New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-02
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE. TUESDAY, JUNE ., 1868

all possible candidates-weaker even, than
Vallandigham. We do not, of course imply
that he would consent to run on any such
platform we only state fact verified by am
ple experience when we say that he would be
beaten out of sight Mr.. Chase S a very able
and strong man, but he has no signal personal
popularity. On n COpperhead Platform, Val
landgham would receive the votes of three to
seven States; Chase would hardly get one. But
it is idle to talk of this. If he is not to run
Oh his own platform, he cannot mn at all.
The Times continues:
at NAV safely DO assumed that nothing but the desper
Alto sense OF party necessity could bring party and
n IL scarcely possible that twOthirds OF the Democratic
party should concur In taking SO desperate view OF It's
fortunes.
save the party II the whole strength the party could
be relied support OF 1t. there mghtbe chance
OF its success There are unquesonab some elements
OF disafecon IN the Republican ranks though they are
much less influential than they beDro the Chicago
Conyention and II their strength could DC added 10 tg
chance OF carrying several important Northern Stats
which would be certain for Grant as aganst any regular
nominee Of the Democratic party. BIT with Chase az
their candidate, and Universal Negro Suffrage In het
platform the Democrats expect also to divide the South
cooed vote and to carry severaof the Southern
States. This ~ course involves the utter aDandOont
of the doctrine that this Is exclusively the White Man
Government" which is just the clrdina feature
the cornerstone the only essential IRA Iuh9ainen
principle. Of the Democratic faith as hdd by the Demo
Gratis OF the Southern States
1--WE are inclined to think therefore tat II the Demo
Gratis were 10 make Mr. Chase their candidate fire Demo
crat both North and South would votefor Grant where
Republican. Black or White, IN eitler Section "ouu
vote for Chase"
We think The Times here undertakes the
perfection of the Democratic discipline. Abb
stractly, one would say that nothing could be
more difficult than to induce tho Irish and
Dutch of Cincinnati to vote for Gen. Sam. Cary
an avowed Republican. "a Maine law fanatic"
&c. &c; but Wash. Mclean hell up his finger
and said, ".Vote for Cary y and they all went
il. If Judge Chase shall be nominated in Tam
many Hall on the 9th of July next, there VIII
next morning be at least One Million Demo-
Gratis swearing that they won't touch him with
a ten-foot pole. A week later, these will be-
reduced TO Half a Million in a month, to One
Hundred thousand and these, by Election day,
will have dwindled to point Invisible to the
naked eye. Didn't Ben. Harris protest, in the
last Democratic National Convention, that his
fellow Rebels in Maryland would nerer vote for
McClcllani Yet look at the Sold and heavy
vote for Him of Charles, Prince Georges, St.
MaIy's. and all the pro-Rebel Counties
We concur with The Times to this extent
that it is now too late to beat GRANT and COLFAX
with Chase and Hancock, Chase and Dix, or
any other ticket. We think a majority of the
voters have made up their minds to have Gen.
Grant ia the White House next March IT,
then, the world is sure to be burned up before
1872. The Times'S calculation is a sound one.
But assuming that the general conhagraton
may be mercifully postponed, We think The
Times takes too narrow view o. the situation
If yOu are doomed to he beaten in a race, there
is still choice between running it on dead
horse and live one. The Wing party was
beaten on Henry Clay in 1874; but 1t was
stronger month after than a month before
that defeat-carried the next House of Repre-
sentativcs, and elected the next President 1t
was beaten again on Gen. Scott in 1852, and
had hardly strength TO kick ever afterward.
If the Democratic party shall now he beaten
on n Chauncey Burr and Clay Dean CoDpcrhead
platform, it is beaten to stay. Reputation
brushes it in the North; Negro prescription
and degradation forbids it to rise in the South
1t fixes itself in the forlom position of the
Tories of the Revoluton-tho Fedcralists after
the War of 1912. And perhaps this is better
for the country, as il certainly is the more
probable solution. a locomotive at full speed
genenlly clings to the track till II goes TO the
dogs.