The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1868-06-25
Consolidation Of the Republic
(, .tr can Party. r,.N.


Consolidation Of the Republi.
y en can Party. r,h
Neveri in tho history of politica'
parties has the choice, by a great
party, of u candidate for the Prosi
dency been made with such abso
lutte unanimity us in the case Of
General Grant. The day that il
was known that ho would accep;
such nomination he was virtual.
ly nominated Three months be.
fore the meeting of the Chicago
Convention, all opposition to bis
nomination had disappeared. Tho
name of every other candidate had
disappeared. Convention day
came and it appeared that ho was
tho first choice of every delegate
from every Territory and State.
When Grant was promoted 10
the rank Of Lieutenant General
and afterwards raised to the grade
OF General Of the Armies, there
was manifested throughout the
armies Of the country, universal
ncquiescence and appreciation
No officer or soldier, no journal, no
public man, then gave public ex,
preston to the opinion that these
honors were not rightiully bestow.
ed. Neither Sherman, nor Sheri-
dan, nor Halleck, nor Thomas, nor
Meade, denied that Grant had
fairly won tho honor to rank over
him II these repeated evidences
of public confidence and esteem
are not proofs of merit in the TO.
cipientof such great honors, VIC
are at u loss TO know what they
signify. H l.1.
What is true in regard to the
unanimous approval ny the Union
party OF General Grants nomina
ton, is equally true with reference
to the candidate Tor Vice President
and tho platform. We use no mat.
ter, of course phrase when we say
tho action of the Chicago Conven-
ton has been approved of by the
Union party with extraordinary
unanimity. Not within our recol.
lection has the action of o political
Convention mot with u moro un.
qualified Endorsement. The facts
that establish this statement are
undeniablc. No Republican with
in the United States, whose obscu-
rity is not such as 10 cause him to
escape tho eye Of a microscope. has
expressed disupproval of the Re.
publican ticket or platform. No
journal making any prctentions to
Rcpublicanism, from Maine to
California, or from Florida to Alas
ka, fails to como up fairly and
to the support of our tick.
ot The support Of those organs Of
popular opinion is not halfway,
timid, or qualified support, but is a
whole soulcd, emphatic, nncondi.
tional support. This is most sig.
nificant fact.
And again, newspapers that
havo not heretofore been classed
as Republican papers, ofwhich the
New York Times, Boston Common
and Eric Dispatch, may be
mentioned as representatives, are
heartily aud earnestly supporting
General Grant, When powerful
influences arc won over, when
doubtful elements cease to bo
and when all political
prodigals return to their homos,
there is a union of forces and a
Of strength that arc
irresistible. That IS the case in
tho Union party to day. All
stragglers have returned, tho ranks
have been closed up, and the Grant
Army Of the Republic moves for
ward with an unbroken front and
in solid array. Never was there a
moro compact column. We have
had not one doserter since our
great chieftain took tho field.
We have spoken Of tho support
If tho independents journals and
papers Of hitherto uncertain politi-
al proclivities rs one Of tho most
signs of the times. The
,ress at all times is tho best index
If popular sentiment. And judged
jy this tcst, tho action of tho Chi.
,ago Convention has consolidated
ind crystalizcd the Union senti-
nUnts Of tho country into rcsistlcss
political forces that will boar down
III opposing forces.
Proofs OF the popularity of our
ickct exist In every community.
rherc nro perhaps twenty men in
his city who have heretofore vot-
I'd cvory kind Of ticket but an un.
scratched Republican ticket, who
iavo been now for us and now
against us, n little this and q little
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