The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-10

has been Representative in Congress, four
years Governor, and is now Senator; Lin
coin was taken from the wilds of Illinois, and
given an almost peerless place in history;
even Hamilton Fish is Secretary of State;
while Grant, who was never Republican, is
President of the United States. We might
extend this catalogue through column but
this will suffice.
And during these sixteen years what has
the Republican party done for Mr.. Greeley
Nothing nothing-except to
allow him to run for Comptroller in this
State last fall, when he was certain to be
beaten, and when he would have been as
signally destroyed as was MacMahon at
Sedan, but for the reinforcement of ten thou
sand Democratic votes secured to him by
the San in this city and its surroundings
During this long period, throughout nearly
the whole of which the Republicans have
controlled this State, and for half of which
they have ruled the nation, has not Mr..
Greeley been worthy of the honors of the
party which he did so much to found, erect,
and crown with triumph? But, instead of
honors, he has hardly received from its
leaders a look of recognition; while its
masses have seemed to think that il was an
ample reward for his great services to shout
over him whenever his benign oountenance
graced their platforms. Is not Mr.. Greeley
the peer of the most eminent names we have
mentioned? LIS is he not in many respects
the superior of nearly all of them? Has he
not done his best to elevate the whole of
them to those places of command whence
they have been too apt to look upon him
with cool, calculating eyes, while he fought
on as a private in the ranks?
And what did Mr.. Greeley, after all these
years of negiect, ask from his party? Simply
that he might lead its forlorn hope for Gov
ernor of this State. Was this unreasonable /?
Rather, was it not modestP He would have
been utterly defeated at the polls, and for
this reason we opposed his Mominaton; and
SO will be his opponent--a man not worthy to
unloose MIR. Greeley shoe strings as poll
tician-who bore off the palm at Saratoga;
but it was ungenerous, cruel, to beat him in
the convention with such a man. If the
thing was to be done, it should have been
done with heavier timber.
We think there has been double dealing in
this slaughter of the philosopher OF Chap
paqua in the house of his friends. tele-
gram from Chicago appeared some time since
in the public journals to the effect that Gen
eral Grant, then in that city, had pronounced
in favor of Mr.. Greeley for Governor; and
thereupon his confidential advisers took cour-
age and placed him oonspiouously in the field
as the administration candidate for the nomi-
nation. But at Saratoga the Hon. Thomas
Murphy, the Collector of this port, and who
has recently been in conference with the Pre-
sident at Long Branch, was among the most
conspicuous of those who shouted over the
success of Woodford and it is now asserted
that General Grant never made any such
declaration at Chicago, but on the contrary,
that after listening to General Woodford 8
speech at Woodstock, on the hot Fourth of
July, he privately assured Woodford that he
was for him.
1t would seem, therefore, that Mr.. Greeley
owes his terrible defeat at Saratoga princi-
pally to General Grant. Mr.. Greeley should
now insist that these contradictions be recon-
ciled and these complications cleared up, or
in the interest of fearless journalism and
common honesty, he should expose the plot
and denounce the conspirators.
There is but one safe and honorable course
now left for General Grant. He should i'm
mediately repair to Washington, summon
thither Hamilton Fish, remove from the
State Department Bancroft Davis, who made
$780, 900 by single bribe, and appoint Mr..
Greeley, who was never bribed at all, as
Minister to England.