The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-07-15
a Pew Hurralls from the DemocratIe
Pres,

very much the same ''iTrePresstoie en-
thusiasm" with which they welcomed
the election returns Of 1850 and 1871
and will receive those Of 1883.
The journal Of Commerce, the oldest
and abIest democratic paper IN New
York, says:
81, is not for as to say that the Coven-
tion has not chosen wisely. Governor
any description here" ''A new man,
not long trained in party trammels,
would have drawn to the Conservative
cause some who will now hesitate, and
would have encountered less opPosi-
ton from long cherished feelings Of hos
tilIty growing out Of the political con-
tracts of former years."
The Journal of CoDEmeTes does not
hesitate to speak It's mind, In a way
which will bring the party pressure
very heavily upon it. It says OF the
democratic platform:
This is out-snd-out repndiatiop Of a
solemn obligation, as weuDderstand IT.
70 pay all the bonded debt in gold"
That, on the question of Reputation,
-''the Democrats are boldly commit
ted to the baSer alternative, and Will
heresy is fOndly cherished. There - no
excuse for such proposition u u
both wicked and dlsgraceful. The
authors know very we'll tnat tne
money was borrowed with the express
understanding that il WIS to be repaid
in coin, and that anything snort OF
this is Reputation of a solemn coven-
ant"
The same leading Democratic paper
Gays of the candidate:
"Goyernor Seymour has always
warmly insisted on the obligation to
pay the bonds in gold. The platform
is thus the very opposite of his Well
known views. how the two are 70 De
reconcIled it is not for Us to decide"
Mr.. F. P. Blair, 1t adds, has record
-.fanfIiar to all our readers. Like
Governor Seymour, he has aroent
friends and bitter enemies, and Will
win few additions to the ticket beyond
The Democratic hosts already pledged
to lis support"
The Worid considers the relief" OF
the Convention 10 have been obtained
in ''suEprIsing and unexpected man
ner;" regards the excitement in which
the Convention acted as "a wonderful
frenzy Of enthusIasm," but thinks 1t a
fair question to consider afterwards
whether i. was misplaced or not.
THE heart did not stop to ask leave
Of thu mead, and IL remains TO inquire
whether good sense and sound judH-
rnent viii sanction the spontaneous
favor of that proud, that memorable
hour"
. The Brooklin Eagle is taken aItogeth
sr By surprise, and its confusion is re-
markabie. On the same page on which
It announces the candidates it earnestly
presses the claims ofMr. Chase for the
closing with these words,
in reference 10 his nomination:
1.-THE Democratic party has the fu-
lure of the country in its hands; may
il have the wisdom TO use an oppoTtun-
Ity that may never return, wisely and
The Eagle says further:
"Contrary to our expectations and to
sur wishes Governor Seymour has re-
;eived the unanimous nomination of
he democratic party for the Preslden-
". The representatives of the party in
heir wisdom have decided to fight this
battle on principle"
So the Eagle thinks principle dan
,erous thing to fight on. Some princi-
pies are.
The Washington Evening Express
that the nomination, among
he democrats in that city, "created
much surprise, not unmiuRled with
some disappointment on the part of
hose who had set their hearts on the
of some other fthe various
This feeling is not unnat-
1ral, but will soon wear off,"
The great organ OF the unweshed
of New York-the Herald
which has always represented Mr..
peculiar "Iriedds" OF the
summer of 1868, does not like the nom
ination. II says:
"The die is cast. The Democratic
has decided that our next
President shall be General Grant. The
old fable of the mountain in labor has
been fully realized, and the delivery is
a ridiculous mouse as the Democratic
candidate against the con-
querer of the rebellion. Seymour
against Grant in 1868 amou nts TO q DEM
ocrattc S1sI render or a diSbdndiHg of the
Democratic party. The ticket of Nc
CleIlau against Lincoln was "A strong
ticket compared with this OF Seymour
against Grant. It has no prestige but
that OF defeat. In 1862, indeed, Mr..
Seymour WAS elected Governor; but it
was on the platform of "a more vigor-
Gus prosecution OF the war" In 1868
he returned to his idols of the Copper
head iaiIb. and there he would haVe re-
manned but for the blunders OF the Re
publicans and their divisions in the
State elections of last year. Now, as
in 1868, '64, '65 and '66, after their suc-
cesses of 1862, all the capital and all
the foothold gained by the Democrats
have been thrown away and lost, and
the battle of 1864 is revived, with some
changes, TO be sure, but as against Sey-
mour they are all in favor of Grant.
"TheTe is nothing in Seymour, moth
ing in his record, nothing IN his platform
that 1DiU bring q single recruit to the
Democratic Parry, but everything TO
rally the whole floating vote of the
United Sttaes, with all the COnservs-
tive Republicans, around the glorious
banner of Grant. It Is supposed by his
friends and political trainers that Sey-
molr is at least good for New York,
with its fifty. thousand Democratic ma
jority OF last Fall. That majority,
however, was delusive, the result of
Repu hlican distinctions and divisions,
which only the nomination of Chase as
The Democratic candidate could have
turned TO substantial advantage in
this campaign. Seymour against Grant
will bring all the Republicans into line,
and the result will be another political
reaction, iUhich TIL give Ne,c York to
Grant IN ttUeNty, thirty, or forty thoM-
sand majority"
wild EnthusIasm.