The Shasta courier., 1868-07-18
DEMOCRATIC.

The long agony is over. and the Democrats
have at last found candidates for their Pres
Dental ticket the distinguished honor having
fhlen upon Horatio Seymour, of New York.
and Francis P. Blair. Jr., of Missouri. Geo.
II. Pendieton was the undoubted choice Of
agreat majority of the Democratic voters of
the country, but his nomination was pre-
vented by the schemes and wilv arts of the
professional politicians. Knowing that Pen
dieton was the idol of his party, and that he
would be Nominated if means were not
adopted to thwart the will of the majority.
the New York cabal set to work, and by Sc
curing the meeting of the Convention in that
city, electing Seymour chairman and secur-
ing the adoption of his partial rulings, by
dividing the delegates upon numerous candi-
dates. and thus preventing a concentration
of votes on the Ohio candidate, Seymour was
made master Of the situation. Realizing
that he had been caught in the trap set for
him, and seeing that his opponents had stocked
the cards so as to prevent his nomination,
Pendleton was forced to withdraw, and for
policy's sake endorsed the nomination of
Seymour, his most relentless foe.
That Pendleton a friends in Ohio and other
States viii. accept his defeat as readily as he
was forced to do. is not probable; and if
the expressions of numerous journals of the
Pendleton school are any criterion to judge
by. the Democratic leaders will have hard
work to bring many of tho old liners up to
the support of Seymour and Blair. The
ticket is diStasteful to many of the old Peace
wing, and possesses little attraction for sof
Democrats of the Andy johnson stripe
Seymour's reputation as a wire-pullcr, pro-
fessional politician, and under handed trick
ster will react against him with very damal-
ing effect. The terrible results of the great
riot in New York during the war are directly
record is made up of acts of such repre-
henslble character as to efeclually damn him
in the estimation of every right thinking
man.
Blair's political record is nearly similar to
that of his associate. while his war record.
which is re lily creditable, will have a tend
eney to render his ticket unpopular among
the Peace men of his party. who were al
ready sufficiently disguised at the defeat of
their favorte champion, Pendleton.
The platform contains a string of high
sounding. unimportant resolutions, with the
exception of those which relate to suffrage,
reconstrt ction, and the National debt. The
first of these declare the right of the States
to exercise exclusive control over the matter
of suffrage; the second afirms something
that The Supreme Court has not yet done
that the Reconstruction Laws of Congress
| are Illegal and of no effect: the third favars
payment of the national debt in greenbacks
After reviewing the character and reputa
ton of the nominees, the manner in which
the ticket placed in the field, and exam
ming the main points in the platform, we
feel like congratulating our Union friends
on the result of the New York Convention
as we firmly believe that the action of that
body has rendered the triumph of Grant and
Colfax doubly sure We fully agree with
the New York Herad-that weather-cock
which always turns to the winning side
when it declares that the action of the Com
vention has rendered the triumph of the Re
publican nominees certain.