Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-05-29

The Creat political FAILURE of the Dav.

i The Great Political Failure of the Day.
/ Under this caption the New York Herald
thus refers to the nomination of Bell and Ever.
EFT, showing conclusively that it is all party
trick on the part of some of the Republican and
Democratic papers to be calling the Baltimore
ticket political failure:
1.-THE party press, without exception, affect to
regard the Baltimore nomination of the Union
candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presi-
dency-Bell and Everett-as signal failure,
the greatest of the present day. The Demo-
cratic and Republican journals vie with each
other in applying all sorts of disparaging ep-
ithets and nicknames to these gentlemen, and
endeavoring to show that as candidates, they
amount to nothing. Among these journals are
the Richmond Enquirer, the Albany Atlas, Ar
gus and Evening Journal, and the New York
Tribune. One calls Bell Wing, another calls
him an old fogy, third says he is dull, and
fourth that he is q miserable abstraction."-
The Democratic journals take care to tell us
that this nomination cannot Injure their party,
while tits likely to infiict serious mischief on
the Republicans. The Republican journals, on
the contrary, labor to prove that it cannot pos
slbly affect the success of Republicanism, but
may 90 some damage to the Democracy at the
South. The truth is that both sets of Journals
are partly right. The Democracy may be de-
feated by Bell and Everett in Kentucky, North
Carolina, Tennesses and other Sonthern States,
and the Republicans may be defeated by the
same candidates in Pennsylvania, New Jersey
and Indiana
"Why do these journals take SO much pains to |
run the Union candidates down if tEey really
amount to nothinga We rather suspect that it |
is because they find them formidable opponents |
in the present state Of parties and political COM
plicatons. Bell and Everett are both respect
able and able men, and about tie safest that |
could be nominated, under existing circumstan-
ces AS for Houston OF whom so much has been |
said, he wonld not be by any means safe man
for Pre-. ident Of the United States. He is not
conservative, would be very likely to plunge
the country into war, and furthermore, he is
very much of a hunbug.
1--WE cannot yet tell what the Democratic
party wilt do. At present it is in state of dis
Indignation; and if it should continue in that
condition, and the conservative masses should
rally around Bell and Everett, these men would
be found very far frola dsspicable candidates.
But it is objected against them that they have
no platform. In that very fact consists their
strength. The absence of platform is the
greatest of platforms in the present critical con-
dition of the country for it opposes the agta-
ton of the slavery question, the pabulum OF all
the politicians anu demagogues, North and
South, aud the only source OF danger to the
Union. 1t is this which, above all other things,
will commend the candidates to the great mass
of conservative voters, who are heartily sick of
the revolutionary Republicans of the North and
the revolutionary fre-eaters and secessonists OF
the South. On the whole, viewing the horo-
cope OF the political heavens, we think the
nomination of Bell end Everett is good, and
that it may tufn out highly important in its bear
ing on the two great parties of the day, and on
the interests of the country, at crisis in its his
tory without parallel since the foundation Of
the government"