The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-06-03

to take in all the peculiar circumstances re-
lating to the different sections of the country.
which will make the work Of administration so
complicated Tor the next four years. We want
no narrow bigots of the school of Wade or
Sumner-if the coming man Is TO be Repub-
lcan-and no hard-shelled, machine fossil of
the Connecticut Seymour Clymer- Valandig-
ham Sort If he is to be a Democrat There
must be union of the patriotic moderate
elements in both parties. Such a union everv-
body knows has been possible and imminent
TWO or three times in the last three years: but
in every case has been defeated not on its
merits, but through the pig-headed obstinaoy
OF lew machine managers on one side or the
other. But these men will be powerless in the
coming contest. The young Democracy will
not be whipped into a support of the per-
petuation of the dynasty of blind old fossils
who don't know that anything remarkable
has been going ON the last six years. And
on the other hand, the considerate Republi-
cans are becoming alarmed at the centralzing
tendencies of the radical Rump, at its wild
legislation in all matters of revenue currency
and everything relating to the substantial in
terests OF the country. They know that no
party can stand on such record as the last
radical Congress has made ON these great ques-
tions The letter of Secretary McCulloch written
evidently from plain business tand-point, is
terrible arraignment of the radical leaders.
Two years after the restoration of peace, the
public debt increasing through the wild prodi-
gality, and the reckless blundering of these
radical legislators; the restoration of specie
payments and the lowering of prices indef-
nitely postponed for the same reasons; two
years after the close of the war, and industry
still paralyzed throughout the South, and the
North bearing the whole burden of taxation
the radical leaders apparently thinking of
nothing but the securing of the negro vote in
the Southern States, while industry is languish-
ing, enterprise is deadened and the whole
machinery of society is laboring painfully.
If the Democratic party can be reformed and
purified it will draw to it the sensible Re-
publicans: but if not then the Union Demo-
cracy, who will hold the balance of power in
the next contest, must force the nomination
by the Republicans of patriotic ticket, which
will command the support of the moderate
elements of both parties, and the success of
which will exclude from influence the wild
theorists who have kept the country disorga-
nized and chaotic, both in its politics and in
its material interests. What sincere Repub-
ican is there that cannot stand on a platform
having for its cardinal principles equal rights
for all; the restoration, on this basis, of the
right of self government to every community;
the e-enfranchisement of those who cordially
accept the new order of things, and the decen-
tTalizatiOn of the National and State Govern
ments What patriotic party will not gladly
cooperate with a body OF fellow -ctizeus,
under whatever name, having the accomplish
ment of such ends as the object of association
Is there any Republican that can arraign as
false to the principles of freedom men who
proclaim such purposes and principles Is
there any Democrat who can charge with
want of tealty to true Democratic doctrine the
men who arraign the blind old fossils who
repudiate these principles and purposes?
We declare these principles; we labor for
these results; we 60 with that organization
through which they can be attained. The
name of Democrat has no charms for us, if it
bears with it hostility to these; the name of
Republican has no terrors, if under this name
their triumph can be assured.
1t is with supreme reference to these ideas
that the efforts of thoughtful men, in all Presi-
dental discussions and combinations, should
be directed. The country needs at the helm
the coming four years, more than at any
previous period, its wisest, purest, and least
partisan man; the one who can harmOnize and
combine, in the largest degree, the elements
in the two old parties whose combined action
will give steadiness to the movements of poll
tics and of legislation, and tranquillze passions
that ought ere this to have been laid asleep.
AS means to this end, we welcome such dis
cussions as that in last weeks Independent,
and agree with its general principle, however
widely we may differ from its estimate of indi-
viduals.