Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-05-22
HORACE GREELEY PERKINS.
in the Navy-Romance.
From the N Y Conn., Adv


/ From the N Y Conn., Adv
FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL, May 4.
am for Greeley
The Commercial may not be for him,
but Eli Perkins is going to support
Horace.
We have nominated Mr.. Greeley on
the g-e-lo-r-i-o Democratic-Repu
lican platform, and now my friends we
must elect him. Our candidate is a
man OF a great many principles. He
has been on both sides of almost every
political question, and there is such a
chance for our orators
Listen to me and I'll tell you how
we can elect Mr.. Greeley:
l. For the New England states we
must instruct our orators to talk the
high tariff dodge. They must show
Mr.. Greeley's record, and point out
how he has always stood for the high
est protective tax on cloth, hoop skirts,
and oride watches, and favored keep
ing foreign cheap articles out of the
market. Then how the Yankee man
ufacturer will go for him, but =
Out West you must lay low on the
tariff. You must say that Horace has
gone back on protection, and that he
don't care darn about it, for the
Western fellows hate the New England
shoemakers like the devil. They
wouldn't vote for q President who
would protect manufacturers, for they
are sharp as lightning out there, and
they know when they wear the boots
that if they didn't pay for the protec-
tion whistle, they would come a good
deal cheaper. Our Western orators
must say that Horace VIII leave the
tariff question to Congress-for you
know well enough that he is head and
ears ior the present high tariff, aud
that when he is President he can veto
any act of Congress to repeal it. The
Western fellows will catch at this am
biguous dodge, and they will go for
Horace like political sheep.
2. To the respectable old slave-own-
ers of the South, read Greeley's old
1862 editorials about "Csmpensaiion
to owners for Emancipated slaves"
but
That national ve-buying idea
would kill us with the old New Eng
land Abohtionists. To them read Mr.
Mr.. Greeley's defense of John Brown
his editorials on Sharp's rifles for
Kansas slave -owners-and say how he
stood for Owen Lovejoy. This will take
lass, and Mr.. Beecher
3. For the old Southern secessionists
like Alex. Stephens, jeff. Davis and
Wade Hampton, republish Horace's
editorial, "Let the Wayward Sisters
go in Peace. y. If this don't satisfy them
than our candidate is sound on seces-
sion. read them the sentiment which
Mr. Greeley wrote in 1860; eff any
respectable number of the citizens of a
state desire to secede from the govern
ment, / know of no power which can or
ought to restrain them" That will
satisfy any reasonable secessionist that
in case Mr.. Greeley becomes President
he canwalk straight out of the Union
without being troubled by such men as
General Grant.
4. 70 the lovers of peace say that
our candidate went to Niagara Falls to
treat with Jake Thompson and G. G.
Clay In regard to acknowledging the in
dependence of the South, and that he
came back and wrote, advising Lincoln,
after Harrison's Landing, to "make
peace upon the best attainable terms,
but
To the war men talk about Mr.. Gree
ley's son to Richmond" "
5. Fool the editors into believing
that Horace is a great farmer, and
Make the farmers believe that he is
great editor. Neither will suspect the
dodge '@l
6. Prove to the Mormons and the
people of the Oneida Community how
our candidate was once a FOar6er5te,
and that he leaned toward and wrote
for freeloveism for years, but
To sensible married people say that
Mr.. Greeley is regularly married, and
that he can show his certificate of mar
riage any time in the Tribune office.
6. To cold-Water people tell the story
how our candidate lived for years on
vegetables, such as cabbages, turnips
and squashes, without mouthful of
meat, but
To the high livers say that every
body, from Dean Richmond down to
Lord Gordon, have bought him with a
free lunch, and that a good beefsteak
would buy foreign ministelship.
s. To orthodox religionists say our
candidate belongs to the Uniyersalist
church, but
To the world fellows say that he
swears like trooper, and damns every
body IN common conversation like q
Flanders soldier.
! 9. 70 the officeholders say Mr.. Gree
ley never declined an office, that he has
run for office eleven times, but has al
| ways been defeated, and that he split
off from his best friends, Weed and
/ Seward, because they did not give their
Office, but
To the "outs " say-why say Horace
never held an Office in his life-that he
wouldn't; but don't draw this dodge
too strong, for they might look up his
old letter to Seward-and-
Don't say word about J. Gould's
presenting Horace with farm, nor tel
how he was in the tobacco business
with freed, but let his enemies bring
that out.
Always flourish Mr.. Greeley's quota
tions. You will find they cover botl
sides of every question. If they doubt
your word, say "You lie, villian-yor
lie =" To the specie payment fellows
read this:
"The way to resume is to resume
Fl. GREELEY.
If they contradict you, bring up hi
favorite saying, which will quiet then
at once:
& When fool speaks, keep silence.
HORACE GREELEY. -.Es-
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