New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-02
THE CAMPAIGN IN OHIO.

The unusual party zeal and interest mani
tested by the delegates TO the recent Democratic
State Convention in Ohio have been taken IN
certain quarters as disclosing an unexpected ana
sinister vitality in the ideas which inspired ana
the leadership which directed the Democratic
National canvass of year ago. Undoubtedly,
so far as surface indications go, the crude ana
revolutionary party doctrines which trlumphed
at Chicago in 1896 have in less than year be-
come the unQuestiOned creed of united De-
mOcracy In a State politically speaking, perhaps
the most progressive and influential OF the forty
FIVE. Under the leadership OF John H. Mclean
the silver forces in Ohio. barely two years ago
a feeble minority in the Democratic party have
now assumed complete and absolute control OF
the State organization and have inaugurated a
political campagn-amOng whose prizes are a
GOvernorship and q seat in the United States
Senate-on n platform which specifically and
emphatcally indorses every heterOdoXy crowd
ed a year ago into the fantastic programme OF
Tillman. Altgeld and Bryan. Loyalty to the
personal fortunes Of the defeated silver candi-
date for the Presidency seems also TO have been
expressed with great righteousness. the con-
yentions frothest outbreak following the
permanent charmans declaration that Mr.
Bryan's denomination was fOregone conclu
sion three years hence.
Yet in spite Of the unquestioned zeal ana
belicose spirit Of the Columbus convention
there seems TO be no valid reason for appre-
beudng any new or extraordinary CROWN OF
free-conage sentiment In Ohio this fal. Inc
unconditional triumph of the unsounder eie-
men,s in the party and the easy acceptance by
the Democratic masses OF the radical doctrihes
of the Chicago platform are not greatly to be
hnr far
thirty wears past the leaders Of Democratic
opinion have eagerly grasped at every passing
shadow OF economical heresy or political folly.
More intensely Bourbon in discipline ana preJu-
dice than the Democracy OF any other Northern
o~ Western State-save possibly Indana--the
democratic organization in Ohio finds no more
difficulty now in embracing the political quack-
cry of silver infatOn than ii did In the seventies
-, ,cceptlng the fat-mOney nostrums OF Allen
.,.I Thurman certain tightening OF party
;cs-strained 10 the point of breaking last year
may therefore be counted on as one result OF
,b,. recent convention. But, on the other hand,
,he-o is nothing in the work done at Columbus
=, encourage the belief that that union OF all
mo dissatisfied political elements in the state,
,vi,ic, last fall reduced the Republican Presi-
dental plurality 10 relatively modest proper
,ons can again he made effective Tor the pur-
noses Of the approaching campaign. lie stare
,i,kcr nut in nomination OF Wednesday contains
thc names or ncne bnt Democrats, and IL =
we'll understood that the Popust orsanzaHoh'
which fused last year with the Democrats N
supper, of Il joint electoral ticket. VIII PUT Il
e.narste nominee for Governor 4, the field and
conduct distinct free-silver canvass oi rs
owr.
The free coinage ISSUE Submitted 10 the peo'
ia ~ Ohio no longer as the rallying cry of the
dlscontcnted voters OF all parties and factions
art as the exclusive programme OF single po-
,,cal organization, will necessarily Dc snofh
many OF It's former al.urements. With all
"a adyentltious strength conferred by LAST
,ars three-cornered fusion between the Demo
IA. the Populsts and the silver Republicans,
tho freesllver coinage candidates for the Prcs'-
dency and the vicePresd-ncy were bea''o by
more than 1900 votes. How without fusion
thn wear Mr. Mclean and his managers can
none TO use the silver issue as stalking-horse
Tor a purely Democratic success must pass the