Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1872-01-30
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THE RESIDENCE
What should:bet the Policy of;the Dem.
a.s oorats and Conservative
Republicans.

what Shouidsbet the Policy ofsthe Dem.
sa,s oorats and Conservative
Republicans.
NArIosAI REEoaM PsopLs's TioKrr- For Presi-
dent wM,stGRoEsBEcK, of Ohio.
For Vice Prcsident-GRATZ BROWN, of Mis-
The National Committee of the Radical
party manipulated by Grants plumber clique
of oHiceSholders, have called a convention to
nominate candidate for President and Vice
President of the United States on the 9th of
June next, at Philadelphia. Notwithstand>
ing President Grants denomination seems al
ready to be a t~oregone conclusion, the retains
ers of the Administration more effectually to
squelch out all possible opposition, by Execu>
tive patronage. for the first t me in the history
of political organizations in this country, have
given votes to the delegates from nine Ter
ffories and the District of Columbia in the
nominating convention, Though these votes
win count nothing in the election. Philadel-
phia has been selected as the place of meet
ing, where the corrupt Cameron and Forney
ring. backed by New York Custom-heuse and
Washington influence, can not act most effec.
tually on delegates who may be in the market.
Already it is flashed along the telegraph
wires that Grant insists on ,Colfax's nomina>
tion with him. clearly to take revenge on
Wilson of Massachusetts, who has been cast
ing disIcyat votes in favor of Senator Trum-
bulls resolution for an investigating COM
mittee.
The nomination having thus been dictated
IN advance. in spite of the protests of Greeley
other Republican opponents of the mill
tary plumber ring, it is certain that Grant will
use all the means in his power, together with
military force, if necessary, to have his re-
election declared officially by Congress, no
matter, what may be the actual vote Of the
people.
Il is therefore folly to waste time in mere
Negative opposition to his programme, unless
steps are speedily taken to concentrate the ele.
ments of opposition to his selection on some
common platform and available candidadrte
otherwise, he will walk over the course, de-
feating his opponents in detail, as John Sher>
rraan did in the late Senatorial contest in Ohio,
&c against a. combination of honest men,,
heretofore differing on past political issues, and
united in the coming Presidential campaign
on the platform of reform aud the rescue Of
the government from monopoly rule. Boss
Grant will be as helpless to resist the under
current of popular indignation: directed by
an independent press. against the corruption
and populations of his administration. as Boss
W 10 " = COuttStr III NEW
York, city. where in. the commencement,of the
exposures of the frauds of his ring, he con.
the public .What are you
going to do about it z" The sooner pa t,
leaders earnlthat rublic sentiment demands
that mere forms must give way to matter Of
substance. and men must unite. who agree on
the same issues. against.a common foe, the
better III will he for the country. .
Itisseviden that outside of Missouri the
Republican sopnnsition to Grant has no we'll
defined ofsanization it is therefore folly to
call nm he Democratic organization to dis
a andsallow. G rant to be reelected with
out any force. in the field to meet his disci>
pinned cohorts of Office holders. When two
armies mite toscrush a common foe, the dis
bapdingfof the ranks of either on the eve of
battle would result in disaster !; they must act
together in thes fight. Let then the Demo-
oeratic party. through delegates appointed by
their Organization, meet and consult with the
representatives of the anti Grant Republicans
and Jointly nominate. through a national COM
yentions on a common platform, which seems
to beSwell defined in the Missouri resolutions
alreadypublished. a National Reform Peoples
Iicketsf for President and Vice President of
the United States Electoral tickets can
then be formed and supported in each State
pledged TO vote for the condidates so nomi-
natedss and such tickets can be attached to the
Democratic State ticket, or the ticket Of any
other organization in ahv State that will unite
to,defeat the Grant electors. This plan will
enable allthe opponents "f rants reelection.
without any sacrifice of local strength. to east
their whole vote for the National Reform
Presidential ticket.
President Grant. in selecting Colfax as his
colleague, shows clearly that he understands
the battle is to be fought in the valley of the
Mississippi where the masses of the reonle
are becoming more and more re>tive under
the protective tariff policy of the Administra-
ton. Before the war it was customary that
one of the candidates for President or Vice
President should he from the Southern States.
and a return to this policy would he an omen
that the union of the States was about to be
virtually restored in SPIRIT as we'll as name.
1t seems generally conceded that the candi-
date for President against Grant shonld come
from the West, and under exiting circum-
stances it would be r%olitic for the East to
concede the candidate for Vice President to
the State of Missouri, where the Radical
Grant party received its first effective shock
under the auspices of the liberal Republicans.
1t has been argued that the candidate for
the Presidency on a combination ticket must
necessarily be a Republican ; hut it seems that
there is no unity as TO wh0 he should be
Judge Davis. Senator Trumhull and Governor
Crate Brown are prominently mentioned, hut
would not the selection Of either tend to drive
back the friends of the other into the Grant
ranks? and is it not best that the candidate
for President should not present by his record
objections that may tend to lessen his vote
among anv of those who form a coalition
ticket? Again, the Democratic party will
cast nine>tenths of the vote, commanding the
electoral support of all the former slave hold
ing States except South Carolina. Mississippi
and Florida, which, with New York, New
Jersey, Indiana. Nevada aud Oregon, cast "a