White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-03-01
zEhe Presidency.

I6oDuUitC6n RStAhASA0A~ - - -
the country, are beginning to get excited
upon the Presidential issue, Gnd the friends
Of each aspirant are actively at work.
There never was fairer opportunity for
any party to elect President. than that
now presented to a United e0ppositiOp ;
but the, course being pursued BY some
ultra Republicans, Il persisted IN. viii
Inevitably result in defeat. Here . an
extract from the call for a National Con-
4enticn, signed BY the Repablicah Ma
tional Committee:
The Republican electors of the several
States, the members of the Peoples party
Of Pennsylvania, and Of the Opposition
party of New Jersey, and all Others who
are willing to cooperate with them In
support of the candidates who are opposed
to the policy Of the present AamihiStraI
ton; to Federal corruption and usurpa-
ton !: to the extension of Slavery into the
Territories ito the1nsw7 and dangerous
political doctrines that the Constitution,
Of its own force, carries Slavery into ell
the Territories of the United States; to the
re-opening of the African siaye-trade to
any in equality of rights among citizens;
and who are in favor of the Immediate
admission Of Kansas into the Union ,un-
der the ConstituIionIeeently adopted by
its people; of restoring the Federal Ad-
miniStration to system of rigid econo-
my. and to the principles of Washington
and Jefferson |; of maintaining inviolate
the rights of the States, and defending the
soil of every State and Territory from
lswless invasion and Of preserving the
integrity Of this Union, and the supre-
macy Of the Constitution and laws pas
sed in pursuance thereof. against the con-
spiracy of the leaders of a sectional par
ty to resist the majority principle as es-
tablished in this Government at the ex-
pense of its existence, are invited to send
from each State two delegates from every
Congressional District and four delegates
at large to the Convention. o."
The above is plain-all persons bslieV-
ing in the doctrines therein enumerated,
or any of them, are invited to participate
in sending Delegates. Yet number OF
Republican journals are contending that
meme but an original and out and -out
Republican should be the nominee for
President. Seward and Chase appear to
be the only men who come up to the
standard established by these journals
and they are particularly severe upon
Edward Batos-probably. because he is
the most popular man spoken of in con-
nsction with the nomination. They know
that his whole life has been such, that
every honest man could vote for him with
q clear conscience; and the only objec-
ton they urge against him is, that he has
not been identified with the Republican
party, and will not write a multitude OF
letters, to keep the fact before the public
that he is No. Republican. This
business looks rather one-sided. The
Opposition elements are all cordially in
vited to go into the Convention and help
nominate a candidate, and to go to the
polls and help elect him, for without
such an union defeat is certain but such
thing as these allies securing tho nomi-
nation of ono of their men, is not to be
thought of-nothing but an ultra Repub-
lican must be the recipient of that honor.
1t is all very nice to talk about men
always succeeding better by standing to
their principles, without yielding a jot
but in cases like the one under consider
alton, it will not always win, as the cam
paign of 1856 clearly demonstrated. At
least, if the issue is to be confined to ul-
ira Republican men and measures, it is
acting in bad faith to invite other Oppo-
sition elements to . cordial union and
participation in the coming contest.
Seward and Chase are unquestionably
great statesmen, who have stood up for
the Republican cause in its darkest days,
and deserve honors at the hands of the
party; but the fact cannot be denied,
that it will be matter of greater diff
ty to elect either of them, than a more
conservative man. The New York Tri-
bune, and a number of other of the most
sagacious Republican presses, see this,
and are exerting their influence accord
ingly. The same may be said of many
of the most fsr-seeing Republican leaders
And Edward Bates appears to be the
man, above all others, capable of uniting
all portions of the Opposition element.
Which, then, would be the wisest policy:
to run Seward or Chase, upon their ultra
Republican merits, with strong probs-
bility of having Democratic misrule
heightened out four years longer or, to
run Bates, notwithstanding the absence
of multitudinous pledges and vOlumin-
Gus public record, with a certainty of
successi For our own part, relying up
on his past stainless life, and his we'll
known integrity. we would rather vote
for Edward Bates, with the Constitution
of the United States for his platform,