The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1872-07-18

a BLAST ron TH1 0111LEY
IT1S.
Hon. Hiram Price in Reply d
Greeley slandsrs--A Red Ho
Letter.
EDITOR DAILY GAZETTE Ny ct
tention has just been called TO the fol
lowing In the issue Of the Daily Dav
export Democrat Of last evening:
The De- Moines State Leader says O
our fell0w-citisen The Hon. Hiram
Price. who for many years has hesn
most active radical worker In low
politics, ID going % Europe. It is -
serted that he h disgusted with Gran
and his party, and while he does no
desire to take open grounds agains
Grant and the party that supports hin
for reelection, he Wil1 absent himsel
ffom the contest 70 avoid the pessist
ent importuuitiee on either sldo 70 TAXI
the stump. It's . great loss to thl
Grant force In the State. and especially
in Scott county and the second con
gressiOnal district, to work without
Hiram Priee."
/ have known, ever since the Gin.
cinnati Convention, that the enemies
Of President Grant, and of his admin.
istration, were hard driven to flnd ma.
terial out Of which to manufacture
capital to bolster up the dishonest
cause In which they are engaged.
but until I saw the above quotation
from the Leader did not know thai
they themselves considered their cause
% desperate.
IL will Be news indeed, to those thai
know me, to hear that l occupy %
doubtful . position in the present
Presidential contest - 10 be compelled
to "absent myself from the contest, u
avoid the persistent importunities oi
either side to take the stump" / be-
lievs this the first time I was evel
charged with being on the fence In
reference TO any question about which
I pretended to know anything: and
risk nothing In saying that It ID the
lat thing that any one, either friend
or foe, will believe Of me. Whatsvei
faults I may have, halting between
two opinions is not one OF them. ]
WA net among those who cried On
to Richmond" one day, and the next
day pleaded to allow the "erring sis-
ters to Co." was not one of those
who whined and lamentei over the
evils Of slavery, aud yet when the
time came to strike the shackles from
the limbs Of the slave. hesitated and
debated whether it would not be bet
ter to wait until rust and time should
wear out the chains, even thougl, the
heart OF the slave should break before
the links Of the chain that bound him.
some Of the wOuld-be leaders Of the
Greeley faction cannot truthfully say
this.
Twas among those who believed
that the only way TO subdue the re-
bellion and bring peace to the country
was to whip the rebeilious spirit Out
OF the rebels, and wash out with blood
the stains Of treason. Therefore,
believed in General Grants policy dur
ing the war, and % member Of Con.
gssss. I AsA ~A.~A I ~ssssvA - e.AkS hsaA
Lieutenant General, and have nevel
regretted 1t since. When he tool
command Of the army of the Potomac
the spade, kid glove and cologne wateI
policy Of Mcclellan was abandoned
and the rebels were taught that wal
meant hard knocks. and hard knock,
continued until somebody WAS whip
ped. They and their friends did moi
like him then, and they do not like
him now. The eame men that op-
posed him then oppose him now. The
same battle cry that rallied their forces
then, rings along their entire line to
day. Anything to beat Grant" wa
then Inscribed upon their banners
and not one word, not one letter o
that inscription, has been changed.
The rebel element Of the South il
almost solid against Grant. l kn0u
this from some months residenc'
there last winter. The men In tn,
North who proclaimed the "war |
failure" who refused TO vote for mel
and money in Cougress to carry OF
the war, aud those out Of Congress
who refused to take government
bonds, and who asserted that green
hacks were worthless trash, sre almos
to man opposed to Grant, and Il
favor of anybody or anything tha
will beat him. To this list Of some
what consistent opposers, has beel
added . small company Of uneasy
dissa tisfied, disappointed, soreheade'
politicians-men who, because the.
could not be allowed TO control tn
ship, are doing what they can to rul
her upon the rocks among the break
ers. Men who, because they could no
rule, are determined to do what the
can to ruin. Men who once pretende
to be warm friends and supporters @
Grant, and Of the very policy whicl
be has been, and IL now pursuing, bu
who nov bark loudest Of any Of tn
pack that follow swapping and snar
ing 1t his heels. To such It II onl
necessary to say, "Go, 70 holiday, y
sunshine friends, ye time servers. y
criers Of hosannah to-day and cruc
flers to-morrow-go hide your guilt
heads, get. Il possible. On oct Of th
Legislature changing your name
each and every one Of you, to Arnold.
Grant was suooeas In the army
he gave us peace. and - the head I
the government he has been equall
II not more succcsssul In malntaiuiu
that peace at home and abroad. Ne
er In the history Of the world has
nation Immediately at the close Of u
var started on such = brilliant cour
of uninterrupted prosperity % our
II our credit - nation had declined
II our financial system had been cri
pled .or A..ranged II the complication
with. other .ustions growing out Of u
wsr bod givsl7 10 serious trouble
embarrassment. 1t would not ha'
been stran~e con sidering al the ci