Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1868-09-16

their trust, under God, in the intelligence,
the patriotism and discriminating Justice
of the American people, declare their tlx-
ed adhesion to the great principles OF
equal rights and equal justice for all men
and all states.
That wise regard to the altered cir.
| cumstances of the country, and impartial
| justice to the mill lions who have been en-
franchised, demand the adoption of all
proper constitutional measures for the
protection, improvement and elevation OF
this portion of the American people.
That in land of Democratic iristltu-
tions, all public and private interests re-
pose most securely on the broadest basis
of suffrage"
The platform has fifteen planks, and is
at the service of the World, if that paper
will publish it. The provisions are more
liberal than those of the Chicago or the
| New York platform as adopted.
Mr.. Seymour approved and urged Mr.:
Chase's nomination on the platform from
which have just quoted, and if he dem
les it [ will prove it on him How does
Mr.. Seymour reconcile his approval Of
this platform with the declaration that
the reconstruction acts of Congress are,
unconstitutional, revolutionary and void, "
with the letter of General Blair to Colon
e. Brodhead, which secured his nomina-
ton, and with his own letter of accept:
ance?
AS weeper I regard Mr.. Seymour as
fully the equal of Job Trotter; as a man
of moral courage he rivals Bob Acres
but I do think that the attempt of few
designing politicians, in whose hands he
has always been suppliant tool, to foist
him upon the American people as IN any
sense statesman, is the grandest farce
ever attempted in this country. When
our nation SO far forgets its pride, its ad-
miration of true courage, and martial
glory and warlike spirit of our race, and
the memory of the dear heroes who died
in the field Of battle to make us what We
are, as to elect such a man as Horatio
Seymour President, then I shall expect to
see the eagles meet in convention and
elect buzzard as their king.
The Chicago Journal has the following
which is fit sequel to the above:
"Sin is like the letting out of water"
first rivulet then river So it is with
the revelations in relation to Horatio Sey=
mour's nomination for the Presidency,
made by Colonel Brown, of Kentucky:
Before his speech had ceased to echo,
others took up the same strain, and pour:
ed torrent Of "open secrets" along the
channels of current news Col. Brown
himself made highly interesting second
expose, and still more important tales of
out of school have been told by Mr.. Hen
ry Reed, until recently leading editorial
writer on the Cincinnati Enquirer, and
by Hon. Alexander Long, ex-member of
Congress from the Cincinnati district.
Says Mr.. Reed:
1.-The conduct of Mr.. Seymour before
and at the convention is conclusive upon
the point of his fitness for the Office of
Presidency of the United States. This
is no time for either weaklings or trick
sters at the head of the Government and
that Mr.. Seymour is either pitifully weak
or fagrantly dishonest, is a proposition
which can not safely be disputed. In
deed, it is virtually admitted. How the
conductors of Journals in his interest feel;
is shown as we'll by what they leave una
said as by what they say They do not
care to touch upon the circumstances
which surrounded the nomination-thas
amazing and almost incomprehensible
coup de thim65e-rig, through whose means
the bread which the people wanted was
snatched from them at the instant when
they thought they had it in their grasp;
and the stone which they did not want
thrust cold and henumbing into their en-
brace.
"The speech of Mr., Brown represents
Mr. Seymour as, in all his public mani
festations, advocating the nomination of
Mr.. Chase, even to the extent of pledging
his personal honor not, under any circum-
stances, to be candidate against him.
Yet the Pendleton letter-the snoble
letter of June 25-implies that within
the knowledge of the writer, Mr.. Scy-
mour was thinking of the Presidency as
long ago as last fall; even before he be.
gan his continued series Of elaborate de-
clinations [ have for some time been of
the opinion that the hand of Mr.. Sey-
mour is to be seen in the platform
though the work may have been done
through another; and that those PROPOSE
tions to which, whether true or not-in-
velving as they do points which may be-:
come judicial questions-Mr. Chase, the
Judge, could not consistently commit
himself, were elaborated and inserted for
the express purpose of adding to the
chances of Seymour when all other can
didates having been extinguished, he and
hIr. Chase should be brought face to face
as rivals On the final throw for the nom
ination. It is hard to believe that men.
of whom the world has been inclined to
think well, can carry duplicity to an ex-
tent so dishonorable but, with the facts
before us, opinion is a thing which can
not remain suspended.
Mr.. Long adds the following new leaf
to this volume of secret history:
'.In conversation with a prominent
New York politician, Governor Seymour
said That under no circumstances what
ever coald he consent to become can
didate-said lie was weighed down with
family griefs and domestic troubles--that
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