Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-06-27
THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.

The Newburyport Herald, an independ-
ent paper, takes the following view of the
Presidential campaign. No party paper
claims an easier victory Tor Grant. With
but few exceptions the independent press
predict the election of Grant. Such pa
pers as the New York Herald. the In
dependent, Christian Union, Boston Globe,
Harper's Weekly, all speak decidedly
against Greeley's prospects and in favor
of Grants. The Herald article is as fol.
lows:
If the democrats accept the nomination OF
Horace Greeley by the Cincinnati convention,
this presidential election will be one of the
tamest and least exciting which has ever been
held. The liberal republicans will not only
be few in numbers, but their few leaders are
dissatisfied with the candidate, and the best
and most distinguished OF them have done
what they can to throw him overheard and
take one who will be more likely to unite the
opposition to Grant The democrats cannot
surely feel any great enthusiasm for man
who had bitterly opposed their party until
since he saw prospect of nomination for
the presidency from them, and who has as
sailed with personal animosity all the promi-
nent men of the party not connected with
Tammany. The republicans also will have
little to stir their enthusiasm, since they will
feel that it is scarcely contest in which they
are almost absolutely certain of the victory.
The campaign will be most remarkable, how
ever, in its bearing upon the democratic party !;
victory and defeat will be alike ruinous to
them, and the only advantage that can be
hoped for will be a small share of the spills
hxrO foxy 1aolt Hha
publicans declare beforehand that the demo-
cracy must take the back seats, and the accept
ance of Horace at Baltimore will be the ac-
ceptance of this condition. On the other hand
If the democrats eat their peck of dirt, nomi-
nate Greeley, and after all this humiliation
are defeated, as they must be under such cir
cumstances, the party will be as dead as the
old whig party which was buried in the grave
with Daniel Webster.
The action OF the liberal republicans has
been a curious illustration of show great a
matter little fire kindleth." Men protesting
to be reformers, and demanding greater hon
esty in polit cal nominations, called a conyen-
ton which was captured by their opponents
in principle and nominated man who was
not acceptable to most, probably to none of
the original movers in the matter. The men
who captured the convention have also made
the reputation OF the original liberals a cloak
to conceal their own weakness, and by this
means they have so magnifed the importance
OF their action, that it is claimed that their
nomination will be accepted and sustained by
the democrats. 1t is curious, however, to re-
marx that both the temporary and permanent
chairman OF the Cincinnati convention, are op-
poseo 10 the nomination of Greeley. The for
mer came out publicly with an announcement
20 that effect some weeks ago. and the latter
was present at conference held in New York
ON Thursday, for the purpose of devising some
means by which to defeat both Grant and
ureeiey. ms conference was held in secret
session, no reporters being allowed admission.
but it was generally understood that there was
very little harmony and that no definite re-
suits are likely to come from the meeting
This conference was respectable in the names
of those present, among whom were VIM c.
Bryant, David A. Wells, Senators Trumbull
Stockton, Schurz and Rice, Gen. Cox of
Ohio, Horace White of the Chicago Tribune,
and Gov. Walker of Virginia. The very fac,
of these men having met for the purpose they
announced was evidence of the wide spread
dissatisfaction with the Cincinnati nomination,
felt by those who honestly sought for reform
in that body.
Besides these leaders of opinion, some of
whom may be forced into a seeming support
Of Greeley. there are several other elements
opposed to him which will render his election
Impossible, even should he receive the Balti-
more nomination. In the first place the dem
ocrats are not all Office seekers, and not all of
them will be willing TO abandon their life
long principles for single success which
would prove the ruin of the party. There
are many democrats, who really hold to prin-
ciples, who have honest convictions in pol
tics, and not one single man of these can ever