Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-07-11
THE BALTIMORE CONVENTION.

q lew who want the Convention to
refrain from making any nomina-
tion in order that treacherous Re
publicans may support the actual
candidate of the Democratic party
under the name of an Independent
Republican. But this restraint is
impossible. The Greeley move
ment in the Democratic party was
worked by its trading politicians,
the great gang of spoilsmen, rapa-
cious from their long exclusion from
office, and Indifferent to principle
or party in view of chance at the
public plunder. They made the
warfare for Greeley so fierce and in
tolerant in order to overwhelm the
opposition of the substantial men
of the party, that it cannot now be
restrained. Besides this, small
Democratic politicians want to make
themselves conspicuous in the NOM
ination of Greeley,to create claim
on him. There it is almost certain
that he will be nominated with a
great Democratic shout. This is
what every Republican should de-
sire. A nomination by the Demo
cratic Convention will sweep away
all the cheating pretenses that Gree
ley is a Republican, and will pre-
sent the issue squarely between the
Republican and Democratic parties.
The Democrats themselves admit
that in such an issue they would
have no chance. Therefore they
must see that Republicans of as
much sagacity must desire that
Greeley shall be taken publicly into
the embrace of the Democratic party
Then only those Republicans who
prefer that the Democratic party
shall govern the country, and who
are willing to merge themselves in
that mass, will vote for Greeley.
This will require not only remark
able conversion, but an extraordin-
ary spirit of self-sacrifice, which will
be content to take the place of hew-
ers of wood and drawers of water
to the Democratic party, and to be
always regarded by it with suspi-
cion.
Who wants to place themselves
in this unenviable position? Surely
there are none who have the true
spirit of Republicanisn in their
hearts, in our county at least, that
wish to be hewers of wood and
drawers of water to the Democratic
party. Let Horace Greeley be elect
ed and let him gather around him
his counsellors, and the wheels of
government which have been roll
ing so smoothly onward, will creak
and groan under the inexperienced
drivers.
The nomination Of Greeley at
Baltimore will draw the lines be-
tween the Republican and Demo
cratic parties. This is just what
the Democratic leaders have all
along said would make their sue
cess hopeless. We desire the party
lines drawn. There are a few per-
sons as imbecile in character as
Horace Greeley, who charge that this
is continuing the war. If so, then
we propose to con tinue the war. If
the continuance in the administra-
ton of the government of the party
that saved the republic is to con-
tinue the war, then let US have per-
petual war. If to refuse to trust
the control of the nation in the
hands of the party that betrayed
and tried to destroy it be to con-
tinue the war, then let US never have
peace. But such moral imbeciles as
this need a lunatic asylum. The
only way to peace in the Democrat
ic rebellion was to crush it, as the
Republican party did. The only
way now to peace, the security Of
person,property ,and political rights,
the only way of public confidence,
and of security to public finances
and private credit, is to keep in pow
er the party that saved all these.
The Democratic game of nomin-
ating Greeley does not pretend any
change in the Democratic nature.
Not one of the blatant Democratic
touters for Greeley pretends that
any change has taken place in the
Democratic nature, purposes, or
principles. In the most open man
ner they declare that their game in
nominating Greeley is to put him for
ward as stool pigeon to draw Re-
publican votes to bring their party
into power, trusting to his known
weakness for their chance to man
age him. Their open profession of
this would be an insult to any man
who was not utterly imbecile in
character. But Greeley accepts
this service, and seems unconscious
of his degradation. 1t is the same
party that plotted the secession and
sought to deliver up the govern
ment to it, and that has opposed to
the utmost every measure for the
public defense, for sustaining the
public faith, and for giving the pro-
lection of law to citizens. 1t is the
party which Greeley has always de-
nounced as utterly depraved; that
now,without any pretense of change
he offers to bring into power for