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Salmon z. Chase and Horace Greeley began
life with anti i-slavery predictions Ihey
were both extremely ambitious, and mapped
out for each other road to success. The lat
ter, after being assisted and aided by political
friends finally turned upon them, and sought
to procure, sing le handed, the political promo
tion which he so much coveted There was no
gift In the hands of the people for which he
did not strive.
While persuading the people into the belief
that he was an unselfsh, unambitious patriot
who aimed solely at his country's good, and
would accept OF no office, he was striving all
the time to plant himself in some public berth.
With the advance of time his aspirations like
wise advanced, and he craved FIRST the position
of Lieutenant Governor, then that of Congress-
man, Senator, and even President. And, as
result of all his laboTs for public preterment,
he cOntrived to serve three months OF an un-
expired time in Congress, and to be appointed
one of the jurymen in the London Crystal
Palace exhibition.
More successful than his confederate, Sal
mon z. Chase has managed by log-rolliDg with
every political organization in existence since
he entered public life, to secure several honor
able positions. Prior to 1910 he voted with
whichever party held out the greatest oppor
Iunities for his individual preterment. In 1910
he supported General Harrison, aud after he
was elected, turned against him. In lS4S he
entered into an agreement with the ONO
Democrats that the old Liberty party should
sell out to them en- cond tiOn that he was
made United States Senator. .. a
In accordance with this bargain he worked
for the success of the Democratic nominees,
and in the following year the Democratic MEM
bers OF the Legislature supported him in
body for the United States Senate. In 1855
he was elected by Know Nothing votes to the
governorsbip of Ohio, and was afterward sent
to the Senate by the Republican Party. When
President Lincoln gave him position in his
Cabinet, he forthwith began to plot and
On being elevated by that generous supe-
his political machnatiOns and taking trip
down South, hsraDgued the green negroes"
and, as he supposed, laid the foundation for a
big Southern support in the Republican Con-
Vention of 1868. Soon after, he opened CO.
partnership along with Horace Greeley in the
universal amnesty-universal suffrage busi-
ness. "Whie the latter did the blowing" and
'spouting, " be was to keep in the background
and "lay low'' for the Chicago nomination.
The Chicago Convention, however, discarded
the ambitious plotting Chief Justice at sight,
and he then turned to the Democratic party
in hopes that that organization would confer
upon him the boon withheld by the Re-
publicans.
But one word more remains to be said con-
cerDipg these political aspirants. Greeley was
laid out stark at Syracuse on Wednesday, and
Chase at New York upon the following day.
simultaneously the partners in the universal
suffrage universal amnesty business, have
been shoveled under the sod, and together
they fill common grave.