The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-08-11

vote for four years more.
But this prevailing opinion of his reelection
is not based altogether upon the satisfactory
record Of his administration. The troubles
and embarrassments of the democrats have
much to do with this general impression of the
country. First of all, the democrats want a
Presidential candidate equal to the emergen-
cies of the time. We have urged upon them
the ticket of Chase and Hancock as powerful
ticket, and that it be backed by strong Cabi-
net ticket including such men as ]. O. Adams,
Hoffman. Randolph, Pendleton, Hendricks,
Blair and Governor Walker, of Virginia. But
from the democratic party organs we have had
no encouraging responses to these practical
suggestions. So the question of their Presi-
Dental candidate remains perplexing conun-
drum to the party, and in their National Con-
vention, under the two-thirds rule, some un-
expected obscurity, as in 1874 aud 1852, may
cut out all the aspiring and hopeful party
leaders, from Hoffman to Hendricks. The
party leaders admit that it is useless to put up
military candidate against General Grant;
but with the abandonment of Chase where are
they to find civilian competent to cope with
the record of General Grant, Here. indeed,
the democratic party is all at sea- while the
leader and the principles of the republicans are
established in General Grant and his success
full and satisfactory policy Of retrenchment,
economy and peace at home and abroad.
There is still greater perplexity with the
democrats than that of their Presidential can
didate in their Presidential platform. Their
''new departure" among the ''old line demo-
Gratis" is denounced as a cowardly surrender
to radicalism, humbug, a delusion and q
snare in the North, East and West, while in
the South the leaders of the ''lost cause"-who
are the leaders of the Southern democracy or
of the main body of the dominant Southern
| whtes-protest that they will adhere to the
| Northern democracy only upon the reaffirma-
ton in 1872 of their national platform of 1868,
nomination. So it is that with all these per-
sonal feuds and factious cliques, and SQUAD
bling factions and splits among the republicans
the opinion prevails on all sides that General
Grant will be reelected in 1872; that the
greater issues Of internal and external peace,
of economy, retrenchment and the payment of
the debt and of order and security in our finan-
cial affairs will swallow up all these petty and
contemplate complaints of disappointed spoils-
men and trading and greedy politicians.
Such are the indications from North Carolina
and even from Kentucky, and we suspect
they will be strengthened in our approaching
September and October elections in the North,
and that if New York is not recovered by the
republicans in November it will probably be
because the Fenton-Greeley faction have re-
solved, at all hazards, to have their revenge
against General Grant, Senator Conkling and
Collector Murphy. But still, our conclusions
from all these republican family jars and demo-
cratic embarrassments are that General Grant
has become and is becoming stronger as the
master of the political field, and that in due
time all these radical malcontents and sore
heads, including Mr.. Greeley, will be con-
strained to eat their ''humble pie"