Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-08-31
Counsel Extraordinary.

IT is hard te believe that gentlemen can
call themselves Republicans who advise
the Republican party in Ohio and Penn
sylvania to "permit the elections to go by
default" for the Democrats this year,so as
to secure the defeat of General Grant as
the Republican candidate next year. The
reasoning is that the Democrats will be so
elated that they will throw off the mask
of the new departure, while the Republi
cans will be so dismayed that they will
take any candidate rather than the Presi'
dent. The candidates suggested are MIR.
Trumbull or Mr.. Evarts against Mr..
Hendricks or Mr.. Groesbeck, and if we
can not elect them, we are comforted
with the thought that defeat with them
will be "dignified, if not glorious" How
it can be dignified for Republicans to al
low the party of which Tammany Hall is
the chief organization to take possession
of the national government, or glorious
for Republicans to secure the defeat of
the Republican party, we do not see. We
have asked more than once who it was
proposed to nominate if General Grant
should be set aside, and the replies have
invariably shown that there was nobody
in particular, buta great many excellent
men in general, to be suggested. That
there are many such in the Republican
party we know very well. But there is
no one whose nomination is more dreaded
by the Democratic party, nor any candi-
date who has so general and strong hold
upon Republican confidence as the Pres
ident
The counsel to which we have alluded
is confession of this fact. If the Repub-
lican purpose to nominate the President is
so strong that nothing but party suicide in
HI
need no further evidence of its depth and
vigor Those who give the advice of sui
eide are plainly so hostile to the President
as to be hopeless, if not careless, of Repub.
lican ascendancy. For if they think that
defeat is sure with the candidate upon
whom the heart of the party is fixed, they
certainly cannot suppose it to be less sc
with new candidate; and their counsel
must therefore be regarded as merely ar
exhortation to the party to disband and
disperse.
In advising Republicans to connive al
the success of the Democrats in Ohio, fol
instance, these gentlemen urge the elec
tion of candidate whom many of his OWL
party declare not to have been fairly nom
mated, and who stands upon a platform
| which they disdain. Such advice is re
quest to the Republicans of Ohio to be
lieve that the welfare of the State and o
the country would be best tpromoted by thu
triumph of the party which Mr.. Vallan
digham led and inspired. Do these gen
tlemen also think that Republican de
| feat in Massachusetts, would be whole
some tcnic for the party? and that moth
| ing could be better than disaster In Iowa
| Do they suppose that the Democratic part,
expects to carry Pennsylvania upon
| free-traGe platform? 1t is not free trade
it is Tammany, that conquers in Demo
cratic victory. And when such counsel a
we mention proceeds from those who hav
been hitherto Republicans, it shows tina
the success of either party is equally agree
able to them, and that their counsel is t
be estimated accordingly. - Harper
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