, 1872-04-04
9oiitifal.
The Liberal Republican Can
didate for the Presidency.

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didate for the Presidency.
Judge TRUABULL is assumed by his re-
cent speech to have placed himself
squarely in sympathy with what is
known, as the liberal republican move
ment and by so doing made himself a
prominent candidate for the Cincinnati
nomination for the Presidency. TRUM-
BULL has many warm and Jealous friends
who will be glad to see him candidate
for the Presidency, however, or by
whom-ever nominated-and there is no
question but the attitude assumed by
him will give impetus and strength to
the liberal republican movement.
Leaving out of view our own prefer
ences or p rejudices, and assuming that
the candidate of the Cincinnati conven-
ton is to be supported by all the ele-
ments of opposition to GRANT, we
do not think Judge TRUMBULL would
prove the strongest man to put in nomi-
nation, nor indeed would any man who
had occupied prominent position and
taken an active part in the politics of
the country for the last ten years on
either side of the question.
Judge DAVIS the candidate of the La
Dor keformers occupies the best position
of any prominent man yet named to
combine all the elements of opposition.
Unknow to politics, he is without
friends to reward or enemies to punish,
and eqcc..lly free from the prejudices,
hostilities and antip,....hies which an ac-
tual political career must necessai...s
engender. If he is right now on the
questions that Erill necessarily enter into
the platform and inspire the opposition
to GRANr, he can be cordially supported
on all hands, by ell parties, without any
being required to swallow what is dis
tasteful, or to shrink or to be lukewarm
under the effect of a hateful past.
Judge DAVIS is said to be of Wing
antecedents, but in the performance of
his duties on the Supreme bench, he
has united in decisions vindicating the
civil power of the country against the
military, and the rights of the states
agains the assumptions of the central
izing power and tendencies, and did it
in the face of heatad passions and pre-
judices, which prove him sound On the
fundamental ideas of the government;
and proved further, that in him the
patriot is much superior to the partisan.
The person We would peter or select,
if we had potential voice, is one thing;
and who, in all the circumstances, is
best to unite all the elements of oppo-
aition to Grant, and accomplish the
first and most needed step in reform
his overthrow and that of his party-is
another. Of all the prominent names
yet mentioned, it looks to US as if Judge
DAVID DAVIS. of Illinois, now on the
Supreme bench, is the man for the latter
contingency. Whether politics will
take that shape is Of course yet uncer-
tain. We are discussing only the prob
able result. SO far as the candidate is
concerned, if union of all the elements
of opposition shall prove practicable
TRUMBuLL. in his late speech on the
resolution touching the sale of arms,
defended the liberal republicans of
Missouri as the true expounders of re-
publican principles. Inasmuch as this
class of republicans are opposed to the
GRANT class, and they are admitted to
be hostile to each other, the Senator by
parity of reasoning, must at the same
time have contended that the GRANT
class were not the true expounders of
republican principles. This following
from his premises, as night follows the
day, is still further manifest that as
TRUMBULL, in the same speech, claimed
to be a sound and genuine republican,
he effectually read himself ont of the
GRANT party, into the liberal republican
party, where he must hereafter be looked
for. -Ml,cdukee Ne,rs.