Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-11-20
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. G, 70.
1t is all over now. and prophecies from
whateversoure have no political signif-
canoe between Grant and Greeley. Gree
ley is politically dead and there is no
hope of his resurrection. Your CORE
spondent, with some pretention of ideas,
presumes that Mast will in this weeks
issue Of Harper's Weekly, bury him in
all solemnity. Sumner, Trumbull,
Schurz and Fenton, with numerous
mourners, among the most prominent
are Banks, FarnswOrth, Blair, and the
small mot still voiced Upton will carry
him to his last resting place. The Right
Reverend Doctor Theodore Tilton will
do services at his grave. Upon the grave
there will be inscribed upon his tomb
stone, Horace Greeley, L. L. D. d. D."
The last double DIS signifying, in the
spirit of Petroleum V. Nasty, which
means defunct demagogue. I don't, of
course, feel authorized to anticipate
Mast, but I feel that if Mast does not
feel such an appropriate recognition of
the honest Horace Greeley in this Pres
tial canvass, from his well known and
appreciated reputation, ne will surely
equal, if not supercede it. in some other
idea.
The dispatches last night from Ethan
Allen that the Greeley majority in New
York city was 4O 1000. had the effect to
mike hundreds of G~reeleyites bet on
both the city and State to their sorrow,
and all we hear from them now is that
the Greeley committee was a humbug.
The reports hourly received from the
different parts OF the country are entirely
satisf- Glory. What I have written be-
fore rs speculative is now a reality.
Twenty eight States have doubtless been
carried for Grant and Wilson. The
G~reeieyites are of course sour, and
simon pure Dems not a little surprised.
From an article in the New York
Times it seems that a precious row has
sprung up among the Democratic and
Liberal Committees as to the expendi-
ture Ofmoney in the campaign. About
$500, 600 has been collected from a few
rich enthusiasts in the Greeley cause,
prominent among who are A. T. Stew
art, A. Schell, the Tribune Association,
Geo. Sprague and his broth er Amasa,
Greeley, Marshal O'Roberts, John E.
Williams, John Cochran, Robt. Murray
and others. At $500 per thousand for
eight page documents, the price paid by
the Union Republican National Com
which has distributed about
IA, 900. 900 this $500, 900 would print about
million, 10000. OOI documents.
As it is known that the Greeley commit
tee has not distributed one fifteenth of
this amolnt, the fact is thus disclosed
that numerous sharpers in the Greeley
movement must have pocketed a nice
little sum, each for his own purposes.
among those charged with
such appropriation is Ethan Allen,
chairman of the Liberal committee, ex-
marshal Robt. Murray, who is unable
to spell the commonest words, and the
notorious VIM. P. Wood ofthis city, ex.
detective of the Treasury Department;
who, it is charged, made a nice haul.
AS Grant gave nothing to secure his cleo
while Greeley gave Sc, 900 to a set
Of as ferOcious scamps as the nation af-
lords, it may be said that here the reform
comes in. 1t is well now since the cleo
ion is over to give the movers of the
Greeley cause the benefit ofthese facts.
LIFE.