The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-05-27

sg.P. Kinsrd, NeHberry @. a.,
James Grant, Union.
-6s'fsaltf lrsstiag thel lissue. o i.sio5
"The New York Herald suggests the
following mode'of meeting the issue:
We come then, TO the inquiry,
how 10 this ticket to be beaten?1 From
present indications, the Republicans
have somo show of reason for the
boast that Grant and Colfax will walk
over the course? But "the race is
not always bofhe swift, nor the battle
to- the strong. 1l.s In 1862, it was
thought that Gen, Scott would walk
over the course. The Wings and De-
mocrats of that day stood upon the
same platform--Henry iClay's great
.compromise measures Of 1850. But
behind Scott stood Seward and the
Northern abolition. league, and, fear-
ing that Seward and his abolition af-
'filiations would control the admins
stration of Scott, if elected, and reopen
the troubles Of the slavery agitation,
the people spontaneously turned over
to poor Pierce, and he was elected by
an electoral majority exceeding that
jofuHarrison in 1840. So now, the
radical influences which lie behind
Grant and Colfax, may create re-
action against them. Grant, we
know, is'not, like Scott, to be caught
writing long letter on politics after
ia hasty plate, of soup;"' nor is he the
travelling, campaigner to be caught
with his breeches down; but for all
that, the power behind the throne,
welded by such men as Stevens,
Simmer, Butler and Wade, may
weaken this otherwise powerful ticket
of Grant and Colfax.
81, Again, why have the Republicans
chosen both their candidates from the
West? Is it because they fear that
Pendleton's greenback theory had as
much to do with the last October
election in Ohio, as negro suffrage,
and that accordingly it will need the
combined Western strength of Grant
and Colfax to overcome this current
of popular opinion in that quarter?
We cannot tell;. but there must be
some danger here. or this Chicago
Convention would have taken O more
definite position than it has declared
on the redemption of the national
debt. In the interval to the Fourth
of July, we expect to be further en-
lightened npon this important sub
ject. If the Western Democracy
control their national party Conven-
tion, Pendleton and his greenback
system will try the strength Of Grant
and Colfax in the West; but other
wise the strength of the Democratic
ticket, and the fight for it may be in
the East, with New York as the CEN
tre of their operations.
In any event, whatever may be the
strength or weakness of the Repub.
lican Presidential ticket or platform,
East or West, there will be fine
opening, cutting in here, there and
everywhere, for all the elements, in
Guiding the Republican conservatives
opposed to ultra radicalism-a fine
opportunity, we say, to defeat the
radicals in the elections for the next
Congress, They may be cut up in
detail by judicious conservative COM
binations and independent Republi-
can nominations, East and West, and
thus. even in the event of Grants
election, the game of the radicals
may be blocked in the House of Rep.
resentatives, as the first essential step
to their complete overthrow. The
Republicans have the advantages of q
strong ticket, flexible platform, and
of being the first in the field. BY
the 4th of July, they will be we'll
organized army, fully equipped and
entrenched in strong position. By
strategy, by regular approaches or by
storm, their works must be carried, II
carried at all. Pendleton proposes
to storm them y Belmont proposes
the more cautious method of regular
approaches; we propose strategy and
the Hawking process. This is the
best that we can do; and if it is not
enough, we must turn over the diff
cult problem to the wise men of the
Manhattan Club. b.-Ne,o Fork Herald.