Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-05-28
why Chase was not Nom
Observation-Disclosures
Clears His Coat Tails
and Accuses Seymour.

Mr.. Vallandingham, In the Day
ton Ledger, Indignantly denies the
charge that he prevented the nomi.
nation of Chase, and caused theover-
throw of the Democratic party in the
late election. He says:
The facts are exactly the reverse.
Within much less than Zone hour"
had "Valandingham not done any
thing" another man than Chase
would have been nominated. There
may have been-no doubt was-an
unfortunate error of necessity, but
there was no mistake i'm Judgment" !"
Certainly Seymour declined the NOM
ination in good faith; he was sim
cerely for Chase, and had he possess
ed the presence of mind and bold
ness to anticipate "Vallandingham'
furious declarations so-called (of
which we had just had previous no.
tice), by concluding his speech with
the suggesting of Chase, Vallanding-
ham would have been silent; simi-
lar scene would have followed, Chase
have been nominated and President
to-day, and the Democratic party,
with its bold, brave men in front, In
power. After the multiplied treach-
cries and stupidities of the Demo-
cratic managers from October, 1867,
to July, 1868, there was one thing
which could and would have COM
manded success-the nomination of
Salmon Z. Chase, who, unlike An
drew johnson, had brains enough to
comprehend that IL ne was to over
power the strong minded, strong
minded, strong willed audacity OF
the Republican leaders, 1t was alone
by antagonizing to it the strong
minded, strong willed audacity OF
the "Copperheads" of the Democrat
ic party. He was not nominated
wherefore, and by reason of the pre-
misses Grant and his relatives now
hold place If not power, while Sey.
sinour crops his hay, milks his cows,
and churns his butter near "pent up
Utica;n Blair, In silent retirement,
no longer even u railroad director,
chews his cud OF sweet aud bitter
fancies over Grants profoundly hid.
den capacity to develope himself int
an American Caesar, cleaving to the
White House till carried thence q
CORPSE Pendleton, from the heights
of Bowler Place, calmly surveys,
with musing eye, the greenbacked
slopes and pastures Of the valleys oil
Mill Creek and Licking Mclean
creates pleasant parks along the Ro-
man nosed declevities of Deer Creek;
while VallandigharI, no longer con-
cerned about the "great hereafter, y
whose slow paced movements he has
delivered over to history, contentedly
hurls his furious declarations at
courts and juries I'm the vincinage OF
Burnside's raid, vindicating the
rights and redressing the wrongs oi
those venerable gentlemen Of ancient
family and renown--John Doe and
Richard Roe-the aforesaid Seymour,
Blair, Pendleton, Mclean and Val
landigham, with divers others "to
the grand jurors unknown" being
oil sweetly oblivious to the fact that
a New York Convention was ever
assembled, and each consoling him
self with the heavenly reflection
that,
'sWhen wicked men bear sway.
| The poet OF honor is private station"
This consolatory reflection Is as es-
sential as 1t is gratifying. for no par
ty that has the audacity to elect Carl
Schruz to the Senate can even be
beaten by party that stones its
prophets and rejects its martyrs,