Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-12-05
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Anse-Nlortem Declaration OF thc Late
Secretary of she Liberal H1ePub.
1tcan Nntional C0mmattec. -.s.

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We print below some extracts from letter
written by the late Secretary of the Liberal
| Republican National Committee--the prede-
cessor Of Our former fellow-citizen, Mr.
Evarts. The document will be found ex-
ceedingly interesting to great portion of
our readers. After lengthy recital of the
quarrcls, jealousies, and insufiiciencies which
seriously disturbed the Liberal headquarters
during the campaign, the writer says: ns
| Cochrane is a man of ability, but he is
| powerless for lack of recognition and sup
port. Hutchings has brains, but he is doing
nothing. Fenton, with great elements of
power, lean, spare Cassius that thinks too
much, scents defeat afar off, and has left the
ship to steer itself; and the great Irish orator,
Stephen ]. Meany, and the Labor Reformer,
John p. Wolfe, und the old war-horse, HI
ram P. Crozier, and the dashing Bucephalus,
John Pope Hodnett, and many others of our
cause, are throwing themselves into the
breech, trying to do gallant service, at their
own expense, but it's no use. Our cause Is
hopelessly lost--lost through petty spites and
spleens and jealousies, and inefficiency and
folly, If not the corruption of our own peo-
pie.
Our party was made up of "shakc hands
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| disaffected elements of the United States
| 1t may be that 1t would have taken superior
generalship to have held the seeessionists,
and Union Leaguers, and pre-slayery men,
| and Abolitionists, and new nationalistS and
States Fighters, and peace Democrats and war
Democrats, and protectionists and free
traders, and manufacturers and labor reform
ers and woman's Fighters, and spiritualists
and internationals, and Catholics and the
United Sons of America in our party; but
think 1t could have been done, as well as to
have caught part of the negro vote. ry The
woman's Fighters, and spiritualists, and re-
formers of all grades and ideas are against
us; and even the Democrats wont vote the
ticket. Is w.. .,,.. ~. ...,.. .. @. rr
We shall lose Alabama, for our friends are
divided and quarreling among themselves, as
they seem to be everywhere. Nor need We
be surprised to lose in the South, for they can
not afford to fight the question alone; and we
of the North are showing so much folly, not
to say bad faith, that their own interest CON-
pels them to strike hands with Grant, who
is stronger than his party. We might hope
to carry Connecticut, but many leading Dem
ocrats are against US. I may enumerate as
specimens, only, Col Benz. Starky, ex-Sena-
tor from Oregon, an elegant gentleman, an
old line Democrat. wealthy man, and, from
his inherent powers, destined to be of infu-
ence anywhere; and the Fitches, wealthy
and influential, and very many others of
that State, who are reported to me by Mr..
Tilton, of No. 95 Liberty street, New York
City, also an old line Democrat, as against
us. They have no faith in Greeley. We
may profess TO console ourselves with the
vain hope that the Pennsylvania election
was carried against us by fraud, but the fact
Is, the Democrats cont cote for Greeley, and
wouldn't vote for their candidate for Cover
nor lest it might have moral effect for us
in November. So it is in Ohio. We got
Liberals enough and to spare, but the DEM
ocrats arc opposed to the arch-abolitionists,
and would prefer Grant, who was once q
Democrat. Carl SchurZ and Bill Grosvenor
greatly injured the cause of liberty when
they made 1t impossible for us to nominate
Gratz Brown, who would have been elected,
and made hive, reliable, and worthy PreSi-
dent. we shall lose Florida, for the negroes
are for Grant, and our friends are divided
there. we shall lose Indiana, for Hen
bricks personal popularity gave him the
| whole of the Bourbon vote and shot him
ahead of our party strength. AT best, we
can not hope to have better showing than
us follows: Grant, 2}7 Greeley, 120; Grants
electoral majority, 10S. ..r5. s.
| Some of our friends claim that we may
carry Arkansas, but 1t went against us when
everything was in our favor, and now that
cur friends there, as here, are fighting each
) other like fools, that hope is vain, and our
Arkansas friends do not expect victory. But
they are gallant, and will fight it out on that
line and get whipped.
Our people claim Louisiana, although 24,-
ATT against us, simply because Warmoth is
Governor. That Warmoth isinjurous do
not doubt. And if he were as unscrupulOus
rs they say he is, and were to play fraud, as
our Pennsylvania people are said to have
done, Grant would have a Marshal Muir
ray and w. p. Wood there to watch him,
and they would say to him, as the girl said to
her "feller," ''that thing can't be did '---and
he didn't. Neither will Warmoth. H. ,pG
Nevada has mineS,i and miners who are
Democrats, and noted for Bourbonisiii, and
ibthe BOurbons are notorionsly againstius; and
with tho Pacific Railroad against us, we must
expect to lose Nevada. .sh3iiat1j !lLI"ii :
| If we hope TO carry New Hampshire be-
cause it is Grceleys native State, we are
4 fools. trIGH.fl aaisN5Us sh'"#& @hf 10 'H'"
|, Some claim that because, there are no State
officers to be elected In North Carolina we
shall redeem that State! - the GRANTEES will
not have personal interests to conserve by
vigorous exertions. Iwonder whether they
think that's to our advantage, If Grseley'
I friends had all the money, as well as officers
to help him, and Grant had nothing and no.
y body, Il would be trne but any fool knows
that Grant and Grants appointees will work
4 harder for themselves than they would for
other fellows--so that we and not they must
T. he the losers. and North Carolina must go for
I Grant by an increased majority. ''u J. rrE
Oregon, my noble, energetic, growing little
StateoI wish could hope to carry 1t, but 1t