The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-09-18

There has, consequently, been no abatement
in his efforts to remove all impediments and
to secure every instrument calculated to make
him master of the situation in 1868.
Mr.. Chase's financial system, including his
One-dollar greenbacks was slSilfully contrived
as the nucleus of a powerful Chase party.
But in the vast disbursements of the War
Office, and in the popularity acquired and
likely to be acquired by our army heroes,
there was something to be looked after. Mr..
Cameron, as the War Secretary, was not, in
this view, the man adapted to Mr.. Chase's
purposes. Hence the removal of Cameron
and he appointment of Stanton in his place.
Stanton, whatever may have been his own
ambition, from the start became Jealous
coworker with and coniidaut of the aspiring
head of the Treasury. Between them the
removal of General Mcclellan, when his popu-
larity threatened to be dangerous, was con-
trived aud finally accomplished though in
very bungling and blundering way. Having
thus succeeded in shelving Mcclellan, Stan
ton, in the interest of Chase, undertook the
same game with Sherman, and would have
displaced him but for the kindly Intervention
of General Grant. Politically, however, Sher-
man was damaged almost beyond recovery;
and if now we find General Grant in position
from which he cannot turn to the right hand
or the left, nor yet move straight forward, nor
stand still without danger, the credit, such as
it is, belongs to Mr.. Chase and his faithful
colaborer, Stanton.
But the entanglement of Grant in the recon-
struction meshes of the War Department has
involved the shelving of even the faithful
Stanton, and here doubtless Mr.. Chase has
made good use of the confding Mr.. johnson,
and likewise in the removal of Sheridan and
Sickles-the only men among the Southern
military commanders whose abilities, public
services, and popularity We're to be feared in
looking over the complications OF the Presi-
Dental chess board. 1t will be thus perceived
that Mr.. Chase may be said to have cleared
the track very adroitly of some very serious
distractions, in disposing for the time being
of Cameron, Mcclellan, Grant, Stanton, Sheri-
dan, and Sickles.
Nor do his successes in mastering the radi-
cal situation stop here. In the very outset his
management and displacement of Mr.. Seward
as rival aspirant was a masterly achieve
ment, though he did not succeed in the at
tempted removal of Seward from Lincoln S
Cabinet. nor must it be forgotten that upon
the heels of Lees surrender Mr.. Chase, in a
Southern missionary tour, secured preGmp-
tive claim to negro suffrage. Backed up by
this power in the South, and supported by
Mr. Johnson passively, and by Secretary
McCulloch actively, in his financial system,
Mr.. Chase may surely be pronounced master
of the radical situation at Washington as mat
tels now stand. His most dangerous rivals,
in their popularity and in their claims upon
the public gratitude have been set aside OF
neutralized by knocking their heads together.
The negro vote of the South, in the next place,
is great radical card, and this belongs to
Chase by right of preemption. But all these
advantages gained are only secondary to the
stupendous political power pledged to Mr..
Chase in the financial system which he put in
motion, and which the administration is pur-
suing as zealously as if also pledged to its de-
signer for the succession.
From the historical events rected, all neatly
dovetailing together, and all consistently work
ing to the benefit of Mr. Chase, we may safely
conclude that he has the Republican Conven-
tion of 1868 fairly within his grasp, and that
his defeat therein can be achieved only by a
chain of events in the interval to next spring
wholly unlocked for by Mr.. Chase and his
radical assistant managers. AS for President
Johnson's impeachment, the report and the
testimony, we dare say, whatever may be Mr.
Chase's obligations to Mr.. Johnson, will be
used in the interest of the Chief Justice as a
good campaign document. Such is the graft
tude of scheming politicians.