The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-06-06

any interest or idea but the success of the
Predetermined name, they might as well stay
at home; for this spirit will only make wild
discord, will raise to the highest pitch the ex:-
element Of party passion, and the consequence
will be the nomination of the man who most
extremely represents the peculiar views Of that
party. Such q nomination would be inevitable;
for passion Is thoroughly honest and uncom-
promising and could satisfactorily express it
self in no other way. 1t needs scarcely to be
said that such nomination would be as I'M
wise as it would be for the republicans to nomi-
nate Wendell Phillips or Ben Butler. An ex-
tremist on one side is as unpalatable as an ex-
tremist on the other. The people will swallow
neither. Perhaps they would even swallow
the Down East extremist the most readily for
we must remember the war and must keep in
view that the public mind is now unprepsred
for, if not thoroughly and forever averse to an
extremist of the contrary direction. Let the
democrats remember, therefore, that for one
clique to insist upon Pendleton will be only
the signal challenging another to insist upon
Seymour, another ON Hendricks, another on
Hancock and still another on Mcclellan, and
that in the obstinate persistency Of these sew
eral cliques will originate storm that will
end with the nomination Of the worst possible
man of all these, or perhaps in one worse than
any.
But if the democrats look at the situation in
any other spirit than that of personal loyalty to
their respective candidates-if they consider
how the nation stands wsvering in its fear of
the radicals and waiting for rescue-how
easy it will be to win all with some present
self-denial-they cannot for a moment enter
tain the purpose to nominate any of the
above men. They must forthwith dismiss
them from thought upon the simple con-
sideration that they could not by any possible
means elect any one Of them. Such is the pre-
sent position Of affairs that the democrats must
have for their standard bearer man indu-
bitably known to have been in sympathy with
the war and having the respect Of the loyal
masses of the North; man whose record will
commend him to all those who desire TO see
the country governed under the constitution
and the civil laws-the point of relation
between the whole mass of the democrats and
the conservative republicans--and q man who,
by dividing the negro vote in the South and
getting the whole white vote there, can carry
several of the Southern States. Such man is
Chief Justice Chase and there is no other man
in the United States in whom will be found
united all these requisites. With Chase, there
fore, the democracy must win, or it cannot win
at ALL He is the only man that affords any
chance for its success. But we think that
even Chase might be strengthened if it were
understood that he was to be surrounded in
his administration by the prominent men Of all
the sections of the great popular party. His
Cabinet might be very satisfactorily made up
in this view with Governor Seymour as
Secretary of State, Mr.. Fessenden as Secre-
tary of the Treasury, Mr.. Pendleton as Attor-
ney General, Mr.. Hendricks as Secretary of
the Interior, Admiral Farragut as Secretary
of the Navy and General Mcclellan as Secre-
tary of War-thus grouping around great
statesman all the popular names of a great
crisis. Who would dare to question the sue
cess OF the ticket?