Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1885 — Ohio. [ARTICLE]

Ohio.

Ohio is the first to enter the field since the Presidential election, and as an initial effort this proceeding has been anticipated with a good deal of interest. It was very naturally supposed that this effort would afford some strong indications as to the course of the Republican party throughout the entire country with reference'to future action. It was possibly thought that some new and surprising course would be taken; that some vital issues would be presented, and some reason given for the existence of a party which, by the verdict of tho people, was pronounced unworthy of longer holding ! places of power. This repudiation of the so-long dominant party applied to the party as a whole, and equally so to the Republican party of Ohio at its late gubernatorial election. At that time the control of the State was wrested from the Republicans by a majority of many thousands. Under these circumstances some good reasons should be presented by the party of that State for its continued existence. Naturally, one looks to the platform of the late convention as being the repository of the causes which restrain the party from disbanding. Its perusal seems to afford no adequate reason for the further existence of the Ohio Republicans as an organized body. It presents nothing whatever new or vital. It is a rehash of the so-called “principles” on which the national party was defeated last autumn. There is the ancient announcement as to the giving of the ballot to every citizen, which, if it have any pertinency at all, has application, in Ohio, to the outrageous intimidation exerted by the Republicans of Hamilton County to prevent the voting of Democrats in 1884. The clause, if properly construed, is a direct condemnation of the party which adopted it. The old idea whose effect is to rob the mass of consumers for the benefit of the select few producers, under the name of a protective tariff, was reaffirmed. The platform declares in favor of civil-service reform, which may be well enough as a phrase of repentance at a moment when the nation has voted to turn the Republican rascals out; it waves defiantly the bloody shirt, just as Republicans have been doing during every one of the twenty years which have elapsed since the war; and it affirms Republican regard for the Scott liquor law, which has been decided unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the State. This is the substance of the platform. Can any one discover in it any reason why the Republican party of that State, or any other, should continue to exist, and disturb the peace with its useless clamors and mischievous agitations ? The ticket put into the field has the same antiquated and fish-like odor which pervades the platform. Every man of consequence on it is a political hack, a permanent aspirant for office; a place-huckster whose profession had been the dealing in party spoils. It is rancid with age; it is composed of professional spoilsmen; it has nothing about it fresh, youthful, or suggestive of new blood, or a new departure. Two years ago, Foraker was a candidate for the same place, and was overwhelmingly defeated by the people. By the liberal use of promises, political machinery, the aid of cliques, he is once more a candidate for a place for which the people have but just said with emphasis that they do not want him. The second on the ticket is a man who fought for the first place, and, being defeated by the machinations of the Foraker elements, took the second place without the exhibition of the least shame at the humiliating spectacle which he presented. It is a ticket with which the people had nothing to do. All the men. who worship the memory of Garfield despise the treachery shown toward him by Kennedy; and all the people who believe in the doctrine of equal rights to the extent of permitting the children of all citizen -, without respect to nationality or color, to attend the same public schools, believe Foraker to be a traitor to their convictions and to his professions. The Ohio init'ative promises nothing for the future which is worthy of respect. The Republicans of that State have taken the field presenting the stale issues oa Avhich their party has just been defeated both by Ohio and the Union. —Chicago Times.

A Ee ?uis Lie an organ objec’s to what it c alls the “high time” Minister Phelps is having at the Court of St. James, and says that the very flattering attentions he is at ]• resent receiving frem the Loudon aristocracy are due to the fact that English aristocrats are glad to welcome a “disunion Minister.” Will the same organ please account for the extraordinary attentions Minister Lowell has received in London from the same class? 'J'he author of “The Bigelow Papers” was certainly not a “disunion Minister.” Perhaps these two gentlemen have been cordially received at the English capital simply for the reason that they are men of distinguished culture and ability, rightly entitled to whatever courtesies British aristocracy can extend to them. Mr. Stephen B. Elkins still believes that Blaine is available. Mr. Blaine’s boasted availability appears to have been based on the notion that the Lnited States Government wanted to go into the stock- obbing, coal-mining, and land-grant railroad business. The e ection of last year ought to have convinced such nit-n as Mr. Elkins of their mistake, and there should be no more talk of Mr. Blaine as an available candidate for a Presidency where those lines of business are not to be transacted.