The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-03-08
acknowledgement:
rh0 Republican schism.

w..bIu1,ou Chronicle, Grant Rep.
FROM on, 'n o0Iv Republicans, but Democrats |,
No i, V"' Sven HE Patriot, will remember
inclu1lnS bonnbIican leaders who arc OPP
that tue .In collection of President
RC ,sat are ali, or nearly ALL Stll E ,%S O,
uIs AMI moi Democrats, and INA! snS s oh
t cans S o aoDpositiOn" is only against SuCn
tIa n1So ~ Only one Of them, senator
scSUrz' Is announced as declaring ad1 |, 'T re-.
; SSnu Vii moi support Grant even Gonvd 1o.
hn Sy w, by liz philadelphia CG iN n
n !iOn ihS regularly called convention. H., ~
N" psrty And we are not 80 81, sGsG Sc sa.
even Senator Schurz has ma1O '''' o''
fAt W., u thsn' We have come to thlsy any
o,U ms 4 That several Of the prominent N
GaIi'y% are svowedly opposed TO inc
rs.eIection Of General Grant, anu W. u 10
sec tnS. sI Ris defeat before the ConvGn'
a s9a AMI we need not underestimate Tue
!lSn, Ai which they still possess in Tue
, ranEs Of the Republican party; DE- =
d danS' ( Senator sumner aud Horace
[ G.oeIpv and even Senator SChur2, or
U OosS he continuance In office OF Presl'
iISni Grant, they arc not TIC less
Republicans, and none the less recCg,
niIsd as among the "leaders" by the
~reSt mass Of the party. We ourselves
go Nv, anI cannot aDprOvo the position
ihey have taken in this campaign, but VIC
none thc less recognize their great ser
Vice IN the cause Of true Rcpublicanlsm /;
and, moreover, we know 0he people
Themselves recognize II, no matter WnaI
narticnlar man or men they may support
or oppose for the Presidency. Inc rnl;
ipg these great leaders altogether out o.
iIe party, simply because they have their
nreirrences in relation to the Presidency,
rr even. because one or all Of these sew
eraI leaders may themselves have aspirat;;
lions for the Offlce-this reading out
altogether, which Is 80 flippantly done by
ibis and that little clerk to the party, Is
yery ridiculous. Looking, then, at this
matter Of the opposition TO the large part
n The Republican party, who, VIC believe,
iayor the second term for General Grant,
looking at II squarely and bravely, we
sbsll sec that 1t will be, and even now IS,
by no means utterly insignificant. It's
tue that they have lost ground through
The battle they planned themselves in the
matter Of the Senate French arms discus
sion, but still they have power and intlu.
ence which only u fool may snecr at.
But, trying to look at it from the stand
point Of q journalist rather than ola par
iisan, we believe that they will not sue.
coed 0fCOurse, politics Is q strange and
complicated game, in which one false
move may insure defeat where every.
thing before promised victory; 1t is hard
reading the whole Of even the near pollti-
cal future; but VIC believe the "Opposi-
ton" in the Republican party will surely
be defeated at Philadelphia. We believe
that that convention will go sweepinglY
for President Grant. z.
And then? That convention is the
regularly called convention Of the Repub-
liCan party. Even those whom we have
named above recognize its legitimacy, al.
though Mr.. Greeley, member Of the Ma
tORal Executive Committee, refused 10
sign the call Tor that convention.
Take more particularly the case oil Mr.
Greeley. 1t will be remembered that he
opposed the denomination Of Lincoln In
much the same way That he opposes
Grants. But that denomination once SO,
cured, did Dir. Greeley finch from the
decision of his party? lie bowed to the
will Of the majority. lie has always been
consistent with himself in the advocacy
OlthC zone term principle" in the Presi.
leHcy. But once his party deciding against
him, he goes with it against his lifelong
political enemies. And so in the present
case he is reported as saying that while no
opposed President Grant for second
term, he supposed he must support him il
TenOminatCd.
The Patriot, in the article upon which
We comment, and indeed the whole Dem
ocratiC brood, are simply startled by that
which to Republicans is the most natural
thing. The Democratic party does not
Andnever did dare to engage in criticism
upon its own policy or leaders. We for
got; it did once try it, at Charleston, and
what result But it so seldom engages
in any such work, that 1t cannot measure
Alright the discussion and criticism in
which Republicans engage. The Rcpub-
lIcaa party Is now doing simply what 1t
has done through all It's history, and that
which has gained it strength for these
splendid victories of so many years, and
That Is simple criticism Of It's own meas
ures and policies, Os well rs OF the meas
nres which they believe pertain To the
natural welfare.
They arc now simply engaged in criti.
c!sm; afler June they will not only crit.
Csc but fight, and press the Democratic
PARTY to q blaCker defeat than the Sey.
mOur and Blair disaster Of'GS.