Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-12-20

Gen. Grant and the Presid en- cy.
The Zdnesutlle Courier has the following !:
Nothing is clearer than that Gen. u. S.
Grant Is already nominated for next Pres
ident by the almost universal reclamation
Oh the people OF all sections of the country.
The people of whom the Courier writes
are OF the kind of whom JOB said, ''no
doubt ye are the people and wisdom will
die with you.'
Gen. GRANT, the CHASE press say, has
persistently refused to define his position
aid no man, they aver, can tell whether he
is in accord with the Radicals or against
them; whether he is Democrat or fol.
lower of the waning fortunes of the dis
union party in Congress-.
But few short months since, the party
now in power in the General Government
held power by majorities in most if not all
the Northern States. In its pride of place
its leaders fancied that they were born to
| command and to rule the destinics of the
Republic--to make and to unmake sover-
eign States at their will and pleasure. But
there came frost, a nipping, killingsf frost.
II the shape OF the October and November
| elections, and these high reaching leaders.
| found that long suffering people had
risen in the majesty of their might, and
redeemed State after State from Radical
misrule, and now there is scarce a man so
| low as to do 1t reverence.
Then the leaders would have secuted the
| idea of taking up as their candidate for
President man not with them. in senti-
ment, and not bound to them by sympathy
Of hatred to every man of purer principles
| than themselves. Now these same men run
after Gen. GRANT, as MARSHALL BRowN's
slut's pups" run after the maternal fount
and for the same purpose, and are willing
| to take Gen. GRANT for better or for worse
as the same men took ANDREW JOHNSON
because he alone was deemed available.
Never before was party, that scared SC
high, compelled to fall so low and in SC
short time, as this same Radical faction
Take Them Out of His Hands.
We hope the Democrats of the Senate ot
Ohio will take the appointment of the diff
ferent standing committees of the Senate
out of the hands of the brassy and gassy
| gentleman elected to the Office of Lieuten-
ant Governor. Let him occupy position
of suspended Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The Lieutenant Governor elect will moi
be inaugurated until after che standing
committees are appointed. as the votes for
Governor, Lieutenant Governor, &C.. are
first to be canvassed by the Legislature.
The right of the presiding officer to ap-
point the standing committees of the Sem
ate does not belong to him by , irtue OF his
office, but is conferred upon him by one OF
the standing rules. OF course, the Senate
will reserve the power, and the majority
will appoint their own standing commit
tees, and lin doing so, we trust they will
not be as illiberal as their opponents were
in the last Senate. The Democrats had
scarce show. On committees, consisting
OF five members, but one Democrat was
appointed, whereas Parliamentary prac-
tice always gives the minority a fair show
ing.
The custom of the Ohio Senate appoint
ing its own standing committees is not a
new one. In the first Senate under the
present Constitution, when the late Gov
ernor MEDILL, one of the finest and best
presiding officers the Senate ever had, was
Lieut.. Governor, the committees were thus
appointed by the Senate, although the
political feelings of the presiding officer
and those of the Senate, were in perfect
accord.
While thus the Standing committees will
all be appointed by vote of the Senate,
all select committees, unless otherwise pro-
vided for at the time they are raised, must
under the practice of the le1 Parliamenta-
ri, be appointed by the presiding officer.