The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-11
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1Er. Chase ana his Plans and Prospects
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Hr. Chase ana His Plans and Prospects
for the Presidency
FfOH ne ~ Y. Herald.
As the shocking disaster Of the 6rst Bull
Run fell upon the loyal States, so have the
astounding results Of the New York election
fallen upon the radical Chase faction. Mr..
Chase himself, alarmed at this fearful cataS-
trophe, has with the clearing away of the
smoke from the battlefield deemed it expe-
dent to come at once TO this city for the pur-
pose Of considering the extent OF the damages
he has suffered and the ways and means of re-
pairing them. He has been here for several
days in active consultation with his radical
friends, and we think the opinion may be
safely ventured that's far from giving way in
favor of General Grant, Mr.. Chase is resolved
heneeforth to use all the organized forces and
resources at his command to rule out Grant,
and to secure for himself the nomination of the
Republican National Convention.
To this end he has his hundreds Of national
banks and other financial agencies to back
him, in addition to that numerous faction Of
fanatics whose ultimatum, sink or swim, is
universal negro suffrage He has, too, pow
erful body Of retaiuers in both Houses Of Con-
gress, who will be very apt to shape the legis-
lative measures Of the coming session in
accordance with his wishes. We may thus
expect, among other things in the interest OF
MIR. Chase, that Southern reconstruction under
the existing laws will be so actively pushed
forward that all the ten outside Rebel States
will be reorganized and restored as negro radi-
cal States-some, if not all, in season for the
Republican Convention, but all in time to give
their electoral votes to Mr.. Chase.
Against these formidable appliances Of the
Republican party machinery, the friends OF
General Grant have nothing but his popularity
- 4 4,..1. 10 nVaTTI1 1FIN
covers all the land; but unless his Jealous
friends can bring this power to bear upon the
Republican Convention, 1t will avail them
nothing; for we have no doubt that General
Grant Is so well satisfied with his position as
General-in- Chief Of the armies of the United
States, that he will not consent to any Presi-
dental nomination but that of the regular
Republican Convention, and will refuse to run
against Mr.. Chase if thus regularly nominated.
The political friends of General Grant, then,
being a sort of unorganized militia, have no
other course left them but a vigorous agitation
OF his claime and popularity, in public meet
ings all over the country, such as have already
been commenced in Pennsylvania, with every
indication OF complete success in an out-and-
out Grant delegation to the Republican Con-
vention from that State.
AS the contest now stands, however, within
the Republican lines, Mr.. Chase has the odds
heavily on his side for the manipulation of the
Convention. Assuming that, after all, he Will
Secure it, and be nominated with some such
man as Fenton, Morgan, Stanton, or Geary for
Vice President, and that General Grant will
decline to run in opposition to this ticket
what will be the course of the opposition
elements They have only to nominate Gene
raj Sherman, or some such popular conserva-
tive Union soldier, in order to sweep the whole
North, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, except
ing Massachusetts, and Vermont, and, per-
haps, Kansas, and thus carry through a
mighty political revolution in 1868 from the
hopeful reaction of 1857.
This visit of Mr.. Chase 70 New York means
business. He made desperate but hopeless
fight against Abraham Lincoln for the Repub-
Hoan Convention of 1864 it is not to be sup
posed that he will give up the prize of his am
bition or slacken his efforts to gain it with the
machinery which he has secured to work up
the Convention of 1868. When a man gets
the little buzzing bee of the Presidency in his
ear, he can dance to no other music till the in
sect is extracted. The two houses of the For
tieth Congress meet again on the 2lst instant,
and then we guess not many days will pass
before we shall see that the radicals contem-
plate no retreat from negro suffrage and South
ern negro supremacy. At all events il the
friends of General Grant would make a deci-
sive impression upon Congress or upon the
National Republican Convention in favor of
their champion again Chase, now is the time
for action.