The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-17
REVIVAL OF COPPERHEADISM.

FTolo the st. Louis Democrat Republican,.
The nomination of Pendleton by the Demo-
cratic State Committee of Ohio was a shrewd
strategic operation. Not so much because Mr..
Pendleton is their strongest candidate, though
that may be true, but because by any other
course the committee would have been forced
to called together a convention composed
argely Of men hostile to Pendleton, and de-
termined to damage his chances for future
preferment The fact is, these Ohio Demo-
Gratis still imagine that their party is alive,
and that the main question is, who shall be
run for President in 1872. With thin
blefull of brains they would see that the first
thing to be done must be to create such party
and give it such strength that nomination
in 1872 may possibly be worth some
thing. The old Democracy on its present
obsolete platform cannot nominate anybody
with reasonable hope of success. Its only
chance is to get rid of the men and the ideas
which have SO long crushed it into the dust.
Rather more conspicuously than most Demo-
cratic politicians, Mr.. Pendleton represents
day before yesterday-the very ideas and
methods which have made Democracy odlous
and powerless. The nomination of such
man. on a new and progressive platform,
would have been ridiculous, certainly, and 1t
would have severely taxed the credulity Of
men to believe in the sincerity of such con-
some Improvement. With some little
excuse the party might have claimed
that it had abandoned dead issues, and
addressed itself to the living questions
| of the future. But the nomination of Pen
dleton on a regular, old-style, Copperhead
anti-negro, anti-bonds platform, such as the
convention fitted up to balance the nomina-
tion of ROsecrans, and make it more palata-
| bic to Copperhead tastes, is as complete de-
feat of the progressive elements IN the party
as can be imagined Under Rosecrans, they
could have claimed that the platform meant
nothing, and pointed for the true interpreta-
tion of the purpose of the party to the Gene
rails brass buttons and shoulder-straps. But
with a Copperhead platform and copper
head candidate, there is no room for decep-
ton. 1t is the old party, not even disguised
| in a clean shirt
We are told that the anti-Pendleton men
were in a majority in the convention; thal
they had a compact with those New YORK
/ schemers who snuffed out "Gentleman
| George" at the national convention, ana
| that the plan was to kill off Pendleton III
Ohio, so that he should never come up again
| as Presidential candidate, by moving the
| party forward to Rosecrans. The very noml'
| nation of such a man, the schemers reasoned,
would be so emphatic reputation OF Cop
| perheadism that Pendleton would be perna,
nently extinguished. Brick Pomeroy and
sundry others of the ''red hot variety so re-
garded it, and denounced the nomination as
betrayal of the party
When Rosecrans came to their relief by de-
clining-and it would take very little to make
us believe that the Pendleton clique worked
| tooth and nail to force him to decllne-the
State Committee had the power in its hands.
1t could either select a candidate, or recall
the convention. But the convention was