Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-07-11

GREELEY NOMINAL TED.

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The death of the democratic party has
been consummated by the nomination of
Horace Greeley at Baltimore as the demo-
cratic candidate for President There can
be no other result from this strange pro-
cedure than the dissolution of the party.
II Is forced, unnatural. inconsistent. il
logical nomination. at war with common
sense. degrading to political morality and
decency, the trick of sharpers and black
legs, made in subserviencc to the cry of
place hunters-''anybodyt to defeat Grant. >
1t has been known for some time that
this would be the issue at Baltimore. 1t is
therefore no surprise TO republicans, who
are prepared to accept with confident
cheerfulness the task of burying Mr.. Gree
ley SO dcep that,hc will have no resurrec-
ton.
The ardent Greeley democrats will of
course have pictures OF Uncle Horace
painted and hung up in their parlors, so
that their children and friends may gaze
upon the benevolent countenanee of their
candidate for President We recommend
as an addition that they ornament the pic
ture, and render it more instructive, by
covering the margin with few ofthe many
good things which "Uncle Horace"has said
about the democratic party, such as we
print elsewhere in the Journal to-day. How
proud every democrat must be of the eu-
logies passed upon his party by its candi-
date for President, and how happy to show
them to his friends! How splcndidly the
whole will illustrate the "anything to beat
Grant delusion which has led the Office
seeking democrats to take Horace Greeley
as the exponent of democracy
CHARACTER OF TIE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY As PAINTED By THE DEM
OCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR PRESE
DENT.
The character of the democratic party
is found sketched in the pages of the New
York Tribune by Horace Greeley He
having become the candidate of that party
for President it is interesting to notice
what he thinks of his new found friends.
No democrat can surely object to the por-
trait of his party as drawn by its leading
candidate. We mean by this no democrat
that supports Horace Greeley; the thous-
ands that do not support him and will not
support him are not of course obliged to
own the picture.
If democrat disowns Mr.. Greeley as
his candidate and will not support him
OF course he disowns what Mr.. Greeley
has said about the democratic party.
But when democrat supports Mr..
Greeley he stands bound to accept what
the Chappaqua candidate has said about
his party The first reason that such
democrat gives for sustaining H. g. is his
belief in his immaculate honesty. Now if
Mr.. Greeley is honest, the following
things which he has said about the demo-
cratic party must be honest and true. I'll
they are not true where is the honesty
Of the man that wrote them, Horace Gree
ley?
Democrats are the Fathers of
Southern MulaitOes.
All do know that there are several hundred
thousand mulattses 10 this country; and we
presume no one has any serious doubt that
the fathers of at least nine-teDths of then, are
white democrats. And we are told that these
democrats, if they will have yellow children,
might better than otherwise treat their moth.
ers respectively as wives after the laudable
pattern of that eminent democrat, Vice Pres
ident Richard NJ. Johnson Horace Greeley.
Democrats are pugAists, gam
blers or ma riots.
= every one who chooses to live by pugil-
ism or gambling or harlotry, with nearly eve
ny keeper of . tippling-house, is politically a
democrat. "--Horaee Greeley.
DemaocrAas MI all the haunts OF
debamchery.
pysnt vwi.aycver you nIease In AN eIaction