Year: 1864

anu euilod w tHiS tast age, as well ~ 10 the
men whose headquarters are in the saddle"
| rney tell the story better than quire OF fools
cap or mile of telegraphic tape.


| The Cisvcia nd Osnventien-The People's
Candidate.


The convention which 10 to meet at Cleve-
land. on the 3lst Of May, ought to be,
and probably will he, the last Of such
political assemblages. The system Of nomi-
mating conventions has not worked WELL
II has given US poor Presidents aud nearly
ruined the country Besides this, 1t has bred
up and kept alive o class Of low, corrupt and
| vicious politicians. representing nobody but
themselves, eager to be bought with price,
and only influential over the unfortunate can
didate who has to submit to the demands Of
these political swinders before he can even en-
tertain the hope Of nomination.


Now 1t Is characteristic Of the American
people to do away with whatever Is useless and
to discard whatever works badly. We are not
surprised to find, therefore, . general disposi-
ton to abolish the convention system and put
an end to the nuisances 1t has created There
can be no better time than the present to carry
out this idea. The political hucksters, who
gave us poor Pierce and laundering Buchanan
and loggerhead Lincoln to af9ict US, now pro-
pose to rsneminate Lincoln at Baltimore, and
some opponent, Of about the same calibre, at
Chicago. II this be permitted We can only
choose between the Baltimore Incompetent and
the Chicago incompetent. Under the old sys-
tenn one or the other Of them will be elected,
and we can jump out Of the fryingpan into the
FIRE or out Of the nre into the fryingpan, as we
please. OF the two evils we can prefer tho
lesser-and there our privilege ends. But what
is the use of having any evil at all Why
should we not kick over the whole concernf
Would it not be better to reject both the incom-
petents, There is a way to do this, and that
way is through the Cleveland Convention.


To that convention all the war democrats,
all the really honest and patriotic republicans,
and all the national conservatives, Of every
sort, should 90 in person or by their represen-
tatives. At least one hundred thousand peo-
pie, representing the sentiments and wishes Of
the loyal Millions ought to be present at Cleve-
land on the last day Of May. Then let this
Peoples Convention nominate Lieutenant Gene
raj Grant for President and General Fremont
or Commodore Wilkes for Vice President, and
the approaching election will be settled in ad-
vance. There will be nothing left for the sham
conventions to do. They will probably never
meet. II they should meet, it will be to ad-
journ sine die. amid the jeers and laugh
ter of the whole 9Stlon. Heretofore the
politicians have nominated the Presi-
Ahn nknI
him. Now we want the people to as
sert their rights and take both the nomination
and the election into their own hands. The
revolution that is now disturbing the country
must deliver us from the tyranny Of imbecile
party hacks. They never expressed the true
popular will, and they never can. The inds
pendent press Is the voice Of the people, and
that has superseded the convention system.


What folly it is, In times like these. for cor
rupt politicians to be prating about party lines,
and party ties, and party platforms The
people want Q man whose platform is his
actions, and who has made bis own record,
instead Of having it manufactured for him out
Of the rubbish Of old speeches and old letters
and rusty, musty, dusty, fusty Congressional
documents. Such man they have found In
General Grant. No one cares what his poll
tics are what bis record is upon the slavery
question and the Maine Law question, or what
kind Of platform be stood upon ten or twenty
years ago. They know that he has saved
the nation, and that 10 enough to know
Having saved it, he is not likely ever
to betray it, or ever to submit to anything
that will impair its greatness and tarnish its
glory. His politics-they are the constitution
and the Union. His record-it will be found
In the reports Of his victories and in the hearts
Of his countrymen. His platform-he has built
it as broad as the United States and as high as
Lookout Mountain. We expect his election to
be as unanimous az that of General Washing
ton and as beneficial to the welfare Of the re-
public. No one will vote against him, with the
exception Of shoddy contractors, whose palms
itch for government money, and copperhead
peacemongers, whose hearts are with JEFF.
Davis, although their bodies are too cowardly
to follow their hearts. Let every patriot who
can possibly attend the Cleveland Convention
be there on the 3lst Of May, and let those who
cannot 60 send worthy representatives. We
shall see what politicians will be bold enough
to try to run the Baltimore and Chicago ma
chimes, or take the field against o general who
has never known defeat.


THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF EURoPE.-Revo-
lutions are ripe in Europe, because the majority
of the great Powers have no money. They
have squandered all their available resources
and exhausted their credit for the sake OF keep.
;no mn formidable standing armies In such A
condition Of affairs revolutions must eAsue. It
was the knowledge Of this inevitable result
which caused Napoleon the Third to seek new