The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-10-24
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Pnblio meetings endorsing General Grant
for the Presidency were held in halt a dozen
different wards in Philadelphia the other even
ino. They were all of very enthusiastic
character. indicating the powerful hold which
tba name of General Grant has taken upon the
popular mind. At the Twenty-fourth Ward
meeting Hon. w. D. Kelley made a lengthy
speech in support of this nomination. He ad-
yooated General Grant, not ON account of his
availability Eve had had enough of that, nor
On account of his glorious military services,
but because of his fidelity to the Congress
sional plan Of Southern reconstruction, and of
his perfect accord with schofeld, sickles Pope,
and Sheridan, and "the great War Minister
whose courage and integrity Andrew Johnson
could no longer abide" eyes" said Mr.
Kelley, "Stanton knows and confdes in Grant,
in the same unstinted measure accorded to the
honored District Commanders. Let us, then,
insoribe the illustrious name of U. S. Grant
upon our standard, and emblazon around it, in
broad letters of gold, our precious principles,
not doubling that when the National Conven-
ton assemblies it will approve and confirm our
action by acclamation."
Such are the beginnings, on the part of the
Independent masses of the great Union party
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remind us of the similar moY ements of the
people which brought into the foreground,
each in his turn, General Jackson, General
Harrison, and General Taylor, in spite of all
the opposition movements, calculations, and
schemes Of the politicians and party managers
concerned. 1t is the same everywhere else as
in Philadelphia when the name of Grant is
mentioned at a gathering of the Republican
rank and file. 1t revives the old popular en-
thusiasm which carried "Old Hickory'' sold
Tippecanoe and Tyler too" and "Old Rough
and Ready into the White House. United
States Grant is the peoples ticket for 1868.
Meantime, the politicians, this man and that
man, on both sides, are trotting out their
faYorite horses for the grand four-mile sweep
stakes for the succession. On the Democratic
side, in view of possible contingencies General
Mcclellan, it is said, has been sent for and will
soon return from Europe In New York, how
ever. Horatio Seymour is looming up again
above the horizon, while in Ohio and Kentucky
George H. Pendleton is proclaimed the coming
man. A Cincinnati paper says that with him
as our candidate, standing on the platform
Of the Constitution, equal justice to all Sec
tions OF our common country, with equality to
all Ga bold bid), special privileges TO none, the
same currency for the bondholder that the
people are compelled to receive" etc, 'we
shall sweep Ohio with fifty thousand majority,
and also the country, as we did with Franklin
oonqueror of Mexico. Connecticut paper
nominates Governor English, but this is pro-
badly as far as he will go.
On the Republican side Gin addition to the
prevailing movements for General Grant) they
have an earnest Chase organ in Philadelphia
which is of the opinion that the Grant meet
ings in that city have "more influence abroad
than at home;'' that in this Grant movement
ffprinciples have been kept in the back
pround,n - and that it will not do to make
Quaker meeting of the coming campaign. An
Indiana paper runs up the name OF Schuyler
Colfax for President; New Hampshire paper
runs up the name of Sheridan; paper OF the
interior of Pennsylvania has hoisted the ticket
of Grant and Ex-Governor Curtin; another
paper of the same State proposes Grant and
Stanton; and lastly Massachusetts, rural paper
doubtless an old line Whig) thinks that
Charles Francis Adams, our present Minister
at London is the ablest and best man for
President that the United Ssates can produce,
but that he has been so misrepresented that
he has hardly better chance than Charles
Sumner, 1t is the same Adams who run on
the Buffalo free soil Van Buren, ticket OF lo4S.
All these newspaper side nominations, how,
ever, amount to nothing. The fight in the
Republican convention will be between Grant
and Chase for President, while for the Vice
President the field of choice will be sufficiently
widened to embrace almost any one of the
secondary characters named anywhere for the
first office. AS Grant and Chase are both
Western men, however, if either is nominated
for President, the associate candidate for Vice
President will doubtless be taken from the
East. In this view, Stanton, Curtin and
Cameron, of Pennsylvania, Fenton and Nor.
gan of New York, and Fessenden of Maine
may be named among the probabilities fol
Vice President. If the Republicans carry
New York this fall we dare say they will ge
the Vice-President, but with the signal defeat
of Mr.. Chase on the negro suffrage test in Ohio
they have heavy load to carry, and we guess
it will break them down.
4 The Democratic chances for the nomination
against Grant or Chase lie, we think, and in
the order named, between HoTatio Seymour
of New York, Pendleton of Ohio, and Genera
Mcclellan. As to General Sherman, he has
too many peculiar crotchets of his own Il
serve the political purposes of either party
and so he may be counted out. He was no
minated by little oonventicle Of lobbymeI
at Washington not long ago in this shape:-
For President, Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee
for Vioe-President, Lieutenant-General w. T.
Sherman, of Missouri but we are inclined
to think that in this movement this aforesaid
oonventicle had other fish to fry, and have,
perhaps, fried them. President Johnson will
be a locker on in this coming national contest,
and the whole shaping character, and issues
OF the battle viii depend upon the Republican
nomination. If Grant, the thing is settled
and the coast is clear; If Chase, wise men will
take in sail and look out for squalls. To say
nothing of the negro question: on his financial
system alone Mr.. Chase, as the Republican
candidate, will be apt to throw the country
into inextrioable confusion.
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