The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-08-19
The President and Judge Dents
Candidacy.

| utude OF the President towards the noml-
nee Of their party. The Republican
states, what of course everybody knows
to be true, that the President had nc
agency whatever in bringing forward
Judge Dent as a candidate but TO this il
adds, what everysensible person supposes,
knowing the relations subsisting between
the parties, that before accepting the nomin.
alton, Judge Dent consulted the President
who advised him, in pursuance of the
example which he himself had set in the
case of his own nominption to the Presi-
dency, to become a candidate; assuring
him of his best wishes, and of the graft
fication his success, and particularly
the success of the great measure of re-
construction with which his candidacy is
identified, viz: the adoption of consti-
tuition guaranteeing the civil and political
rights of all-would afford him.
This is the true declaration of the atti-
tnde Of the President in reference to the
nomination of his brother-in-law. There
is no man living who can say that he has
uttered word indicating opposition to
his becoming candidate. All the arts
of the earpet-bag delegation, with Ames
at their head, who posted to Washington
on the announcement of Judge Dents
candidacy, to induce the President to in
terfere on the false ground that he was
the nominee of ''bolters" and "disloyal
rebels" utterly failed. Gen. Grant did
not see it that way. And if from motives
of delicacy he has abstained from enter
ing khe lists actively in behalf of the
National Republican candidate, against
the candidate of another set of men
who absurdly claim that they are the
simon-pure friends of his reconstruction
policy, which was adopted against their
earnest circumstances, he has been equal
" careful to say nothing in contradiction
of his original expression, that he would
be gratifed at the Judges election. He
well knows that it would be the highest
proof that the people could give of their
determination to carry out his scheme Of
government liberal and just to all, in
contradistinction to the proscriptive plan
of the Eggleston-Alcorn faction. The
President having repudiated the scheme
of the Eggleston faction to force the ''re-
jected' constitution on the people, and
given them an opportunity to vote down
the DISTINGUISHING clauses, has promised
them fair election, and in proof that he
is in earnest, officers of the United States
who conducted the election in Virginia,
with an impartiality which has not been
impeached, have been sent to conduct it.
The Northern Press and Southern
| Reconstruction.
We have said that the most influential
of the Republican press in the North, if
not openly in accord with the movement
of the Liberal Republicans, have pro-
tested against outside interference to their
prejudice. Two of the members of the
Cabinet, Boutwell, and Cresswell, speak
ing for themselves, and not for the Presi-
dem, endorsed Wells in Virginia, and
Stokes in Tennessee, and presumed to
dictate to the people of those States how
they should vote. In reference to this
officious intermeddling, the New York
! Times makes the following, among Other
pointed, comments:
The Standardization and the SOutll'
ern Republicans.
The interference of Messrs. Boutwell, anG
Creswell in the Tennessee contest has called
forth very decided protests from the Repub'
Iican Press. II is rebuked as indecOr0us, in
expedient, and calculated to place the Admin
istration in an embarrassing position. The
opinion is widely expressed that if interfer'
ence were to be had at all, it should be at thu
instance of the Administration as such-no
on the part of Individual Secretaries, ach'
cannot pretend to speak for more than themselves
Upon this subject zoe hare get to see the first Re
publican journal, haring any pretension to char
dcter or influence, tckich indOses Mr.. BoutuCeH1
letter, or qppEauds the attitude Of ,ohtch i is tn
expression.
l. The President meanwhile adheres to TIT
4 only course that is consonant with his posi-
ton, or with the future welfare of the Re
publican Party. AS between opposing sec
tions of the party. he preserves rigid neu
trality. What he did in regard to Virgini;
he has so far done in regard to TeDnesse
and his action riH no doubt be repeated in Mis-
Lsissippi and Texas. He held the scales ever
while the Virginians determined the rela
tive excellence of Walker and Wells; anC
he can scarcely do less in the other cases.
On this subject, the n. Y. Herald
another influential organ of public opin
ion in the North, holds the following EN-
phatic language
The Administration and the POIit
zeal Parties south.
Mr.. Boutwell, first, and now Mr.. Creswell
have attempted to interfere in the local at
fairs of Tennessee in favor of the ultra rad
icals and for political ends. Ofcourse it wa
supposed by these gentlemen that their Off
cial position as members of General Grant
Cabinet would have great weight in thu
elections and in turning the scale favorably
for the ultra radical party. The effect may
be contrary to what they expected, and thu
voters of Tennessee may be indignant a
the conduct of these officials; but whateve
may be the result, both Mr.. Boutwell, anC
Mr.. Creswen have gone beyond their dutl
and are guilty of in.pertinent Interference d
the affairs Of Southern State. 1t is an out
rage upon the people Of Tennessee and
disgrace TO the administration of which they
form a part. The question naturally arises
did the President know of and endorse tn
ii action, Of tl,nsn rnannho ~ his Cabinet