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The movement which finally culmi
mated in the nomination for the Presi
dency Of Horace Greeley and B. Grat
Brown, had its origin in the State o
Missouri, in 1870. It was the work o
Frank p. Blair, Carl Schurz and B
Gratz Brown, as leaders. This schem'
was organized by this trio, in Wash
ington, d. e., during the winter o
1869-7O.
The scheme was successful in tina,
State, by the very unfortunate ropine
into the project, Of the Mo. Democrat
which very soon thereafter saw
the terrible error 1t had committed
Now, while the said trio continue theil
sllcgience to the conspiracy formed,
the Democrat boldly and conscientious.
ly, long ago abandoned its mis-step.-
Even Carl Schurz, hesitated, stumbled
and skunk away, from public view for
nearly three months, from the I'M
toward result of his pet foundling, but
finally, on the 10th inst, came forward
very reluctantly, like the quarry slave
and took up his burden. We have re-
peatedly said that the hue and cry Of
Reform, upon which the conspiracy
builds its hopes and announces as its
motto, is the shecrest illusion, the
baldest falsehood ever attempted to be
palmed off upon the American people.
If there be need of Reform, (and never
in the history of the nation, was there
no need of il, though the present comes
as near the minimum in this regard,
as we ever get) the place for that Re-
form is within the glorious party, that
has made the unparalleled record of the
last twelve years. We cannot have
any faith in going TO Rebels and Cop
perheads for Reform, and how any
sane man can get gleam of hope from
such q source, is mystery to us. We
give as a heading to this article, "out
of his own mouth is he condemned
and we therefore give Horace Grceley's
own sayings, in condemnation of him
self IN his present position Please
read them carefully. We think he was
right when he wrote the following ex-
tracts, but fearfully and sadly demor-
allied now.
The Missouri bolt was arranged in
Washington last winter, and then pro-
Gained in the Free Trade organs.-
The game was to get minority of the
Republicans to unite with all the DEM
ocrats and revolutionize the State. To
this end, an issue on Acknowledgement
was Indispensable. The Democrats
were not all Free Traders, but they all
wanted the Rebels enfranchised, and
would vote any ticket to secure that
end. The Republicans were divided
on Acknowledgement; some believing
that the time for it had come. Others
that it had not. When therefore. Carl
Schurz. in a I..l,.-s~-s, lirltatiMg speech,
insisted that the Republican Conven-
tiOn should make Enfranchisement a
plank Of it's platform, the answer was
obvious: you ask us to assert a false
hood-namely, that we are all in favor
of Enfranchisment, when some of us
are not The Republicans adopted a
platform, which left every one free to
vote for or against Enfranchisement, as
he judged best. Hereupon, the pre-
determined bolt was made. We warm
ed the Republicans that the'pretext was
. sham-that Enfranchisement was cer-
tain to be carried anyhow-that the
real object Of the bolt was to hand the
State over to the Sham Democracy and
Free Trade, and that is the naked
truth. Tribune, Nov. 30, 1870.
"From the outset, we have insisted
that the movement which disguised its
purpose under the unequivocal phrase,
Revenue Reform purposed the over
throw and ruin of the Republican par
ty. The engineers of this movement,
in spite Of their pretences. never ex-
pected to carry it through the Repub-
lican organization, but over it. They
did not expect to convince and convert,
nor even to bully the Republicans into
acquiescence in their policy-they
meant only to ALLEVIATE enough Repub-
licans from their party to secure a tri-
umph to the Democrats, and thus
achieve the downfall of the Protective
policy. Their game in Missouri FORE
shadows that which they mean to play
in our next election Of President
Having been fairly outnumbered in the
Republican State Convention, they
bolted and set up an opposition ticket,
which they had no hope of electing
otherwise than by solid Democratic
vote-as they have elected 1t. Though
they carried off with them half our
politicians and our only journal which
circulates throughout the State, they
have not polled quarter of the Repub-
can vote (; but this sufficed when COM
bined with the whole Democratic
stength, to carry the State. Tribune,
Nov. Ii, 1870.
President Grant has expressed pre-.
cisely the opinion we should have ex.
pected from him, concerning the Gratz
Brown movement in Missouri. He
considers it an effort to disorQanize the
Republican party without cause. which
no good Republican who has the inter
ests of the country and of the party a
heart can fail zealously to combat
How any man protesting Republican
ism can fail to take the same view i,
one of the mysteries which only Reve
nEe RefOrmers, Tammany Republican
and other political nondescripts can b
expected to understand. - Tribune
Sept. 81, 1870.
The Republicans of Wapello count
were never more alive than they ar
to-day. The detection of so-calle
Liberal Republicans is very sma
while the honest Democrats who wi
support Grant in preference to th
vacillatings Greeley are numbere
by hundreds. Wapello county wi
give o larger Republican majority
November than she has vevr done b.
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