Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-07-15
THE DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET

THE DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.
We publish the following comments
on the Democratic State tickeU, from the
"Commoner," leading Democratic
paper in Ohio, published at Cincinnati:
THE STATE TICKET. s
We were surprised at the nomination
of General Rosecrans by the Democracy
of Ohio, and we presume he will be
equally surprised, and decline the honor.
What hidden impulse it is, we can not
divine, but we have leaders in Ohio who
profess peace principles and yet fly to
such rulers and representatives as Cen
eral Sherman, General Ewing and Cen
eral Rosecrans. OF course, it is sur
render at discretion of all that we have
struggled for ever since the separation.
We Know how the itch for success,
office, money and power besieges many
of our first men of high honor, our ward
and township politicians. That itch is
very contagious, and may be said to be
almost universal. Success at all haZ-
ards' has become the motto of certain
gentlemen in the front ofthe Democracy,
who should be contented with principle
and waiting till they can make it pre-
vail. Certainly, they ought not to be
allowed to take the party to the slaugh-
ter so often upon false principles.
General Rosecrans is not any more a
representative of the peace Democracy
than General Grant, nor of the working
masses, more than General Cary. We
want all the votes we can get against
Generrl Hayes; but what do we gain by
eleeting another General? 1t would have
been only indicious and logical for the
democracy to have nominated civilian
who would have pelled the strength of
/ the party of all shades. Mr.. Pugh
thought Mr.. Allen was such candi-
date, and we thought well of the recon-
refused to run. If General Rosecrans
declines we will have the question over
again; and then probably a better selec-
tion can be made. Judge Ranney has
no qualifications for any thing but the
routine of the Governorship; and we
are long since past the age of routine. 1t
will be splendid change to get a few
thinkers instead ofa parcel of hum-drum
lawyers and cross-roadsters into our
! Governorship, and our Senate and other
State and Federal offices.
Mr.. Pendleten did the worst thing of
his life in peremptorily declining the
nomination. and so precipitately pledg-
ing himself to support the nominee. 1t
was rather worse than the letter of the
25th of June, 1868, to Mr.. Mclean,
cracking up Horatio Seymour as the
best choice for President, when Mr..
Seymour was the very last man he
should have had anything to do with.
Does he really expect any one to believe
that he approves of Rosecrans?' 1t was
his duty to save the party from Rose
Grams and Ranney, and all the rest, and
| to have given Ohio a new departure
against the fifteenth Amendment. That
issue is made, and he had start of fifty
thousand votes. If he were elected, as
he could have been nominated, he might
aspire higher; if not, he need not aspire
at all. In no way could he be publicly
harmed, and he might have rescued the
party and dropped the remorse]ess man.
ayers who destroyed him at New York.
THE South would have acted affirma-
lively for Mr.. Pendleton as President a
wear ago, Ifit had not been for McLean's
CLOSE relation to his candidature. The
ISouth remembered Charleston and 1860
land the henchman of Mr.. Douglass.
/ The South could not cooperate, but
here Mr.. Pendleton had the game in his
own hands, for the manager was urging
General Caryson the party, with a sort OF
mad contempt for all its intelligence
and its convictions and its prejudices.
! Mr.. Pendleton said he was confined to
his house by a serious sprain of the
Iankle, and could not make speeches.
, But what is the use ofspeeches, and Mr..
Pendleton writes as well as he speaks,
vet not so well as to make much oi
either substitute for his fitness as can
didate for Governor. He ought to recon-
slider his position, and his duty to him.
tself, as we'll as to the party, for the
probable event of General Rosecrans'
decIination. Mr., Rauney can not be
elected, for there is nothing in him tC
create ripple of interest eutsids of the
paid and official circles of the Demo.
cratic organization. He is a sharp lawyer
that, and nothing more.