Huntsville gazette., 1891-10-24

aror Sherman 1t is even asserted that
the democrats are selling out their
state ticket in a desperate effort to se-
cure the legislature. This is not cred
table, but neither is it improbable.
Upon control of at least one branch of
the legislature in Ohio will depend con-
tinuance of all the abuses which have
made democratic rule SO pleasant to
the corrupt and knavish, all the plum
derings and pickings which have in
trenched that party in power. A re-
publican legislature would sweep away
a whole system of fraud in that state,
and with it the dishonest gerrymander
by which minority of the people have
been able to select majority of con-
gressmen.
Outside the state the election OF Maj.
Mckinley will be most significant
and inspiring triumph, provided it
comes, as it ought to come, by no
meager or scanty plurality, but by a
majority SO decisive as to show beyond
dispute where the state stands on the
silver question. 1t turns out that tho
democrats of Ohio have not been able
to ignore or dodge the issue raised by
their resolution for unlimited silver
coinage. Mr.. Mills has attempted to
make it appear that on this question
the two great parties are each SO divid-
ed there is no issue between them.
But every voter of average intelligence
will be made to understand that the
same national party which furnishes
nearly all the votes for free coinage in
congress, and gives that measure its
only chance of success, is that which
has deliberately committed itself in
Ohio for free coinage. In every nook
and corner of the union the success of
the Ohio democrats would be instantly
accepted as great triumph of free sill
yer, and would stimulate its advocates
incidentally.
This is something to be carefully
considered by democratic business men,
who are being urged to give literally
to fund for the democratic party in
Ohio, on the ground that success there
would increase the chances of the
party success next year. But this is
extremely doubtful. Apart from the
fact that money lavishly contributed to
help the Ohio state ticket is likely to be
used mainly to retain the grasp of
plunderers on the legislature. the plea
being that the state ticket cannot be
saved, it must also be remembered that
any victory whatever, or even an indie
cisive result in Ohio on a 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 capital
lists and conservative business men in
New York and other eastern states.
The present danger of unlimited coin
age 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 strange concep-
tion of their duty.
On the tariff question the discussion
in Ohio is SO palpably in favor of the
republicans that influential democratic
newspapers are deriding Mr.. Mills and
his associate calamity walters most un-
mercifully, and urging that he should
be sent out of the state in order to
give the democrats chance. Maj. Nc
Kinley 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 effect N. Y. Tribune.