Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-02
The Party of tire COnstitutiOn should
choose a CiviIian 60 Preserve civil
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From the Cincinnati Enquirer
Some of our Democratic colemporaries
in the South, who are urging the nomina-
ton Of General HANCOCK for Presidentupon
the ground Of availability, seem &c forget
the past. They seem to suppose that this
military blsiness is a new and novel one
with as. We have tried ii, and wilhcandi-'
dates equal. if not superior, in military
prestige to General Hancock. We ran Gen.
Mcclellan for President in 1864. We met
with most disastrous defeat "a seyerer de-
feat than We would have sustained with a
civilian candidate. We nominated Generals
futile for Governor, in Iowa, in 1868, and
no more gallant soldier was ever sent out
Of that State. He wac the worst beaten
man we ever ran, and from its terrible con-
sequences the Democracy there have never
yet recovered. In 1865 the Democracy
nominated General Geo. w. Morgan, for
Governor, and better Democrat, and
more gallant Federal soldier, was not TO be
found within the limits of the Union, vet
he was beaten thirty thousand votes. In
1865 the Democracy Of New York nomi-
mated General Slocum, who had previously
been Republican, to head the State ticket
for Secretary of State. lie was beaten some
thirty or forty Thousand votes. In 1866 the
Democracy Of Indiana nominated General +.
Mason, also for a State office, and in D
Democratic State, were terribly beaten, by
maiorities running high mp into the thou
sands. Locally we have run many military
candidates-some all covered over with
honorable sears and wounds, and yet they
received not more, yea. dad not receive the
fall vote of the party.
Do our Southern friends, do our military
availability men, take in the full force OF
these facts Do they remember that we
have never, since che war commenced,
been successful for any important office 10
any State with any bat a civilian candi-
date? Who carried Ohio in 1862 I? Mf.
Ranney, for Supreme Judge Who Car
ried New York in 1862, for GOVernor2
Nr. Horatio Seymour Who was elected
Governor 10 New Jersey the same au-
tumn? NJ. Parker who came near car
rying Ohio in 1867, and did substantially
give us victory in this State ? ar. Thur
man, since elected Senator. Who carried
Pennsylvania in 1867 as the head of the
Stale ticket? Mr.. Sharswood, for Supreme
Judge. Who was elected Governor in
Connecticut in 1867, and reelected an
1868, beating a Federal General, the Pre-
sident Of the Chicago Convention, HawIey,
in the first named year? Ii was 20 Gene
raj who did it, but plain, simple NJ. Eng
fish. e.t
The Democratic triumph in California
last fall was also under the banner of a
civilian, N. Haight. The only time 10
the history of Massachusetts,, for the last
twenty-five years, that the democracy
came near electing candidate for Gov
ernor, was in 1867, when they ran M.
John Quincy Adams.
These results are decisive They show
IA that the people, in selecting civil Of
ficers, look 10 civic talent and experience
instead of military. In army positions
they choose Generals, but for positions in
civil life they prefer men whose education,
being civilian, has best qualified TO dis
charge them. .'
The next Presidential election will he
decided in the States of Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois. They have fifty electoral votes,
making 4 hundred change in the Electoral
College, and constitute, in themselves,
about one-third of the votes necessary 10
elect. In order to succeed the Democracy
must carry these States. Vain will it beto
carry New York, Pennsylvania, New Jer-
sey and Connecticut, and the Border States,
all Of whom can be carried for any body,
unless, in addition, we carry these States,
Ohio has been naturally Wing and Repub-
lican. Indiana and Illinois have, for the
last three or four years, been largely
against u.s. IL we succeed in them-in or
der to stand any chance we must have our
strongest man--we must have our strongest
issue. That issue is the grcenback issue;
that man is Geo. III. Pendleionl
That he is from $4,000 to 100000 votes
running on this question, with which his
name NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. than any other
man who has been mentioned, in Ohio, In
diana and Illinois, no one OF any iDteli-
gence, who is acquainted with public senii-
ment, doubts. r.I-. a..
The question is, shall wethrow away this
great popularity and run the risk Of defeat
with less available candidate What
the Democracy Of the West want Is suceess
They care nothing about men. They look
to availability. They are for Mr.. Pendle4
ton, because he is pre-eminently thestrongf
est man i'm those States whose electoral
votes viii decide the election. We Of the
West, who reside here, know who is strong
aud who is weak We ask his nomination
upon these grounds. Had we 10000 ma
jorily at our back, like the Democracy OF
New York did we live in Democratic
State, like Pennsylvania, we should not be
pertinacions on this question, but would be
content to take any candidate the National
Convention might present But living in
the vicinity of close and doubtful States,
we DO demand and insist that the great I'M
terests Of the conntry, which are involved
in success. sshallnominaie that man who is
the best calculated, if not the only one call
L crlnied 20 secnre VICTORY. Geo III. Pen