The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-05-22
FOR PRESIDENT,
rOK VICE PRESIDENT,
WE place at the head of our columns

WE place at the head of our columns
this morning the names of the men who
will be elected President and Vice
President of the United States next
observation-disclosures Ulysses s. Grant
and Hon. Schuyler Coliaxi And we
do 1t with the full conviction that no
happier, no more fitting and no strong
er combination could have been mado
with any two men in America. The Con-
vention could not possibly have done
better. We do not see how it could
say that absolutely the best men have
been selected-R thing that rarely hap
pens in political convention.
The nomination of Grant was virtu-
ally made by the country long before
the Convention met, so that really
the only question for the Convention
was, who should be Vice President,
The unpleasant experience In that line
since the Baltimore Convention has
taught us n lesson that was not
forgotten at Chicago. AS was
suggested in the Convention, there will
he no temptation to assassinate Grant,
ior no John Tyler, nor Willard Fill
more, nor Andrew johnson will stand
behind him. Many good names were
before tho Convention for the second
place on the ticket, but no one II seems
to us so happily adapted in all respects
as Colfax. In the two, we unite the
highest abilities and the most exalted
S,N he ,,1 al %.
and in both alike we have the purest
private character. Our ticket, there
fore. commands both admiration and
confidence.
The news was received in the city
about the middle OF the afternoon yes
terdAy, and was the theme OF all
tongues. The nomination of Grant
was OF course anticipated, but the selec-
ton OF Colfax gave universal satisfac-
tIon among Republicans. We believe
no other man in the United States
was so generally preferred here and
throughout the State for the second
place on the ticket; and while we do
not know what vote our delegation
cast, We believe majority of them
went to Chicago prepossessed in Mr..
Colfax "a favor. Other men, like Curtin
and Fenton, were urged as likely to
make the ticket stronger in their own
Suites, yet in the aggregate Colfax Is
vastly stronger than any of them, and
we are not sure but he is stronger in
New York than Fenton, and in Penn
sylvania than Curtin. BE has friends
everywhere, and warm and enthusiasts
ito friends. He is comparatively a
young man, and Is therefore spoken Of
az the young mems candidate, who be-
ginning as an editor has risen to the
third highest position in the Govern
ment, and Is now virtually chosen to
the second. At the. same time he is a
man whose pre-eminent abilities,
whose experience and whose ster-
ling and manly craftsmanship COM
mend him toall, old or young.
AS TO the platform It will be seen
that Il embraces the strong and dis
tinctiye planks upon which the great
Union party of the country in and out
of Congress, have stood since the end
of the rebellion. 1t is safe and strong
and broad, one that every honest and
loyal man can stand on. sa Sos 5
This is the line, fellow Republicans,
on which we shall fight it out and win
With Grant and Colfax we shall Chase
the copperheads to their holes long be.
fore the November frosts.