Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-05-05
A pr ESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
WANTED.

leaders are.not confined to the absence
of votes to elect Il candidate. The
greater difficulty is to secure Il man
strong enough to carry the burden OF
their nomination. The mere statement
of the fact is sufficient to expose their
chronic and incurablo weakness. Al
though armed, each Of them with n
special scarch-warrant, thoy hnve not
yet succeeded in finding a single avail
able name. That the courage and brains
Of the party prefer Hon. Geo. H. Pen
dleton, of Ohio, is attested by the fact
that he has received the Endorsement Of
quite a number Of State Conventions.
Ills qualifications to discharge the high
responsibilities of the Office are uuiYer-
sally conceded. An accomplished gen.
tleman, q persuasive speaker, and aH
acute politician, he is backed by n host
Of ac,ive and thorough pa%rtisans but
his star, so lately in the ascendant, has
recently rapidly declined. His anti-war
record suggests n most damaging con-
trast to that Of General Grant, the Re-
publican candidate, whilo his position
on the national finances, and partlcu-
lrrly on the national debt, has arraycd
on organization against him in his own
party, IL not equivalent to tho cnthnsi-
asm it hns excited in the West in his
favor, Mt least enough to weaken aud 10
d%smoralizo him in the East. Tho Demo-
cratic managers are therefore driven to
look elsewhere ; and their operations
are well worth watching. Within a few
months they havo taken up at least a
dozen aspirants, who, after due exam
nation, havo either been dropped by
thoir advocates, or have dropped the
questionable prizc themselves. Andrew
johnson tried his hand by putting Han
cock forward as q +" second Washing
ton,", in his ridiculous special message
to Congress ; but Hancock, always will
ing himself, docs not seem to have Sc
cured the confidence Of the party, which
has been consistent In nothing so much
rs in %denouncing the war in which he
won his laurels. Then .horatio Sey-
mour was trotted ont but he, a keen,
cautious old Rsynard, soon saw for HIM
self that tho grapes were not only sour,
but far out Of his reach. Then A.. G.
Thurman, of Ohio, who contrived to
secure so largo a vote in the late election,
was suggested as n fitting candidate,
bat he, realizing the truth Of the adage
that {" bird in the hand is. worth two
in the BUSH" preferred a secure seat 10
tho Senate Of the United States to the
expensive honors Of q doubtful Presi-
dental canvass. Then Hon. Thomas A.
Hendricks, of Indiana, was tried but
he, like Judge Thurman, seems inclined
to- confne his aspirations to his own
State, In which he is running for Gov
iernor. Our neighbor, Joel Parker, OF
New Jersey, 10 far more ready to accept
than his party seems willing to concede
tho Democratic nomination for Presi-
dent. In tho midst Of their distresscs,
tho name Of Chief Justice Chase is sud
denly presented, and soized upon with
tho Hvfdity Of drowning mon catching at
straws. But the New York World an
ticipates his quick refusal Of the odious
.proffer by advising him to dismiss il
from his mind.
, II looks now as If the Democracy
would DO reduced to Andrew johnson,
of Tennessee. Indeed, such q fate was
foretold by that pondorous Legislative
Dombey, George w. Woodward, as long
ago rs December last and VIC think it
would 30 a poetical sequel to tho great
trial IL the Senate, in Diminishing Andrew
Johnson from tho Presidency, permitted
him 10 become the leader Of the funeral
host that. must follow any Democratic
candidate in November next. '
How different from the course Of the
Republicans How different, even,
from the course of the Democrats in
former campaigns 4 The Republican
Presidential pominee has already been
selected by every Republican Conyen-
ton that has chosen delegates to Chi
cngo. So in former years tho Democrats
M9a3WAJs one or two prominent names
ffCm:IRhich it was known they would
choose when they came to select a can-
didate. Now they are as much ut sea
abort thcir standard. bearer as they are
about their doctrines. Indeed, they
hnye no doctrine but that Of antagonism
10 Republican principles. Their diiem-
ma is q double, nay, a treble dilemma.
Embarrassed by %dissensions as to n
didAtes, thsy are also embarrassed by
dissensions aS to creeds, and still more
by the despair resulting from an nbso-
lutte waut ofIyetes.-Fdrssg'lI ras.