re against it. The last three
Democratic candidates for the presidency were against it. The
German citizens of the United States, so distinguished for
industry, for thrift, and for soundness of judgment in all
practical money affairs, are a unit against it. The Republican
party is against it. The people of Ohio will, I am confident,
decide in October to have nothing to do with it.

Since the adoption of the inflation platform at Columbus, a great
change has taken place in the feelings and views of its friends.
Then they were confident--perhaps it is not too much to say that
they were dictatorial and overbearing toward their hard money party
associates. There was no doubt as to the intent and meaning of the
platform. Its friends asserted that the country needed more money,
and more money now. That the way to get it was to issue government
legal tender notes liberally. But the storm of criticism and
condemnation which burst upon the platform from the soundest
Democrats in all quarters has alarmed its supporters. Many of them
have been seized with a panic, and are now utterly stampeded and in
full retreat. They say that they are not for inflation, not for
inconvertible paper money, and that they never have been. That they
are hard money men, and always have been. That they look forward to
a return of specie payment, and that it must always be kept in
view. Why what did they mean by their platform? Did they expect to
make money plenty by an issue of more coin? Certainly not. By an
issue of more paper redeemable in coin? Certainly not. They
expected to issue more legal tender notes--notes irredeemable and
depreciated. But public opinion as shown by the press is so
decidedly against them, that Ohio inflationists now begin to desert
their own platform. Even Mr. Pendleton is solicitous not to be held
responsible for the Columbus scheme. He says, "I speak for myself
alone. I do not assume to speak for the Democratic party. Its
convention has spoken for it," and proceeds to interpret the
platform as if it was for hard money. Senator Thurman did not so
understand it. He thought the hard money men were beaten and felt
disappointed. It now looks as if General Carey might be left almost
alone before the canvass ends. If Judge Thurman could get that
conventi