Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-12-06
Who Shall be the Next President

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BILE in earnest. The various papers F
and leading men of the country are
ranging themselves into line for the q
great contest of next summer. And {
it is high time the drums were beating,
for in about FIVE months the republican
national convention will DC held and |
it is well that the question should be
properly ventilated before that time
arrives, so that the whole people MAJ
give expression to their views and lei
be known what their honest convlc-
tions are in the matter. 1t is easy We
think to foretell the result OF the next
republican national convention. That
convention will do no more than give
the verdict of the great majority OF
the party that now controls the coun-
try, and that verdict beyond doubt
is that Gen. Grant shall lead our par
ty to victory as he led the Union hosts
to victory over the PROSTATE bodies
of those who stood in the way Of his
progress. Beyond doubt he is the
first choice of the republican party.
He was its choice in those victorious
hours that saw the hydra headed mon
ster of rebellion writing in its death
agonies; its choice in the disgraceful
war that has been waging between
congress and he president; is its
choice now. So beats the popular
pulse. Notwithstanding the popular
heart is with him, he yet has opponents
of no mean power and inhuence,in such
men as Horace Greeley and Gen. But
Ter, the first of whom is opposed to
him because he loves another more,
while the latter opposes him because
of an intense hatred he bears him in
return for fancied wrongs done him
while in the military service. Greeley
goes for Chase, and with all the ardor
Of his strong nature advocates his no.
miuation in the Tribune in leaders in
tensely Greeleyish in their style and
argument. We must say that we like
Greeley's candidate better than we dc
the candidate of the majority, "not
that we love Grant less but Chase
more" But Chase is not our first
choice, though we should feel proud
satisfaction in helping dignity the first
Office in the gift of the people with the
present Of such a man as Chief JUS
tce Salmon p. Chase, one of the clear
est and purest minded men the coun
try has ever produced. We must &C
knowledge however that Schuyler Col
fax, the present speaker of the hOus,
OF representatives, is our beau idea
of man and as proper candidate
to bear the banner Of republicanisr
in the contest just dawning upon US
he in our view is the fittest represer
tative Of the national republican part
now before the people, and combine
as many elements of success as an
public man we know of; of prope
age, in the prime of life, he would nc
prove the driveling dotard of the Cl
man Of seventy, like Buchanan, bu
would carry into official position I'll
current ideas and the vigorous growt
OF that young party which he helpe
so largely to promote and maintain
He is republican of the western typ
and we all know that means a repu
licanism about which there is no bac
ing down, containing a vim that ca
ries with it determination to hay
Its will carried out. AS a man of i
teIlect, a man of brains, he carri
the active, the real and the service
BILE; not an inventor of utopian the
ries nor the promulgator of chimeri
al schemes, but the possessor of pra
teal ideas formed while carving O
his fortune as son of toll in a cou
try printing Office in the far we
where he has always stood hi
and has ever been considered one
her representative men-a leader
the advance guard of freedom. E
name is sullied by no crime, nor dc
he stand accused of any offence agaiI
morality-a shame and fame IL
attaches to too many of our pub
men. As a speaker of the house
stands equal to any OF his predec
sors. Such in our view is Schuy
Colfax-our first choice for the pl;
now held by the recreant knave O
debauchee, Andrew Johnson.
While we have thus plainly exp
sed our preference in the matter O
candidate, we are not of course il
vocably welded to that choice.
shall chcerfully support the nomi
of the republican national convent
be it Grant, or Chase, or Sheridan
Wade, or Wilson, or Sumner, Ba
or Butler. We are opposed to CIR
because we do not know how he sta
politically. We do not know " hel
he is for us or against u.s.. We b
been Tylerized and Joh1sonized
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