Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-07-15

occupy an equivocal, good lord and
good devil" position on the bond
question. His nomination falls like q
wet blanket On the western democrats,
among whom vas unquestionably
considerably enthusiasm for Pendleton.
They can not, and will not try, to rally
from the shock, and a comparatively
Efeless campaign viii be the result.
The Republicans are hopeful and
jubilsnt in incorporation as the Democrats
appear discounted and chop fallen.
In fact the latter generally admit that
the election of Grant is Inevitable.
The Republicans could not have been
better suited. They felt there WIS
danger to their cause in the nomina-
ton of Pendleton or Chase. Especially
would the nomination OF Chase
have dealt a staggering blow to the
integrity of the Republican party of
the whole country. The Democrats,
we trust, will never again have sc fair
q chance to involve US in disaster.
It IS 2 trite saying that "troubles
never come singly." This adage is
significantly verified in the nomination
the Democrats made for Vice Presi-
dent. Seymour, it would seem, should
have been regarded as quite load
enough for the disheartened Democra.
cy to carry through the dog days, bat,
if possible, a still more hamlisting
affection was visited THpons them.
Being in a mood Of desperation, with
no comfort in the present and no hope
for the future, they were ready to do,
as Jobs wife impiously advised him
course Sod and die, and in the fever
heat Of that madness they nominated
for vice president F. P. Blair, of Mis-
souri,, 3 mad-cap Republican during
Lincoln's administration, who wss then
only impatient to enjoy the wholesale
job of consigning Southern rebels and
Northern Democrats to a common
perdition by the sword or gsllows.
Since the war, Blair being disappointed
in his political aspirations, has managed
to quarrel with the Republicans, and
intrigue with the Democrats. Under
p~retence of having influence with the
soldiers of the country, he cheated the
Democrats into the very
trick of giving him the second
place on their ticket. Had he been
their most mortal enemy he could not
have conceived q more certain scheme
ior their ir~retreivable ruin.
Their platform, which is claimed to
embrace a suficiency of the Pendleton
theory to make it pAlata-
de to the western democrats, has but
.hree marked features, very succintly
.iven by the New York Pos, as follows :
1. Reputation, in every form ex-
the open and manly one of direct
'eiusal to pay the debt, is recommend
ID. The bonds are to be taxed, in
pite of the direct pledge in the act
the loan, tbat they should
,e free from taxation. They are TO be
,aid in irredeemsble paper, in spite of
he official pledge that they should be
1aid IN coin.
That is, if the candidate of this con-
-ention should be elected.
2. A delicate coquetry Is practiced
o1srds the doctrine of a white mans
5oyernmeut." Immediate reconstruc-
len and suffrage in all the States, will
mean one thing if Mr.. Pendleton is
and a very different thing
hould Mr. Chase be the candidate.
8. The tariff and the internal reve-
lue system are to be so modified as to
i've ~"incidental protection" 20 Ameri-
an industry. The old rallying CRY of
he Henry Clay wings, for 20 tariff for
with incidental protection, is
o be raised by those who claim to be
he successors of VIM. L. Marcy, and
silas Wright. The last shred of the
I'D, t~ime-honored democratic banner,
# equal rights for all men, is gone |
mi the sole object of the party now
s to rescue something of the spirit
# slavery from the ruins of the insti-
utiou, and TO sacrifice the poor man,
north and south, TO the intrigues of
ismagogues and the Interests of arts
So the democratic party enters on
he strife for national supremacy,
its hopes on an alliance be-
.ween two forms of oppression /; capital
,ppressing labor in the North by IN
ust revenue laws, snd in the South
1y preiudices Of race and color.