The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-05-13
Presidential Candidates. Parties. Sections
ana Factions-Whnt Ii tho Prospecte

and Factions What IL the Prospecte
What is the prospect Tor the next Presi-
dencys 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 ofpoweri As matters
now stand 1t is difficult to tell whether the
ten outside Southern States will participate in
the contest; but if admitted by Congress in sea-
son toparticipate, their votes, we may assume,
will be cast as q unit for the ticket most
favorable to the South. The present dividing
lines between the republican and democratic
parties will no. hold. They are divided upon
dead issues, and they must be recognized
upon the new and living issues of the day. In
this reconstruction we may have three or four
new parties and candidates, and regular
scrub race as in 1924, when Jackson, Adams,
Crawford and Clay were the competitors, or
we may have powerful leading 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 Mangnm.
Among the newspaper tickets already pro-
posed are these:-The Tennessee ticket of
A. Logan; the 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 reconciliation tickle. 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 Phillips and Isaac Newton,
of Philadelphia-a steamboat man, like George
Law, if we are not mistaken. There have also
been some scattering newspaper shots in favor
of Hon. Ben Wade, President of the Senate
Charles Sumner, George Peabody, Robert c.
Winthrop, Generals Sherman, Sheridan, Meade
and other military chieftains and for Horatio
Seymour, George II. Pendleton, Clement L.
Vallandigham, and other democrats of copper
head antecelents 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 soldier have been neRtralized
by bis mistakes as a 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
himself about the White House. We
presume That it will be somewhat difficult to
find truly distinguished subordinate general
under Grant in the late war who will consent
to run against him, If for no other reasons, be-
cause it would be labor in vain. Poor Pierce, a
second or third rate volunteer General in
Mexico, not only in 1852, ran against his
Commander-in-Chief, General Scott, but de-
feated 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,
in truth, Cotton, throned upon slavery, was
king. Thanks to poor 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
inter the field for the Presidential succession
With any show of respectable fight against
he popularity of General Grant.
Yet the extreme republican radical faction,
rom Stevens, Sumner and Butler, down to
heir humblest followers, are as hostile to
Grant to-day as is Wendell Phillips. Their
schemes Of Southern confscation, and for
placing the white race of the South under po-
litical subsection to the blacks, are not en-
dorsed by General Grant; and he must,
If possible be cast aside. The most
formidable candidate named for this purpose
IL 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 clectioneering machinery
may be upset by the ultra radical leaders, if
they pursue their peculiar game of Southern
reconstruction too far. There is reason to ap-
prehend that they will so fur 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 political reaction in the North
which will enable the conservative republicans,
uhutt tht iCau VI cutn utCn ~ TtrStuutH,
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
platform embracing a thorough overhauling
and cutting down OF our present oppressive
national bank, credit and taxation system, in
ternal and external for In these things we have
the Issues which are to control the next Presi-
Dental contest and to give shape to the dom-
nant party Of the future.
The session Of Congress which will be opened
next December will determine In its measures
Of legislation the reconstruction OF parties, and,
excepting General Grant, the availability Of
this or that candidate for the succession Presi-
dent johnson appears to he dropped as CON-
pletely as was John Tyler in his experiments
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