Litchfield enquirer., 1872-09-05
cREElEY AnD REFORM.

GREELEY AmD REFORM.
 ha e.mpuSgn in which personalities snm snxA a PEO@ineAt feature. wehave not AsM SnrETned to ioin m the attacks which ur 0r~esey's long and somewhat cratic sssaursnl and political career have made so snsw ta kss oEpo1ea.x In OrSaer that our psa.aar. may see the peculiarities of the una. zos 1a szy POrtraitO of ours but as he pusnkn tAea hizself. ve have republished sa Su6-x4 Fsge his famous letter dissol- xs=w tke tuxm Cf Sevsrd, Weed and Gree
 x. rreesss1y ss originally printed, except h azkrsz1ng BOW and then sentence.
 Fhe EAerzry execution of this document a samirnhles . thing so bad was never AueHnr daaes but although it diseloses the nrunASsurnnlSztineseEy line. it is almost in- suur~aruhle that a man of real dignity or eua elf respect could have ever written sanA l~sAer- It is not that he is too se- vwe wikh saeh mere politicians as Seward sns We'd. but that he lowers himself szsa below their lov level by whining in sAs Neu York Tribune over the fact that sAzy eszA never be brought to give him s8eal N is for that reason that he dis as1pn the partnership.
 TAe underlying principle. if it can be saIlad a principle. of this letter is precise ly sha one that the friends of Reform are sxurywAeRe busy fighting. It is the prin- espas shna would distribute offices among paxsy politicians in proportion to their pzxsisan activity and efficiency. Let us sxsnins some of the items of this most remarkable account: lti 4- q
 sT did excellent work editing cam PAign paper in 1884," says MT. Greeley. s4Othexu, A. Fl. Wells and John Hooks in particular. had their pay; got nothing. In 1Sa0, I edited another campaign paper. Twas very poor then and ought to have hean given the New York post office. When I started the Tribune only one Whig helped me at all, and he only by a loan of Sl.OO0 When the Whig party came into power it gave its patronage to Weed and the N Y. Times; I got noth- ing. All they ever did was to send me to. Congress for ninety days in order to se- cure James Brooks his seat for four years. In 1858 my friends were talking Of me for Governor, when down comes Weed saying it will swamp the party. I vainly pro- pose to compromise on Lieut.. Governor. They refuse me even that, and run my newspaper rival Raymond instead. I know I should have been beaten, but my running would have helped the ticket and helped my paperr After the nomination Raymond played possum 1; I made the heht and elected the ticket. I am sick to leave the country for quite time. !"
 We do not think Mir. Geeley overesti- mates his services. He boasts, indeed, of never having presented his bill-which is immaterial. The real question is whether the whig party justly owed him office in payment for services rendered. which office ias leAdeEa. Messrs. Seward and Weed, tlr.- : justly withheld2 If, because Mir. Greeley vas very active, and very needy Whig, hs deserved the New York Postmastership in 1sA0, who is likely to deserve it, in case of his election, in 1S732 the bitterest, live kesk neediest Liberal in New York? And is that Reform? tla oa
 IL must naturally occur to every one, tOo. that the unpaid bill due MT. Greeley Hom the old Whig party is small com pared with the one he might present to tAs Republican party. His services from t6 to 70 have certainly been worth much moEo than the highest estimate that could bs pat onthOse of 'S7.-'54 His pay in tAs Dsantine has been nothing, or next e noshing. Does the failure to pay occa- ssoa Mr. Grecley's retirement from the Republican party in 1872. as it occasioned his retirement from the firm of Seward &' Co. in 1052e el saa "a. 5. se
 Making every allowance for heat of aesling. ik strikes us that Mir. Greeley's teaAsr indicates most erroneous and dan- gesoas vlew of the rights and duties of political parties and political partisans. nAssAOuid be elected, and act on the PEsaeipas assumed in that letter. he would eve as tAa vusst administration the sozaszy has ever seen Above all let eve-' v sas of oar readers re-peruse this an esszk political document and draw his own ss2e1azions. ss
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