The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-03-30
oRIOs BOURBONs.

oHIOS BOURBONs.
Ohio's Democracy learns nothing and
foraets nothing, says the Globe Demo
crat. According to reports which
seem worthy Of credence the Demo-
cratic leaders of that state are going to
ran the governorship canvass this year
on the l6 to l free silver issue as they
did the canvass for secretary of state
last year. It is said that Paul j Sorg,
congressman from the third district, is
to be the candidate. Not Sorg's abil-
ity, standing or personal influence in
the party is the,reason for his selection
as standard bearer,if heis to be selected,
but the size of his pocket-book and the
freedom with which it's contents can be
drawn on for campaign purposes. This
is the secret of his availability. His
political service has been short. He
was elected 10 congress for the first
time less than year ago to fill out the
unexpired term of George w.
Houk, deceased, and was reelected
last November. As he was one of the
two Democrats, however, who were
elected out of the twsnty-one members
of the states delegation, his success at
that time entities him to some dis:
tinction.
When Mckinley in 1898 was re-
elected by that tremendous plurality of
$1,000 everybody thought the high
water mark for the Republicans of
Ohio had been reached. This was
mistake, however. The Democracy of
the state declared in 1894 for out and
out free coinage at the l6 to l ratio.
and the candidate for secretary of state
on that platform was beaten by 49,
600. Even John Brough's l0l 900
majority for governor In 1863, when
running sgains. the Copperhead'
Clement L. Vallandigham, who was
out of the country for the country's
good at that time, was left behind.
Free silver was virtually the issue, too,
in the congressional canvass, circum-
stance which young Allen w. Thur
mans party, which secured eleven ont
of the states twenty-one congressman
in 1892, got only two out of that num-
ber in 1894. Sorg. one of these two,
got 1907 plurality in the special cleo
tion in May, 1894, before the free
silver crusade was stared, and only
202 in November.
Financial folly strikes the Democ-
racy in Ohio earlier than it does that
party in any other state, and sticks
longer. This is one Of the best known
facts of political history. The green
back lunacy ragged in that state before
it took q virulent form any where else.
George II. Pendleton was its earliest
advocate among the men of national
As An exponent of this
so.called soho idea" Pendleton was
pressed for president on the 1868 ma
tionsl convention which nominated
Horatio Seymour. William Allen
later on was more prominent than
in the greenback mo. ement,
and Allen G. Thurman was conspicu-
ously identified with it. But neither
the lessons of hard experience nor the
teachings and traditions of the found
ers of their party appeal to the Ohio
Bourbons. Time after time they have
been overwhelmingly beaten when
making their osnvasses on the 6nan-
cial follies Of the day, but they learn
In the "70s, when bowling
for "more greenbacks," they pretended
to be devoted to the principles of
Jackson-ef the jackson who was the
foe of all sorts of paper money and
the friend of coin. In 1894 and 1895,
when clamoring to have the 'mints
shrown wide open to the coinage of
l6c silver dollars, they claim lineal
descent from the party of Jefferson
# the Jefferson who, during his presi-
lency. arbitrarily closed the mints to
he coinage of silver dollars because
hey had, under the existing ratio,
Iroppsd to 9Se.