Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-06-08
ENEMIES.

1t shows nerve? The n. YorE
Sun Republican) affect to be oh
posed to Grants denomination
land day after day, and week alter
week has volunteered to give ad,
vice to the Democracy respect.
ing the issues, results and candi-
dates for the campaign of 1872
But a few weeks ago tho Sun
seemed to urged trantically upon
the Democracy the absolute ne
cessity of nominating Mr.. Sum
ner as our Presidential candidate.
We certainly can have no objec>
ton the Suns gratutous advice TO
Us, but much of it appears in
comprehensive We are well a.
ware that Grant has strong men,
influential men, leading men and
officers in his own party to con
tend with. We also know that
the hold the President has on the
party cannot and will not be cas-
lily broken, for no sane per-
son can. fail to see that the Presi-
dent has throttled his party, and
that the one is a necessity to the
existence Of the other, and no
matter how bitter their opposition
Greeley like, they will crawl
back aud and lick the hand that
classified them. Our opinion is
that Grant will be nominated,
Notwithstanding all his political
sins and the opposition Of leading
men CT the Republican party.
But that the party can elect
the OLD tyrant again, we do not
belie,e e.
From the New York Sur:
HANDS OFF, GENTLEMEN!
The unwillingness of the Dem
ocratic leaders to admit that there
is a powerful Republican comb
nation against the denomination
of General Grant is alike remark
able and instructive. 1t is re-
markable because it stands OPP
posed to a crowd of notorious
facts, whose array is daily increas
ing in number and strength. 1t
is instructive because 1t betrays
rather than conceals the well-
matured opinion of the Denlocra-
cy that Grant is the weakest can
didate whom the Republicans
can place in the field, and is there
fore the very man whom they de-
sire to encounter. Of course,
then, it is a part of their tactics
TO belittle all efforts to prevent
Grants denomination, to magni>
fly his power and popularity, and
to scout the idea that any other
man than he is seriosly thought
of by those Republicans who give
tone to the sentiments of the par
ty.
Doubtless it is from this stand
point that so sagacious a Demo
cratic newspaper as the Louis
vile CCuier Journal attempts to
depreciate the fact that a large
number of Republican Senators
are hostile to Grants re-nomina-
ton However it may be with
the Courier Journal, the Demo
cracy may rest assured that the
supporters of Gen. Grant regard
the hostility which ne encounters
in the Senate Chamber as far
more substantial and sserious
than idle rumor. They know
that the combination against him
embraces many of the ablest and
most influential member Of that
body; and more alarming than e.
ven this, they are co nscious that
in this particular those opposi-
ton Senators faithfully reflect
the opinions and intentions of
their constituents.
When MI. Morton nominated
Gen. Grant from the balcony of
the National Hotel he sketch out
what he called the platform OF
the Democracy for 1872. An in
fuential portion of the Democrat
ic press Indignantly repudiated
Morton's intermeddling with their
programme, and vehemently de-
clared that they did not intend to
construct a Presidential platform
for their party. Leading Demo
cratic journals r now insisting
that Grant ought to be and must
be the Republican nominee, be-
cause he is the most availabl man
for them to beat. But as the
Democrats will by no means al
low the Republicans to lay down
national platform for them in
so they will find the Repub
licans just as strongly determined
that the Democrats shall not Sc