The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-10-23
The False Explanation ana the True.

NAA' augustus Scnell anu JOnn COch-
Iane agree that the radical majority OF
J9,OO0 In Pennsylvania was the result Of a
fearful crime against suffrage" "There
ls no intelligent citizen, oil whatever party,n
says the pure and virtuouS Cochrane,
who does not realize that tho 35 1000 ma.
lority scored up In Pennsylvania for
uartranit over Buckalew represents, not
the convictions oil the voters, but the vast
sums whereby those convictions have
neen OVERCOME" And Mr.. Augustus
Schell enlarges upon the same theme thus
eIoquently: 1.-THE event Ia Pennsylvania
on Tuesday last, when considered In It's
causes, Is the most appalling political
catastrophe that has ever taken place in
this country Should the system though
which this catastrophe was brought about
DO condoned by the people, and foiSted on
the other states, II seals the doom OF free.
dom In America. A sad contrast 1t Is
surely, that amid the anthems OF a free
people, should now be the first to toll the
knell offs liberties"
Now this Is very fine writing indeed,
but 1t becomes immensely ridiculous In
view OF the fact that the moral of It all Is,
Vote Tor Greeley! It becOms even more
ridiculous In view OF the further fact that
q doubt exists In the minds OF even Hart
ranlrs enemies and Greeley's friends
whether the result In PENNSYLVANIA was
changed by the use Of those vast sums, y
MIR. John W. Forney, who, Mr.. Cochrane
will allow, belongs to whatever party"
and who was bitterly hostile to Hartranit
says 1t would DO idle to pretend that the
result In Pennsylvania was brought BY
fraud or bribery, and expresses his con-
victton that the immense majority against
Buckalew was an expression Of the pop
uIar aversion TO the philosopher and OIL
ce'secking coalitions. And even D. Gree
ley's own Tribune says: "Thc democrat
ic state committee OF Ohio frankly tells
the cause Of the failure to make the vic
tory there complete. Tho liberal repub-
licans, 1t says, gave them oil tho votes
they needed, and more, but Mey hal not
Themselves brought out there 0pR gOte. Ihe
state committee Of Pennsylvania might truth.
fully make similar explanation"
That, Messrs. Schell and Cochrane, Is |
the true account Of tho matter Your or.
gan is more candid than you. As in Ohio,
so in Pennsylvania, there were thousands
OF democrats who would not be delivered
by the early traders to the arch enemy Of
democracy, and who would even seem to |
ratify the disgracetul surrender of demo-
cratic principles at Baltimore by voting
for Buckalew, one Of the purest and ablest
democrats in the land. And SO 1t was In
Indiana, where Voorhees, was defeated by
900 majority In strong democratic dis
trict, and where the democrats lost the |
legislature, a United States senator, and
all their state ticket except Hendricks,
whose great personal popularity barely, !
saved him from defeat
And now Messrs. SChell and COChrane
may rest assured that 1t Is not "the doom
Of freedom in America" that Is sealed, but |
the doom of Horace Greeley, the most en-.
ergetic and implacable foe to democracy,
and the most violent assailant OF the dem.
oCratiC doctrine Of equal freedom that the |
country ever produced. II Is the doom of
Horace Greeley and all his cat.and.at
following that is sealed. 1t was his can
didacy, and the disgraceful bargain con.
summated at Baltimore that defeated |
BuCkalew, almost defeated Hendricks, and |
largely reduced tho democratic represen.
tation in congress. In view of all this,
Messrs. Schell, Cochrane, and tho rest Of
the drillsergeants may well take alarm,
and Flourish menacingly their trunch.
eons;" Tor II democrats have chastised |
those Of their own household for the Gree
ley offence, what will they be likely to do |
when they come to deal with Greeley |
himselfin November? II is not at all un.
likely that the Grant party made a lavish |
use of money in Pennsylvania; but that
will not account for the majority OF 25,-
900 against Grceleyism, nor for the result
in Ohio and Indiana. The "organized
contradiction" was fairly beatan in the
October States by democrats who refuse
10 be sold and delivered TO their worst
enemy by selEconstituted leaders, and it
will be beaten worse yet in November.
Messrs. Cochrane and Schell are not such
b!ockheads rs not to know this, and
it is idle for them TO attempt TO make
people believe the contraTy.-Chicdqo
Times ofthe I'm.