Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-17
IRON IIarrsf's w sekly.l
The Campaign.

submitted to the country, and theFere-
main only the necessaFy repetition saad
appeal. he oBIszGIoReltys will be new
and OF, these, there willgap
be no lack. Indeed, every
sincere friend Of the administration
every man who cemprehends the eaor-
nous. risk of suTendeFing the gov
ernment to 3 party which comprises
all the worst. elements of the country
"A party to which Mr.. Greeley says
that the most dangerous classes nat
urally attach themselves-sees that
the administration is not seriousl y as
sailed upon it's policy or success, but
almost exclusively upon personal
grounds. ze~ ~ -se.- IS. zs.+
The friends of the President, or his
manners, or the probable scope ofihis-
informatio on, or his tastes, are often
siYe to somebody. He has appointed
relation to Office, or he accepted
house after the war. Somebody
thinks that he merely pretends an. IN
terest ia the reform Of seivil service
He has bought and under questionable
circumstances, and somebody would
like to know about this stock or that
Investment Somebody anonymous
ly- asserts that in g Ringo2s banking
house, in Mexico, No, he declared
that he would have fought for slavery
if he had only. understood the situa-
ton. Somebody else heard. Mr. VIII
son agree that he was confirmed
iHebFiate.r Then a5great senator tells
us that he fsgebbies gossip" an J. guar
rels, but does not say with whom
He is also preteRtious, although those
who see him most nearly have not
discovered it. Ascending a little in
the scale of SANDER. the. president is
a gloomy edespot, a Cesar, a trampler
upon the rights Of human RatHre-as
Lincoln used to bela gorilla, an ape,
and a third-rates lawyer. ls,iEs.z1 e. ban
.a Then leaving him for a moment, we
are assured that his supporters are
bought The office-holders-those
nameless eretuEess in human form
whose essential woEthlsssnesss is well
known to thes Office. seekers--are bis
| chief friends Nobody else faEOrs
him. Mr FeRton thinks heis a veryPoor
president, and General Ceehrane will
| despair of political purity if the DeR7
| oeEatie party does not succeed a1 Mr
Fernando w ood, ALSO announces that
all good dnenaare united upon Gree
ley and Brown; and the worst bench-
men of the old Tammany ring were
| the frst.to salute the prospect of re
form which was disclosed by the Rom-
ination of Mr. g reeiey. Besides, al
| those gentlemen whom Mr.. Oakes
AInes bought with his credit mebiliel
| stock, they fafe knaves, and they ar
aH4Eealeus for the president. q SGct
sWindlerss as Boutwell, and DAVIS, apC
Henry WiIlsons who is notoriouslylop
] pressixelyT yTich4 and the dishonest Gar
field and Patterson Of New Hampshirer
what could be expected of them bu
that they would support the president
/ although they knew him to be tina
monster of igporeneeE and incompe
tence which those patriots IPemberto
and Lee long age discovered s,..
This is the aeharaeter Of the cam
paign against the administration. Fo
its great success, its plain results, can
not be denied The GROWING proc
of them is the horrible extremity c
the Democratic party, which. despt
rately attempts to steal success b
Il adopting a candidate and platferr
{ presented by those who had been il
politiceI opponents. Now if the az
ministration had failed, a pers on:
campaign might be successful.
a the debt had increased or been bI
slowly removed if economy had beel
, despised; if equal rights had bee
: ] neglected; If the ka-klux had not bee
restrained; if foreign difficulties ha'
u grown into war; if industry1had laI
guished; if there had been fnancis
distress; -tl4eFe=hadAa been a want
confidence and consequent instability
if, in word, instead of unpreceden
ed prosperity and genaral contentmel
there had been insecurity and appr'
hension, then simple cry woui
i have sufficed. Nepotism, or Cesarisr
| or Grantism, or syliogism, or rhe
matism would have been enough. G
r with his head A change at any COS
After the panic and crush of 1887, N
/ Van Buren's gold spoons we
| enough Mr.. Ogle-we think that W
Ell his name-did more to throw ont v;
e Bureu that Webster or Clay. It W.
4 not then q Caesar in the White Hous
= 1t was a SardanaphalUs, and out
- went.
Now the speeches Of Senator Con
r ling and of Governor Jewell, at t
r Cooper Institute, with many other
;, have shown how false the person
scandals about the president arc. Fl
meanwhile, has kept the even tenor
his way, and those who know he
faithful and honorable man he
Y have watched to see whether, in t
1f midst of the actual results of his q
t. ministration, his follow citizens won
n permit the great party of freedom a
le Of the war to be swept from power
,o falsehoods told of him. Every O
W of them has been amply answered.
es The discussion has been constant
a brought back to the vital point
h. the welfare of the country, and t
ID rights and interests of all sections q
he of all citizens, more secure in
n. hands of the Democratic party W
an it's republican recruits than with
he Republicans? This is the po
IN which, when clearly seen, is so &C
n elusive of the whole debate that
ed Democrats and their allies seek p
If. sistentlys to obsc ure it. 7 es, Il
say, the debt is reduced, bat Gry
m loiters by the sea. Yes, there is
n mense saving in the collection of
re Revenue, but Mr.. Casey is still C
to lector at New Orleans. Yes, there
ii general confidence and industl
prosperity, but didn't Mr. Jones 81
the President lot of land, for VIII
mt he was made Minister to Belgium
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