Year: 1879

Ihe Ohio Republicans nave met III SOlemn
have nominated ticket, adopted
a platform and adjourned. The latter act |
was the most creditable of either. It is the |
broadcast kind of satire upon the Republi-
can party, the more so as it was involuntary.
Starting in with re-afirmation of the car
dinal doctrines of the party-what they are,
heaven only knows-it avows devotion to
free suffrage, against which the party is now
arrayed, and many other things. The
natural inference to be drawn from this
declaration, if taken alone, would be that
the party in Ohio was opposed to the party
at Washington, but such does not seem to
be the fact, if we may judge by the succeed
ing resolutions. The second is an appeal to
the people against 'the party now
controlling both houses of Congress, under
the domination of men lately in arms against
the government, and now plotting to regain
through the power of legislation the cause
which they had lost in the field" Such IN
appeal is almost too foolish to merit notice.
The men "lately in arms against the govern
ment''-fourteen years ago tho last shot was
fred-were admitted to citizenship and all
the privileges that the word implies by the act
of the party that now protests against their
presence in Congress. It was we'll known at
the time that they could be sent to WASH
ington, and if their presence there was
esteemed to be dangerous, why were they
restored to citizenship? OF plotting to re-
gain through legislation what they lost in the
field, We have seen no evidence in the con-
duct of Congress or the "rebel brigadiers''
thus far, and it would take an Ohio Repub-
Ican, with microscope of large magnifying
power, q long time to discover any such plot.


The third resolution states direct, un-
equivocal and palpable lie-that the Demo
cratic party has committed itself to the at
tempt to break up the government by refus-
ing to appropriate to their legitimate objects
the public money already collected from the
people, unless the executive shall give his
official signature to measures which he con-
scientiously disapproves. The Democratic
party has not committed itself to any such
policy, but has and will continue to appro-
pirate all sums necessary to the proper con-
duct of every branch of the government.
It has protested against illegal and uncon-
stitutional acts in the past by providing that
they should not occur in the future, and Mr..
Hayes has seen fit to disapprove of them.
If any "attempt to break up the govern
ment'' should result from this course, Mr..
Hayes and his advisers, not the Democratic
party, are responsible.


It may sound we'll to Republican ears tc
hear the representatives of two-thirds of the
American people denounced as Democratic
conspirators,'' but it seems to us that it is
hardly dignifed to incorporate such extrav.
agant and idiotic fulminations in the plat
form of party. It is wide of the truth
also, to charge that the Democratic party il
seeking to turn the government over to the
South with the purpose of destroying it
Such silly charges will inevitably react up
on those who make them. The commenda-
ton of the financial policy of the Repubi
can party is we'll enough. If the Republican
party can approve of policy that has giver
millions to small clique of capitalists al
the expense of the public in general, we have
no objection to the party approving of thai
policy.


One resolution, the sixth, meets our hearty
approval. It reads as follows:


Resolved, That the perpetual disturbance OF
the country in response to the conciliatory
measures of the administration should, by thu
judgment of the people, be thoroughly con
demned.


Who is responsible for 'sthe perpetual dis
turbance of the country?" Certainly no
the Democratic party. The men who hav,