The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-07-06
Chief Justice Chase and the New BE-
DaFtUPe.


The Chicago Republican, after re-
ferring to the Hon. S. P. Chase's let
ter TO Mr.. Vallandigham, approving
of the new departure, says:
The new departure, however in har-
mOny il may be with the views of Mr..
! Chase, is, from democratic point of
view, injudiciOus. It is 4 departure
in the wrong direction a backward,
not forward movement. twill tend
to ALLEVIATE some democrats, and will
take none from the republicans. It is
a sacrifice of principle for the sake of
availability greater than any party
can afford. The letter of 9fT Chase
to Vallandigham doubtless supplies
the key 10 the new departure; the
meaning of which is Chase for the
democratic candidacy of 1872.
All things considered, Mr.. ClIase is
a heavy candidate for any party t.
carry. This because he can not re-
frain from adding continually 10 his
own weight, by his platfOrmiHg per
! formances, entered into with a view
to bring the literature Of the party into
harmony with his own political his
tory. Whether or not he was consult
ed in respect to the Dayton declara-
/ tiOn, il is precisely what he would
have advised. The force of the idea,
'Chase with the constitution for a
PLATFORM" upon which he was pre-
sented by Others, i'm 1883, he never
cOmprehended. No sooner did the
circumstances give him hopes of 4
nomination than he sat straiShtway
down TO write 4 harmony Of his Polit-
ical life, from the time when Ire was q
whig in Cincinnati TO the date Of his
I last decision rs chief Justice Ofthe Uni
[ tel States, in the form of resolutions.
/ He seemed determined, ifnominatcd,
to be resolved into consistency by the
nominating body, ami to be impressed
with the belief that a platform demon
strating his consistency he would DC
invincible. As a lawyer who prose
cutes n cause To which he is q party
has a fool for client, So = party
whose direction is i'm tile hands of It's
candidates may eOuntupOn being mis-
managed. General Grant, whether OF
not the wisest of all presidents, was
! practically the wisest of all prcsidcn-
/ tial candidates. This wisdom it is
not i'm the nature Of Mr.. Chase 10 imi-
! tate. He can not let himself alone
and in all his elections, one Of the
/ greatest difficulties with which his
: friends had TO contend was the effects
of his own ill-judged interferenees.
I 4 good illustration is afforded 10y
I the following anecdOte Of the danger
( of giving reason when refusing: Tie
stern old Lord Chancellor ThurloW
asked the bishopric of Durham, tht
/ greatest pecuniaTy prize la the church,
! from George the Third, for his brother.
I "Anything else" said the king, u
shall be happy TO bcstow upon yom
/ relative, but this unfortunately, Is a
Z dignity never held but by man of
I high rank and family" iiThen, sire -
returned Lord ThurlOw, drawing him
self up, Il must persist in my request
{ i ask il for the brother of the lord
high chancellor Of England The
king gave in.
Charles Reade has invented another
woman that strides "like "a c1mele0-
I paFd" when she's in a rage. There
/ was one Of the sort in Griffith
/ Gaunt, and now one haS come upou
7 the scene in HA Terrible Tempta-
I iOn.n Mr.. Reade appears to be quite
unconscious of the possible effect OF
this sort Of thing among our imita-
I tive fashionable y0ung women. The
/ "Grecian bend,s' the 'tAlexandra
/ limp" and the iBoston Dip have
been bad enough; but if they are sue
/ ceeded by the "eameleopard lope, +" The
novelist must he sternly cautioned ta
abstain in the future from geological
/ Illustrations