The New York herald., 1868-01-10
BREAKING Gronr for the Next Presidency
Tho Great West In Motion.

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Tho Great West In Motion.
On Wednesday last, the eighth Of january,
sacred to the memory Of General jackson
(not stonewall, but Old Hickory, there were
beyond the Alleghanies three very significant
political conventons--one at Wheeling, West
Virginia, one at Columbus, Ohio, and one a!
Indianapolis, Indiana. AT each OF these State
Conventions the democracy In council broke
ground on the Presidential question, and from
their proceedings, as given in yesterday 5
HERALD, our readers have doubtless seen
enough to be satisfsd as to the issues upon
which the democratic and other conservative
elements Of the country in opposition to the
republicans will fight their battle for tAe sue
cession.
The West Virginia Convention declared itself
IN favor of the bond taxation and the Pendle-
ton plan of redemption Of the national debt
and received with enthusiasm the name Of
Pendleton as the Presidential champion of the
Ohio Convention. The resolutions Of the Ohio
and the Indiana Conventions are substantially
the same; but as those Of the Indiana democ-
racy are more enphatically expressed they
may, we think, be taken as moro clearly fore
shadowing than any others from any quarter
form Of the democrats and conserve
tives Of oil parties against the OBJ
noxious radical party in power. And what
say the Indiana democracy They say, first,
that " language Is not adequate to express our
adherence and condemnation Of the radical
reconstruction policy Of Congress !" and they
demand the unconditional repeal of the acts
Of Congress conterring exclusive rights or
privileges upon any class or classes Of citizens
at the expense Of other classes" In other
words, the Indiana democracy are cordially In
favor of the Southern restoration programme
Of Andrew johnson.
They next declare "that the national bank
system, organized in the interest Of the bond
holders, ought to be abolished and United
States notes (greenbacks) substituted in lieu
Of the national bank currency" that The
bonds and other securities of the United States,
&C.. should be taxed as other property for ma
tional, State, county and municipal purposes !;
that the national bonds ought to be paid In
greenbacks, except where gold is expressly re-
quired by law; that considering the monstrous
extravagances Of the party in power, they
ought 10 be displaced, 80 that thorough
course Of retrenchment and reform may be
adopted. This Is the financial pla torn OF the
Indiana democracy, and from all the signs Of
the times 1t will sweep the great West, from
the Allcghanies TO the Pacific, like fire in the
prairies under nor'west wind.
On the suffrage question the Indiana de-
mocrats declare that eve are opposed to con-
ferring The right of suffrage upon negroes" an
Eve deny the right of the general govern
ment to interfere with the question Of suffrage
in any of the States Of the Union" They are
also opposed to Puritanical legislation on
moral ideas, lager beer and such things, and
are in favor OF the repeal Of the existing un-
just and iniquitous tariff and the adoption Of a
new tariff system looking to revenue only.
But the last three of these In nliana resolutions
are moro significant than all the rest, consider
ing the order in which they stand-th, FIRST
| being hearty endorsem mt OF President John
son, tho second an enthusiastic approval Of
| the course of General Hancock at New Orleans,
and the third splendid puff Of Ohio and
George III. Pendleton. lie, in fact, by the In
diana democracy, Is specially commended to
the National Democratic Convention as "a true
and consistent democrat, and one who has our
entire confidence and preferences" but expe-
diency among politicians very often plays the
m schefwith preferences, and Mr. Pendleton,
we apprchend, when it comes to the test, will
have to be sacrificed to expediency.
General Mcclellan would have made a much
better run than he did in 1854 but for tbe dead
weights OF Vallandigbam AMI Pendleton. Tho
latter gentleman, not less than the former,
represented in his own record in Congress the
yallandigham Chicago peace-at-any-price plat
form. This record viii still make Pendleton
and all Of his school of peace democrats during
the war unavailable for the Presidency.
Andrew Johnson, on the other hand, has
record against the rebellion, from It's inception
to its COLLAPSE, which places him among the
| first, the most jealous and tho most efficient
leaders Of the Union party of the war. The
Indiana democrats, therefore, In putting John
son frst and Hancock second in their resolu-
tions, evidently intend to throw out the hint
that for the national democracy and all the
other political elements OF the country opposed
to the psrpetuation Of the radicals in power
the true Union conservative ticket Is this -
Tbr Preridsnt--Andrcw Johnson Of Tennessee
For vie Prsident-w nasd Scot Hancock, OF Psnnsyl-
vaniA
| A resolution Of half . dozen lines from our
Assembly ct Albany looking in this direction
would settle the question at once; and why
not Seymour and Pendleton, pittod against
each other in the national party convention,
will both be knocked on the head, and at last
some obscur;ty who has no record or Andrew
johnson, an old Jackson democrat whose
record viii stand th, FIRE, will have to be
nominated. If the democrats Of New York,
therefore, desire the honor Of naming their
party ticket for the Presidency, they have