Year: 1872

The Yice-PresidentiaI Candidates.


At the present time there are two candi-
dates for the second office in nomination
before the country, and it is important
that the voters should scan their qualiti-
cations carefully with a view to their
succession to the Presidential power. OF
B. GratZ Brown, the present Governor of
Missouri, but little is known except as a
bolter from the Republican party in that
State, anda facile instrument in the hanos
of that artful and INSCRIPTIONS
intriguer, Frank Blair. The latter took
the little man up, and made him Gov
ernor by combining the Democratic vote
with that of the disaffected Republicans
who sympathized with Brown, and in re-
turn Brown and his friends made Blair
an United States Senator. This truck
and dicker business worked so well in
Missouri that the Blair tribe were en-
boldened to try it on larger scale,
and consequently the Cincinnati move
ment was planned. Brown was taken to
Cincinnati with his new fiedged Guberna-
torial honors, and put forth as a Presi-
Dental candidate, with that utter reck-
lessness of propriety or fitness for which
the Blair tribe are notorious. Having
accumulated in that Convention a show
of strength sufficient to trade on, the
Brown stock was promptly sold out to
the Greeley men for second place on the
ticket: Such was Mr.. Brown when
the Tammany Ring gave him the
Baltimore nomination for the Vice
Presidency, as per agreement. We
have called him little man, and he is so,
using the term in no disrespectful sense;
bnt altogether too small for the Vice
Presidency. The caliber of the man is
well demonstrated by his recent exhibition
at New Haven, where he made stump
speech to the public on the occasion of a
cOngratulatory serenade upon his nomina-
tion at Baltimore. There Brown was
iubilant He said he chad labored and
fought for freedom manfully and well;"
that he was now and had always been
a Republican,; that in the recent nomina-
tiOn "he had been crowned with one of
the most distinguished honors that the
people can bestow;" that Greeley was "a
good and grand statesman" and "of all
men he had ever Lad opposed to him in
conflict on great and vital questions, the
ablcst and the BEST" that Greeley is the
largest brain in America;" and that there
would be for the ticket ''such a wave of
popular enthusiasm from the great West
as would make the hair of the New Haven
people stand straight upon their heads. VI
Nothing more can be necessary to show
to the world, the length, breadth and
depth of MIR. Browns intellect than this,
or to demonstrate the utter folly of his
nomination for the Vice Presidency.


OF Henry Wilson, the rival candidate
for the Vice-Presidency, we have hereto
fore taken occasion to speak in such
terms as his public services merited, free
from any partisan aspect. He has been
in public life for long time, and the fact
that he has sustained an honorable and
influential position among the directors
of public affairs during all that period, i:
of itself an assurance of his worth anC
ability. Mr.. Wilson's public addresses
have method and matter in them, and nC
such vain and braggadocio speech as thai
of Mr.. Brown at New Haven could evel
be uttered by him. When he was waited
upon at Washington by the committee O
the Republican Convention and notified
of his nomination for Vice-President, h,
made brief impromptu speech in reply
He said he had ever striven to maintain
the principles of freedom and equality
to be true to the country and to the right
of our common humanity ; and that il
the future as in the past, he should unfal
teringly adhere to these principles
which were alike the convictions o
his judgment, heart and conscience
He alluded pertinently to the illus
trious military services of General Grant
and commended his humanity to tn


vanquished, his firm vindication of tn


rights of the humble and defenseless, ant
his devotion to the leading ideas of tn,
Republican party, and expressed his higl
sense of the honor of being associated
with him in the coming contest. He con
cluded with sentiment of large and cath
olic fraternity for all true men, howeve
widely separated heretofore, who wer
now disposed to unite with the part,
which had saved the Union and estab
lished freedom over the whole land.


This modest and manly expression o
statesmanlike ideas is in marked contras
with the fanfaronade of Mr.. Brown, ant
indicates the great superiority of the Mas
sachusetts Senator over the Missouri Gov
ernor The ability of General Wilson, hi
large public experience, straightforward
ness of purpose, and thorough sympath,
with the masses, are sufficient guarantee


that the duties of the Executive oftic
would devOlve upon able hands, shoult
his chief be stricken down in the midst o
his term-Bost0n Globe (IndependenD.