The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-09
The Coming Man,

PTOW ItS ~ l. 1TtOUGe'
The Democrats of this section have little
knowledge of their probable candidate for next
President, and will thank us for making him
better known to them. His name is George
H. Pendleton, and he lives at Cincinnati, Ohio.
His father, Nathaniel G. Pendleton, was
scion of an eminent Virginia family, who
migrated to Cincinnati some fifty years ago,
practised law, and made a handsome fortune
there, and was chosen to Congress as a Whig
in 1910, beating the Hon. Robert I. Lytle, his
Democratic competitor, by ten majority, if our
memory serves. (Hamilton county was
strongly Democratic in those days, but was
carried that year for General Harrison on the
Presidential vote, which followed the State
election aforesaid.)
Nathaniel g. Pendleton was an excellent
though not great man. His son George has
rather more cultivation, and perhaps more
natural ability, though far from being q
manner and address; and if, outside of his
politics, he ever did an unjust or unworthy
act, we never heard of it.
We think he will be the Democratic candi-
date for next President, for these reasons
The party is now ON its high horse, and not
likely to stultify itself as it did when it ran a
General on peace platform. II believes it
may consult its wishes rather than its fears in
choosing it's standard-bea and is not likely
to be undeoeived before making its national
nominations. Now Mr.. Pendleton embodies its
ideas and its purposes as thoroughly and pal
pably as Mr.. Clay ever did those of the Wing
party. Wing by education, he is Demo-
crat by conviction and by deliberate choice.
In Congress, throughout the war, he never
made speech nor gave a vote that Robert L.
Lee or John Slidell could object to. Never
desiring disunion, he had early studied Cal
houn and become convert 10 his view of
State Rights and Federal limitations, and he
read the Constitution as giving the Federal
authority no power to coerce or cOnstrain q
| State. Holding the war on the part of the
| Union aggressive and unjust, he gave it no
| support no countenance, whether by word
| or deed. And, detesting the national debt
| as representing the means whereby the
| COnfederacy was overthrown, he is now open
in his advocacy of its prompt extinction by
| printing off two thousand millions of fresh
| greenbacks and giving every holder of that
debt the face of his bonds in currency, thus
| stopping the interest on the debt at once and
! iustifying a reduction of all Federal imposts
and taxes by One-half. The country being
| thus flooded with greenbacks, payable in
nothing and never, they could not help falling
| to ten cents in coin per dollar. Then, if two
hundred and fifty millions could somehow be
| borrowed or otherwise raised, the debt might
| be got rid of at once or it would be easy to
wait till the discredited rags wore out, perished
| in conilagratiOns, or were otherwise destroyed.
| Thus they would ultimately vanish like the
| old Continental money, not costing the Trea-
| sury a cent We consider this far more manly
| than the shame-faced, snealling rascality of
those who pirate of paying in 'legal-tender"
and giving the public creditors as much as
! they paid for their bonds. We prefer Dick
| Turpin to Fagin.
| Mr.. Pendleton is likely TO be the candidate,
| because the South and West are now decided
| overmatch for the East, while the Democracy
| of the West is scarcely distingushable in type
| from the conservatism of the South. We
| think the first choice of majority of either
| branch of the party would be Robert K. Lee;
| but there are prejudices against him as a
candidate, which would be less operative, less
potent, in the case of Mr.. Pendleton. We do
not believe there is a conservative in all the
South who would object to Mr.. PendletOn; if
there be one such, he must be very bgoted
| and exclusive. And no man who did not ao-
tually smell powder in the Rebel armies would
arouse such enthusiasm in Kentucky,
MARYLAND, and every Southern State or
| oanized on their basis as George
ii. Pendleton. There are many bogus profess
sors of Democratic orthodoxy, but his is the
genuine article. His version of the Bible evil
IDENTIFY reads, "God made the white man In
His own image" his copy Of the Declaration
of Independence sets forth that "We hold
these truths to be self-evident, that all white
men are created equal" and ''the lost cause
W0Sl1 not be really Lost II he were IN the IRE