The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-23

tween the torpid intellect of the swordsman
aud the broad sagaCity of the statesmen will
now shine out with full lustre. The best use
10 which the Republicans can put their oandi-
date is to keep his mouth shut and prevent
bis exposing his narrow, barren intel
leot. But the most effective use the
Democratic party can make of its candidate is
TO bring him out, as Disraeli, and Gladstone,
and Bright come out and rouse the people by
their vigor In contested election. In
great political crisis, 1t is the right Of the
people to know what their most masculine
thinkers and breadest statesmen can say to
enlighten the public judgment. The people
have an especial interest in gnaging those who
are proposed for the highest official trusts aud
looked to as the guiding minds of their re-
speotive parties. Guiding minds Who ever
thought of General Grant as one Of the great
political thinkers of his time H--or as a re-
spectacle political thinker G-or even as me-
diocre political thinker H-or as a political
thinker of any sort or size He think he
enlighten the public judgment He shape
the political views Of his countrymen
He inspire his contemporaries with
far.reaching views Of public policy
We never heard that tortoise could
poise himself in the sky, like an eagle, and
take the bearings of a mountain range. 1t is
a function for which his powers of looomotion
have not fitted him. What the country needs
in this great oonjuncture is a statesman. 1t is
a misnomer to apply that term to General
Grant. Instead of ranking, like Governor
Seymour, with the Glsdstones and the Disraelis,
he ranks nowhere. He is impotent to do any
one thing expected of men of that class. If he
should ever be President, his very messages,
if they rise above inane platitudes and dull
recital of statistics, will have to be written for
him by others. The idea of his recommend
ing to Congress anything more important than
would occur to the members, is so absurd as to
la M Iah has all
to infuse new spirit into this political can
vass, or to animate and illuminate it with
great, inspiring thoughts.
But in Governor Seymour the Democratic
party has an important reserved of statesmanlike
qualities which can be made to tell st once on
the canvass. His luminous mind and vigor-
ous eloquence will enable him to lodge in the
public mind views that cannot afterwards bs
got rid of. So active and powerful mind is
Eever at the end of its resources; and as sue
cess is mere question OF controlling public
opinion, and public opinion is controlled by
ideas, he has every advantage, both in the
possession of the proper weapons and consum-
mate skill to use them. He brings rifed artil-
lery and needle-guns, while all his opponents
fight with arms of shorter range and less cali
bre, and poor General Grant has no weapon
at all.
The effect of Governor Seymour's stamping
the canvass with the impress of his own
liberal and capacious intellect, will be to efface
the raw head and bloody. bones nonsense and
| the obsolete trivialisms lugged into the can
| vass from state of things now completely
past. All that the country ought to care for
| is the solution OF present questions by
methods which fall within the domain of the
statesman and exclude the methods of the
soldier. When pertinent matter is ably pre-
sented by statesman possessing unrivaled
power to command attention the foolish irrele-
crp1s al, hou ll.l
canvass will shrink out of view. The i'm
| portant practical question is, How many new
| votes will thereby be brought to the
| Democratic side Is it extravagant to
expect four hundred in Indiana? If
| not, we shall carry Indiana. Is it beyond
bounds to expect four thousand in Pennsyl-
| vania IL not, Pennsylvania is also ours;
and so of many other States. But besides Il
| great bringing up Of reserves under the mot
| d'orotre of Governor Seymour, we shall have in
Pennsylvania another great advantage which
we did not possess in the October election.
BY redeeming Philadelphia, as we have done,
and getting possession of its city government,
We nullify force that was used against us,
and turn it into corresponding advantage.
1t in like capturing the chief battery of the
enemy and reversing its guns. By the
knavery of the Republican city government
and police force, we were cheated out of votes
enough in Philadelphia to have saved us the
ptate' we shall now nave III Ln8t city lull
| Democratic vote and an honest count. We
possess another advantage in the very elation
of the Republicans over their success in the
State elections. Their over-sanguine conf
dence will slacken their exertions. The cry
which they have raised of "a Democratic
rout" will simply throw their own troops into
disorder. They have committed the fatal mis-
take Of treating maneuvre for better posi-
tion as if it were retreat and they are
destined to pay a fatal penalty. The Repub-
wiser it would have been to keep by the
adage, "not to halloo till you are out of the
woods"
The Movement to Set Aside Seymour and