The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-11-01
Tho PresidcDtlnI Onestion-Thc Coalition
ARnlnaf lsaneral lsrnnf.

Tho PresidcntlnI Oncsfi0n-The Condition
Against General Grant.
There seems 10 be common understanding
and q sort of coalition among radicals and
c0pperheads, Chase republicans and Seymour
and Pendleton democrats, to kin of General
Grant as Presidential candidate Nor is
there any mystery in this strange alliance
With the nomination Of General Gran. as the
republican candidate the issue Of the Presi-
DENTAL election is . foregone conclusion.
Excepting, perhaps, Delaware, Maryland and
Kentucky, Grant would sweep the whole
country, North, South, East and West The
result would be the same with one opposition
candidate or dozen such candidates in the
fgh. There would not be the ghost Of q
chance for Seymour, Pendleton or Mcclellan,
running singly or all together. This is we'll
understood by the democratic leaders Hence
they are doing, and will do, all they can to put
Gran! on the shelf and to bring Chase into the
foreground as the republican candidate. With
Chase in the field and Grant set aside, the
campaign will be fought, not upon the grand
achievements and high claims Of the man upon
the gratitude Of . grateful people, but upon the
principles which he represents. Thus, against
the universal negro suffrage and Southern
negro supremacy schemes, and against the
financial policy and principles Of Mr. Chase,
the democrats, with Chase's nomination, will
make their fight in the nomination Of Seymour
or Pendleton, and the republicans will have to
meet them on these issues. The glories Of the
war will be thrown out Of the canvass, and thus
shorn Of their locks Of Samson tho republicans
will be reduced to the level Of the opposition !;
for their strength will be only that OF their
principles.
This explains the anxiety Of the democratic
leaders TO get General Grant out Of the way
and 70 bring Mr. Chase into the field - the
republican standard bearer. They have
learned, not only from the popularity Of Gene
raj Jackson, but from thatof General Harrison
and General Taylor, the power Of military
glory and they also know, from the fate Of
Henry Clay, that the most distinguished states
man, Of whom everything ID known, may be
defeated by second rate obscure politician II
put on . popular platform. The Chase fac-
hOu, uVWvvUSy u0H0vc III Su0 uioCtpituo VI buo
republican party, and that with his negro
political system In the South, and with bis
financial system, including bis legion Of
national banks In the North and his bond
holders, he has the machinery for holding the
republican elements together. And so the
Chase republicans are ~ anxious - tho Ssy-
mour democrats Of New York, or the Psndle-
ton democrats Of Ohio, 10 shelve General
Grant
The Chase managers and bankers Of che
New York republican camp are working like
beavers to reverse, In our November election,
The tremendous October verdict .of Ohio
against Chase and his universal panaccs Of
universal and immediate negro suffrage. They
hold that Mr.. Chase IL not responsible for their
Ohio disaster, and that Mr. Peniloton's con-
venient proposition for paying or the national
bondholdcrs in grcenbacks had much to do
with the increase Of tho democratic vote IN