Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1843-10-20
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FRIDAY MORNING, OCT. 20, is4s.
MR.. CLAY.

MR.. CLAY.
If doubts have heretofore existed in tho
Wing ranks as to the expedency of making
Mr. Clay the Presidential Candidate in 1874,
we presume they are by this time dispelled.
and he may now be regarded, (as indeed no
has been for many monlls,) as the candidate
with whom alone there can be any serious
prospect of a battle by the Wing party next
year. His claims to this distinction are of q
character which forbid their being question:
ed by any but those who are either openly
or secretly inmical to his interests. Indeed,
it were needless to put the cavils of the few
who opposed his nomination, to any other
test than to ask them who else in the uni.
vcrsal Wing party, viewing the present state
Of public opinIon, could muster coporal's
guard at the polls in 1874? Does any sane
man fail to see the necessity Which controls
all parties that look for success, compelling
them to select as their standard bearers tho
men who most emphaicaly personify and
embody their principles
ready as general rule to hop from candi-
date to candidate as the uninstructed caprics
oil Convention may lead the way, If so,
we warn them to come out Of that fit before
it prove fatal. We trust and believe the
Baltimore Convention will know better
The party with one accord has settled down
on MIR. Clay, and for plain reason, because
they see no other man in their ranks, whose
experience, whose steadfast adherence to
their principles and ability in maintaining
and defending them are equal to his These
are reasons enough, and they set at rest tho
aspirations of those who advocate, though ve-
ry carefully, the policy of " digging ups
candidate at the eleventh hour; man per-
chance well enough in his place but who in
nine cases out of ten does not embody tho
principles of the party, but has in reserve
some cross grained quirk totally al war with
those principles, such for instance as the de.
tes,ablc Virginia abstractionwiih which tho
unlucky choice Of the Harrsbursh men is
now visiting this nation.
1t being then, well settled that Mr.. Clay Is
our candidate, can there be much doubt Of
his election? We answer no. To doubt
that the Wing Candidate, being man whom
the party approve, will be elected is TO be-
lieve one oftwo things :-either that the PEG.
pie who in 1910 by vast majority appro-
we'd of the measures ofthe Wings, have chang
ed their opinion, or that they will not vote in
1914. The first suppositon is not warranted
by any events tending to change an emil ght-
ened opinion Of our policy, and the idea that
people will refuse to vote next year, IS to ".
absurd. Besides, Notwithstanding the clam
ors of Locofocoism, over victories in States
where the Wings have made little effort,
what are now the signs7 How is it in Ten.
nessee7 How in North Carolina7 How
in Maryland and Georgia and Vermont p
There the Wings have done battle nobly,
and as usual in such cases they are victors.
Then what are the prospects Of the oef-
An irreconceable feud between the great
, rejected of 1910, and his far greater COM
petitor Of Fort Hill, is the sign in their frma-
ment.
Thus stand the combatants, both contend
ing, as they pretend for principles which they
deem essential to the welfare of this gigantic
! strife & what do our" Liberty party" friends
h ask us to do! Why, nothing, excep, quietly
!, to lay down our arms, or what is the SANS
thing to vote for their man, who, as they free.
ly admit, is about as likely to be elected u
Nathan Smile. And they ask this too, il
/ the face oflhe fact that plurality only is 70
- quired to elect the electors, so that, the Abo
n liioniss every where being mostly Wings
the direct, visible, inevitable tendency of fol
n following their advice, is at the next electio,
=, to secure the ascendancy principles, which
as unless we are false and dishonest, we believ,
It. to be destructive to the welfare, present an,
ed prospective of our Country, and which ough
he not to be permitted to triumph Now N
on nan can contend against this view for mo
ment unless he disputes the rules Of arithme
IN, tic; and how any man who ever was Whie
., and has no, gone over to Loeofocoism. ca