The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-09-05

From the Times.
The spontaneity of the demonstrations which
attend the tour OF the President is their most
interesting and most significant feature. Tlere
is little evidence OF preparation on either side.
The people seem to have taken the affair into
their own hands, and to manage it with the
ardor of an honest enthusiasm And the Presi-
dent evidently so interprets it, for his speeches
are an expression OF his own earnest conViC.
tions, couched in the form which best com.
mCnds Itself to the popular heart.
If politics enter more largely INTO the inter-
course than was at hrt intended, let us not
forget that the circumstance Is mainly attrbuCa-
bic to those who now pretend to deprecate it.
The journey, as arranged was not designedlv
political 1t was undertaken with reference to
The memory or II statesman who possessed the
confidence OF a considerable body OF his country
men, who cannot be uumndiul of the honor to
be paid to the patriotism or Their departed
leader Party politics IN such q connection
seemed out OF place, and the President and his
trends announced their Intention to ignore
them. But his enemies prevented adherence to
this intention, and provoked the displays which
now mortity and offend them. The Philaie-
pha radicals took the initiative They pursued
a course which rendered the exclusion of poll
tics impossible. They though proper to sharpen
political hostility with personal insult, and to
vlndicate their opposition to the policy of the
President by sighting his person and hls Office
From that moment no choice remained. The
radicals had decided upon using the Opportu-
nity against the President whose friends were
thus compelled to rally to his support and to
accept the issue forced upon them.
Hence the political complexion which the
tour has assumed, and the importance of the
manifestations OF popular feeling which it has
called forth. The people took up the challenge
which the radicals had thro Nn down, and now
we witness outbursts OF enthusiasm which the
enemies OF the President can neither explain
away nor counteract.
Each succeeding effort OF radical malgnity
serves but to exhibit the popularity which en-
circles Andrew johnson in more striking hight.
The Mayor and other small great men OF PhIlA-
delphIa helped 10 diserace the city for which
they are expected to speaS; but the people OF
the city redeemed its reputation nobly. And
the experience has been the same wherever the
same dlsreputable conduct has been attempted.
Staid old Albany refused to be bound by the ill
natured proceedings of the radical State Sena-
! tors, and along the route thence to Niagara the
! President has been honored with q series of re-
| ceptions which prove tnat the radical boosters
| do not quite carry rural New York in their
| pockets. Indeed, the more violent the efforts
OF radicals to decry the tour and insult the
| President, the more triumphant are The doings
| OF the people in his favsI.
And Andrew Johnson's shreWness enables
MIN 10 profit by the genuineness and impromptu
nature OF the demonstrations 10 the fullest eX
tent Hleh-art critics have found fault with
some of his speeches as too combatiye and un-
polished; forgetting that they are elected by
gross attacks upon himself and his principles
and that their force Is derived from the absence
of formal preparation. The people proceed OF
the assumption that he is their President; anC
he speaks to the people under the idea that the
cause he contends for is their cause, and that in
the end they will win, whether the radical poll
tlcians like the victory or not.
The tone of speeches on occasions of this sor
is vastly more important than mere forms Q
expression, The people care less for verba
niceties than for the clearness and honesty 0
: the mind to which they listen. And in thi
decided preference lies the strength of tn
President. The case he is called to state require
; neither metaphor nor subtletY. II is question
| OF restored Union based upon the Constitution
\ | as it is or disunlon as a consequence of tn
radical policy. 1t is an appeal from the dogma
: of professional philanthroOsts and the plots
revolutionists, to the Judgment OF the patriC
. fathers and the purposes OF the Union armies
Radical journalists may endeavor to contour
e the merits of the question, but Andrew Johl
a sons statement of II carries conviction TO tn
n hearts of the people.