The Battle Is To The Strong

Froui the New York Eveuiug Post. The Washington correspondent of the 'ribune, in a lettor printed iu that joural Bpme days ugo, said the contest for bü Prusidnutial nouiinatioii by the Bu)ublicanB seeiued narrowed down to wo candidates, but should these two mon, who are oOusidered to Imj candi.atos of tho tirst class, possess a politial gtrongth nourly qnal, thou aocordng to tho best judgiuent of tho oorropondent - a judgment f'oruied iroin his association with Washington politicians - a compromiso cundidate of tho secoud :lHs would probably bo agroed upon. It makca 110 dift'eronce to us whother Le Washington corruspondunt was wcll ïnforined or not, or whether his judgmont is worthy of consideratiim ; the act rumuins that ho was willing to conimit Iiimsolf to such an opinión and that a poworful motropolitan journal was willing to print it and circulato it with out a ruinarle. This is a significant fact - this fact that guch a notion was not at onco rebuked by an American journal as too discreditable and improbable, or rathor absurd and preposterous to present to its readers. Was this because the politioal visión of afar-seeing newspaper had grewn dim ( Was it because it failed to judgo accurately tho focling of the citizens whom it addresses ? No ; its action was f ounded on experience ; its judgnient on precedent whioh is history, and tho result proves that its action and oxpectatiou were notill-judged. Tho possibility suggested by the correspondent has not attracted even a passing protest. Can nothing quicken our politica] honor as citizons ' Does this suggeetion of a shameful political bargain fail to rouse us 'i What reason is thcro that so large a body of citizens as those nuinbered iu the great Eepublican party should sit tamely by, and, because oi the difliculty of choosing which of two able men is best fittod for the most exaltod position in the country, therefore consent that the name of neither shal' be presented to us for approval, bul that a third name shall be lifted up, anc that, moreover, not of one who is the peer of the other two, as we would expect, but who is their acknowledged inferior '{ What reason, we ask again is there why this thing should be allowed 'i Would we do it if, in our private affairs, we were choosing a business manager V Would our wives thus aci in selecting a servant ? Would any ol those very men whose intentions are fore-shadowed by the correspondent thus decide in oonsidering the pretensions of applicants for an appointment to West Point or Annapolis? Surely not. Justice and common senso play a moro important part in these smaller things, and "politics" a inueh smaller part than ia these more important things. Wo teil these leading politicians anc their partiaan leaders that thoy wil misjudge their powor with the people to whom they assume that they can die tate their political course, if they at toinpt any degrading compromiso such as has been made before aud is suggested in the letter we are conBÏderiiig. We do not wish to be understood to say that we favor any particular candidate ; that bas nothiug to do with our purpose a this time. We wish simply to say to botb organizations that the party tha would succeed in 1876 must nomínate a man of the first class as a statesmau and citizen, becauso those citizens who have already considered the subject so will it, aud becau8e when the tim cornos for a choice to be made and th entire nation has considered the ques oion and made up its mind, it will b found that the vast majority will agree with those who have already decided. It will not do to think that becaus the minds of the people are now pro occupied and not yet alert on this Pres idontial question, that therefore the; will not bocome so. There is a vas doal of earnest dotermination in tlii oountry to elect a good Presidont fo the next four years, and the votes o neither party are held in the hands o any man or men to bestow. Party tie are not what they were eleven year ago, and each party must choose it atrongest champion. If each have two or a dozen champions to choose from they will be guilty of amazing folly if they fail to agree on oue o their strong men, and enter the list with an inferior man. The stronger i sure to vanquish the weaker, and i both are inferior then perhaps a thin and stronger man may enter the arena and win the prize from theiri both.