New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-11-08
THE COMING MAN

The Democrats of this section have little
knowledge of their probable candidate for next
President. and will thank us for making HIM
hetter known to them. His name is George
II Pendleton. and he lives at Cincinnati, Ohio.
His father. Nath1 c. Pendleton, was scion of
an eminent Virginia family, who migrated to
Cincinnati some fifty years ago, practlced law
and made handsome fortune there, and was
chosen 10 Congress as a Wing in 1910, beating
the Hon. Robert r. Lyle, his Democratic
competitOr, by ten majority If our memory
serves. CIamiltOn County was strongly Demo
cratic in those days, but was carried that year
for Gen. Harrison on the Presidential vote
which followed the State Election aforesaid)
Nathaniel G.. PcndIeton was all excellent,
though not great man. His son George has
rather more cultivation and perhaps more nat
ural ability, though far from being genius.
But he is thorough gentleman in manner and
address; and if, outside of his politics, he ever
did an unjust or unworthy act, we never heard
Of st.
We think he will be the Democratic candl-
date for next President, for these reasons:
The party is now on its high horse, and not
likely to stultfy itself as 1t did when it ran a
General on Peace platform. 1t believes 1t may
consult its wishes rather than its fears III
choosing its standard bearer, and is not likely
to DO undeceived before making its National
nominations Now Mr.. PendetOn embodies its
ideas and its purposes as thoroughly and pal
pabIy as Mr.. Clay ever did those of the Wing
party Wing by education, he is a Demo
cra4 by conviction and by deliberate choice.
I'm Congress, throughout the War, he never
made speech nor gave vote that
Robert f. Lee or John Slidell could object to.
Never desiring Disunion, he had early studied
Calhoun and become convert to his view OF
State Rights and Federal limitations, and he
read the Constitution as giving the Federal
authority no power to cOerce or constraln
State. Holding the War on the part of the
Union aggressive and unjust he gave it no
support, no cOuntenancc, whether by word or
deed. And, 'detesting the National Debt
as representing the means whereby the
COnlcderacy was OvertlTOwn, nc Is now
open in bis advocacy of its prompt
extinction by printing off Two Thousand Mil
lions 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 justifying 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 i'll 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 waitBtill the discredited rags wore
out persisted in conflagratiOns, or were otherwise
destroyed. Thus they would ultimately vanish,
like the old Continental money, not costing
the Treasury cent We consider this far
more manly than the shame-faced, sncaking
rascalty of those who pirate of paying in " le-
"gal 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 he the candidate,
because the South and West are now de-
cided Overmatch for the East, while the De-
mOcracy of the West is scarcely distinguish
able in type from the Conservatism of the
South. We think the first choice of a majority
of either branch of the party would be Robert
E. 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 Conservative inf all
inc oOuln WHO Noulu OlJtfl W MI tnultioH
if there be one such, he must be very
bgOted and exclusive. And no man
who did not actually smell powder in
the Rebel armies would arouse such enthus
asm in Kentucky. Maryland and every South
eIn State organized ON their basis, as George
II. PendctOn. There are many bogus profess
sOrs of Democratic orthodoxy, but his il the
genuine article. His version of the Bible evil
IDENTITY reads. "GOd made the White man in
/" his own image = his copy of the Declaration
Of Independence sets forth that 1--WE hold
o. these truths 10 be Self-eyident, that
/" all White men are created equal :" and
"The Lost Cause would not be really lost if
he were in the Presidential chair. Yet he gave
the Virginia BOurbons good advice when, on
their restoration to power by Johnson they
had a chance to treat the Blacks kindly, and
threw il away. We venture the guess that no
man treats his Black servants better, as ser
wants than he does.
There is silver lining to most clouds. If
the elections Of 1867 had gone like those of
1866, we should probably have had some am
biguOus, half-and half, shutting candidate for
President to oppose in 1861 but the late re-
suits have cleared the atmosphere decidedly.
square, clean issue between the two parties
will now be made up; the Sham Democracy
will select a representative man and for such
it has none better in its ranks than George II.