable. Upon control OF
at least one branch of the Legislature In ONO
would depend continuance OF all the abuses
which have made Democratic rule so pleasan0
TO the corrupt and knavish, all the plundenngs
and picIxings which have intrenched that party
in Dover. A Republican Legislature would
sweep away whole system of fraud In that
State. and with it the dishonest gerrymander
by which a minority of the people have been
able to elect a majority of Congressman.
Outside the State the election of Major Mo
Kinley will be most significant and inspiring
triumph, provided it comes, as it ought to come
bv no meagre or scanty plurality, but 10y ma
iority so decisive as to show beyond dispute
where the State stands on the silver question
and the tariff question. 1t turns out as The
TR1H11yE predicted the Democrats OF ONO
have not been able to ignore or dodge the issue
raised by their resolution for unlimited silver
coinage Mr.. Mills has attempted to make ~
appear that on this question the two great par
tes are each so divided there is no issue between
them. But every voter OF average Intelligence
will be made to understand that the same Ma
tional party which furnishes nearly all the votes
for free coinage in Congress, and gives Ona'
measure It's only chance of success, is that when
has deliberately committed itself In Ohlo 1or
free coinage. In every nook and corner oil tne
Union the SUCCESS of the Ohio Democrats would
be instantly accepted as great triumph OF
free silver, and would stimulate Its advocates
incalculably.
This is something to be carefully considered
nv Democratic business men of this city, who
are being urged even now to give literally to a
fund for the Democratic party in ONO, on the
oround that success there would increase the
chances of party success next year. But this
is extremely doubtful. Apart from the TACT
that money lavishly contributed to help the
Ohio State ticket is likely to be used mainly to
retain the grasp of plunderers On the Legs
Iature. the plea being that the State ticket can
not he saved. it must also be remembered that
any victory whatever, or even an indecisve re-
sult in Ohio on free-coinage platform, would
Instantly revive and enormously increase the
danger of the disastrous legislation this winter,
and would at any rate alarm and turn against
the party thousands Of capitalists and conserVa-
tive business men in Newly DIRK and other East
ern States The present danger OF unlimited
coinage would be vastly increased. Those who
give money to-day to push their own party
toward disaster hereafter, and to push their
country toward the gravest peril, have a strange
conception of their duty.
On the tariff question the discussion in Ohio
is so palpably in favor of the Republicans that
influential Democratic newspapers are derlding
Mr.. Mills and his associate calamity walters
most numerically, and urging that he should
be sent out of the State in order to give the
Democrats a chance. Major Mckinley and his
friends have only to point to facts visible to
every eye, or known to the personal experience
of everybody, and this they are doing with great
offact