Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-05-25
The Nominee nj Cincinnati.

The Nominee AT Cincinnati.
The New YorG HerdLd thinks the
Republican will ominate no man at
Cincinnati whose election would lie
in any way censure Of the admins
tratlon.' So do We. We think they will
not do this We know they ought not
to do it. We know more. We know
that the nomination of any man whose
Republicanisn is questi )nab!e would
dampen the ardor of the people and be-
get doubts and misgiving5 which We
cannot afford to arouse. True, candi-
date whose principles and connections
are unknown may prove to be in accord
with the party that nominates him ,and
the venture turn out good one; but
such experiments are dangerous, and
ought not to be tried for the mere love
of the thing. The inter- Ocean is OF
the opinion that there are plenty of
good men whose nomination would
not be regarded as a risk, sell-rebuke,
or a party qualification; men who are
known; men VINO have records run
ming through long years of honest SER
vire, and whose hearts beat i'll Unison
with the millions of voters who are at
tached to republican principles. Such
a one should be the nOuIiDee at Cincin-
natl, and We have great faith to believe
that such will be.
The party will not prosFer when it
shall begin a race after Conservatives
and candidates with one idea. 1t is an
excellent thing to punish whisky
thieves, and the President and his Cab
met deserve great credit for trying to
break up the frauds upon the revenue;
but It would have been humiliating if,
in 1872 we could have urged nothing
in favor of Gen. Grants election, eX-
cept the fact that he had Overhauled a
number of defrauding paymasters and
Government clerks and sent them to
the peDitentiary. 1t is not the sole bu-
siness of = President to hunt down
thieves and prosecute them. There
are numberless officers scattered all
over the country whose particular du-
ty it is to guard the Treasury against
piferers, and if the Executive is in
sympathy with such officers, and spurs
them up 10 honest effort, his duty in
the premises is accomplished. Fancy
Abraham Lincoln, with his great, hon
est h eart and confidence in m iukind,
turning himself into detective to Ter
ret out count+rfeiters! The idea is ri
diculous; and yet Abraham Lincoln
posse esSed, in an eminent degree, the |
talent which fitted him for the high |
Office of Chief Magistrate, and enabled |
him to discharge his duties with excep-
tional honor to himself and the coun-
try. Because IL man eXcelS as prose- |
curing attorney, or criminal lawyer
ii is no evidence that he will exhibit
m ;rkpd ability as a judge. Indeed,
tie contrary is generally true. And
hecause a man shows cdmmendable
zeal in the prosecution OF offenders
against the law, it is no sign that he
possesses the broad, clear, comprehen-
sive idea of duty and states nIanshipl
which will enable him TO lead with
honor forty millions of people as the
first officer o, this great ReTubl C.
There are many men, bold, positive,
and honest who would have plunged
this country into var half dozen
times during the past eight years if
they had been at the helm directing
affairs. One such war would have cost
the nation more in year than Gull |,
have been stolen from it in fifty; and
yet, in the fuHor against the thieves
who have robbed US, we forget the ne
cessity for having President who has t.,
other recommendation besides those
of being a shrewd detective and a
very excellent prosecutor of public PHI
fererS. Grant has united in surpr :
sing degree the caution of wise states
man with the determination and earn- S
estneSS of an honest executive. In the
choice of assistants he has been gener-
ally fortunate, and whether it has bee n
a Secretary Of State, carrying our disa-
greements with England and Spain F
through to a peaceful and honorable L
or Secretary of the Treas y
nry, obeying the Presidents ipjunc- e
lion to 'let no guilty man escape the Q
work has moved smoothly forward. \
Some such man, safe, unprejudiced, s.
evenly-b balanced, the
requires again. Heroes of q =
single battle will not do; men qualified
IN one particular alone will not an
'wer. A single commendable act or
vote does Tot make a statesman, any
more than one swallow a summer. We /
ool, up Andy johnson in 1864, not for !,
lis general fitness, but because, with
iery tongue. ne had denounced rebel 4
ion. But when the immediate excite il
nent was passed his old preiudices and
proved to much for him to II
withstand, and he went over to the en- u
my, leaving the republicans to lament &c
heir folly and short-sightedness. That
example is before us now, warning US
lot to be guilty of a like folly. Is it
lot sufficient? Must we go over the OF
anne thorDy and dangerous path once 81
more while inviting roads await us on Q
ither hand? We hope not. An ap- o, o,
'ropriate legend for every delegate to B,
incinEati to carry in his heart, if not ac
n his hand, would be that one which ia
ONES to us just now with such peculi-
r force: "Remember Andrew john !,
on"