The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1872-02-15
THE PRESIDENCY,
Greeley Opposes the Reorganization
of Grant.

of Grant.
The Tribune has never vet favored the /
denomination of any Presia,ne,. and will
certainly not begin this year, and all the
ofnees IN the Union cannot be 80 dispensed
as to affect this determination. The editor
Ia. never favored the denomination of
President during his forty years of man
hood, and placed on record, more than
thirty years ago, his reasons for his adhe-
sion to the one-term principle, which
seemed to him then, and still seems to him,
conclusive. He has once supported Presi-
dent fof reelection, and NAV DO so again,
for he does not exalt the one-term principle
above everv other consideration. He not
only believe, in it himself, but has good
reasons for lis faith that General Grant
gave his Assem- to it less than four years
aso. lie 10 wei assured that the eiitori-
ais In successive issues of the Washington
Chronicle, wherein this principle Was for
cibiy commended, Were published with his
knowledge and consent, if not express ap
proval. But We further object to the re-
nomination Of General Grant, that he is
manifestly a weak candidate, and because
there are very many Republicans who will
oppose him if renominated. That it should
be so IN this State, and in any other where
his heavy hand has been laid on one wing
OF the party which elected him, is too plain
to need proof. There are hundreds of &C
tive, prominent, influential Republicans
who have been expelled frem Office bv him
or his instruments, and who cannot, in the
nature of things, work for bis election as
they would work for one who had meyer
treated them as enemies. W no doubts that
it is so in other States Who believes that
he could carry Louisiana after the Gatlin-
gun performances Of last summer, engineer
ed in part by the brOther-in-law who holds
the best Federal Office in that State We
speak to sensible men, and demand an in
telligont judgment on the undoubted facts.
-Four or five years ago, Republicans car
ried Georgia by a ma jority of eight thou
sand. That majority has been squandered
by mercenary, corrupt officials, some of
whom have had the decency to run away
and who have ruined the partv's prospects
almost beyond redemption. But, though
! there is but the skeleton of a party there,
| still the State Committee gets together,
! elects to Philadelphia delegation mainly
of its own members, and pledges them to
| Grant, " first, last, and all the time well
knowing that they can no more give him
| the electoral vote of Georgia than they can
make him Pope. Contrast this with Con-
necticut, where the Republicans meet in
! convention, nominate a State ticket. and
choose delegates to Philadelphia, taking
! care not to pledge them to Grant. Can
you ask why? They want to carry their
State in April, and know the way to do it
! is not to nominate Grant.
! Now look at the case of Missouri. The
st. Louis Democrat, having turned its coat
since 1870, now belittles the liberal move
ment, saying that it is of no account, and
the Times re-echoes it, of course; but the
men who led that movement to victory were
Carl Schurz Gratz Brown, Grosvenor, etc,
aud not one of these is for Grant: on the
contrary, they are all dead set against him
The Times says they only led off 10000
Republicans in 1870. We answer, they
led off enough to carry the State by over
10000 majority. Perhap: enough of these
have come back to reverse that verdict
but we know that there are thousands of
them who would vote for another Republi-
can candidate, but would not vote for Gen.
eral Grant.
And there is scarcely nearly balanced
State in the Union wherein General Grant
is not weaker candidate than almost any
! other Republican who could hc nominated
! We state facts well known 10 INTELLIGENT
politicians. We do not say that General
Grant will not if nominated. be elected
/ We do not say that We sinai! rut support
hun We d. ak d 'sG5 Gii }ffP}PPh, yH
with new candidate publicly pledged t,
the one-term principle, would he moral;
certain, and this is :" palr%ble that intel
hsent, thoughtful Republicans, who IS
TEEN the cause more than any man, arc
bound to consider it.-NGc Tort TgLu2.
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