Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-04-29
The Next Presidency--The Parties and
Their Candidates.

| Their CanulUuteSs
The really vital political question for nll par
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President Politicians rage on every topic, and
assail one another each after his own peculiar
frenzy, and State canvasses are. carried on and
fought out apparently ou local issues; but under
neath all-shaning, directing and controlling all
li,s the paramount question Of the Presidency.
IL the astonishing va,Ariss and extravagances
into which the politicians are running-all the
unexplained pieces Of yindictiveness at this or
that public man-harc reference to this topic and
express only the hopes or fears of one or another
faction in regard to some candidate. The Prcsi-
dency is now the clue that runs through all the
labyrinthine mazes Of political intrigue, though
this fact will not be fully developed before the
meeting Of the Nominating Conventions in Chi
cago and Now York. The Republican Nomina-
ting Convention meets in Chicago in tho course
Of the coming month. Tho Democratic Nomina-
ting Convention meets in New York on the
4th of July.
Some time ago the struggle for the Presidency
promised to lie triangular fight between three
great IEcllOuS-luc uVmUCEhtS VIII tuCiI Cauui-
date and the republicans, devided into radicals
and conservatives, with candidate for each di
vision. But, unfortunately for tho Democrats
and for tho South, the Republicans of all shades
and coors have become thoroughly united upon
Gen. Giant. Chief Justice Chase, Beast Butler,
Speaker Colfax, and all the other Rudical aspi
rants, have been quietly run uff the track by the
superior tactics of tho great military hero; and
the star of the latter gentleman is now undispu
tcdly in the ascendant. There is Mt present no
division among the Radicals, anl not doubt
remains but that Grant will be the unopposed
nominee Of the Chicago Convention. lie will be
the candidate Of both the conservative and rad
col masses of the republican party, and We fear
very much that he will prove the inevi ablo man.
The Democrats too it seems, are determined
to unite harmonousy upon one and the same
man, In choosing their cundidate, they will in
Ill probability be compelled to look moro to
availability than to craftsmanship or clements of
character. The three men now most prominently |
before the Democracy Of the country, in this con-
nection, are Pcndlcton, the great Ohio Democrat,
FIX Gov Seymour Of Now York, and Gen. Han
cock. Peudcion, tho iavoritc Of the West, md
Seymour, the favurite of the East, are both
gentlemen, statesmen and Democrats, whose
equa!a arc probably not now to be found in the
Union. With the noble and manly record of
Gen. Hancock all are familiar. But other mon
also are spoken of rs candidates of the Demo-
cratic party; among them. Judge Field of the
Supreme Court, Cen. Sherman, the devastator of
the South, and Andrew Johnson, now President
of these Uuied States.
FROM this time until the election in the fall, we
shall see the struggle between the two parties de-
veoping itself NOR. openly and raging more
fercely. God speed the Democrats. Let US up
hold their hands iu every way possible, for in their
success now lies the soc remaining LOpe of the
South.