The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-09-18
Something for Conservative Republicans
20 Consider.

Something for Conservative Republicans
to Consider.
WE remarked the other day that the throw
ing overheard of General DIX by the New
York Democratic Nominating Convention
was virtual abandonment of the August
Convention movement inaugurated in this
city. The New York Times confirms this
view of the case in an elaborate editorial
article, in which 1t exposes the duplicity of
the Democratic leaders with reference to that
movement, and their evident intention to use
it for the furtherance of their own distinct
lively partisan ends. The Times says that
the Philadelphia Convention set out TO go
before the country upon the single issue of
the admission of loyal Representatives to
Congress from loyal States. 1t was not con-
templated to strengthen or build up the
Democratic party. Hence the conservative
Republicans of New York sent delegates to
the Albany Nominating Convention, which
had been called in accordance with the August
Convention plan of Union.
The Times then goes on to show how Gen.
DIX was sacrificed, and Hoffman nominated
on the eTpress ground that it would contri
bute to the sqfety and interest Of the Demo
cratic party. Dix was accordingly slaugh-
tered, although at first, as the Times asserts,
full two-thirds of the Convention were in his
favor. But everything was made to bow to
the supposed interests of the Democratic
party.
Not content with this action, the Conven-
ton went on to introduce a number of purely
partisan issues, which conservative Republi-
cans could not endorse. They nominated but
single Republican on the whole ticket, and
in making up the Central Committee OF the
party appointed more than two thirds of it
from active members ofthe Democratic party.
Indeed, in its whole action the Convention
showed no regard to the Philadelphia move
ment other than an endeavor to prostitute it to
strengthening the Democratic party and re-
storing it to power. This the Times asserts,
was not the entertainment to which conserva-
tive Republicans were invited, and it signif-
cantly adds that whhe there are tens of thou
sands OF them who desire the "admission OF
loyal men to Congress from loyal States, they
wiu be quite likely to prefer taking their
chances Of securing this result from the Gc-
kon of the Republican party, modified as
it mag be by reflection and moderate coun-
sells, rather than seek 1t in the ouay marked
out for them by the Albany Democratic Con-
Uention."
We rejoice that the Times, and those for
whom it speaks, refuse to be thus used for
the ends of the Democratic party. What has
been the history of that party for the past
five years, that any Republican should think
of committing to it the destnies of the coun-
try now? And if in New York the conserva-
tive Republicans are thus repu6iating an
arrangement which would make them a mere
tail to the Democratic kite, what must they
say and do here in Pennsylvania, where they
are asked to contribute directly to the cleo
ton of such a man as Hester Clymer for
Governor? Not only are conservative Re-
pubIcans required here to support ticket
nominated by and made up solely Of Demo-
Gratis, but ticket headed by a man whose
disloyal course in the past has been so noto-
rious and offensive that General Grant says
it is an insult to any soldier to ask him to
vote for him? What do our conservative
Republicans say to thise Are they ready to
be sold out bodily to the Democratic party2
Is it best for them to blot out their connection
with the past glorious and patriotic record of
the great Union party of Pennsylvania, and
submit themselves to the dictation of the men
who have been and still are the leaders of the
Democracy If New York conservative
Republicans can't stand Hoffman, can those
of Pennsylvania endorse ClymerP Re-
member he stands by his record, and dehantly
endorses every word of it. If he is rlgdt,
then the Union men were wrong during the
whole war. Are Union men, even OF the
conservative order, ready to endorse that
conclusion by their votes, and thus cast dis
grace and odium upon their own most noble
and heroic records We do not believe it.
On the contrary, discerning, as they must,
the signs Of the times, presaging the utter
overthrow and discontinue of the Democratic
party by the people, let them hasten to return
to the old Union organization, and seek such
notifications in its policy and action as may
seem to them desirable by wise counsel and
dispassionate discussion within its ranks.
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