Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-05-27
VIII their Play of the Artful
DOdger be Successful?

VIII their Play of the Artful
DOdger be Successful?
No. The Sandusky Register mistakes
greatly in supposing that it makes one
particle of difference to the Democracy
who is the Republican candidate for Vice
President, or for President either. They
have not any sympathy to bestow upon BEN.
WADE in consequence of being slaughter
ed In the house of his friends at Chicago.
The writer in the Register speaks of Mr..
WADE as 1.-THE old War horse of Ashtabula,"
and that "his place in history and in the
hearts of the people is assured" and thet
ne would have rejoiced at an opportunity
OF rewarding Mr.. WADE tor his fidelity to
the rights of man, could it have been done
toithout endan0ering the ue,y cause he has spent
his life in serving, yet nearly all felt that to
nominate him a0ould be putting a club in the
hands of our enemies.''
Solidly, and with hearty cheerfulness, the
Republican members OF the Ohio General
Assembly voted for the reelection of Mr..
WADE to the United States Senate in JAN
uary last. Thus did these Representatives
of the Republican party testify that he was
faithful exponent and worthy represen-
tative of their principles. 1t did not then
occur to any of the party that that in
dorsement was putting club in the hands
of" the Democrats with which they could
pound and batter seriously the Republican
party. The suggestion arises, that if Sena-
tor WADE's nomination was one that should
nOt hQ M q a O. sr,r, 1od no nf
the party, that this Endorsement of him by
the Republicans in the Legislature, and his
boisterous and almost unanimous indorse-
ment by the Republican State Convention
as the choice of the Republicans OF Ohio as
a Vice Presidential candidate, duplicates
them as fully in his unpopularity as though
he had been nominated. They assumed
the responsibility and are not relieved from
it by his failure 20 receive the nomination.
1t was as much almost as a mans life was
worth to arise in that Convention and de-
clare that the nomination of Mr.. WADE was
not fit one to be made, inasmuch as it
would endanger the success of the party in
the State. One or two delegates did un-
dertake it, when such uproarious excitement
ensued that they were instantly silenced,
and the outsiders were impressed with the
belief that the popularity of Mr.. WADE in
Ohio was without limit.
In the face of this bluster-this seeming
overwhelming enthusiasm in behalf of Mr..
WADE-the Democratic press dared the Re-
publicans to put him in nomination, and
they succeeded in having him defeated.
Why could not Mr.. WADE have been nom-
mated ''without endangering the very cause
he has spent his life in serving?"
He is no more profane, no more rough,
no more infidel now than when he was
elected and reelected to the United States
Senate. He is as pure now as he was then.
What, then, would have made his nomina-
tion an 1nwise one?
He Is an open and avowed Republican
pronounced in his opinions. Through him
you know precisely what the Republican
party aims at. He is outspoken among the
people. He does not do like Senator SHER-
MAN and Speaker CoLFAx, who before the
people pretend to Conservatism and in Con-
gress practice the extreme OF Radicalism.
Senator WADE practices Radicalism in the
Senate and iustifies it as right before the peo-
pie. Suffrage for the Negro everywhere be-
ing one of the cardinal doctrines of the par
ty, he proclaims it from the stump. Gold for
the Bondholder, and paper for the people, be-
ing another cardinal doctrine of the Repub-
lican party, he has been bold to declare that
taught and undertook to put into
practice different doctrine was man of
such loose morals that he would not trust
him near his chicken coop at night. An
other cardinal doctrine of the Radicals be-
ing the dividing up of the lands in the
South among the Negroes, he had the in
discretion to make that public through a
speech at Omaha.
1t was because he has been too open an |
of the principles and purposes of
the Republican party, that the nomination |
Of Mr.. WADE would at this time endanger |
The success of the party, for the Register |
says that through long life he has been |
faithful to good cause, always serving it |
with honesty of purpose-sometimes with |
discretion and sometimes with indiscre-
,ion.''
ANSiohOA SOoAN ei.I AAOPuOAtOouo aholo W
dominate an open and pronounced Repub-
lean for President. The condition of the
party will not admit of it. They imagine
hat they can again cheat the people into
heir support by putting forward man
who has military fame. They admit that
hey nominated ANDREW JOHNSON
or Vice President, not because
hey had any particular confidence
n the man, but through considerations of
and almost ever since they
AVE been in a quarrel with him, while the
of the country have been alto
,ether ignored.
1t is because the principles, measures
md objects of the Republican party are OBJ
to the great mass of the people,
hat they who are known as their conspic-
lous advocates, like Senator WADE, are I'M
popular; but will their play of the 'arttul
odger" be successful?
impeachment Abandoned.
For the time being, the impeachment
oolery is at an end. On Tuesday, the 26tb,
he High Court of Impeachment met pur-
uant to adjournment, and took vote on
he ID and Sd articles of Impeachment
he vote on both articles resulting as the