The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-14
THE NEW YORK PRESS.
EDITORIAL OPINIONS OF THE LEADING JOURNALS
UPoN CURRENT TopICs-COMPILED EVERY
DAY FOR THE EVENING TELEGRAPH.

dency? What parties, questions, and candi-
dates will divide the popular vote-who are
in training-what ticket and platform are most
likely to prevail, and what section or party
will control the balance of powerl As matters
now stand, it is difficult to tell whether the
ten outside Southern States will participate in
the contest; but if admitted by Congress in
season to participate, their votes, we may
assume will be cast as a unit for the ticket
most favorable to the South. The present
dividing lines between the Republican and
Democratic parties will not hold. They are
divided upon dead issues, and they must be
reorganized upon the new and living issues Of
the day. In this reconstruction we may have
three or four new parties and candidates, and
a regular scrub race, as in 1924, when Jack
son, Adams Crawford, and Clay were the
competitors, or we may have a powerful lead
ing ticket and a scattering of the opposition
forces, as in 1886, when Martin Van Buren,
ran as the anointed successor of Jackson, and
when the opposition elements were divided
between Harrison, Webster, White, and Man
gum.
Among the newspaper tickets compiled by
the Philadelphia EVENING TELEGRAPH are
these:-The Tennessee ticket of General George
Indiana ticket OF Speaker COlfax and General
Ben Butler; the Ohio ticket of Chief Justice
Chase and John Minor Bolts, of Virginia; the
New York Herald experimental sectional re-
conciliation ticket of General Grant and
General Lee, which is rallying the South to
Grant; the New York experimental Seward
ticket of General Grant and Admiral Farragut,
and the Maine radical ticket of Wendell Phil
lips and Isaac Newton of Philadelphia
steamboat man, like George Law, if we are not
mistaken. There have also been some scat
tering newspaper shots in favor of Hon. Ben
Wade, President of the Senate; Charles Sum-
ner, George Peabody, Robert G. Winthrop,
Generals Sherman, Sheridan, Meade, and
other military chieftains; and for HOratio Sey-
mour, George H. Pendleton, Clement l.. Val
iandigham, and other Democrats of Copper
head antecedents and associations.
General Grant leads the field, and following
him in popularity in the order named, of our
military heroes, are Thomas, Sheridan, and
Logan. General Sherman's splendid career
and abilities as a soldier have been neutralized
by his mistakes as politician. He will, there
fore, lose nothing from his voyage to the Holy
Land. He may, in fact, be considered out of
the race, like General Mcclellan, and may re-
main abroad as long as he pleases, without
troubling himself about the White House. We
presume that it will be somewhat difficult to
lind truly distinguished subordinate general
under Grant in the late war who will consent
to run against him, if for no other reason, be-
cause it would be labor in vain. Poor Pierce,
R second or third-rate volunteer general in
Mexico not only in 1852 ran against his Com
mander-in- Chief, General Scott, but defeated
him as badly as Scott defeated Santa Anna 1t
was really, however, W. II. Seward and his
abolition radicalism of that day on the slavery
question that elected Pierce; for then cotton,
throned upon slavery, was king. Thanks to
Door Pierce, as the champion of slavery,
things are bravely altered now; and powerful,
indeed, must be the political platform of the
soldier or civilian who will enter the
field for the Presidential succession with
any show of a respectable fight against the
popularity of General Grant
Yet the extreme Republican radical faction,
from Stevens, Sumner, and Butler down to
their humblest followers, are as hostile to
Grant to-day as is Wendell Phillips. Their
schemes of Southern contiscation, and for
placing the white race of the South under
political subsection to the blacks, are not en-
dorsed by General Grant; and he must, there
fore. if possible, be cast aside The most
formidable candidate named for this purpose
is Chief Justice Chase, who is strong because
he is backed by the national banks and all
their affiliations of his financial system. But
all this powerful electioneering machinery
NAV be upset by the ultra radical leaders, if
reconstruction too far There is reason to ap-
prehend that they will so far succeed in their
efforts to array the black race of the South
against the white race as to embarrass and
delay the work of reconstruction, and so
bring about a political reaction in the North
which will enable the conservative Republi-
cans under the lead of such men as Fessen-
den, Banks, Bingham, Blaine, and others, to
unite the Central States, the great West and
the South, under the conservative banner OF
Grant. This will be easy of accomplishment
with a platform embracing a thorough over
hauling and cutting down of our present
oppressive national bank, credit, and taxation
system, internal and external; for in these
things we have the issues which are to control
the next Presidential contest and to give shape
to the dominant party of the future,
The session Of Congress which will bt
opened next December will determine in itS
measures of legislation the reconstruction O
parties, and, excepting General Grant, the
availability of this or that candidate for thu
succession. President Johnson appears to b,
dropped as completely as was John Tyler il
his experiments of political reconstruction
and of Mr. Seward it need only be said tina
his political career will end, at the furthest
with the present Administration. From SOW
ing the wind he has reaped the whirlwind, an
it has left him among the wrecks and ruin
which mark its path. With hundreds G
others assisting in its creation, North an
South, in being drawn into its vortex, he ha
been destroyed. The coming harvest, on bot
sides, win be reaped by those who sought
avert the storm, with those who battled wit
1t and aided in shaping its course to lastin
peace. II We have no session of Congress
July, there will probably be at least a Cor
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