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The Labor Reform Ticket.

The Labor Reform Ticket.
The ticket Of DAVIS and PARKER has been
received by large number Of the presses and
POLITICIANS of the country with cordiality and
as the nominees become better known to the
people at large we anticipate great accessiOns.
81 Formidable does the ticket appear to the
Radicals. that one oftheu, the Alton Telegraph,
thinks, Pa yicw Of Grants declining populari-
ty.l that there is nothing ia the character or
political career Of Judge Davis which would
render bin Objectionable to the Republican
party if be should receive the nomination from
il, except his appareat willingness to receive
outside nominations. The contingency dtsays
may occur in which the nomination Of Mr..
Davis by The Philadelphia Convention will be
expsdient. Events may have 50 influenced
public mind by June as to render Grant not
the most available candidate"
This suggestion Of a flank movement upon
the Opposition shows tie serious apprehensions
Of the Grant party but its success would do
the pluuderius crew but little good. Reform
would be Of little avail unless the Augean stable
be thoroughly clcaDsed. Davis is not the man
to perpetuate wrong aud outrage. In bis cleo
ton We should expect to see constitutional
government restored, and the civil authority
narlr'ourf 10 the military
We give few paragraphs from prominent
papers.
From he Ne,rban " c., Journal
Judge Davis has never been much in politi-
cal lie, aud his reputation, until he went upon
the bench Uf the Supreme Court of the United
States, was certainly not a national one yet,
wherever his name las been mentioned 1t has
developed an amount of strength, and even
enthusiasm that is to say the least Of it, some
what remarkable for . comp aratively unknown
candidate Of a comparatively unknown party.
When however, We come toeXamine the record,
and find that though he is unknown as mere
politician, Judge Davis has thoroughly identi-
fed himself with the great questions Of con-
stitutional government when we consider this,
and the exigeucy Of the times in which we
live, we are no longer surprised at the strength
the name Of Judge Davis everywhere as the
North has developed for, strange as it may
seem, il is none the less true that the nominal
ton Of Judge Davis asserts the great principle
Of constitutional government and the suprema-
CIV Of civil law 10 military uSurpati0n. In the
Ailligan case he declared that one Of the
plainest constitutional provisions was therefore
infriussd when Milligan was tried by a court
not ordained and established by Congress, and
not composed Of judges appointed during good
behavior
He also declared;
Another guaranty Of freedom was broken
when Mjlligan was denied a trial by jury
And !; was Judge Davis who, in the same case,
declared, in speaking Of martial law, as sought
70 he enforce in the United States Martial law
and civil liberty cannot endure together. The
antasouism is irreconcilable, and in the conflict
one OF the other must parish" The utterance
Of such sentiments as these in the face Of uSur-
ping power and defiance Of it, may well attract
The confidence Of thinking people in this day
Of military uSurpation to the man who ut
tered them aud gave hopeful ausury Of re-
turn 70 Oh landmarks.
The Memphis appeal leading Southern
Journal says, in regard to the future policy of
the Democratic party, that
Should the Convention Of Liberal Repub-
leans 20 be held 10 Cincinnati in May, endorse
the nomination Of Judge Davis and adopt an
acceptable platform, it is highly probable the
Democrats viii not place a candidate in the
field but should Davis be the candidate Of
the Labor Reform party, and Trumbull the
candidate Of the honest Republicans, there
would be no hope for the success Of either
/ The, Cincinnati Convention Of anti-Grant Re
publicaus has the power Of consolidating the
opposition to the Administration. Ii its couu-
ssls are unwise, there vii. be three tickets in
I the field, and the contest viii be between the
| Democratic end the Radical candidates. II
I Davis and Trumbul could draw off enough
/ Republicans TO give the doubtful States to the
/ Democrats, and thus secure the defeat Of Grant
| great good would thus be accomplished. But
/ 10 is safest to harmonic and consolidate all the
/ elements Of opposition TO the corrupt dynasty
/ that seeks 10 destroy tho Government"