The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-05-25
THE HORNS OF A DILEMMA.

dilemma, whether to support Greeley, ]
Heron and Graham, or
Grant, Brewster, Morey anu. thhe-
mOSer.
Now, don't get mad, but just give us
your reply in decent language.-A'tel-
,igencer.
This matter should have been referred
to those who recognize that the d'iem-
ma has been reached, and for them the
case is very we'll put. The TELEGRAPH
exactly the position it did
when the Faction war began : it is a
Democratic paper, adhering strictly to
IL matured programme of independence
of Republican dictation. Whenever
the time arrives to choose between
evils, if it ever does, we shall certainly
choose the least, and support our choice
as best we may. We clearly foresee,
however, that any defense of either OF
the evils presented will be difficult
undertaking for a journal whose con-
stitucncy is, like ours, II thinking and
reading constituency, having high
regard for their section and their own
political consistency.
1t has been but little while, Il pc
Rod that may probably be reckoned in
weeks, since the paths of Horace Gree
ley and U. s. Grant diverged. Back
of that period, the inevitable tendency
of political discussions will compel us
to 90. When we get back there, every
blow we aim at Radical outrages, cor
ruptions and usurpations, will fall as
heavily ON Greeley as on Grant. Every
lick we hit Grant, Greeley will jump.
And, possibly, if we strike up Greeley
tune, Grant will be on hand to dance.
If we sing pseon for Greeley's kind
ness to Davis, we must sing for Grant,
Lee. Surprising the Intelligencer goes
for Grant, it's little soul will run over
with joy if we go for Greeley, because
in nearly everything wherein Grant is
Objectionable to us Greeley is common
dable to it-even for his vascillating
political course, and so also is Grant. If
we say we support Greeley, because he
has changed several times, it will be
said that the difference between Greeley
and Grant in that respect is that Gree
ley is an older politician and man than
Grant, and that we have only to wait
to say as much for Grant as we might
for Greeley, and that no man should be
ccnsured for being younger than an
other man-unless Mrs. Hooker is right
in her Schurz theory, which admits
that man ought not to be born at all.
But we believe Il man ought to be born,
and be born in the old-fashioned Demo-
cratic way. We don't believe in Re-
publican "dilemmas,' which mean
abortions or C,esarian operations. If
we have any forte, it is in keeping out
of dilcmmas and being able to say
| where we stand and achy we stand
there. We can't say we are supporting
Greeley, liberal Republican, because
we are of the Democratic party; nor for
Grant, for the same reason. They both
base their strength upon the fact that
they fought 'treason," and being one
of the sstraitors' who felt their blows,
we say that the argument is not sutti-
cient. We believe that Grant was a
poor General, and never could have
whipped Lee without the help Of Gree
ley and other strcet-corncr and bomb
proof Generals.
The real dilemma the 1nteiligencer
has suggcstcd-although unwittingly
-reiiecting men will say, is where it
declares, in another place in its col
unns, that five go for Grant, for every
Democratic vote we would carry him,
he would lose ten Republican votes
&c for the reason that, in such an event,
ninc-tcnths of the Republicans would
look upon General Grants candidacy
as u Democratic trick
Thus, FIVE go for Greeley, instead of
Grant, ninc-tenths of his Republican
supporters will leave him, on the same
principle; and if we go for Grant, Gree
ley then receives all the Republican
support, one-tenth excepted; and the
consequence is, Il Republican is elected
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