Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-05-16
HORACE GREELEY.
.sELI PERKINS" GOES EOR
HIM.
How To Manage His RCampaign

The Commercial NAV not Oe Ior
him, but Eli Perkins is going to sup
port Horace.
We have nominated Mr.. Greeley
on the gel o-rI-o us Democratic
Republican platform, and now my
friends we must elect him. Our
candidate is man of great many
principles. He has been on both
sides ofalmost every political ques-
ton, and there is such chance fer
our orators!
Listen to me and I'll tell you how
we can elect Mr.. Greeley.
/. For the New England States we
must instruct our orators to talk the
high tariff dodge. They must show
Mr.. Greeley's record, and point out
how he bas always stood for the
highest protective tax on cloth, hoop
skirts, and oroide watches, and fa-
vored keeping foreign cheap articles
out of the market. Then how the
Yankee manufacturer will 60 for him
but
Out west you must lay low on the
tarf!. You must say that Horace
has gone back on protection, and
that he don't care darn about it,
for the Western fellows hate the
New England shoemakers like the
devil. They wouldn't vote for a
President who would protect manu-
factures, for they are sharp as light
ming out there, and they know when
they wear the boots that if they
didn't pay for the protection whistle
they would come a good deal cheap
er. Our western orators must say
that Horace, will leave the tariff ques-
tion to Congress-for you know
well enough that he is head and ears
for the present high tariff, and that
when he is President he can veto any
act of Congress to repeal it, The
Western fellows will catch at this
ambiguous dodge, and they twill all
go for Horace like political sheep.
2. To the respectable old slave
owners CT the South, read Greeley's
old 1862 editorisls about "Compen-
sation to Owners for Emancipated
Slaves" but
That national slave-buying idea
would kill us with the old New En-
gland Abolitionists, Te them read
Mr.. Greeley's defense of John Brown
his editorials on Sharp,s rifles for
Kansas slave owners-and say how
he stood for Owen Lovejoy. This
will take such men as Gerrit Smith,
Fred. Doug lass, and Mr.. Beecher.
8. For the old Southern Secession
lists like Alex. Stephens, jeff. Davis
and Wade Hampton, republish Hor-
aces editorial, "Let the Wayward
Sisters Go in Peace" If this
don't satisfy them that our candidate
is sound on Secession, read them
the sentiment which Mr.. Greeley
wrote in 1860: eff any respectable
number of the citizens of a State de-
sire to secede from the Government
I know of no power which can or
ought to restrain them" That will
satisfy any reasonable secessionist
that in case Mr.. Greeley becomes
President he can walk straight out OF
the Union without being troubled by
such men as General Grant.
4. To the lovers of Peace say that
our candidate went to Niagara Falls
to treat with Jake Thompson and
c. c. Clay in regard to acknowiedg-
ing the independence of the South,
and that he came back and wrote ad-
vising Lincoln after Harrison's Land.
ing. to SNAKE peace upon the best
attainable terms" but
To the war men talk about Mr.
Greeley's ''On to Richmond"
5. Fool the editors into believing
that Horace is q great farmer and
Make the farmers believe that he
is a great editor. Neither will sus-
pect the dodge.
6. Prove to the Mormons and the
people of the Oneida Community
how our candidate was once Four
ierite, and that he leaned toward and
wrote for freeloveism for years, but
To sensible married people say
that Mr.. Greeley is regularly mar
ried, and that he can show his Ger.
tificate of marriage any time in the
tribune Office.
Z To the cold water people tell
the store how our candidate lived
for years on vegetables, such as cab
bage, turnips, and squashes, without
a mouthful of meat, but
To the high livers say tnat every
body, from Dean Richmond down
to Lord Gordon, have bought him
with a free lunch, and that good
beefsteak would buy foreign minis
tership,
8. To orthodox religionists say
our candidate belongs to the Univer'
salist Church, but
To the worldly fellows say that be
swears like trooper, and dam ns
everybody in common conversatio Z
like Flanders Soldiers.
9. To the officehelders say Mr..
Greeley never declined an office, thai
he has run for office eleven times,
but has always been defeated, and
that he split off from his best friend:
Weed and Seward, because they die
not give their 'junior partner the
New York Post Office, but
To the "outs' say-why say Hor-
ace never held an office in his life
that he wouldn't; but don't draw thi
dodge too strong, for they might
look up his old letter to Sewar-
and
Don't say word about j. Gould
presenting Horece with farm, mol
tell how he was in the tobacco bust
ness with Tweed, but let his enemies
bring that out.
Always fleurishing Mr.. Greeley
quotations. You will find the cove
both sides Of every question. If the.
doubt your word, say, "You lie,villail
you lie!" To the specie paymen
fellows read this:
The way to resume is to resume.
II. Greeley.