The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-26
Who Should be Admitted to the Phila.
phia Convention?

From the Times
Our "Copperheadr contemporaries of this city
object to the discussion of the principle which
shall be recognized in the admission OF delegates
TO the Philadelphia Convention. And they find
it convenient TO msrepresent the course of the
Times upon the subject, and to impute opinions
for which no authority can be traced in these
columns. The Daily Ne,oS alleges that we are
trying to apply tests of admission which are not
mentioned in the CALI" and the Word attributes
to us a desire Ito impose more wholesale rule
of exclusion" than Congress has applied to the
Southern States.
Now the discussion which has more particu-
larry irritated our contemporaries, originated IN
the South, where there is an earnest desire to
profit by the gathering. Correspondence from
Georgia has shown that in that State an appre-
hensiOn OF some rigid test has interiered serl-
ously with the election OF delegates; and mode
rate men are anxious to understand now their
action may be most advantageously regulated.
There a feeling prevails in favor OF making the
possession OF the Presidents pardon a qualldca-
tion or delegates who have been Rebels. And
in noticing the suggestion. we added another
which had been mentioned in dispatches from
WashmgtOn-that any delegate from the South
shall be admitted VINO may not have borne arms
against the National Government In the same
| connection we deprecated the idea of enforcing
the test cath which Congress applies to its mem
bers; maintaining that since nearly the entire
| Southern people, QlreCtlN OF indirectly, VOlln'
tarily OF involuntarily, participated in the Re-
| bellion, liberal standard of admission should
be adopted. Some standard OF course there will
| be notwithstanding the absurd diCtum OF the
| World that delegates ''avowing their accord
| anCe with the objects OF the call, and being
! duly elected to repres ent anybody" will be en-.
| titled to, and viii obtain, admlttance. But
| toward the South we have urged the adoption
| OF the widest possible latitude, compatible with
| the purposes and principles OF the address
| under which It's citizens are invited to send
| delegates.
1t is quite evident, however, that all this
| pother of the Nel1s and the World about the ad-
mission of Southern delegates is downright
| hypocrisy. Our contemporaries have totally
| different cause OF battle, and are simply lighting
| their own case over Southern shoulders. The
| whole tenor of their articles proves that, under
| the pretense of applying a liberal rule for the
| South, they are in reality contendmg for Iule
| under which their dear friends the "copper"
heads, may gain entrance. Ii would indeed be
| convenient for these gentlemen If "delegates
duly elected to represent anybody" might, by
| mere pIetense of sustaining the Administration,
become members of the Convention. The Val
landlghams and Fernando Woods Of the North
might thus lead in aregiment of "Copperheads,'
and MIR. Marble might have another chance oi
Offering the budget of "Copperheadn resolutions
which the Haskins Committee so cruelty re-
jected.
The Convention sis No-party Convention,
says the World, and cannot therefore make any
party tests the standard OF admission. The pro