The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-08-16
THE GREAT FEAT OF POLITICAL
DEGLUTITLON.

M JAc COunJIN dS LuO reg uIdI DIcSl
dental nominee of the Democratic
party. Democracy, SO far as i
was represented by the action o
: the Baltimore Convention, has dis
Itended its tauces to the uttermost
q and swallowed the man who, of al
z others in the country, has been its
8 most violent denouncer, and who
, in the days of his fidelity to Re
publican principles, said: MAY
1T be written on my grave that
was never its follower, and lived
and died in nothing its debtor. :
5 The party whose two prime char
: acteristics, according to Mr.. Gree
ley the journalist, have been to
"hate niggers and love rum" has
selected him for its standard bear
er, and will do what it can to make
him the next President. This
wonderful feat of political degluti
ton has no parallel in the history
of this country. A broader con
traSt cannot be conceived than
that which has hitherto existed
between. the candidate and the
party which he has so yehemently
opposed under the title of the ne
CIRCULATING and slavery-loving
'sham Democracy" His record
and its record are both written
with equal clearness. That the
two should now welcome each 9TH
or in seeming fellowship, and the
one become the candidate of the
other, may appear, at first sight,
as an inexplicable prodigy; get
there is but little difficulty in soly-
ing the seeming mystery.
| The Democratic party, having
been defeated at the last three
Presidential ELECTIONS, and being
Overwhelmingly routed in the
State elections of last year, came
to the conclusion that all hope for
success this year was absolutely at
an end unless some move was made
to divide and break the strength
of the Republican ranks. Its
leaders saw nothing but defeat in
the approaching contest if the
party went into the field under its
own colors and with hitherto re-
cognized Democrats as it's nomi-
necs. This one fact is the key to
its whole course. The Cincinnati
movement, originally started to
promote revenue reform, fell into
the hands of political tricksters,
and was so manipulated by them
as to issue in the nomination of
Horace Greeley, with platform
which it was supposed Democrats
would not find much difficulty in
accepting. This part of the pro-
gramme being reduced to a fact,
the next thing was to secure the
support of the Democracy. The
exigeneies of the party gave, at
least, some hope of success; and
last week the Democratic anaconda
in the expressive and very appro-
pirate rhetoric of the New York
World, did "gulp down Mr.. Gree
ley" and enter upon the expert
ment of digesting the ''monstrous
meal" The World, though con
tributing "no slime to give the
animal a slippery passage down
the throat of the devourer," never
theless, has promised to do what
it can to aid the process of edges
tion;" and if it shall succeed in
carrying 1.-The devourer" safely
through this gastric crisis, wheth-
er by allOpathic, homeopathic,
hydropathic, electropathic, or he
tcropathic treatment, then its
claim to a first-class position in
the healing art will be forever set
tied. A doctor that can save
Democracy with Greeley on the
stomach need do no mre to estab-
llsh his therapeutic skill.
AS to Mr.. Greeley, the problem
is equally simple to any one who
knows the man, and will carefully
study his political maneuvers, es-
pccially for the last twelve months. |
Personal hatred of General Grant,
and a desire to become President
himself, are the two keys that I'M
lock all the secrets of his course.
Determined to crafty the one, and
just as anxious to gain the other,
he turned his eyes, as there can
now be no doubt, toward the
Democratic party, counting it by
complimentary editorials, and hop
ing that it's necessity would prove
his opportunity. Mr.. Greeley is
not in his present position by mere
accident, or unexpectedly to him
self, or without his own concur
rent cooperation and seeking.
He has been planning for the re-
suit he has gained. He has
cautiously, yet by successive steps
been changing his position, so
as to cOnciliate toward him the
good offices of the Democratic
party. He has toned down his ut
terances in respect to the tariff,
and in respect to congressional
legislation for the proper enforce
ment of the Constitutional Amend
ments. He has gradually yet pro-
gressively ceased to be politically
the Greeley that was, and become
altogether another thing. In
plain words, the Democratic can
didatc of to day for the Presidency
is Just where he is because he has
wished to be there and has sought
it. The result has not been forced
upon him. 1t has not come to
him contrary to his hopes. Fore
seeing that the Republican party
would nominate General Grent, he
made up his mind to abandon the
party, and take any position which
promised to do it the most harm,
while best serving the purposes of
his own ambition. 1t is not pos
sible to speak of Mr.. Greeley in
milder terms without violating
common sense in explaining his
public actions, to say nothing of
his private consultations with
Horatio Seymour. He has delib-
erately gone to work to defeat the
Republican party, and just as de-
liberately put himself in alliance
with Democracy. He knew that
the mere handful of men that
nominated him at Cincinnati
would amount to nothing unless
the Democracy should come to his
help; and hence, he has shaped
his course, both before and since
the Cincinnati Convention, to
achieve this result, and last week
he gained it at Baltimore.
The two pictures, then, present
ed to the country are these: First,
q defeated, demoralized, and cor
rupt party 1.-THE most corrupt, ac-
cording to Mr.. Greeley's repeated
statements, that ever existed in
these United States) conscious of
its own weakness, going outside