The New York herald., 1868-05-27
The Democratic Party.

Never was the democratic party before in
the quandary it is now touching its candidate
for the Presidency. Its nominating conven-
tion meets at the new Tammany Hall on the
Fourth of July. The delegates to that conven-
ton, with perhaps few exceptions, have all
beeAappointed. The voice of these delegates,
from West Virginia to Minnesota, is pledged to
Southern States and some of the Eastern
States are also for him. He will doubtless
have a majority of all the votes cast on the
first ballot; but as it requires two-thirds vote
In these democratic conventions to nominate,
and as New York. New Jersey, Pennsylvania
and some scattering States and delegates,
North and South, seem to be decidedly against
Pendleton, his first vote will probably be his
best. From the ballot, therefore, where his
friends will begin to scatter, the real struggle
will begin, as in 1852, when the friends of
General Cass began to drop him.
Thus, assuming that Pendleton will be
crowded out by New York, who comes next
General Mcclellan will shortly be back again
from Europe, and some say that Mr.. Belmont
has fixed upon Mcclellan, and that this is the
reason of his intended return. But the COM
parison of McClellans Richmond campaign
with that Of Grant, to say nothing of the Presi-
dental campaign of 1864, will rule out 'Little
Mac" His nomination as military hero
against Grant would be perfectly absurd, and
we feel certain that the democratic convention
x,riJ1 pao1 M 1ahorod orru,oor% 10 vroro Il
General Hancock is more available man; but
the Western Pendleton men have declared
against epaulets. They will not consent to
have Pendleton superseded by soldier. Who
comes next? Horatio Seymour, of New
York, very respectable man, but man
whose war record would perhaps reduce his
vote among the people to that of the Northern
peace party of the war. Who next? From
this point we begin to grope among the
democratic small fry, and can find no man
among them who can hold candle to Grant
For an acceptable candidate, then, in opposi-
ton to Grant, we must turn to the outside
conservative Union elements and here, looming
up In bold relief, like lighthouse between us
and the setting sun, stands Chief Justice
Chase. His war record, as the financial chief
Of the government who furnished the sinews
of the war-the greenbacks-will enable him
to hold his own even against Grant on the war
question; while on the impeachment question
his casting vote has laid out the Stevens
Butler faction of radicals fat and cold
The Eastern democrats, we dare say, will
not require much special pleading to bring
them over to Chase but the Western demo-
Gratis have not exactly the notions of Mr..
Chase in regard to the national debt; and there
this Pendleton shoe pinches. II fthe democracy,
however, wish to win, they must be prepared
to throw good lot of their old party rubbish
overheard and qualify themselves for the
nomination, on broad and liberal platform, of
some such capable and popular conservative
man as Chief Justice Chase, whose war record
places him in the front rank Of Union men,
and whose peace record is perfectly satisfactory
to the honest masses Of all parties.