The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-03
The Democratic Candidate-The List fro

delegates, regulars and militia, to the Demo
cratic National Convention. In numerous
cliques and coteriss, right and left, and in
every hole and corner they are discussing the
all-important question, Who is the coming
man2 Great is the effervescence among the
intermingling acids and alkalies of the party.
Whether the party shall remain wrapped up in
its old ragged and rusty garments and die, or
emerge therefrom like the butterfly from its
chrysalis in all the glories of new creation
and new life, is the main proposition. There
is tremendous internal pressure going on in
favor of this Transformation, too powerful, we
believe, to be successfully resisted by the old
Bourhons; but still the issue is in doubt
The list Of Presidential candidates from
which the democratic nomination will be made
is, from the lights at present before us, limited
to the following names:-Salmon ?. Chase of
Ohio, Chief Justice of the United States, dem
ocratic republican; Horatio Seymour, of New
York, democratic bondholders candidate;
George H. Pendleton, of Ohio, whose motto
is ''greenbacks for the bondholders; :" Thomas
A. Hendricks, Of Indiana, second edition of
poor Pierce; General Winfield Scott Hancock,
of Pennsylvania, President Johnson's favorite
military man, because he is more a soldier of
the George Washington type than any other
officer in the army General George B. McClel-
Ian, who carried New Jersey, Kentucky and
Delaware in 1864 against Abraham Lincoln;
Reverdy Johnson, Of Maryland, conservative,
taH nd cd p;o ta
to England; and last, though not least in the
estimation OF his hackers, Andrew Johnson, of
the White House. There are some other pro-
liabilities or possibilities mentioned, but from
this list we believe the democratic champion
against General Grant and the radicals will
be chosen, and we think his name is Chase
Mr.. Seymour we consider, in good faith, out
of the fight as a candidate, but in II as an
active worker for Chase. 1t appears, too, that
he has the New York delegation at his back,
as well as the Empire Club and the mass of
the eighty odd thousand democrats of this
potential democratic metropolis. From the
East and the South the favorite among the
delegates on hand is Chase; but from the
West and the Southwest the Pendleton men
still claim that they have majority of the
Convention. The conflict, therefore, may be
considered as narrowed down to Chase or Pen
dleton, and all these other candidates are
only used as decoys or stalking horses to
divert votes from Pendleton or Chase, when,
after the first two or three ballotngs, the
scattering begins. What, then, are the
chances as between Pendleton and Chase?
Pendleton is strong only as representative
OF the democratic party and platform of the
late war-a sort OF strength which makes him
very weak and which signifies defeat certain
and sure. Chase Is strong as the embodiment
of constitutional law against military domna-
ton and as the representative for the demo-
cracy OF the new order OF things resulting
from the war and fixed in the supreme law Of
the land.
An amendment has been added to the con-
stitution abolishing and interdicting slavery
within the limits and jurisdiction of the United
States; another mendment-article fourteen
has been, or shortly will be, so far ratified by
the States that IL may be now considered part
of the constitution. This amendment, among
other things, on the condition that suffrage and
representation shall 60 together, leaves the
question of suffrage absolutely with the several
States. II upsets the extraneous conditions
imposed by the bills Of restoration upon the
reconstructed States and gives them the full
right to reduce the blacks or the whites, or
both. to a reading and writing or property
qualification. Upon these amendments, with
Chase as their candidate, the democracy may
win in this coming election every one
of the restored Southern States by winning
over the negro balance of power; and
they may also demoish the radicals in the
North on their outrageous Chicago platform,
which endorses compulsory universal negro
suffrage from Congress for the South and negro
suffrage as each State may choose TO have
it in the North. Moreover, 80 broad and clear
and prominent Is the Union record of Chase,
as the financial chief who fed and clothed The
army and the navy and kept the Treasury
above water during the war, that he will fairly
divide the honors of the war with Grant with
the great Union party Of the war
Here, then, are the man and the plan for the
democracy--Chaae and tina nav auenAments