The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-12-30

newly discovered Gettysburg mineral water,
which, il is said will stTaighten out the worst
case of the bone rheumatism in six weeks.
Hancock, however, though he went through
the fire at Gettysburg, has no need of the
Gettysburg water. He is sound He has no
bone rheumatism. The radicals know it, and
they are afraid of him. They pretend TO be
wonderfully taken up with General Grant.
"He is one of us, and is with us, !" they say;
but all the time they are planning and plot
ting to shove him out and shelve him. But it
they shelve Grant and take up Chase, where
go the army and all the glory of the way2
They 60 to Hancock. SO in nominating H Iu-
cock for the Democracy, Mr.. Johnson nomi-
mates Grant for the Republicans; and thus in
this single move on the chessboard he blocks
the game of both the Copperhead aud radical
leaders, appoints the candidate on both sides,
and shapes the fight for the succession.
The New York Republicans, under the wing
Of Mr.. Chase, are nowhere. They are fifty
thousand short. FentOn is demolished, Gree
ley is all at sea, and as for Weed and Ray
mond, they have gone over to the bush
whackers. They scour, like Moseby or Cava-
jail, around the edges OF the battle, looking
out for the supply trains. We had feared that
with the death of rough Dean Richmond aud
the smooth and polished John Van Buren,,
after the failure of Haskin with Slocum, the
New York Democracy had run to seed. They
certainly did look very seedy year ago; but
niger suffrage has given them a new start,
and with Commodore or Land Admiral Van
derbilt with his four railroads we'll in hand,
like crack team on the Eighth avenue, aud
with Peter the Great known as Bismark
Sweeny, in the places of Richmond and Van
Buren,, New York State and city, on four
mile stretch, is as safe as Camden and AmbOy
yea, safe as Jersey.
This brings US Swinging round the circle"
back again to the White House and Mr. John
son. He is a lucky man, this Johnson, after
al, if not great man. The radicals have
failed to impeach him; the Copperheads have
failed to catch him, and he has headed off
both Copperheads and radicals. Is this
small matter Mr.. Johnson has no doubt had
enough of the role of Jackson and his "By
the Eternal, | am in the fight" and in going
back to the Washington platform, with Han
cock, he heads off both radicals and Copper
heads. He has been studying Tyler aud Fill
more, and their game he finds waste of pow
der. He takes a new departure. II it can't
he Johnson, his successor shall be Hancock or
Grant, and this is the battle now before us.
Watchman, what do you see in the ofing
Grant the Republican ticket, in spite of hun
self and in spite of the radicals; Hancock the
Democratic champion in spite of the Copper
heads. What else9 Vicksburg and Frede-
ricksburg, Gettysburg and Petersburg, Chatta-
nooga and AppomattoX, niger suffrage, nigger
supremacy, white mans government, green
backs, bonds, banks taxes, oorruptions, Cop
perheads, conservatives, radicals, whites aud
niggers, reconstruction and restoration, re-
demption and reputation, so inexplicably
mixed up that it looks like the first battle of
Bull Run, when Mcdowell thought he had it.
The upshOt of this negro business in the South,
within the next three months, will, we doubt
not, settle the question.