New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-05-22
THE NOMINATIONS.

THE NOMINATIONS.
| It was not necessary to hold Convention to
| designate the Republican candidate for Presl-
dent. The People had already decided that
they would vote for ULYSSES S. GRANT, and
nobody else. We tried for a while to persuade
them that they could do better but they would
not hear u.s. The nomination of Gen. Grant
by every delegate from every State and
! Territory comprised within the boundaries
of our Union was q simple proclamation
| of what the masses had already de
cided. The wild enthusiasm wherewith his
name was hailed will roll irrcpressiby from
the Bay of Fundy to the Pacific. Apart from
all politics and parties the People are for
Grant and his vote will far exceed that OF
the most popular candidates for Governor
Congress, &C., who may be run on the same
ticket. We predict that both his Electoral and
his Popular majOrities will exceed those OF
Lincoln over Mcclellan.
Those who would fan make-believc that the
soldiers who fought CALAMITY for the Union
are not heartily for Grant, deceive nonc-not
| even themselves. Should Hancock be the Dem
ocratic nominee, he may possibly poll one-tenth
of the votes of the Union Volunteers, with
nine -tenths of that cast by their paroled pris-
| oners who fought for Secession; but, as against
| a Peace Democrat, we believe that Grant will
make nearly a clean sweep of the Unions de-
| tenders. Quite n number may still expect "a
oppose him on partisan grounds; but, long be-
fore the campaign is ended, the foolish calum-
MES of his assaants will impel them TO "vote
"as they shot" AS the well remembered long
roll is sounded in their ears, they cannot resist
the soldierly impulse to fall in"
Gen. Grant will receive more votes from re-
constructed Rebels than could be obtained for
any other man who fought CALAMITY, success
| fully for the Union. Faithful to his country
and her flag, he was ever a magnanimous foe
and no man is more anxious than he that the
bloody, hateful past should be speedily OBJ
scured by a genuine fraternity and mutual
| good will He fought, not to degrade and de-
stroy, but to exat and to save. There is NO other
American in whom all interests and all sections
cherish so profound a trust as in Ulysses S.
Grant. Hence, the strength evinced by the Re
| publcans in intermediate local contests will be
| no measure, no test, of that which will be de-
velOped when the People come to vote con-
sciously for him.
| SCHUYLER COLFAx is a native of this city, now
45 years old. His mother, early widowed, married
again, and removed to Northern Indiana where
Schuyler, after his school-days, first became a
clerk in q store, but, before he had attained
his majority, developed taste and aptitude
for journalism He established or purchased The
| 81. Joseph VALLEY Register at South Bend, and
soon made it power in the land. He was a
canvasser quite as soon as he was of age, and
bore an effective part in the Clay campaign of
| 1874. AS his County Est. Joseph never failed
to stand by him, he was chosen In 1850 a mem
Der of the Convention which framed the present
Constitution of Indiana, and bore prominent
part therein, though still young and in pO-
litical minority.
In 1851, he was first a candidate for Congress,
and beaten 238 votes, in poll of 1914, by G..
N. Fitch, his Democratic competitor In 1854,
he was again nominated, and was now tri-
umphanty elected as he has been at each
subsequent election for Representative in
Congress down to this hour. The ablest and
most effective Democratic canvassers in the
District have been successfully pitted against
him, often with high hopes of success always
doomed to be blasted. Here is the aggregate
vote on either side at each election:
1881. .COlfax. elIs Fitch ......... o3s6
Ioo4 "Cobax......... $3.50 Eddy. .......... 1928
| 1855. .COlfax. ......... 70 g2s gtuart I, 600
| HhJR. .Cofax an .,o