The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-10-23

season to head OIL ana bring 10 surrender the
managing radical Chase politicians.
How is this TO be done How is General
Grant to be made the master of convention
IL it be packed for Mr.. Chase Just as Jack.
son, Harrison and Taylor were made the mas
ters Of the political rings and conventions or
ganized against them, which was by indepen-
dent popular meetings all over the country in
their favor. After our New York November
election the field will be open for these popu-
lar movements and we are convinced that
the rank and file of the great Union cause OF
the war, whose favorite against all comers is
General Grant, have only to get up their city,
town and cross-road meetings, from Maine to
California, in order to show front which will
bring the Republican National Convention to
an unconditional surrender. Aud we want to
see this done because we believe that in Gen
eral Grants election the country and all its
great interests will be perfectly safe against
all extremists, radicals or Copperheads while
there are many reasons to fear that contest
between Chase and Seymour, or anything in
that shape, whatever the result, would only
make the existing confusion worse confounded
for at least four years, and perhaps for twenty
years to come.
chief Justice Chase and the Presidency.
From the ~ Y. World.
Mr.. Chase and his trusted friends do not
concede that his claims as a Republican candi-
date for the Presidency are eXtinguished by
the Ohio election. Time enough has elapsed
for pretty mature reflection, and the sails
which were reefed during the late storm are
again spread, but trimmed in accommodation
to the new direction of the wind. We are
now solemnly assured that Chief Justice Chase
is one of the most conservative men in public
life He has been pleased, then, to make a
great secret of it. We suppose we shall be
still further astOnished some bright morning
by being told that the Tribune and the hide
pendent, his forward eulogists, are the most
conservative of our public journals. The
Chief Justice has been so coy and maidenly
and the confession is now made with such
blushiDg grace, that there is no telling how
many more of these disclaiming beauties may
be smitten with a secret passion for naughty
conservatism
"Shc never toid her tore,
But let concealme mt, like a worm L the bud,
Feed on her damask cheek"
But the secret is at last out; and we dare
say that, in the interval between the Ohio
election and the confession, another part of
the same description was applicable, and that
the unsuspected conservative ''sat like patience
on a monument, smiling at grief.'
There was copied recently into the editorial
columns of the Tribune, with a few introduc-
tory lines fitted to pique curiosity, an article
from the Cincinnati Commercial giving Mr..
Chase's opinions on current public questions
with so much detail and such an air of autho-
rity as to convey an impression that the
writer was fresh from a consultation with the
Chief Justice. The Tribune must have re-
garded the article as authorized, or it would
not have made it so conspicuous.
In this attempt to ''come the conservative
dodge" there are several things that invite
criticism, but we pass them all for the sake of
fixing attention upon one prominent aspect.
| When Chief Justice Chase runs up conserva-
| tive colors, it proves that in his estimation,
| there is no further safety to candidates in ma
| vigatiDg radical seas. We will not look curl
| ously into the quality of his cOnservatism;.
| his advocate has made out for him the best
| case consistent with the facts. 1t was impos-
| sible to deny that Mr.. Chase favored negro
| suffrage; but it is asserted that he does not
| favor universal negro suffrage; that he IS no
| stickleT for negro suffrage in the North; that
| it was against his judgment that the question
| was submitted i'll Ohio; that in the South he
| would try to make negro suffrage palatable by
| the free pardon and full restoration to politi-
cal rights Of all the Rebels. He disapproves
of cOnfscatiOn disapproves of impeachment;
in short, he is against nearly all the measures
| on which the radicals have been eXpending
their zeal for the last two years.
The chief value of these disclaimers lies in
the implied confession that radicaism has had
ltS Oays IL IL ldu III IL elements OF r6VlVllB
vitality the course of Mr.. Chase would be diff
ferent. If radicalism has any future, he, of all
men in the country, is the one to profit by it.
| When, therefore, he comes before the country
with parade of his conservatism, it may be
taken as a proof that radicalism is 'lost
cause" The strong tendency to nominate
man of doubtful politics like General Grant,
tendency which was manifest five months ago,
attested great ebb in the tide; but this new
profession of conservatism by Mr. Chase marks
the surprising rapidity with which it has since
been running out. When the party spirit Of
Republicans has been thus let down, there is
no possibility of reviving it in its old vigor.
The fact that General Grants strongest rival,
instead of attempting to make his tepid poll
tics contemplate, and to array againt him the
violent instincts of the radicals, emulates
Grants conservatism and bids against him for
conservative support, is the most remarkable
demonstration we have yet had of the greatness
of the change which is coming over the spirit
| Of our politics. If radiCalism had any chance
of winning in the Presidential election, Mr..
| Chase, as the ablest of the radicals, would
find it for his interest to differ as much as
| possible from General Grant, aud trust to the
Outnumbering strength of the radical wing of
the party to give him the nomination. In
stead Of this, he virtually cOnfesses that there