The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1868-06-10
VOL. XI.

ton action of Congress-urge the re-
turn of the South to the Union upor
that basis-and take the broad grounC
of Unirersal Manhood Suffrage, with.
out distinction of race or color, only
leaving it to the action of the State.
themselves, 1t is impossible to i'm,
agine greater revolution in a party
than this"
We propose this is so, Mr.. Chase
on Copperhcad platform, would be
the weakest of all possible candidate.
weaker, even than Vallandigham
We do not, Of course, imply that he
would consent to run on any such
platform; we only state a fact verified
by ample experience when we say that
he would be beaten out of sight. Mr.
Chase is Il very able and strong man
but he has no signal personal popular
ity. On Copperhcad platform, Val
landigham would receive the votes of
three to seven States; Chase would
hardly get one. But it is idle to talk
ofthis. If he is not to run on his own
platform, he cannot run at all.
The Times continues:
at may safely be assumed that
nothing but the desperate sense Of
party necessity could bring any party
to it, and it is scarcely possible that
two-thirds of the Democratic party
should concur in taking so desperate a
view OF its fortunes.
"Nor is it at all certain that the ac-
ton proposed would save the party.
If the whole strength of the party
could be relied ON in support of it,
there might be some chance of its sue
cess. There are unquestionably some
elements Of disailecton in the Repub-
lican ranks, though they are much less
influential than they were before the
Chicago Convention; and if their
strength could be added to the full
Democratic vote, it would give the
Democracy a fair chance of CARRYING
several important Northern States,
which would be certain for Grant as
against any regular nominee of the
Democratic party. But, with Chase
as their candidate, and Universal Ne
gro Suffrage in their platform, the
Democrats expect also to divide the
Southern colored vote, and so to carry
several of the Southern States. This
Of course, involves the utter abandon
ment Of the doctrine that this is ex-
clusively the the "Whitc Mans Gov
ernmcnt," which is just now the cardi-
nal feature, the cornerstone, the only
essential and fundamental principle,
of the Democratic faith as held by the
Democrats of the Southern States.
ave are inclined to think, there
fore, that if the Democrats were to
make Mr.. Chase their candidate, fre
Democrats, both North and South,
would vote for Grant, where one Re
publican, black or white, in either Sec
ton would vote for Chase"
We think the Times here undertakes
the perfection Of the Democratic dis
cipline. Abstractly, one would say
that nothing could be more difficult
than to induce the Irish and Dutch of
Cincinnati to vote for Gen. Sam. Cary
AN avowed Republican, "a Maine
law fanatic" &c, &c; but Wash. Me
Lean held up his finger and said,
"Note for Cary!" and dthey all went it.
If Judge Chase shall be nominated
in Tammany Hall, 18th of July next,
there will next morning be at least
one million Democrats swearing that
they won't touch him with a ten-foot
pole. A week later, these will be re-
duced to half a million; in month,
to one hundred thousand; and these,
by Election day, will have dwindled |
to a point invisible to the naked eye.
Didn't Ben. Harris protest, in the last
Democratic National Convention, that
his fellow rebels in Maryland would |
nerer vote for Mcclellan? Yet look |
at the solid and heavy vote for him of
Charles, Prince Georges, st. Mary's,
and all the pro-Rebel counties!
We concur with the Times to this
extent-that it is now too late to beat
Grant and Colfax with Chase and
Hancock, Chase and Dix, or any 9TH
er ticket. We think majority of the
voters have made up their minds to
have Gen. Grant in the White House
next March. If, then, the world is
sure to be burned up before 1872, the
Times calculation is sound one.
But, assuming that the general con-
iagration may be mercifully postponed,
,he Times takes too narrow view
IF the situation. If you are doomed
% be beaten in a race, there is still a
,hoice between running it on aslead
morse and live one. The Wing par
y was beaten on Henry Clay in 1874;
out it was stronger month after than
| month before that deleat-carried
he next House of Representatives,
md elected the next President. 1t
vas beaten again on Gen. Scott in
1862, and had hardly strength enough
% kick ever afterward.
If the Democratic party shall now
,e beaten on Chauncey Burr and
Clay Dean Copperhead platform, it is
,eaten to stay. Reputation crushes
in the North; Negro prescription
md degradation forbids it to rise in
he South, 1t fixes itself on the for
orn position of the Tories of the Rev,
,lution-the Federalists after the War
# 1872. And perhaps this is better
or the country, as it certainly is the