The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-02-03

GE1eGnfeLliqett1ers
THE DEMOORACY.
VINO WIN be their Candidate for Pres.

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Who Will be their Candidate for Pres,
IIent9
This is anlembarrassIng question to
them. Pendleton at present seems tc
be their most prominent man, SO far
as the West is concerned. But will his
currency notions suit the EastR Not
If the views on that subject laid down
in Horatio Seymour's speech, some
weeks ago, and constantly taught by
the New York World, the Journal Of
Commerce, and other like exponents OF
the party are to be taken as the tenets
of the eastern wing of the Democracy.
The New York Sun, Dana,s new pa
per, discusses Seymour as follows:
A gentleman offine presence and ell
evated morals possessing scholarly
attainments, and yersed in affairs;
welding a asmooth pen and melodious
elecution; "keen-..in his political in.
stincts, aud facile in turning the sharp
corners of dificulty, Governor Sew
mour would probably be the strongest
candidate that could be presented TO
the Democracy in the States east OF
Ohio. He would run well also in the
South. But, being regarded as therep-
resentative OF the hard money kings OF
the bondholding Democracy, he does
not pass so currently in the West as
Pendleton. Besides, his strength in
the Middle and Eastern States is Inn
paired by the indirect rivalryoR nu-
merous candidates for the Vice. Presi-
dency-as, for example, Adams, OF
Massachusetts; English, of Connecti-
cut; Parker, of New J Jersey, and posi-
bly, Church and even Hoffman, OF New
York.
McClellan-"little Mac.," as he used
to be called, is discussed thus:
In speaking thus ofgGov. Seymour.
we are not unmindfuI of Gen. McClel,
Ian. He is lying in wait to embrace
the same chances that inspire the hopes
OF Seymour-a compromise candidate.
bears the banner of his party through
heavy fight, has firm hold upon the
sYmpathieS ofits masses. Jackson was
nominated in 1928 because he had been
overthrown In 1924. Harrison,s defeat
In 1885 ensured his selection in 1910.
And, though Clay was always beaten,
he was, partly for that.vety reason, the
idol OF his party, every enthusiastic
Wing, from the Aroostook to the Mis-
souri,, being ever ready to toss off a
bumper with HHereIs to thee. Harry
Clay lnaE Mss = T7SIIl'IT
By his prolonged absence in Europe
Mcclellan has kept aloof from embar.
RAISING entanRlements at home. Amia-
bic, accomplished and urbane, he Is
embalmed in the memory of his party
as the chief around whom it rallied in
the dark days of 1864; and more than
all, he ts Understood to be in training
for the coming campaign by some OF
its astutest taeticians.
Pendleton is the favorite OF. the Ohio
Democracy and generally OF the party
in the West. 1t even went forth on the
wires from this city on the sth of jan
uary that he was the fayorite of the
West Virginia Democracy. We appre-
hend, however, that the choice of the
West Virginia Democracy will have no
very marked, weight with the party
generally, as long as the prospect for
carrying the State remains so dubious
as at present. Indeed, it is not abso-
lutely certain that West Virginia will
be admitted at all into a general CON
vention. Such an admission might
embarrass the political situation when
the question comes up some other time.
That genuine Observation-Disclosures
has called a genuine Democratic Con-
vention down at Charleston, Kanawha
county, does not accept West vfrginia's
Stateship as an accomplished fact, y
nor does he accept the concern recently
in session here asa Democratic convene
tion, and 1t may be that his view, mas.
much as he claims to be the ranking
ofhceriof the organization in this State,
will be received as the orthodox one
and If such should be, the case it mat
ters very little who the court house
meeting may have preferred. Il
But this Is losing sight OF the main
question, which Is as to who will pro-
bably be the Democratic candidate for
President this year. Col. Forney, in a
Washington letter of the 8OEh ,ult., to
the Philadelphia Press, says:
Although the factions of the rebel
Democracy are a unit against the Re-
Publicans, when they come to choose
their candidates nndlto construct creeds
they must resolve into original chaos;
and II they nominate Pendleton for the
purpose of carrying the West, they
will simply go TO pieces In the Easl;
while If they fall back upon Hancock,
the friends of PendletonSmust accept it
as surrender of their whole anti-war
record, and as an anattempt to set him up
as rival OF Gen. Grant simply to en-
tice the votes of the meh who whipped
the rebels.
Meanwhile the conflict is shrewdly
stimulated by the desperate. politician
in the Presidential office. That Andrew
johnson desires tp, be elected :, you
need go no further to prove than the
recent contest among the Democrats in
Philadelphia, where his friends claim
to have secured a good share of dele
gates. All the Democratic officials are
expected tosupport him, and many of
them will; and as he religiuusly be.
lieves in the potency of patronage, and
datters himself that he has used Il to
mould public opinion int0 approval OF
his actions, he will not be 0low 10 insist
upon practical gratitude for favors con-
2erred. sdis own hostility and that of
lNis friends and subordinates 10 Pendle-
ton, Is as bitter as the hostility of Val
landigham to Johnson himself The
hard-mOney theory OF McOulloch,
which has had itl injurious interpreta:
tion in his stubborn adherence to the
contraction policy, Is in direct antago-
niam to the whole PendletOn scheme;
and now that the late Democrats can
didate for Vice President aspires to the
place occupied by his successful rival,
this feeling is intensified. -
The prominent Democratic candi.
dates for President mey-thus be sum-
med up as Seymour, Psnd1eton, Nc
Clellan, Hancock and johnson. or
these PendIeton has probably the best
chance to-day we're "a Convention in