Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-10-09
For Senator, Jefferson Davis

New York Tribune.
So Mr.. Jefferson Davis is really can
didate for United States Senator from Mis-
sissippi after all. Northern Democratic
newspapers and their able allies have
been ridiculing the idea for long time as
too absurd to becredited by any intelli-
gent person. We have been told that Mr..
Davis was a disappointed old man with
out political ambition, whOme his people
respected for his misfOrtunes, but who
could not now be fairly considered a rep
resentative Southern man; that to charge
the South with any purpose to push him
forward or give him any political or per-
sOnal prominence was unjust and unchar-
table; that mischievOus and designing
politicians were using his name to get up
false alarm at the North and so on,
and so on. Well, it did seem incredible
that within twenty years after this Gov
ernment, and within fifteen years from
the close of the most costly and bloody
war of modern times, set on foot and car
ried on by the conspiracy of which he
was the head; within fifteen years from
! the date of his defeat and capture, and
the suppression of his rebellion, he should
be seriously spoken of as candidate for
| Senator in the Government he faild to
| destroy and toward which, upon his own
! statement, his feelings have undergone no
| change. 1t does seem hardIey possible
And it is not strange that whenmen who
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! the feelings and purposes of Southern
| politicians, told the Northern people that
| the South had not changed one white
since 1861, but believed theSame doctrines,
| trusted the same leaders, resOrted to the
same methods, and would presently be
represented in Congress, so far as posi-
/ bic, by the same men-many Northern
voters felt that their intelligence was be-
ing imposed upon by eXtravagant state
ments and glaring imprObabilities. But
] wild as the prediction was that Mr.. Jeffer-
sOh Davis would be some time returned to
the United States Senate, we are not at all
unlikely to see it fulfilled.
For Mr.. Davis himself obviously be-
lieves in his own candidacy. And he has
been too successful in gaining public
hOnOrs, and is TOO familiar with the cur
rents of popular feeling, their drift and
meaning, to make any mistake i'm such q
matter. He is not a candidate without a
backing. He is too old a politician not tC
know his own strength with his people
too shrewd and experienced to make tht
mistake of OYerestimating it. When wC
say he evidently believes in his own can
didacy we do not mean, by any means
that he announces or even in terms ad
mits it. That is not the way of expert
5 enced politician. He is too wise for that
. in his situation are to be Judged more
, | by the reading between the lines of wha
t they say than by the uttcTance them
l selves; more by what they avoid saysns
5 than what they actually say. In recen
7 interview with representative of th
F., New-Orleans Picdytme, the latter asket
t the point blank question whether he wa
: Il candidate for the SenatOrship soon to hl
| vacant. Observe now the politician
: manner of answering. The reporter re
t marks that he seemed annoyed, but asked
5 very cOurteOusly. by what righl d'
1 you undertake to catechize me-" Tha
o is not the way of man who is not can
, didate. He was answered that the publl
4 felt the deepest interest in the Question
!, and in knowing his position. To this h
G replied that he did not see what interes
It the public could have in him or his aC
p.l tions. The reporter then told him hi
IS chief reason for asking him about it wa
e that IL had been stated that lie had author
: lied the announcement that he was not
II candidate. '"Hhat is news to me-" sal
V Mr.. Davis, with suddenly awakened il
e terest. ''Where did yOu see it?'' Bein
i told that it had beed published in sever;
N Mississippi papers, he exclaimed: Indeed
le why, have never authorized any one
Of speak for me. Chen" said the repor
a er, "a false impression has gone abrOa
tn and | should like to correct it. Are W
8. a candidate for SenatOrship?" 1t w
d. not possible to dodge this. Mr.. Day
ld answered, II am not" Had he stopp,
rs there it would have been taken as an e
'pdcit denial-dut he continued; - ha