Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1868-10-28
THE poLIrIcAL SITUATION.

The dispatches Of q few days past in connec.
ton with the Presidential campain nre neither
welcome nor solacing. This thing Of changing
candidates on the eve of the election Ii like
Lincon's story Of swapping horses while cross
ing q stream. and Is quite equivalent 10 sur
render. Eclipse did bear Sir Henry finally.
through change Of riders; but that was In q
race where honor ruled and each party had an
equal show. To change Seymour for Chase
would be just bic worse than preferring no
chance to some chance; and as between Grant
and Chase, by all means let US have the first.
Grant is neither q statesman nor politician
He is not great, but he Is headstrong; and in
case Of his election he viii have the whole fan
atical Radical crew Of the Phillips-Sumner.Ju-
linn type bounding him as venomously, before
two years will pass. as they have bounded Pres
ident johnson. He will prove another John.
son to the Enthusiastically mulish. but has not
the ken OF politics aud statescraft which John
son possesses. And Gran. will not tolerate
that snufiy old Mephistophiles, Seward. who
rides Johnson and haunts the Government like
a nightmare. Stanton will run Grant until,
oyerridden and headed the way he viii not go,
Grant will buck and spike aud throw his rider
and then will be the opportunity for Democrats
10 catch and pat, To mount and guide the way
ward warehouse. But LET Chas. be President
with bis great ability as n politician aud his
wonderful power to control other master minds.
and the people may as well give up oil hope OF
ever again beholding the Union as il was under
the old Constitution, with State Sovereignty Tor
the imp-rishable cornerstone Of ALL Chas. is
the Caesar Augustus of this age in the Way Of
alnring and lradlng the people To become sat-
listed with an imperial establishment
Neither viii il answer Ia substiiut. any other
Tor Frank Blair now. The trading politicians
aud War Democrats pa, him on the ticket.
lie ought never ,o have been placed upon IL
but there be ID. and there he should be main.
tanned to the rnd. whether victorious or dc.
featrd. lie is sound OH oyrr,hrow,ng Radical
Reconstruction. aud this Is much ia .,self. as
things exis.-
We cannot bat suspect that The New York
HorId i. Determined on the drtca, ui the Ticket
that II 10 Radical organ mrrrly progressing Ia
be Druscraise. To bcsray our party at the lass
hnur. IL was an Abolition organ at The eom.
mcnrcmrnt uf the war; mex, il tarnrd War
4 =. liz R~As
prrsrni. 4 paper which srlls ga, ss principlsx
onee u lIkrly Ga srll again. aud such papers arr
not exactly the Kind ri organs frum which the
geasiue Democratic music IL disc"ars.-d. The
Wandering Miasirrl. Jrm nags. DID manage &"
play the White Cockarlr" Ia suit az an.usc
the peculiar rabblc waa followed al hi. hcel.
but his diseordaai pipings grated n,osi disagree
ably upon the ears OF all ~ho liked gsr.d music
Aud ab"us in the anne way do We tAink s"lnd
Democrats cannot patiently brpok .ouar ol the
peculiar sisle Of Democratic .hrscs ~h.ch aow
trum the New York Horld.
AZ thing. louk wc hardly dare 10 entertain
the hope Of succvss In the Presidential cua.sss.
because at this distance frnm the scra- of &C.
ton We hare no means tu estimate or know Ia
what exirn. the generalization ha. spread in
the Democratic ranks IN The Stairs. consequent
upon late vlccii"a results and this last mos;
unfortunate matter Of talking ab"as changing
the ticket, in part or all. We yet. however, |
hope for the best. but are prepared Ia with. |
stand the worst which can bcfal. Bu, IL vir,o. /
y shall be ours. the Democracy will nut bay. /
he New York Horid aud the trading poIi.,.
-ians To thank f"r it. They can on the contra.
y. thank Pcndlcton. and grca, mrn likc him.
who are pure. and Who are devoted 10 the /
Union aud the Constitution and thank als..
be masses Of unauchiug. patriotic. unpurehas
bile Democrats. in all the STATES. wh" shall
save proven thrIr faith in this uost vital con.
'rst to cuIur off an Tuesday next
Cor HIS PaY.-Rraders in Idaho will re-.