THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1202, 5 June 1872, Page 2

THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES.

The Judge Davis who was nominated by the Natioual Labor Conventioii as the the candidate of the Labor'Refbm party for the next Presidency of the United States, is Associated- Justice^DavidlDavis of the Supreme Court of the ~tJnited States. He is a citizen of the State of Illinois, and was appointed to the Supreme Bench by President Lincoln, in 1862. He is a lawyer of very; considerable ability, and, as a Judge, has fully maintained the high character which 1 he • possessed. There i 3 no probability of his election to the Presidency ; but his nomination, taken in connection with, other recent developments in American renders the, reelection of President Grant much less probable than it was a fewweeks ago. There are, it seems, ito be four candidates at the next election. President Grant will receive the nomination from the regular Convention of the Republican party. - The dliwattifiwl Re?

pnblicans, headed by Senator Carl Sohurz, and aided by all the influence of Senator Snmner, will nominate an opposition Republican candidate at a Convention to be held in Cincinnati in May. There w. n l be a regular Democratic candidate. The fourth will be Judge Davis. Now, it is well understood that while the Democratic candidate, whoever he may be, will receive the ent*"e vote of that party, the Republican voters wiH be divided between the other three candidates. At the last general election in 1868, the Republicans polled 2,985,031, and the Democrats 2,648,830, Mr Grant, being elected by a majority of 337,000. A change of less than 170,000 votes would suffice for the return of the Democratic candidate, and more than this number of change* may be expected in the votes cast for the Independent Republican and the Labor Reform candidates, and in those given in the' Southern States which were not permitted to vote in 1861. Now, the more imminent appeals the danger of President Grant's defeat in November, the more anxious he will be to strengthen himself by pandering to the anti-British feeling in the United States, and insfetihg upon the presentation of the claims for indirect damages at Geneva. To withdraw these claims now would be io ruin all his chances, and it is perhaps safe to assume that he will strive to keep the question open and undecided until after the election, which occurs on the sth November. We may add that the Labor Reform party is not a very formidable organisation. It is engineered by Mr Wendell Phillips and other men of his class, who, since the abolition of slavery, have been hard put to it for something to agitate about, and by a few pseudo working men very much like our own statesmen of Bolt Court and the Hole-in-the-Wall. They go in for all aorta of wild and impracticable " reforms," such as an unlimited issue of paper money by the Government, reduction of the rate of interest to 2 per cent., women suffrage, regulation of wages by law, &c. What stteush the party has lies in the New England and middle States, and whatever votes it polls will be losses to the Republican party. It is not improbable that there may be even five candidates at the coming election, the women sa£Erage>parfcy having declared their attention of " running " a candidate.