The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-06-11
THE DEMOCRATIC QuANDARY.

uCauS aio uot uoie Copupleteiy PuLLIeo
a. to the candidate that is to be opposed
to General Grant than the Copperheads
themselves. We may be less anxious
than the Democracy, but we are not a
whit less curious and not a particle
more or less at loss for a good guess
~ to who will bear off the empty hon.
ors o: the 4th of July Convention.
And we reckon the managers of the
Democratic machinery are quite as
much perple1ed as the outsiders, 60
many conflicting questions and diverse
interests come up for consideration in
their counsels. The problem to be SOL
we'd is: How to 60 to work the most
efectually to get into one solid party
all the elements Of Democracy and all
that has fallen away from Republican,
ism. Nobody, we imagine, but some
infatuated followers of Vallandigham or
some such answering milestones Of
Calhounism as Philosopher Pickett and
Zach Montgomery will think of sticking
for reiteration of the Mcclellan plat
form of "a or respectful recognition
Of the Resolutions of '9S; but, on the
contrary, if we are to judge by prece-
dents, the fabric upon which Mr.. (the
Presidential candidate) will stand, will
be selfadjusting false bottomed and back
acting-made up of words to hide
ideas making a pretense of patriot
ism and show of qaenchless indigna-
ton against the horrors of I" Radical
ISM" This sort Of a platform Seymour
could stand upon; but it would not hold
Pendleton +; Hancock, Field or Haight
could conscientiously" adjust them
selves to it; but we can't see how
Chase can keep foothold upon anything
that does not explicitly recognize the
justice of the war and the righteousness
of impartial suffrage. We have no
doubt that the Democracy would run
Wendell Phillips for President and Fred
Douglass for Vice President if they
thought they could beat Grant by SO
doing but the question which puzzles
them more than all others is: How to
steal victory which will not prove a
defeat. Johnson and Chase have
their intrigues with the Re-
publican party and taken to playing a
regular hand at the Democratic card
board SO that still another complies
ton enters into the Coppsrhead game,
enlarging the area that it is necessary
to canvass before the campaign may be
vsntured upon. Such is the result Of q
party's having become the refuge
for mere place hunters and disap-
pointed politicians. If gratitude
we're . moving principle in snch
= party it would lay its honors
1t the feet of such of its good servants
- Johnson and Chase; but that lofty
attribute ia not an actuating impulse of
that organization hence if the Presi-
dent or the Chief Justice are to receive
} reward for their treachery they must
.cramble for it as industriously and as
,elfshly as if they had not forsaken
friends and betrayed the cause Of their
country to merit Copperhead consider
lrion. Locking upon Chase as the de-
implacable foe of the Grant
movement, We cannot avoid the belief
nat he will be candidate for the Pres
dency, whether nominated by the
Democracy or not. Van Buren, ran as
! Free Soil Democrat to beat Cass; why
nay not Chase cut in as an Independent,
Universal Suffrage Nondescript in order
o accomplish the defeat of Grant? We
relieve such an effort would be fruiiless,
BECAUSE we believe that the steadfast
Juionists are largely in the majority
I'd that they will support the Chicago
smiaees; but if Chase has Joined Il