, 1865-11-03
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1865.
NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION.
Eso<'cfrtA from SAics OF the Chicago
Daily Newspaper.
OFFICIAL.


We publish elsewhere letter from Mr.
Joseph Mcdill, In reply TO certain 3nterToga-
lions prorounded to him in tho columns Of
the Ereniaq Journal Mr. Medlll's reply
seems 10 cover more ground than the inqui.
1ics TO Which he addresses himself, and thus
calls for some further notice than We should
extend to merely personal controversy.
His letter Is, in fact, m argument for the Sol
dier's ticket, Tor part Of II, and as It Is prob
Shy the ablcst TINT eau be made on that side
of the question, we propose TO show how
snail q basis Of tacts unlerlies the so-ca1led
Soldiers movement, and how little excuse
any man calling himself a Republican. has for
abandoning his own party organization OF
lis time.
Mr. Mcdiu points to the tsbase and uugrate-
ful treatment awarded to the soldiers by the
recent Republican Convention as his reason
fos Withholding bis support from the Republi-
can ticket, Tor some portion ofit) Hlswhole
argument rcs1s upon the nlles alton that gross
ingrntitudc IVES shown to the soldiers, which
Ought to be rrbuked and rectlRed at The polls
Let lis see about this. The first officer on the
list, to be tllcd By the Convention, was that
Of Judge Of the Superior Court. For this po.
sition Gen. uasbrouck Davis was put in nomi.
nntion, In competition with half q dozen civil
ian candidates. When the vote was taken
the friends OF all The other soldier candidates
for other Offices eaid to themselves, iii Gen.
Davis Is nominated our chances OF success
will he lesscncd. Let Us kill him that tbs
inheritance mny be ours" So thcY killed
him, and thus the drst soldier was slaugh-
tered. But Gen. Davis had thirty odd friends
in the Convention, who perceived how their
candidate had been put out Of the way, and
they resolved to yote against all the other
soldier candidates, mud thus pay them of in
their own coin. And go they did, md they
bcasted Off afterwards. Thirty votes thrown
this and that way In a lump, In a conven-
tion where many conflicting interests
are represented, and where opposing
candidates are quite evenly balanced,
will tell powerfully upon the result
in each Instance The thirty votes,
tso1diers' votes, mind you,} cast for Gen.
Davis, slaughtered more soldiers In the
Republican Convention than any other in1u-
ence or agency that can he named. How ab-
surd, then, to charge upon the Convention
as whole, or upon the Republican party,
design to overlook the claims Of The soldiers,
when their special friends In the Convention
those who arc now bewailing the treatment
awarded to them, and getting up soldiers
Tickets to elect Copperheads to of1ce-did
nothing but " slaughter so1diers'' in the Re-
publican Convention all day!
The same tncts, which We have noticed in
respect of Gen. Davis and his friends, were
actively at work among the friends Of other
soldier candidates. It was "cach one for
himself, nnd devil take the hindmost-" The
soldiers in the convention behaved just like
otner men in similar positions. They pursued
each the course which he thought would be
most advantageous to himself. In this they
did perfectly right, and VIC merely insist that
they should not hold others responsi.
bic for concatenation OF events
brought about In good part by
themselves. Gen. Solomon owes his nomina-
tion, not to the good will OF any Of his COM
rides IRON the battle field, but solely to the
united German vote in the Convention. II
lis friends stradcd' In the Convention, they
merely did what every Other candidate did,
or tried TO do. The idea that there is any
disposition in The Republican party to over
look tie c1nims OF soldiers for public otflce is
q very gross and unwarranted mistake So
also is tho idea that the Republican Conrcu-
lion, when 1t first assembled, had any iuten-
tion to accord "bass and ungEatcful trent
mcnt'' to the military candidates. Il
anybody Ind had the Wit, b>]
fore the balloting commenced, to offer
number Of Offices 10 be filed one-half, or two
thirds, or rthree-1ourtha, should be men from
the army, II would have been carried By 4
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