Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-10-31
TWENTY REASONS.
Hon. Geo. w. McCrary, of Iowa, Presents
Twenty Reasons Why Greeley Should be
Defeated.

Defeated.
From the Keokuk Gate City.
At the close of his speech at Pleasan
Plain, Iowa, Hon. Geo. w. McCrary
gave twenty sound reasons why Repub
licans should oppose the election O
Horace Greeley to the Presidency. We
have procured them for publication
and present them herewith:
oppose the election of Horace Gree
| ley to the Presidency for the following
among other reasons:
j /. Because he is the regular nominee
and standard-bearer Of the Democratic
party, and is seeking the disruption and
defeat of the Democratic party.
2. Becarse ! believe that if elected
he would be controlled by the men who
elected him, and would therefore be
compelled to administer the Govern
ment in the interests of the Democratic
party. To turn his back upon that
party after it had elevated him to power
would be to meet the fate of John TYLER
and Andrew johnson.
3. Because, in addition to this, Horace
Greeley has given his pledge in writing
that if elected he "will treat all who
support him alike, not asking whether
they had been in the past Republicans
or Democrats" which means that his
administration shall be Democratic, if
it means anything.
4. Because the nomination of Greeley
by the Democratic National Convention
does not satisfy me that the Democratic
party has come over to Republican
ground. 1t was rather the result of a
bargain, which, if successful, will secure
Democratic Congress, a Democratic
| Cabinet. Democratic State Governments,
and Democratic control of all the Fed
eral patronage. This whole coalition
was piece of Democratic strategy, and
was not-as some Liberal Republicans
clalm--intended as a means of sustain
ing Republican principles, but was in
tended to defeat and overthrow them.
5. Because the leading men of the
Democratic party now supporting Mr..
Greeley unite in declaring that they are
doing so in the interest of the Demo
cratic party and its principles.
6. Because the men who would con-
troll Democratic House of Representa-
tives, should one be chosen with Mr..
Greeley IN pursuance of the coalition,
are unslterably opposed to the contin-
uance in force of the laws passed by a
Republican Congress FOR the enforce
ment of the amendments to the Consti-
tuition, and for the suppression of Ku-
Klux.
I. Because the Cincinnati Baltimore
platform contains no pledge in favor of
enforcing the amendments to the Con-
stltution by national law, but does, on
the contrary, declare in favor of guard
ing "the rights of all citizens" by and
through "local self government l
regard this portion of that platform as
emphatically Democratic" and I can
never give it my support. The freed
people of the South must be permitted
to look to the National Government for
protection. The local governments in
the South, especially if turned over to
the control of the Democracy, will
afford them no protection, as the expe-
rience of the past few years abundantly
proves.
8. Because the great amendments to
the Constitution will not enforce them
selves, but must depend for their en-
forcement upon appropriate legislation,
and | do not believe we can expect
such legislation from Democratic Con-
gress.
9. Because | cannot indorse a coali-
ton between dissatisfied Republicans
and the Democratic party formed for
the purpose of defeating the party to
which belong and in whose principles
l sincerely believe, and which promises
nothing in the place of Republican rule
but the restoration to power of the
Democratic party, 10 which l am unal-
terably opposed, and whose supremacy
| would regard as dangerous to the
liberties of large class Of our people,
and to the best interests of the country.
10. Because l cannot indorse that
species of political trickery by which
Horace Greeley has become the candi-
date of party which (if he has told us
the truth heretofore) he despises, and
with which he agrees in nothing except
it be in personal hostility to Gen. Grant,
and in common desire for power and
the spoils of Office.
a lifelong protectionist, he becomes
the candidate of free traders. A zeal
GUS advocate of the Constitutional
amendments, he becomes the candidate
of men who persistently opposed them
and who still denounce them. A most
persistent advocate of the Congressional
acts for the suppression of Ku-Klux
outrages and the enforcement of the
right to vote, he becomes the candidate
of party that is pledged to the repeal
OF all these laws, and is now urging his
friends to vote for the election to Con.
gress of the most violent opponents of
all this benefcent legislation. The pro-
fessed friend of the freed -an, he would
now abandon him to the tender mercles
of those who believe he YVES created to
be slave. The earnest advocate of the
annexation of San Domingo, he now
joins in the cry raised against the Presi-
dent for having favored that measure.
Until quite recently the defender of
Gen. Grant and his Administration, he
now stultifes himself by joining in the
very charges against the President
which few months ago he denounced
as both false and unjust. Until very
recently the most violent opponent of
the Democratic party, declaring it to be
'ssimply the rebellion seeking to achieve
its essential purposes within and through
the Union," he now joins hands with
that party, becomes its candidate and
promises to build it up with patronage
IN case of his election. Having urged
the passage of all reconstruction acts
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