Year: 1875

ry in constituting the Democratic plat


form to mean more" than Senator Thur


man says even its trainers intended it to


mean; by advocating il 'as declaration


against gold and silver" which he has
advocated for an ordinary lifetime as the


only constitutional currency; and by ad-


vocating it ''as a declaration in favor OF


an irredeemable" paper currency now


and forever, coupled with great and per-


manent imitation" which he has denounc-


ed for the same length of time, as worse


than thieving and swindling. And as
! that image rises before US we feel con-


strained to say, Good bye, Uncle Will
! lam. A Presidential candidate you nev-


er can be. You may go even further
! than the platform demands in eating


your own record, get lower in the dirt
that anybody asks or expects of you,-
but you can't be President"


1t is almost incredible, but is neverthe-
less true, that the rest of Senator Thur


mans speech is devoted to a stale rehash


of partisan claptrap about reconstruction,
Pacific Mail briberies, and the like. The


currency question, which touches every


mans business relation, is mot a State


issue. 1t is. an uncomfortable thorn in


the flesh, and the Senator thinks it were


better out of the canvass. THE State


can legislate on it, anyhow Governors
and other State officers have nothing to
do with it. Democrats can't agree about


it, and Republicans can't agree about it
let US say nothing about such a con-
founded disturbing element 1t splits
the party-it plays the Ancient Henry
with Presidential chances to talk about
1t-and what difference would it make if
we were all to reach an agreement by
discussion? We can't touch the ques-
ton in any Department of the State gov
ernment, if the whole people of Ohio
were unanimous. Brother Democrats,
don't let's touch the blasted thing-let's
talk about Pacific Mail briberies, etc.
etc. That always makes the people mad
and they can easily be fooled into hold
ing the Radicals responsible-for the
Radicals had majority, you know"
And so for twelve mortal pages, loaded
with narcotine from the most soporifer-
Gus deposits of the Congressional Record,
our Senator goes on hypnotizing his au-
dience, to get them to such point of
insensibility as to be able to swallow the
Democratic platform, without vomiting
everything up clear back to the Resolu-
tions of 90.


No one knows better than Senator
Thurman what an advantage it would be
to the Democratic party if he could draw
attention away from the Democratic
State record by raising a hellaballoo
about the State legislation Of Alabama,
Louisiana, Arkansas, or any place under
heaven except Ohio, where the Demo
cratic Legislature run the price of states
men down to one hundred dollars head
in less than year. But we have no in
tention of being drawn, at the Senator s
will. If he wishes to discuss the
Schle swig- Holstein question instead of
treating matters within the Jurisdiction
of our State government, and within the
BUSINESS of our people, we can
only count him abroad, out of the State
canvass entirely. We cannot leave the
State canvass to follow him into foreign
topics beyond State Jurisdiction. The
question before the people of Ohio is
plain one, easily understood. We have |
tried two years of administration by the |
Democratic party as reform party. |
The question is, do we want any more of |
that sort? What has the party accom-
plished in the way of reform in our State
government to show that the people of |
Ohio will be doing themselves service |
by keeping it in power2 This is the |
matter we are interested in just now |
We cannot leave it to find out what |
Shoemaker, the Democratic Congress
man, did with over 100000 of that Pa
cifc Mail bribe money. We cannot
leave it even to express a pensive regret |
that Senor Donn Piatt's name got mixed
up in that business. All that has moth
ing to do with Aliens administration as
Governor of Ohio. That is the wood
chuck whose meat we are after, just now
The Ohio Legislature can't regulate
State legislation in Arkansas, Louisiana,
or Alabama We need not fool away
any time on that. The question that in
terests US is, What has our late Demo
cratic Legislature done for Ohio? This
important matter has been entirely over
looked by Senator Thurman. He has
not one word on the subject of State ad-
in Ohio. He might as well
have discussed the Saratoga Regatta-it
would have been more interesting, and
quite as much within the jurisdiction of
our State government.