The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-28
MAN FOR THE REPUBLICANS.

From the N. Y. Sun.
All sagacious Republicans see that their
only hope of success in the next Presidential
election rests in their presenting some other
candidate than General Grant. Who then,
shall be their nominee? ?
The stranger who should form an estimate
of the craftsmanship within the Republican
party frem the qualifications Of those upon
whom General Grant has bestowed his princi-
pal Offices, would commit O serious mistake.
Though Grants administration may be cha
racterized as the reign of small men, the
party is replete with talents of the highest
order. Unfortunately for the country, Re-
psblicans of that type are either under the
Presidential ban, or refuse to share with
Grant the responsibility of carrying on the
Government.
If the Republicans hope for success next
year, they must reconcile their jarring fac
tions, and choose a standard bearer who will
conciliate the extreme radicals and the ex-
treme conservatives. He must be man of
mark, who, by services rendered to the party
during the past sixteen stormy years, and by
evidences of a lofty craftsmanship suited to
the present perilous crisis, has proved that he
possesses OPACITY to guide its councils. The
disasters it was compelled to endure under
the rule of Johnson, and the experiment it
tried in the selection of Grant, will undoubt-
edly deter the party from hereafter bestow-
ing power upon man of doubtful fidelity to
its doctrines like Johnson, or one who has
not shared its fortunes in troublous times like
Grant. The bitter experiences of the past
six years have given the party its FILL of such
Presidents; and it longs for tried man,
whom it thoroughly knows and can entirely
trust.
Prominent among those named for meeting
the exigencies of the Republican situation
stands Lyman Trumbull, of Illinois. Origin
ally Democrat, and elevated by the Demo-
cracy of Illinois to the offices, successively,
of member of the Legislature, Secretary of
State, and Judge of the Supreme Court, he
differed with his party in 1855 on the repeal
of the Missouri Compromise, and was sent
to the United States Senate as an Anti
Nebraska Democrat. His talents enabled him
to Immediately take a conspicuous part in the
proceedings of that body; and down to the
outbreak of the Rebellion he had few equals,
either in the calm deliberations or exciting
discussions which then engaged the ablest
statesmen and debaters of both sections Of
the Union.
From the commencement of the war till
the present hour Senator Trumbull has
sxerted an important influence upon public
affairs. AS chairman of the Judiciary Com
mittee he has had the shaping of the most
important acts of Congress, and of the three
amendments to the Constitution. Sometimes
overruled by his colleagues in the committee,
and sometimes by a majority of the Repub-
licans in the Senate, we question whether
any of them will now deny that whenever
they have differed from him in years
gone by he was nearer right than they
were; and in respect to those recent differ
ences in regard to such measures as San
Domingo annexation, the ostracism of Sum-
ner, the enactment of more coercion laws
for the South, the concession of general
amnesty to the late insurgents, the revision
Of the tariff, the repeal of the income tax,
and the establishment of a system of civil
service reform, we are sure that ere they get
| through the next Presidential campaign the
! Republicans will bitterly regret that they did
not follow the lead of the calm, infiexible
| Trumbull rather than that of the impulsive,
supple Morton.
To meet and master the approaching Pres
! idential conflict, the Republicans need to
! place in the field an experienced, wise, coura-
| geous statesman, who has been closely
identified with the party from its advent,
has assisted to frame its grand record aud
win its glorious victories, and who now hits
the happy medium between implacable
radicalism and stolid conservatism. They
need one who in this hour of peril, would
coneede all privileges to all citizens, and,
| while maintaining the constitutional autho-
rity Of the Federal Government, would not
impair the just rights of the States.
Lyman Trumbull is precisely such a man
as No have described. He would not put to
hazard ell that the Republican party has
achieved in the past, by initiating measures
for It's maintenance SO oppressive and exaspe-
| rating as to keep alive controversies that tend
/ T.,,1r -. DIR lk1 hat -, IL