The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-12-25
Presidential Prospects : George q.
Pendleton.

9 nominating Republican Convention
meet at Chicago on the Goth Of Ma
next. The competing city was Gil
f cinnati, and the selection of Chicas
is looked upon as a triumph of IL
Grant men. General Grant bein
= claimed as citizen of Illinois, we pr,
sumo that the "Suckers" will invad
Chicago and force his nomination, {
Colonel Benton said the 100000 Obi
farmers" secured the nomination {
3 Buchanan at Cincinnati in 1856. TIL
| time, too, would seem to work in fave
, of Grant. It is known that the motle
crowd Of imported Yankees, indigenou
niggers, and the canaille generally
who compose the Radical party in tn
Southern States, are in favor of .th
nomination of Chase, and would vot
for him if admitted to Seats in TIL
Convention. The Grant men have
therefore, excluded such an array o
Chase votes by calling the Convention
together before any of tho Southern
States can possibly be RECONSTRUCTED
and he entitled to representation il
such an august body. We presume
therefore, that we can confidently hal
General Ulysses S. Grant as the mex
niger candidate for the Presidency O
the United States, along with Fred
Douglas, Langston, or some other dar'
key whom the extreme Radicals will
force upon the Convention as the can.
didate for the second place on the
ticket.
We have recently seen a great deal
of coquetting with Grant on the part
of certain would-be party leaders
among both Radicals and Conserve
tives. under the impression that what
ever ticket he may head will be sure
to win. We think this exceedingly
disgraceful and contemplate, whether
it originated with Radicals or Conser
yatiyes. We cannot discover in Gen.
Grant any qualifications for such a high
office; and his supposed strength will
turn out to be purely imaginary Whence
yer his name shall be presented as a
candidate for the Presidency. The
people of the United States have seen
enough of the imbecility of military
men, and we believe that if the proper
candidate should be presented by the
opposition, Gen. Grant could be beaten
solely on the ground of his being
military man. Besides, the defeat of
Chase, or any of the old leaders of the
party, to make way for a new man,
would cause such a lukewarmness in
certain purely Radical circles as to en-
danger the election of any other man
whose nomination should be forced on
the Convention under an impression of
his availability.
While the Radicals are laying their
plans, the Democrats are by no means
idle. Satisfied from experience that a
pnre Democratic ticket will prove more
popular than a mixed one framed to
catch recruits from other organizations,
= straight Democratic ticket will be
in the race next year. The
Democracy will have the advantage in
laying down its platform, as the Dem
ocratic Convention will not meet until
he Radicals shall have shown their
hands. But the Democratic platform
s even now no secret, the Democracy
If Ohio having sounded its keynote
md having proved by a splendid vic
DRY its astounding popularity. The
,lorious Democracy of the Empire
'tate of the West went into the cam
'aign with a platform which demanded
he restoration of the Southern States.
o all their political rights, refused suf-
rage to a barbarous and inferior race,
nd demanded that the interest of the
'ational debt he paid in currency, and
hat the bonds Of the capitalist be tax
d as we'll as the mich COW of the poor
ian who labors for his daily bread
'hese principles proclaimed by such
len as Pendleton, Thurman and VAL
lndigham went home to the hearts of
he people, and the result was such a
ictory as spread CONSERVATION in the
anks of the Radicals, and secured to
he Democracy victory in all the i'm.
ortant States where elections were
subsequently held, The Radicals may
eride this platform as they will, but
; is one that will win, and will forever
cal the fate of Radicalism in America.
he popularity Of it is demonstrated
y recent letter of Gov. Seymour de-
lining the Democratic nomination for
he Presidency of the United States
Tow, any one who knows anything of
ne Governor, is aware that he would
either decline the Presidency nor any
ther respectable Office if he stood any
nance Of getting it. But Governor
eymour was foolish enough to open
he New York Convention with q
peech in which he upheld Mr.. Chase'sl
ct theory of the exemption of the
onds from taxation and the, payment
their interest in gold. He talked
lso very glibly Of national faith,"
le "sin of repudiation," and Of other
diculous things, long since made
obsolete" by the party which boasts