Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-11-10
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s~edy Politician. at Work.

135.
s~edy Politicians at Work.
A special to the Cincinnati Enquirer,
dated Washington, D. C., November .
gives publicity to the statement that GER
tain politicians have originated a singul:
movement at Washington. This singul T
movement has for its object the casting OF
the entire Electoral vote for Gen. GRANT.
The politicians who have put this move
ment on foot are represented as protesting
intense solicitude that Gen. GRANT should
give to his administration Conservative
direction. They credit him with Con-
servative inclination, and fiatter them
selves that If the Democratic Electoral vote
should be thrown for him in connection
with the Republican Electoral vote, that
he would SC far respect his manhood as to
pursue the line of policy that his judg-
ment points out as the right one. The En-
quirer's special says:
"a circular letter on this subject has been
addressed to Mr.. PendletoD, Governor
Stevenson and General Preston, of Ken
lucky, A. II. Stephens and prominent DEM
ocrats of the North. The following is the
text of the letter:
''wAsHINaroN, D. c., Nov. s, 1868.
.GENERAL:- I'm my judgment, the wisest
thing the Democracy could now do would
be to throw their entire electoral vote for
General Grant, as an Indication of the fact
that, should he pursue liberal, generous
and magnanimous course, they will sustain
him. It would also have the effect of not
leaving him altogether in the hands of the
adverse faction, and would doubtless
strengthen any purpose he may entertain
toward the conservative sentiment Uf the
country. This vote can not possibly do
Seymour any good, and thrown in the man
ner suggested would, at least, produce
conciliatory impression.
Very truly, yours, &c.
This movement, we have no doubt, has
originated with seedy politicians who have
denominated themselves ''Conservative."-
Doubtless, they think that If this move
ment can be consummated they would be-
come the recipients OF office. That's what
conservative course' means with them,
evidently.
The Presidential Electors have plain
duty to perform. 1t is to throw their votes
just as the people of the respective States
voted. In the matter they have no election.
They are the agents of the voters, and the
voters are the only parties who can exon
crate them from the discharge of this duty.
The matter Is not in the keeping of ',Mr.
PENpLEroN, Governor STEVENSON and
General PRESTON, of Kentucky, A. H
STEPHENS and prominent Democrats of the
North" and it is, therefore, impertinence
TO bother them with such nonsense
Gen. GRANTS majority is ample. His vote
assures him and the Republican politicians
that he is greatly stronger than the Re-
publican party. He knows and they know
that the Democratic party is committed to
q Conservative policy, and will give to
such policy q satisfactory support. On
this Gen. GRANT can rely. hr
What, then, is to be gained by making
the Electoral vote for General GRANT
Is such vote calculated to
so strengthen Conservatism as to give 1t
in the Legislative department
of the Federal Government? Will it
cause the Radicals to forego their deter
mination to incorporate into the Federal
Constitution an Amendment establishing
Negro Suffrage in all the States and Ter
ritories? viii it cause them to abandon
heir scheme of Africanizing the South, to
the end that the Republican party may be
a power therein? viii it cause them to
legislate in the interest of the people, and
not in the exclusive interest of Manufac-
turers, National Banks, Bondholders and
Corporations whose existence depend up
on special privileges, the price of which
are paid in the sweat of the toiling and
industrial classes?
Assuredly, it would cause none of these
things. sr, s,7--.f 49, -, tsf.
If General GRANT would sacrifice his
convictions Of Right, because the entire
Electoral vote may not be given to him, he
must be an inconceivably vain man. A man
whose vanity is SO excessive that ii it can
not be gIatified he will pursue policy his
Judgment and conscience unite in con-
demning, is creature fit only tor contempt
and not for compliments. Whatever the
Electors elected to vote tor SEYMOUR and
BLAIR may do, the fact will nevertheless
stand that the people OF the States wherein
they received their. majorities have de-
clared against the policy of the Republic
can party as illustrated in the past and as
foreshadowed in the future. That declara-
tion will stand. Let 1t be recorded, then,
in the Electoral College.
No evidence exists that General GRANT
will not be the plant creature in the hands
of the Radicals. It is hoped that he will
not be and hence there is no sense In thus
indorsing him blindly in advance. AS he
shows himself worthy the support and
commentator of the Democrats, he will
receive snch support and commendation;
but it Is cowardly to,tender it in advance. It
Is unmanly. It is unworthy the great
Democratic party, which by its stand, al
though In q minority, has conserved what
there is of Civil Liberty in this country,
and which will yet, if it shall remain true
to its organization, its principles and its
traditions, compel the administration of
this Government in the interest of the
people.
But these false, timorous, leaders, who
imagine that ii party success can not be Sc
cured at all times. the organization and eve
~ distinctive party feature must be aban-
doned and surrendered, must be sent either
to the rear or over the lines into the camp
of the enemy. From this class we have
already suffered too much. They are unfit
for the high Office of leadership.
The Money Panic I'm New York
What q Grant Organ says
Caused Is. -5
The late tidal wave of financial panic, in
the great money market of the continent
for such assuredly Wall street is-follow-
ing swiftly after the election of General
GRANT, and the perpetration Of Radi-
cal misrule, is being felt throughout the
lanrxth and hraadtl. nf Tho land Na-iorn.