The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-25
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THE CHAMPIONS FOR 1872.

From the NJ Y. Herald
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 man
agement of the affairs of the nation so far
has satisfied his party that he is the right
man in the right place, and that, carefully
and wisely considering the great questions
of the day before acting upon them, he may
be relied upon for successful and popular
administration. The platform of his inau-
gliral on negro suffrage, our foreign relations
and the national debt has become the Repub
lcan creed and his liberal policy on Southern
reconstruction will doubtless be endorsed by
Congress, in view of the ratification of the
fifteenth amendment.
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, currency,
etc. 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
we're the builders of Babel. But whatever
NAV be the deficiencies or blunders of Con-
oress, we have every reason to believe that
within his sphere General Grant will still
maintain his present commanding position as
the leader and champion of the Republican
party for another term.
What man, then, as the champion of the
reconstructed 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
E L n
ton, Hendricks, Packer, Parker, or any other
man identified with the old Copperhead
regime, will be only to repeat again the dis
astrous battles of 1860, GA, '66, and '6S. The
Democracy will need 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.
The only available man for the party in this
view is Chief Justice Chase. Since the late
and suggestive defeats of Packer in Pennsyl-
vania and Pendleton in Ohio, some sensible
Western Democrats hitherto devoted to Pen
dleton recognize the necessity of a change of
front under the banner of Chase.
Why not ? 1t may be said that the antece-
dents of Mr.. Chase are obnoxious to old-line
Democrats, and in conflict with the time
honored principles of the party. But this is
all rubbish in the presence of the fixed facts
that the distinguishing dogmas, principles,
and ideas OF the Democratic party as it was
are all demolished, defunct, dead, and done
for and that another general battle on these
dead issues will be the dispersion and disso-
luton of the army, rank and file. The
champion for the Democracy then, is
Chase in opposition to Grant. Thus the
two parties will be placed at once on
something like equal ground as to the
merits of their candidates Grant will
have the glory of our greatest soldier, but
Chase will have the reputation of a great
statesman. Grant, we doubt not, will have
the record of a good administration; but
Chase will have the record of great leader
and long experience in our public affairs, and
in greater variety of responsible positions
than Grant. If we point to the splendid vic
tories of Grant over the Rebellion, it may be
said they were due first of all to the sinews of
war supplied from the Treasury by the wis
dom of Chase. The Parliament of Great
Britain gave Wellington the credit of the
overthrow of the first Napoleon, but Napoleon
himself said he was overthrown by the money
Bags, OF, in other words, by the Bank of Eng
land.
And vet again, if it is said of Grant that to
him belongs the honor of establishing uni.
versal negro suffrage, it can be said of Chase
that he was among the most active advocates
of the negro's rights when Grant was learn
ing the art of horsemanship at West Point
If it shall be urgSd that to Grant devolved the
struetion, it may be urged, too, that had moi
Chase been faithful to the great cause he
might in the Supreme Court have thrown all
this business into endless confusion. Thus
it will be seen that with Chase against Grant
the Democracy will have a candidate who
upon his personal merits, qualifications, ex
perience, character and public services, will
be able to stand in the front rank, side b,
side with his great competitor, and competen
TO challenge q comparison.
There WILL however, be no contest upoi
the personal merits and services of the tw
candidates if they are Grant and Chase The
will each be perfectly satisfactory, and bot
will be regarded as perfectly safe touching
the national faith, the national honor, and al
honest and capable administration. Oh,
things will be done away with, and al
things will become new. Consequently. will
Chase as their candidate, the Democracy
placed in full rapport with the new dispense
tion as established in the Constitution. will
only have to fight the blunders of Congress
on the great questions of the day, and her
they may have advantages which. with tn
recovery on the new tack of the Southern
balance of power, may give them the victory
Who can tell
THE SULTAN AND THE ENGINEER.
From the N. Y. World.