New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-12-18
PREsIDENTIAL CANDIDATES..


PREsIDENTIAL CANDIDATES.
There is such thing as running men tor the
Presidency, and there may be such thing as
running them into the ground. Wo have an
illustration Of these two facts in the course of
leading sensation journal of this city, Whoever
will take the trouble to turn over its files for the
past three months will find that it has enforced
the claims Of half dozen candidates for presi-
Dental honors with equal zeal and sincerity,
while distributing the damaging effects OF Its
advocacy among its several fayOrites with an
impartial hand. When We remember that
during the last three or four presidential cam
paigns 1t has supported the candidates VINO were
defeated, and that the stunning blows they
received at the polls were in exact ratio with
the warmth of its advocacy, it must DC con-
ceded that its modesty in suggesting success
full name for the coming contest Is as conspicu-
Gus A was its wisdom in selecting those OF the
pas, IT. embrace having always been sure
destruction to the unfortunate candidate upon
whom il forced H. iayors, one would think any
soldier or civilian who might venture To aspire
10 the presidential chair would, the moment 1t
proflcscd him its aid, cry out, in the words OF
the Spanish proverb, "Deliyer me from my
friends, and will take care OF my enemies"
The journal in question has, within the past
few months, alternately not to say simul,ane-
ously, bestowed its laudatory commentators
upon Gen. Banks, Gen. Rosecrans, Gen. Blair,
Gov. Seward and Gov. Chase, a. suitable and
hopeful candidates for the White House. But
the fayorites upon whom it has longest ana
oftenest poured its fulsome beslubbcringS are
Gen. Mcclellan aud Mr.. Lincoln. Now, the
cs-Commander of the Army Of the Potomac was
tie hero designed by Providence to conciliate
the insurgents, explode the plots OF the kadi'
GALS, crush the aspirations Of the irrepressible
negro. and bring order ont of chaos by restoring
tie Onion and rcviving the good old tunes
when Dav. and Seward hobEobbed In The Sen
,'r and Grow and Keitt exchanged salutation.
IN H.. House Then, scanning the dad and
troubled cloud. that lowered over the country
Honest Old Abe" slow and sure. cautious
and conservative. was the only man Ia be
dreamed Of for steering the ship of state through
the breakers and reaching peace and prosperity
by he shortes, cu,--"hs pilot for wcatherine
the storm" Whoever will run oyer,he columns
of our vcrsa,le ncghbor during the times Of
which We wriic-and be need not 90 back many
week.-will. perhaps, at the irst perasal be d
little confused at tho "promiscucus aud worry
some way, 90 quote the words Of Sarah Camp,
in which the names are mixed up-as, for In
stance Banks aud Blair, Ro-ecrans and Banks,
Chase and Seward Seward aud Chase, McClcl
Ian and Lincoln, McIncoln and Linclelan and
90 on. But 20 ring the changes on candidates
in this way is not a, difficult ns one would sup
po,e. A. Hamlet says, =" it Is a. easy aslying
Having boxed the compass with It's old favor
tics. and run their name, up and down tn
scale till they CRATE upon the ears of ITS readers,
this yyaolou journal now SEEKS now sen-a-
ton in the person Of Gen. Grant The Jaror'
with which 1t lays bold OF it, ircsh victim indi-
Gates that its passion will not last long; though
perhaps 1t will be protrac'ed enough 10 Kill of
the man who could storm Fort Donelson, van
qui-h Sidney Johnston at shiloh oircumyen'
Pcnbcrton at Vickaburg, and pass unscethcd
through the tempest of shot and shell at Chatia
n,oca. We have the highest appreciation Of The
services OF Gen. Grant. We believe there ear
be scarcely any limit set to his powers of endur
ance. And, having "a much confidence in tn,
sincerity Of our cotcmpOrary rs We ever had
We beg leave to assure II that there ARE SOM
thing, which even Ulysses :. Grant cannot eur
yiye. viz six articles per day in ito column. il
favor OF hi nomination and election To- ia,
Pro- ftnuov