The daily gazette., 1876-05-10
THE PRESIDENCY.

Who shall be our next President, is the |
most important question now that can be |
inquired into. The New York Herald has
been canvassinG the question of fitness
thoroughly. 1t has been at work upon it
for more than ayear, and has finally set
tied down upon three names as the safest
and most reliable Of all our public men;
and these are all Of the Democratic par.
W. The Herald shows which way the
wind blowa. 1t knows full well that the
people have already decided that the next
President of tho United States must be
Democrat. This we feel confident will
be the case; and we feel equally conf
dent that man of the purest and best
character will be chosen by our party for
the high position. OF theithree gentle
men named, without attempting dispar-
sgement to the other two, we infinitely
prefer Mr.. BAYARD, simply because we
know he is of the character and has the
qualities most fitting the position. One
of the wisest, most able, self-sacrificing
and noble of all our Presidents-JAMEs
Il. PoLK-was just such q man, and about
the same age. With MIR. BAYARD as Pre-
Eident and TILDEN or IHURMAN in the
Cabinet, as the Herald of yesterday sug-
gests below, the whole country would re-
joice, confident that every great interest
would be fully cared for:
There are many men now before the
country who, if they desire this office,
may consistently be believed to desire it
only with exalted motives, and distin-
guished among these are the Democratic
triumviri, Tilden, Thurman and Bayard
the representatives respectively of the
great sections of Democratic strength.
Every one of these men stands at high
er level morally and Intellectually than
is common in our public life. Ordinarily
this would be u fatal defect, an lnsu-
perable obstacle to their candidacy, for
the common politician resents SUPERIOR.
ty. he. breads the nstion of the presence
in office of any man of such quality that
he will not be as plastic to his schemes
as clay IN the hands of the potter. Any
intellect sufficient to see through hi.
schemes, aud any morality o. sense oi
duty robust enough to put them out Of
doors, are all that he has to dread in thi,
world; and he battles day and nigh,
against the candidacy of men endowed
with such attributes. How common thi.
sentiment Is with this ordinarily oms ip
osent class may be seen in the tone will
which some time ago they treated the
proposition to nominate Mr.. Adams, =
Ihey sneered ut it as respectable" The,
hl!ed their local journals with sarcasti,
references to blue blood" and the edi
tor OF the Springfield Republican wa
laughed at from one end OF the countr,
70 the other because he persistently de
clared his opinion that gentleman O
exceptional ability and culture and O
great experience in our politics was
thoroughly fit man to be President. Thi
sort OF opinion originates with the me
who want dummy in office, who wan
TO wind him mp and set the hands at Wha
hour they please. Men of this class i
the Republican party surrounded an
captured the President now in Office at
very early period, and the whole ordt
throughout the land has been made hur
CRY by the instances of their success this
recent Investigations have exhibited
but the men OF this sort in both partIe
nave Degun to see very clearly that til
present canvass is one in which the pc,
pie mean To take part, and they rease
that they must give up for time thos
tactics which they may indulge wit
safety when the people are indifferep
They know that the party that nominat,
dummy will be beaten, and that, If su
oessful with capable man, they ma
still hope and strive, but if beaten wit
any other they may go for four yea
where the woodbine twineth. Thereto
the candidacy of men of exceptional alb
lty IS not impossible this year, and N
I1lden, MIR. Thurman or Mr.. Bayard m;
any one OF them come out of the :
Louis Convention half elected to the Pr
sidency.
With men, like these, men of his
cEaracter and somewhat ripe experienc
M y safely be assumed that mere De
sol al ambition does not count for a gre
dca IN the aspirations with which tn,
Il mnlata tho Drn,:dn.n. -