The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1872-05-08
THE CINCINNATI NOMINEES.


of Missouri. for Vice President. The
convention was large, enthusiastic and
comparatively harmonious. The plat
form is in substance the Missouri LID
eral platform. The tariff question,
which was supposed to be bone OF
contention, wasle to the Congresslon-
q, election in accordance with the sug-
gestion of Mr.. Greeley.
We refer to the dispatches in anoth-
err column for light with regard to the
nominations. They seem to be the re-
suit ola coalition between the friends
of Mr.. Greeley and Governor brown
It is rather a singular combination.
Mr.. Greeley is an old Wing and would
die to-day for protection after the CIV
ilized world has declared against 1t.
Governor Brown is an old Democrat
and believes that free trade would be
the salvation of the American Union
and particularly of the Great west
with which he has been identified from
his childhood. Both are editors and
both are original abolitionists. we
tbonobt Governor Brown would have
been placed first on the ticket; we are
rather surprised that lie should con-
sent to take the second place.
Horace Greeley is an old man, more
than sixty years of age and has had a
wonderful political obserratio" 1--WE
were about to say erperience.) He has
M superior as an editor in America or
elsewhere. He founded the New York
Tribune, and to found such paper is
as Herculean a task as the founding OF
a Kingdom. He knows great deal
about politics, something about phil
osophy, and a good deal less about
farming. He is man of infinite hu-
manity and wants to see every white
man at the South emancipated as ne
labored so hard for the emancipation
of the slaves. He went on the BOND
which released Mr.. Davis from custody,
and treated with contempt the abuse
the Radicals heaped on him for it. lie
said he did not believe "that a great
: political party could subsist on the
hate engendered by an unfortunate CIV
il contest He hates Grant with as
holy a hatred as he hated VIM II
Seward, but would support him in pref
=. erence to any Democrat on the CONT
nent. Though repeatedly candidate
for Office he has generally had the uni
form fortune to be beaten. The only
}, time he was ever elected was in 1o4e
:, when he was elected on the Taylor
ticket for Congress from New York te
.. I'll vacancy, by majority of 2Sss
:. votes over his Democratic competitor
= AS Mr.. Brooks was elected for the long
term at the same time, his political lift
extended through only a single shor
session of Congress.
q Ex-Governor Brown we know grea
= deal and know nothing that is not II
n his favor. He is native of Lexington
d Kentucky, graduate of Yale College
: and is forty-s six years of age. He la
not a drop of Yankee or Puritan bloo'
, in his veins. His. grandfather, Johl
- Brown, an old Republican and tn
" friend of jefferson, was one OF tn
6 first q. S. Senators from Kentucky
served from 1892 to 1905, period q
thirteen consecutive years, and wa
}" President Pro. tenn. of the Senate. III
le grand uncle, James Brown, was one
H. the first Senators from Louisiana, elect
p ed in 1912 serving ten years, an
e. was minister to France from 1873
,e 1880. His father, Jno. Mason Brow
was a circuit Judge in Kentucky,
:. gentleman of culture, who, if he ha
III had ambition, would perhaps haS
al been as distinguished as his father, h
i'd uncle or his son. His mother was
he Miss Gratz, an aunt of F. P. Blai
ry and is, we believe, though very r
50 motely, of German descent.
After leaving college Mr.. Brown W
admitted to the bar and moved to
re Louis to practice his profession. I
H. soon, however, left the Law for polite
r. From 1854 to 1859 he was editor of tt
ey St Louis Democrat, originally Bent'
re- Democratic, and afterwards a Repu
=, lican paper. When he assumed co
troll of it, it was kept up principal
Ao bv contributions from the pockets
himself and his relative, and polite
|er coadjutor, Mr.. F. P. Blair, Jr. 1tw
~ sold last month for $3.50, 600. He W
- elected to the Missouri House of Re
~, resentatives in 1852 as a Bent
III Democrat, reelected in 49,
ne and 1856, and defeat
III in 1858. After the Presidential ele
ton in 1856, when he supported Buc
anan, he came out as Republican, q
J, is really the father of the Republic
ne party in Missouri. At the session
9H' 1857 he made an able speech in fav
elr of emancipation of slavery in Nilsson
and never ceased his efforts in that
rection until he saw slavery abolish'