White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-03-22
The Presidential Scramble.

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things do not 60 so suit them. Some
persons are acting very imprudently. and
che spirit they manifest is not calculated
to prodEse harmony and good feeling.
At present, Stewards chances seem
beat. Surely. no friend of Kansas should
regret his nomination, If his election were
beyond doubt. He has stood up fSf
Kansas nobly. through good and evil,
land God knows 1t has been mostly evil,
and has endured abuse, revilings and
ISLANDERS for her sake. With him in the
Presidential chair, Kansas, at least, would
have friend there. But great portion
Of the public has conceived a strong pre-
judics against him, which has been
strengthened BY nursing. and of which its
mind cannot be Invested; and this would
mar his prospects materially. We hold
that any good. honest, sound man, who
stands the best chance of an election,
should have the preference, and all other
considerations be thrown aside.
Our first choice, we are free to confess,
is Edward Bates. unless, before the Con-
vsntion meets. he should give expression
TO sentiments different from those he has
heretofore expressed, both personally and
through his confidential friends. He is
the profoundest statesman, and the most
honest, upright and conservative maa
spoken Of for the Presidency; and what
is By no means an unimportant matter.
be would doubtless poll the largest vote
Some persons who have been observing
the drift Of public opinion, think Lin
coins chances are best. He is glorious
fellow, and would take well with the
masses of the Northern Opposition. OF
ell the straight Republicans proposed for
The Presidency, Lincoln would probably
Be the most popular one.
The friends of Chase. principally con-
fined TO wire workers in Ohio. are max
ing desperate effort in his behalf. He
would be the weakest candidate of the
four We have named but nevertheless,
be will be offered. We think be now
occupies the highest position he will ever
attain, and the highest he deserves
Chase, through his friends, has ever been
grasping; and q Republican paper in
Ohio truly says that "he wants every
thing" We FIRST find him q leader of a
miserable Abolition faction in Ohio, re-
ceiving present of silver pitcher from
the nigRers. As leader of the Adolf
tionists. be directed the power Of the par
ty, and every other means within his
reach. to assist in defeating Henry Clay /;
and excepting James Buchanan. Clay
never had Q viler slanderer than that same
Abolition faction. No man who reveres
che memory of Henry Clay, can ever sup
port Chase for the high Office of which
he aided in defrauding Clay, without first
sitting his feelings and his recollection
We next find Chsse's friends dickering
with the Democratic members of the Ohio
Legislature, to secure his election to the
United States Senate, in which they were
successful. Now be is in the Republican
ranks, grabbing for the big loaves and
fishes. Always favoring the Democrats,
in their warfare against the Wings, he
now seeks honors at the hands of party
composed three-fourths of old Wings.
When his first term in the Senate expir-
ed, his friends foisted him into the Gu
bernatorial chair of Ohio, and reelected
him for a second term. At the close of
that term, the Senatorship was again va
cant, and nobody but Chase was fit for
the Office. His strikers, from one end of
the State to the other, roundly abused
every person who had the temerity to
prefer another man, and disparsged the
merits and abilities of every rival candi-
date. Chase was elected; and now, even
before he has entered upon his Senatorial
duties, his agents have the impudence to
endeavor to thrust him into the Presiden-
cy, when he should rest content with
what be has. But Chase's failing ever
was q morbid ambition for place. and be
never scruplsd to ride into power over
the heads Of his friends and betters. This
trait was exhibited when he was Q mem
Der of the Abolition faction, in his treat
ment of Samuel Lewis, one of the purest
men cha Stats Of Ohio ever possessed.
Politically. Chase is hog
One of the four men above named, will
n ell probability be the nominee; for we
think the chances Of Cameron amount to
about as much as Cameron himself-all
humbug. As we have said, Seward
seems to have the lead now; but the &C.
ton of the Charleston Convention, and
other events, may have . great influence
N directing the choice of the Chicago
Convention,