The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1868-06-26
MANIT Voc:
Friday, June 26. 1868.
Democratic State Ticket
Progress of Reaction.

! Progress OF HeacCl0n.
The nomination of GRANT at Chicago
was expected by the radical leaders to turn
the current of popular sentiment backward.
This result was evidently anticipated by the
New York Herald, which raised shout
for GRANT Immediately upon the adjourn.
ment of the convention. A careful review
of the field, has convinced the Herald man
agement of its Misrepresentation and that
paper now says:
| '"The election in Oregon indicates that
the name of GRANT has no magic to change
the verdict against the republican party
that is written in the mind of the whole
people. 1t also shows that the deep con
viction of the dangers of radicalism to the
countryside conviction that made itself
felt at the polls in California, Ohio, New
Jersey and New York, and gave those
states to the democrats by good majorities
| lis deep conviction still; that it has not
worn away with time, and that nothing
whatever of promise for the better is felt
in anything done by the radicals in the
period that has elapsed since state last
recorded the judgment Of its people against
that party. Within that time have come
two great party events-the impeachment
and the nomination of presidential candi-
| date. Impeachment it is sufficiently noto
rious, has deepened everywhere the con-
yiction that the domination of the radical
party is not consistent with the safety Of
our institutions but how it might be with
the nomination of GRANT no man could
positively say. Party men Of one side OF
the other, and all who pretend to be
weatherwise in the political atmosphere,
could predict to their own satisfaction just
what would come to pass but the truth is
that no one can divine the secret currents
of a peoples thoughts-no one can accur-
ately estimate the hidden forces that yet
seem to move the whole mass of the ma
ton by electrical unanimity to the same
result. But the ballot box tells all. The
seam drops out at an election and the
mind of the people is shown. Hence the
significance of this election in Oregon de-
termined with unequiyocal clearness for
the democrats right on the heels of the
nomination of GRANT by the radicals.
GRANT, to put it at its highest, is not SO
great man, not name so thoroughly sat-
isfactory to the people that they will ven
ture another four years of radicalism to
have him. He is too evidently only the
gliding of the pill, and the people thrust
him aside. And this is settled, not on
the arguments or declam ation of partisans,
not on the forecasting of those who be-
lieve that GRANT viii be beaten because
they hope it, but it is settled on that only
positive source Of information under our
system-a test at the polls, an experiment
before the people, the honestly delivered
vote Of great state.
The growth and progress of such convic-
ton in the public mind as have produced
the democratic triumphs of which this in
Oregon is the most noteworthy nothing can
now arrest, and the inevitable consequences
will be complete change of power.
Hitherto the same change has occurred in
much the same way ScoTT was once ex-
pected to walk over the presidential course
somewhat as GRANTS adherents expect
him to walk over it now but his prome>
made ended in great disaster. GRANTS
seems very likely to end in the same way"
The New York Tribune no longer claims
the election of GRANT as certainty, and
its tables rather indicate his defeat by an
overwhelming majority. Its list of states
classed as certain for GRANT" published
in the Plot last week, includes nearly all
the south-constructed and reconstructed
and several northern states which may be
counted doubtful, and yet fails to show
GRANTS election.