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WHAT WILL THEY DO.

The Ohio democrats seems more bent upon maintaining factions in the party ranks than winning a victory for their cause, if they have any other than factional efforts to destroy one another. 

But if the democracy of Ohio are incapable of laying aside faction, in other words making a foolish scrap for this particular candidate or that and being willing to defeat the party if one or another of the factional candidates be not given the honors, then the party is scarcely fit to control the affairs of a great state and defeat is better for the people than victory. A recent editorial in the Columbus Citizen is to the point:

"It will be an easy matter for the delegates who are to assemble in this city on Tuesday and Wednesday next to take such action as well put the democratic party of Ohio on the road to political success, if not this year, at least in the near future. 

And it will be just as easy for them to take such action as will put farther and farther in the future all hope and opportunity for success. It is not proposed to dictate to them what they shall do. The matter is left entirely to their judgement. 

When midway between two gubernatorial elections the democratic vote of the state falls off over 50,000, is it not time to discover the reason therefore and take some steps to avoid the repetition of such disasters? Everybody that knows anything about politics knows what the cause was, and admits that the same cause will produce the same effects this year. 

The delegates who desire to put the party back on solid democratic ground will certainly feel it incumbent to exercise every possible effort to do so. The republican organization is quite anxious to see the Ohio democracy repeat the recent blunder of sowing discord in the party ranks. But why should delegates to the convention be anxious to do so?