The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-29
THE NEW YoRK PRESS.
uprroR1AL OPINIONS OF THE LEADING JOURNALS
UPON CURRENT TOP1os-CoMPlheD kNhhf
DAY FOR THE EVENING TELEGRAPH.
NOmInatlng Candidates.


F,,o,p me Tribune.
The Philadelphia Loyal League have wisely
and in good time offered premium OF S0Oo
for the best essay that may be rendered ION
the legal organization Of the people to select
candidates for ofice' with minor premiums
of $780, 5000, and 800 for the second, third,
and fourth in merit.
These offers will doubtless elicit several good
ESSAYS: vet we wish the field Of inquiry hau
baen made far broader. GLOW shall those
oitizens who desire to vote for competent, up
right legislators and rulers, and none others
achieve their end How shall they achieve
such an understanding or concert thaL 'neg
will he enabled to combine their strength, anu
not he constrained either to throw away their
votes on candidates who stand no ohanCe Vi
election. or to vote for men in whom they nave
no confidence and whom they support only
beoanse they must ?" There are few problems
now to be solved Of greater praotloai I'M
portance. .,,os a. 1910
for candidates in whose integrity and capacity
me- ssal no confidence. There may be very
GOOD name at the head of our ballot with two
or three more scattered through 1t; but OF
tbree-fourths of those named thereon we either
know nothing or no good. How shall we
mend this
Our advice, briefly, would be-
/. Let us elect by popular vote fewer othoers
than now leaving more to be appointed.
2. Let us discard, for the most part, the
swindlipg machinery of "Regular Nomina-
tions,n and call by public requisltion upon
fit persons to stand as candidates for elective
Offices.
A requisition is very simple matter. 1t
reads
UTo--, ESQ.
"The undersigned, residents and electors of
the = District, respectfully request you to
stand as the Republican Tor Democratic, or
conservative, as the case may be- candidate for
Representative in Congress Tor State Senate, or
Assembly, at the ensuing election"
T1 Here follow the signatures]
of course, there may be two or more rival
acquisitions; but almost any one might deter
mine, by a simple scrutiny of the names
attached to each, which of them was the more
respOnsibly and worthily signed, though it
should have the fewer names appended to it.
Usually the weaker candidates would be with
drawn or quietly dropped, leaving the field
clear on either side to the man who ought to
be supported. But admit that the stronger
party in district would sometimes lose the
day through plurality of candidates in its
interest, we insist that the evil would be far
less serious than that now endured from the
rottenness or incapacty of the candidates
forced upsn us by regular nominations"
Congregation of Crowned Heads In Paris
Aa What Is TO Come of 1t
From The Herald.
After fifteen years of apparently fruitless
labor, Napoleon has at last been successful il
gathering around him the crowned heads ant
leading princes of Europe. The parrenu @
1852 commands something more than respec
in the haughtiest and most exclusive courts @
Europe. The last time the princes made thei
entry into Paris their presence was a token O
humiliation to France; this time their rpresene
is token of exultation. Then they came tt
exact reparation for the wrong doings of Ma
poleon, and to render such wrong doings i'm
possible for the future. Now they come to dt
honor to France and to be the guests of Ma
poleon's nephew.
The French people have reason to be proud
of the present condition of their country, and
proud of the name of Napoleon The first
Napoleon was fonder of whipping than feastine
the potentates of Europe. The present Napo-
leon has tried the whipping process, too, and
he has not been unsuccessful. We should not
be surprised if he tried it again; but mean
while, all things considered, it is more conve-
nient to act as their hest A number of royal
visitors have already arrived. In few days
more it is expected that the King of Prussia,
the Emperor of Russia, with the Empress, the
Emperor and Empress of Austria, the Sultan
ofTurkey-we are not told whether with OF
without his harem--are all at one and the
same time to be the guests of the Emperor,
and, of course, to visit the Exposition and the
other lions of Paris. The assemblage of royal
and imperial persons will not be the least at
traotive of the many attractive sights which
Paris at this season will present.
What is to be the result of this illustrious
gathering II certainly has a peaceful and
hopeful aspect. In all probability it will pave
the way to final solution of the Eastern ques
tion. One other thing might be done. Napo
leon has never yet been formally crowned
For fifteen years the world has waited to heal
of his coronation. We can see no reason WHY
it should be longer deferred. Let him inyit,
the Holy Father to meet his royal friends al
the Tuileries, and let the occasion be seized
for getting this business over. A more ittine
opportunity can scarcely again occur. II will
be an awkward thing if history has to recorC
of Napoleon the Third, the acknowledged
eldest SON of the Church, that he was peye
anointed with the holy and consecrating oil.
Speaking at the south.
FTofn Ebe Tribune.