NJ MR.. VAN buren,
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1t is scarcely possible for a politiciantthe least
observant Of passing events not to perceive the
strenuous efforts that are being made by the
friends Of Buchanan, Calhoun, Cass, and John
son, simultaneously in every part Of the United
States, to spread the idea among the people that
Mr. Van Buren is not an auailaJle man for the
party Of which he has long been the chief 1t
is equally apparent that those who are endeavor-
i&g 10 create this impression, SO as to defeat his
nomination by the Locofoco National Conven-
ton, are induging the sanguine and confident
hope that their own particular favorite will be
the nominee of the Convention. Thus, for in
stance, the Cass committee in Ohio, ,some months
since, declared that Mr.. Van Buren never had OBJ
tanned, and never could obtain the vote of that
State; and at the same time urged the claims of
their friend upon the people. So lately in Penn
sylvania, the Buchanan Convention used very
strong language denunciatory of New York poll
ticians and Of Mr.. Van Buren, and more than
intimated their determination not to submit to
his nomination.. Mr.. Calhoun's friends and the
press which sustans him pursue the same course
in South Carolina and elsewhere. tfE l'l,


But notwithstanding these attempts to drive
him out Of the field that they may have the fight
among themselves-a more equal one--and to
alarm the fears Of the party as to their success
in case he shall be nominated, he has at this
moment a stronger hold upon the confidence of
his party than any other individual of those
named as candidates for nomination, and we be-


ieve can count greater number of devoted ad-
herents in it, at least among the active portion
oft those who are its mind and will, and direct


its energies, than all the rest put together. tits
folly to talk Of Mr.. Van Buren as a weak man.
He is not a weak man, as we shall find in 1914.
We can beat him, but not SO easy as we could
the others Mr.. Van Buren has mind, experi-
ence, great tact, and devoted friends who have
not their superior in political strategy. These
friends are found in every part Of the Union, and
it is they who have for years past managed the
political wires, and who will continue to pull
them. The other candidates have each local
and circumscribed popularity and strength: Mr..
Calhoun in South Carolina and Alabama, Mr..