Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-14
PRESIDENTIAL.
CHASE.
Fromothe BeElefonts Pa.l Waterman. Demo
cratie1

eratic.)
Mr.. Chase has been lifelong opponent
of Democratic measures and Democratic
men, and if nominated by the political
tricks Of political tricksters as a candidate
of the Democracy, would stand no more
chance of an election than Thad. Stevens
soul does of salvation. In this county he
would not get five votes, and in the whole
central part of the State he would not poll
| Eve thousand. As to the defeat of Pendle-
ton. or q Democrat like him, it don't lay in
the power Of bondholders, and those who
can be bought by them, to accomplish it..
The people, the laboring, tax-paying people,
intend TO name the candidate this time,
in spite of politicians, and they will name
no one who can not stand upon Pendleton's
platform of equal taxation, or whose De-
mocracy has shadow of doubt about it.
From the Chicago Journal (RadicaS1
It would not be at all strange if he
| (Chase) really expects to win the day.
| His political career would seem to Justify
such an expectation. As politician, he
| has been successful in everything except the
Presidency, and yet he has rarely, if ever,
been the real choice of the people. Coali-
/ ton has always been his reliance. The
| first Office of any importance which he
/ ever filled was that of United States Sena-
| tor, to which he was selected vixen he was
the first choice of only two members of the
Legislature.
From the Chicago Times. lDemocraticl
The nomination of Judge Chase would
freeze the active sympathies Of thousands
of Democrats beyond the power of party
| efforts to Warra them. On the other hand,
nothing would SO greatly arouse the thirst
of vengeance that constitutes so powerful
an impulse in the Radical party. The de-
sire to punish Judge Chase for "recreancy"
would override even the desire of Winning
a political victory.
| From the Ohio Statesman, (DemOcratic)
Will the Democratic National Conven-
ton prove true or false to the Taxpayers
and the millions engaged in creative indus
try, or will they, too, see and think of no
body in their action but the bondholding
and non-taxpaying capital interests? All
the movements directed just now against
| Mr.. Pendleton's nomination-the move
ments in behalf of Hancock and Chase
are not directed personally at him. They
are directed against the creative industry
and thetaxpaying interest of the country
against the holders of the plow--against
| the workers at the anvil-against those who
shove the plane-against those who work
with the pick and shoyel-against those
who work with the trowel-against those
who work with the lapstone--against those
| who work in the mines-against those who
work railroads and run csnals-against
those who are engaged in all sorts of me-
chanical and merchandising pursuits.
From the New York Commercial ADVERTISED.
H- i (Thurlow Weed)
Mr.. Chase is very loudly and often nen-
toned as the Democratic candidate for the
Presidency. Could anything more sig
| nificantly mark the desperate straights in
which the Democratic fortunes are in
volved? Time was when Tilton and Gree
ley helped veneer the character of the
Chief Justice, and tried to make the people
believe, what Mr.. Chase has no doubt OF,
that he embodies in his single self all the
virtue and wisdom extant. Now, since
their candidate has proved himself SO
worthy Of their laudation, aud has gone
over to the Democracy, they call him rene
gade, and declare that their innocence has
been betrayed by this gay deceiyer.
Mr.. Chase never had any personal popu-
larity. He lacks magnetism. Ststuesque
in his poses, he is as cold as marble. Place
him on a Democratic platform, made after
the average sentiment of that party, and he
would be the baIdest hypocrite and time
server that ever illustrated the annals of
any age or country, or that ever met de-
served defeat Placed on what used to be
his own platform, his followers would di-
minish to less than cOrporsPs guard. In
either event, his future has Failure" writ
ten all over it.
Communication to Cincinnati Commercial
| noticed in this mornings Commercial
communication from "a Kentucky Dem
ocrat," urging the nomination OF Chief
Justice Chase for President by the APP
preaching New York Democratic Conven-
ton. Kentucky Democrat" wants sue
cess, and is willing to do any thing to Sc
cure it. That is what has ruined the Dem
ocratic party. Like the Russian mother
who flung her children to the wolves to
save her own life, the Democratic party
has time and time again surrendered its
dearest principles to its opponents to secure
success, and it deserves the same fate as
the woman referred to received.
If chase is nominated by the New York
Convention, and the true Democrats of
the land do not put ticket in the field
representing their principles, there are
hundreds of thousands Of Democrats in
the country who will take no part in the
canvass, and wall not go to the polls, but
will leave the whole burden of the politi-
cal campaign to those who can see and ap-
preciate the difference "betwixt tweedle-
dom and tweedledee," and whose easy and
elastic consciences will permit them to re-
peat the Cary folly on larger scale. True
Democrats will have nothing TO do with
the election of Chase. If they are to go
outside Of their party for their nominees
for Office, they could do no better than to
ratify the nomination Of Grant and Colfax.
Yours truly, Fl
HENRY M. BEADLE.
Washington Correspondence Louisville Journal
of the 18th. .
Much of the 'Chase movement" ia
pressure. Mr.. Chase has some friends of
his own, and all of the enemies of Mr..
Pendleton TO work for him. The idea of
course is to divert the current from Pendle-
ton. 1t would be queer if after all the
convention finds itself unable to agree and
is thrown back on the nomination of the
present incumbent.
New York Ev ening Post (Republioan.)
The nomination of Mr.. Chase for the
Presidency, by Democratic Convention,
upon platform of principles prescribed by
himself, and with a candidate for the Vice
Presidency his equal IN character and POI
litical antecedents, would be an advent of |
first.rate importance in our political |
history. II would signify general disso-
luton of parties an abandonment of the
old grounds of difference which the events |
Of the last seven years have already made
and a rediviaion of parties upon
the grounds of struggle which obtained
before the slavery question absorbed all
others.
To thoughtful politicians, some such
change in the relations of parties has long
seemed inevitable; and perhaps only the
unfortunate quarrel between Mr.. johnson
and Congress. and the Presidents own
short-sighted obstinaey, and faithlessness to
sound Democratic ideas, have prevented
hitherto this event, which must take place
before the questions out Of which the war