Year: 1878

The Democratic yearning for a Republican quar-
rel in this State is boundless.


That brother-in-aw's decapitation dispOses of all
danger Of Buffers returning to the Republican
party.


Hendricks and Voorhees, will stump Indiana to-
gether this Summer. Hendricks will do the strad-
ding and voorhees, the yelling


The Democratic party is consolidating on the
Greenback platform for no other perceptible pur-
pose than to be tipped of by the sweep of the Re
sumption Act.


Congressman Hunton will discover presently that
the Southern bulldOzer Is an object of TO
one save the peT5ecuted "nigger.' Everybody
else regards him with the very cheapest quality OF
coHtemptuous indifference.


It is said in Ohio that Congressman Ewing will be
renomiuated without opposition, because of his bril-
liant success at the last session. As he went to
Congress 10 secure the repeal OF the Assumption
Act and aimed for that alone the place where the
success appears his record Is not visible to the
casual observer.


The Democrats of Colorado have TenOmnated
Patterson for Congress. TO less enterprising
statesman than Patterson the compliment would be
an empty one, for Colorado is Republican State
but he can get a seat again in the same way that he
secured his present one All he has To do is TO pick
out a daY for holding an election, and run when
there is Other candidate In the held That Is the
way he had "a majority before, and the Democratic
House said lt was all ught.


Congressman Finley of Ohio, has been renOm-
mated, bat it took ifty-fOur ballots and seventeen
hours of the hottest kind Of weather to reconcile his
constituents to the job. There a great deal of
perspratlon, aud speech from Finley, which cont
bned seem to have broken tho convention into n
hopeless submission. Finley said he was COM
pletely saturated with the " Ohio idea" so far as
financial questions were concerned, and he undOubt-
edly told ,he truth. He might have added tnst dur
I.s,or az hn lad
10 lud the most absurd side of every public ques-
ton and promptly take his stand upon it,


There is no doubt but that The Cincinnati Enquirer
is right in claiming that the National Democratic
party is virtually unanimous to-day in favOring the
"Ohio idea" which was born, nurtured and reared
in Tho Enqnirer Office. Even in Maine and Vermont
the party has shown partial willingness to accept
il. The West and South are solid for It. This is a
curious position for the party to take the of
resumption. Before the next session of Congress
can act in the matter resumption will have been
comDlshed, aud the greenback VIII cease TO be u
cause for dlssonsOn. Ihis fact IS pr0babya source
of comfort to Mr.. Tilden 1t makes little difference
to hun what the party does now ~ hnance' since by
1880 the question Will be ont of the way forever,
AT that time the party viii be through with the
"Oho ideaD and will find itself possessed of po-


tical capital whatever save the 1ilden idea Of
fraud'


The Ohio Democrats will open their campaign at
Hamilton on August TO- Senator Thurman and Con-
gressnan Sayler will be the speakers. Great efforts
are making to keep Mr. Thurman warm on the
financial question. There is u fear that he may not
come out strong enough. though his hanger-on like
John G. Thompson declare that he will. There is no
rcason why he should not. He has been some time
in getting around to the soft sde of course but he
seems TO be as Jealous as all new converts are, now
that he has reached the point. This lack Of faith in
his sincerity must be painful t0 so conscientious a
man. Br. Sayler has put all doubt TO rest in his
case by declaring in the presence of the State COM
mittee that tho "0hO idea" is the idol of his soul.
and by calling for q campaign at once offensive
and vigorous There ought TO be no trouble in
making il offensive The gerrymandering scheme
ANA the record of the last Legislature enough to
insure that element.