The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-17
Progress of the Presidential Campaign.

Progress of the Presidential Campaign.
FROM The ". y Herald.
In view of the great fizzle in which the Tam
many Fourth OF July Convention closed its
labors, in view of the failure of that Conven-
tion to come up to the broad ground on which
the Democratic masses were prepared to meet
it, the evident tendency of popular opinion is
to revert to the times when the people found
that it was not safe to trust the Democratic
party. Those were the times that gave the
Republican party It's start in life. Republicans
promised to save the nation and the Demo-
Gratis were crazy to carry out theory that
must destroy it, and this forced the people into
the former party, made up though it was Of
Wings, Know NOthings, Aboitiouists, and all
the elements OF chronic opposition to popular
impulse. The nation went With this party for
a purpose aud forced it to accomplish the pur-
pose; but so soon as the pressure of the gene
raj will was withdrawn, so soon as the direct
action of the people on party councils was no
longer felt as it had been through the war,
the leaders OF the party gave indications that
their old instinct had not died out, and they
proceeded to reOrganze the government in
accordance with these old instincts, on
tyIannical, intolerant, anti-democratic basis.
Entrusted with the national power they made
partisan use OF it, their prime object being
not to restore union, harmony, aud peace be-
! tween the rebelling States and the faithful
! ones, but to so frame the fundamental law of
| reorganization as to keep down and defeat the
popular will, and prevent Democratic party
! from raising its head in the Southern States.
! Seeing their great victory abused to such
purposes, the people abaudaned this party by
common consent, and gave victories and great
! gains in numerous States to any organza-
| thin that promised successful opposition.
! Here was the hint for the Democratic leaders.
From the very nature of the case the De-
mocracy revived every where, and the people
rejoiced in promised opportunity to put down
the men and the party they had seemed to
stamp with their approval by acting through
them during the war. As the country is over
! whelmipgly Democratic in its normal state,
! and as the people were everywhere giving in
dicatiOn that eight years experiment of the
other party had sickened them, the case seemed
! plain that there was to be return to the nor
! NAL condition. Only one thing was neces-
| sary-the people required to be sure that the
| Democracy in its revived phase was soundly
national and not vitiated by the errors and bad
purposes that had compelled them to cast it
aside eight years since. AS the Democratic
party was wrong the last time they knew it.,
they demanded to know that it had got right
before they would trust it. They waited for
its nomination, to read, in the name of the
individual "distilled of all its virtues" what
were its views of our recent history and our
present position and its purposes for the future.
In the name of Horatio Seymour they see these
views and purposes declared with unblushing
front; they see that the Democracy has not
yet arisen to national comprehension of
the war, but is resolute still to regard it
as it did from Chicago, and to consider the
present position of the nation as the result
of the triumph of wrong, the whole OF
| which must be undone, and they see that
the purpose of this party in the future
must be to humiliate the victor. In the very
name of the candidate the Democracy repels
the masses that poured out the blood and sub
scribed the money for the war. This will not
do for a proud, generous people. confident Of
the right of what they have dOne and thus
by inevitable necessity the nation turns to
Grant. Little as it likes the party that was
compelled to put him up, much as it distrusts
the more violent element of that party, il
knows, likes, and is willing to trust Grant
himself, for sound judgment upright heart,
and ipflexibe purpose-the peoples own hero
and it knows that it has no good to hope
and every evil to fear in the success of the
Democratic candidate ticket.
The Last Radical Canard.