Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-05-08

here the matter rests.-Erpress.
SToLEN.-Last Friday night, the
carriage shop of W. Fl. Rand in this
village. was entered, aud about $50
worth of tools belonging to A. S. Dew
ey stolen observation-disclosures.
The Democratic Presidential Can1i-
date. |
The Democratic party is at present
in such chaotic state of mind in re-
gard to it's position and purposes, that
it seems hardly out of place to lind
any man not a recognized Republl-
can-and some indeed who are-sug-
gested in connection with its Presi-
Dental nomination to be made in New
York on the 4th of July next. Ac-
cordingly, we already have a list oil
names stretching, geographically,fro
Massachusetts to California, and COM
prising Democrats of every wing and
hue, and even penetrating into the IN
ner precincts of the Republican camp.
There are, however, two or three
well defined classes into which all the
names thus far brought forward will
ge found to fall. First, there are the
regular and prominent Democrats,
each of whom is the first choice of
considerable section of the party
These at present are four, viz: Mr..
Pendleton, the choice OF the North
west and the anti-bOnd holding por-
ton of the Democracy at the North
and of many anti-recOnstructlonlstS at
the South; Horatio Seymour, the tav-
orite OF the mOneyed rulers ot the par
tv in New York and in the Middle
States generally: Gen. Hancock, the
choice of the war Democrats and OF
the majority OF the believers in avail
ability scattered throughout the count
ry; and Gen. Mcclellan, who is still
talked of for reasons utterly unknown
to everybody outside OF the party
The latter has no chance, for he has
been through the mill once, and came
out worse than he went in. Hancock
ought to be acceptable, for while he
fought we'll under Grants direction
he has tried his utmost, under Andrew
[ fnI = q,
ulnphs of the war and put the ex-reb,
els on their feet again. But the mem.
DRY OF tho t,vesUO- iIoi"ON' ss"s 40 .'.'s5
and tenacious. They never will for
give Gen. Hancock, and they will
probably have power to defeat him III
the Convention But while the La
Crosse Democrat is mercilessly firing
: into Gen. Hancock, the New York
Citizen, the organ of the war Demo
Gratis, is uumasking that tavorite, a:
it says, of "men who would rather be
kicked by Southern man than kissed
by Northern woman, the utter cop
perhead and false-hearted Northener
E George II. Pendleton. Mr.. Seymour
i hopes to profit by this bitter feud, bu
l the probability is that he will not il
n the end prove acceptable either to tn
5 men who relish Pendleton inancia
> views or to those who approve Of
: Hancock's war record.
: On the possible failure, then, o.
d these leading Democratic aspirant'
3 whittier will the nomination tend ? |
: the first place, it may 60 to a recen
e or still nominal or real Republican
u The two prominentnam of this elias
are those of Judge Chase and Cha
II Francis Adams. She selection of th
70 former would be confession of dt
II feat in advance. 1t would seem to b
le quite as we'll to make no nominatio
III atsall against Gen. Grant, as to a
le tempt to appropriate the Republica
d whose only fault in the eyes of man
.'- of his own party, In connection wit
l. the Presidency, has been, that he Wa
- rather more radical and extreme tina
d. GRAFT As to Mr.. Adams, he hs
'e been so long out of the country, an
his views on the present political sit
-, alton are so little known, that it is
- mere matter of conjecture whetht
- either he could get the Democrat
nomination or would ia Ike it. I'll
- next, and most probable resort, in ii
49, failure of the first class of name
-, would be toward some secOnd-rat
-. iuoffensive Democrat, who might
20 expected to produce an "era of GOO
10 Il feeling in the party and bring O.
q its full strength at the polls-in shol
81 the game of selecting James K. Pc
- and Franklin Pierce over again.
NJ Here we come to u broad and pop
% lous field, in which one name is nea
ON ly as good as another. Senat
,st Hendricks, Gov. Haight of Californ;
and lately, Mr.. Groesbeck of Oh
Of are among those that have alrea,
far been mentioned, and are very fs
his specimens of the whole class. On t
tlv whole, the Democratic nomination
ale New York must be pronounced We
,rs uncertain. 1t will probably be {
OF termined by intervening events.-B
-bo tom Journal.
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