The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-10-14
The Reform Candidate to be Elected
nv the Ku.Klux.


seYou are not vet out of the woods,'' say
the Democrats. The result in Georgia shows
that the South will 60 solid for Greeley;
South Carolina alone, where the blacks out
number the whites, being possible excep-
ton. This will give Uncle Horace one hun
bred and thirty-one electoral votes TO begin
with. With such magnificent send-off as
this, it will be curious if he cannot carry New
York and then pick up somewhere the eigh-
teen additional votes required for his election.
Such are now the expectations which Dem
Gratis try to cherish. The Greeley coalition
was humbug and fraud, from beginning
to end. The loyal, patriotic North has always
given it a just appreciation. 1t despised it
from first to last. Vermont spurned it;
Maine would none of it; Ohio rejected it as
it had formerly rejected Pendleton and Val
landigham; Pennsylvania gave it the cold
shoulder; Nebraska never gave any heed to it,
despite the persuasive accents of the liberal
Upton; New Jersey aud Connecticut scorned
it. From all parts of the North and West
there was but one response. No such una
nimity since 1864. But Horace Greeley says
through the Tribune, ''We've got you yet, for
there's the Rebel armyw This is precisely
the situation. Greeley knows that he can
put the most implicit reliance on the Rebel
army. For while his fortunes were going
down, down, down, in the North, where he
and his co-conspirators were buried out of
sight every time the people had
chance to get at them, his majority
was going up, up, up, in Georgia
thirty thousand, forty thousand fifty
thousand and sirty thousand were the
successive measures of Greeley's strength
among the Rebel Ku-Klux. The negroes
have but small minority in Georgia and
they were not permitted to make any trouble.
What could not be kept at home by intimida-
ton were beaten, struck down and even muir
dered at the polls. Fourwere killed in one city.
The Rebels and the Ku-Kl TX were as active
and energetic in promoting the interests of
the editor of the Tribune as they were when
that gentleman's caustic pen was employed a
few months ago in denouncing thcm az trail
tors, "Rebel to the core'' and murderers, and
demanding that the laws giving the general
government power to control them should be
made stronger" 1t was not enough that
the rebels had imposed through a disloyal
legislature poll tax amounting to So, which
DISTINGUISHED thousands of colored men. Vio-
lence was superadded 1t is this system of
crime and outrage against colored men and
loyal whites carried out in every Southern
State that is relied upon to save the bacon of
''Honest Horace" The North is absolutely
abandoned. Mcclellan in 1864 and Seymour
in 1868 had more brilliant prospects in this
section of the country at corresponding
stage of the canvass.
What a spectacle is here! All the princi-
pies and all the supporters of Horace Greeley
twelve months ago now reckoned az deadly
enemies to him On the other hand, we have
all the principles and men toward which he
was hostile at that time for his sole hope and
relancel His friends are the men who in his
name made a new constitution for West Vir-
ginia that excluded colored men from office,
and who virtually disfranchised them in Geor-
gia. His Northern allies are the Tammany
rufians who, according to his own oft repeat
ed declarations, carried New York against
Grant by fraud four years ago, and committed
"outrages enough to fill fifty prisons" What
madness it is to suppose that such an unholy
alliance can succeed! The effect of the frank
appeal to the Rebel army which the Tribuns
and all the other Greeley papers are now
making will be that the Ku-Kux candidate
tciu not carry single State north of the old
sIace line, and if Mississippi, Alabama, Flori-
da and North Carolina are made to choose
Greeley electors it will cost the lives of scores
and hun !reds OF the loyal friends of Grant,
whose blood will henceforth be an everlasting
testimony against Horace Greeley and the
great wickedness into which he was tempted
by the wiles of the adversary in the year of
grace 1872.