The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-06-17

He has TO recommend him to the radicals the
merit of having invented the Reconstruction
scheme that is now in operation throughout
the South, having suggested this Identical
plan of dealing with the South in his corres-
pondence with President Johnson during his
tour in 1865. Mr.. Chase has, moreover, acted
towards Mr.. Johnson with great courtesy and
kindness, and has borne testimony to the
uprghtness of his character and the purity OF
his intention, while differing from him in
policy and this might recommend him to the
Democrats and Conservatives, If he were not
tainted by connection with the national bank
nuisaIce N
Then there is Governor Andrew, who is a
possible candidate on the Republican side.
Ills nomination would be a rebuke to the
Sumner-Wade party, and in the event Of
machine nomination by the Democrats, would
draw the support of large body Of Demo-
cratic votes. Senator Fessenden is one of the
ablest and most incorruptible and wisest men
in the Republican party. He has been abused
by Wendell Phillips, which is a conclusive GER
tifcate of political sanity. The Constitutional
amendment--a moderate and generous scheme
of econstruotion--was his work, and is evil
dence of his statesmanhke qualities. His ad-
ninistration of the Treasury gave opportunity
for criticism by some; but in the Senate his
course in relation to matters of finance and
revenue has always been sound, and he has
been the acknowledged leader in all important
measures of financial and political policy, and
the greatest errors of the party have been on
points where he has been overborne by ram
pant radicalism.
Senator Morgan will also loom up as the
time of the Convention approaches. He has
shown great political and financial judgment,
both as Governor and Senator. He endeavored
to keep his party with Mr.. Johnson long after
, almost everybody else had given it up, and
R,,o1 o1Nl ioo1 ~ all in until
aggressive policy of Congress, is constitution
ally wise and prudent. AT the same time he
has been inflexibly true to the principles and
policy advocated by the most sensible men of
his party.
But the set of public opinion is undoubtedly
in favor of Grant. If the Republican managers
have the sense to nominate Grant, with Fes-
sender, or Morgan, or Andrew as Vice-Presi-
dent, we predict that the Democrats will fall
in line. Then, with patriotic Cabinet made
up from Union Democrats and Republicans
| like those we have named as prominent for
the Republican nomination, and with some
Southern man like Orr or Brown, or both OF
them, the ''new party" would be fairly
! launched. The bitter radicals and the malig-
nant Copperheads would be driven into a
! natural alliance with one another, and with
| such fossils as Perry at the South in oppo-
sitiOn, but without sufficient power to seri-
Ously disturb the progress of restoration and
pacifcation.
The current of events and of opinions during
! the coming four or five months, we predict,
will leave little for the political conventions to
do but to register the edicts of the popular
will, unmistakably promulgated long in ad-
vance of their assembling. Another week we
shall discuss the programmes under conside
ration among the machine Democracy, though
they are not so far advanced as the Republi
cans in Presidential schemings. The wises
of them see that if the moderate wing of the
Republicans succeed in nominating Grant
their true policy is to concur in this and hell
to elect the ticket.
Whatever we may think of the merits o
this scheme intrinsically, it will inevitabl!
break the machinery of both parties, and will
lead Immediately to that reconstruction O
politics" that the Citizen has been preaching
for months, and which all prudent men desir
to see consummated