The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1868-07-16
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INV. b MITCH Ill, EDlTOk. &
Thursday, July 10. 1865
Republican National Ticket
H2q@goS ~ K s7sS II;
2,ss,. v FOR PRESIDENT, 4ss s
~ ULYSSES s. GRANT,
OF ILLINOIS,. 49, IN
FOR VICE PREslDErT, ~
SCHUYLER COLFAX.
OF INDIANA 50. -. 4.
FOls ELECTORS.
W r. RAMBUSCH, Freeborn County.
OSCAR MALMROs, Ramsey County.
G. r. BROWN. Nicos'st County, MI.
T. G. JONES, Anoka County --:*s}
Republican National Ticket
SEYMOUR AND BLAIR.

q. JONES, Anoka County,, set r. i
SEYMOUR AND BLAIR.
On Thursday last, after almost u
,eek's ballo,ins, Elk Governo, ho:at'o
Seymour, OF New York, was placed ~
he Democratic National Convention in
nomination for the Presidency. This
ras a decided Aank movement Of the
New York politicians, by which the
delegates from the West who went to
The great city boiling over with Pen.
lletouism, we're not only outwitted but
were carried bodily 70 their opponents
camp. The superior strategy Of the
Tammany clique proved to be altosetn-
CT too much for the effervescent ensno'
s;asm Of the ardent but less shrewd sup
porters Of Hancock, Hendricks and
Peudleton. Seymour again and again
declined the nomination, but while ne
was making his observations Of s'neesl,
ty in thus doing, his friends who held
the balance of power, successfully killed
off all the prominent candidates who
were proposed. Finally, when just be-
fore the nineteenth ballot, Vallandigham
withdrew Peudleton's name, and after
three more ballotings had pretty even
" balanced Hancock and Hendricks
Ohio nominated Seymour. The arch
dissimulator even then declined, but
after . speech from vallandieham-
Who, the pure patriot! demanded the
nomination for the s:public good"-he
resigned the Chair to MIR. Pr'ce' aoo
permitted the Convention to place MIN
At the head of their columns. Amazed,
vcarv and muddled by long ba'lotinss,
the delegates rushed to him as relief
from their labors and, coming fresh H.
to the field, his nomination was easy.
This is not the first time Gov. Sey-
mour has obtained o nomination IN the
same way. In 1862, having refused
to allow the use of his name tor the
Goveruorship of New York, his friends
urged the propriety of his being ten
dered the complimentary vote Of the
Convention for the position. This was
done; but instead of the promised and
expected decliuation, 10! to the sur
prise of all, except those who were par
ties to the plan, Gov. Seymour appear
ed, thanked the Convention, and &C
cepted the nomination! Elected Gov
ernor on this nomination, he encoura
ped the draft rlots Of 1868 :; and in
speech on tho 4th Of July to the blood,
miscreants who carried on that butch
cry Of innocent, unoffending men, NO
men and children, he at5ectionatel]
matted them on the back, called then
his 'sfrieuds," and encouraged then
with the utterance that 10 mob as vel
as a government" "could proclaim the
bloody, reasonable and revolutionary
doctrine Of necessity" In the sight o
heaven, Gov. Seymour is responsible
for the innocent blood shed during
those riots, of which the Convention b.
which he was placed in nomination wa
fitting commemoration. The Demo
cratic party by this nomination adhere
to.the same principles and the sam
policy which four years ago proclaime'
"the var failure"
But while Gov. Seymour may be
and is, a trickstering politician, with
out single patriotic impulse, he is
man of ability and force-perhaps tn
leading man in tho Democratic party
This is much more than can be said to
the other nominee, Frank z. Btal'
Who Is tackled on for the Vice-Pres'
dcncy. He is az tricky as Seymou
without his success, is as unscrupulou
Without his shrewdness, and a. amb'
tious without his ability. Once men
Dor of the Republican party, he wa
.ignomioiously expelled from its ranks
~ vas also his fatber-the progenlto
of the notorious "BIair family"-whos'
removal from President Lincoln's cab
met was demanded by the united voic'
of the party. Since then he has joinc'
hands with the Democracy, diving deep
er and deeper into the mire Of copper
headism, until he now sits "squat lik'
a toad" beside Vallaudig ham, Forrest
Rbett and all thct company Of spirits
Bidding for the Preside ncy, on the re !; 3o'l
of June he wrote a letter to the Mis-
sour delegation, in which he announc
, ed that If elected he would declare tn
Reconstruction acts Of Congrcss-wbict
have been Const,tutionaliy adopted
null and void would compel the arm,
, to undo the work OF reconstruction Car
ricd on thus far at the South, ant
would place Congress under III the c""'r'
OF the Executive, by the force Of tn
bayonet. In plain ~o'ds he ann'on' g
for his 20 icy another RESOLUTION, whic
would lie bloodier even than tia
through which We have just pas'ec
Imagine the possible success cess ct tn
Denoeratic ticket, when in the sse4
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