Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-03-07
The presidential Tickets.

cts IN the nelu, Win tne prospect OF t"e
more at least, and possibly three, which
! wil make things lively 9e1t fall As aI-
ready announced by telegraph, the Labor
Reform Convention, which met at Co1um-
bus, Ohio, has nominated Judge David
Deeis, of the Uhited statessupreme Court,
lfot President ma Governor joel Parker,
of New Jersey, for Vice-President, and
Judge Davis has accepted the nomination
on the ground that the chief -magistracy
of the republic should neither be sought
nor declined by an American citizen" $
BIOGRAPHY DRUDGE DAVIS.
t. Judge Dasb was Born in Cecil County,
Md, on March 9th, 1915. He graduated
at Kenyon College, Ohio, in 1882. and
subsequently, stndiedSlaw IN Massachu
sets, and also at the Law School in New
Haven, Conn. Removing to Illinois in
1885, he was admitted to the baF,tan soon
after settled at Bloomington, in the prac
tice of his profession. BE was at one time
a conservative Henry Clay Wing. In
1914 be was elected to the. State Legisla-
ture, in 1S47 served as member OF the
State Constitutional Convention of that
year, and in 1S48 was elected Judge Of the
eighth judicial district Of the State In
1855, and again in 1861, he was reelected
to this position. He had long been an in
innate and personal friend of Mr.. Lincoln.
and as delegate to the hicago Conven-
ton of 1860, had a large share in securing
his nomination for the Presidency. The
two had been thrown much together by
the practice OF their profession in thinly
populated country, and the intimacy be-
tween them was Of the closest, and most
confidential character. \
Just as Judge Davis was entering upon
his third term as circuit judge. in Illinois
| he was, in 1862, appointed by Mr. Lincoln
to the position of associate Judge of the
Supreme Court of the United States, which
position be still holds. Mr.. Lincoln also
appointed him his executor, and tlfe estate
Of the President was wound up by Judge
Davis. At the time of the latter's APP
spointment to the Supreme Bench, he was
an avowed Republican, but of late years
l=hiss tendencies haveesbeen decidedly con-
servative, and thereEwas considerable talk
Of his being an available candidate for the
Presidency on the Democratic ticket. His
course on the legal-tender cases, however
he voted with the majority in May of
last year, holding tho lcgal=tender act to
he constitutional-has served to estrange
him from the Democracy, although he has
frequently been mentioned during the past
few months as possible Republican can
didate who would receive the support Of
the passive policy" Democrats against
General Grant. Judge Davis is man Of
large fortune, and personally is above re-
proach But he has never been regarded |
as jurist Of commanding ability.
GOVERNOR JOEL PARKER
Joel Parker, the nominee for Vice Presi-
dent, is the present Governor of New Jer-
se;, -elcctedrast tal .,Ly six thousnd,mn-
jorny, and a lifelong Democrat He has
not indicated whether he will accept the
nomination for Vice President. though lie
is expected to announce his acceptance of
the nomination by speech at Il ratifica-
tiep ii lmeetiA@. to be hcllin New York ncxEt
hitherto been identified with the distinct
i've labor organization. During the war
of secession Governor Parker was popu
laIlv known as fhc War Governor"
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune of Saturday says:
The administration party is more de-
morallzed than IL has ever before been,
though, under ordinary circumstances,
they would paw little or no attention to
ANYTHING that the so-callcd Labor Re
formers might do. The wisdom which it
is generally admitted by politicians they
have displayed in their choice Of eandi-
dates, the possibility that the convention
at Cincinnati will endorse the same ticket,
and The announcement by some leading
Democrats that they believe the great mass
of their friends could be united in the sup
port of Davis and Parker, have frightened
the shrewder of the friends Of General
Grant and some of them are admitting,
privately, tonight, that, if the Democrats
and all Of the anti-Gmnt Republicans
unite on Davis and Parker, the nominee
of the Philadelphia Convention will have
no easy task before him, even though nc
have the whole Of the immense patronage
Of the Federal Government to back him.
The Chicago Times (Dem.) says that
this Labor Reform nomination ais the
most important event that has transpircd
in the Presidential campaign of the pres
cnt year. 1t is one of many evidences that
arc observable of a spontaneous feeling
throughout the country in favor Of the Sc
lection of some able and eminent citizen
and his elevation TO the Presidency by the
CO. operating support of all the people who
would guard the country against another
term Of calamitous corruption and misrule.
The Harrisburg Patriot (Dem.) says:
The Labor Reformcrs have disappointed
their enemies and have exceeded the ex-
rcctations of their friends in the wisdom
Of their choice. In May next the Reform
Republicans will in Cincinnati, and
they will enthusiastically ratify the Co.
lumbus nominations. Thus will two great
elements of the opposition to the admins
tration be organized and in the field for
the campaign"
The Pittsburg Post (Democrat) says:
This Labor Reform platform is certainly
comprehensive enough to meet the de-
nands of all. and the candidates are we'll
fitted for the places for which they are
named. But these facts are no guarantee
that success is at all likely to follow the
labors of the convention, or that the ticket
will receive a systematic support in half a
dozen States in the Union. Parties are
not made up of the,sudden combinations
OF unobjectionable principles, but are ag-
gregated by slow and laborious processes.
True, if one of the great parties of the
country was in process of rapid segrega-
: ton at this time, and its members had no
rallying point-as. was the case with the
Know Nothing party in the North, immc-
diately preceding the Presidential cam
paign Of lS56-such q platform would no
doubt attract large masses Of voters. But
this is not the case at this juncture, not
withstanding the fact that there is strong
mutiny in the Republican camp. The
mutineers in this case have already Sc
lected their rallying point, as is always the
case with revolutionsts who revolutionize
Systematically"
> The National Prohibition Convention,
which also met at Columbus, nominated
JAS Black, Of Pennsylvania, forPresidentI
, and John Russell. Of Micbioan for V;coJ