The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-10-23
Prominent Arrivals In the cay.
The Champions for lS72-Geoera Grant
and Chief Justice Chase.

The Champions for lS72-G eoerat Grant
and Chief Justice Chase.
General Grant, by the leaders, managers
and masses of the republican party, as by
unanimous consent, has been proclaimed their
candidate for the succession His manage
ment Of the affairs of the nation so far has
satisfied his party that he is the right man in
the right place, aud that, carefully and wisely
considering the great questions of the day be-
fore acting upon them, he may be relied upon
for successful and popular administration.
The platform Of his inaugural on negro suf-
frage, our foreign relations and the national
debt has become the republican creed, and
his liberal policy on Southern reconstruction
will doubtless be endorsed by Congress, in
view Of the ratification of the fifteenth amend
ment.
The reconstruction of the ex-rebel States,
therefore, may be considered as settled and
negro suffrage as established throughout the
Union. In the interval to 1872 the Cuban
question will be settled, and, perhaps, the
Mexican question. The Alabama claims, we
apprehend, will remain unsettled, and whether
the money question, including debt, taxes,
internal and external, bonds, banks, cur
rency, &C., will be put into shape
satisfactory to the country it is very
doubtful. The work belongs to Congress,
and Congress, upon the money question in all
its details, is as full of divisions of opinion and
confusion of ideas as were the builders OF
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or blunders Of Congress, we have every reason
to believe that within his sphere General
Grant will still maintain his present command
ing position as the leader and champion Of the
| republican party for another term.
What man, then, as the champion Of the recon
structed democracy-for they will have to be
reconstructed-will be most available against
| Grant in 1872? He cannot be found in the
regular batch before the Tammany Convention
| in 1868. To take up, under the new order of
things, either Seymour, Pendleton, Hendricks,
Packer, Parker, or any other man identified
with the old oopperhead regime, will be only
| to repeat again the disastrous battles oil
1860, 81, 66 and GO. The democracy will
need a candidate whose record through the
war Identifies him with the great revolution
established, and man from the front rank
of the defenders Of the Union cause. TIL,
only available man for the party, in th
view, is Chief Justice Chase Since the lat
and suggestive defeats Of Packer in Pennsylva
MIA and Pendleton in Ohio some sensible
Western democrats hitherto devoted to Pen.
deton recognize the necessity Of a change o
front under the banner Of Chase.
Why not? 1t may be said that the antece
dents Of Mr. Chase are obnoxious to old linz
democrats and in conflict with the ''time
honored principles" Of the party. But this |
all rubbish in the presence Of the fixed fact
that the distinguishing dogmas principles AM
ideas of the democratic party as it was ar
all demolished, defunct, dead and done for
and that another general battle on these dea'
issues will be the dispersion and dissolution 0
the army, rank and file. The champion for tn
democracy, then, is Chase in opposition t
Grant. Thus the two parties will be place
at once on something like equal ground as t
the merits of their candidates. Grant wi