Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1872-10-25

IA Of contendlng candidates and parties; the
country will have returned to the quiet and
,rpuse from which the quadrenniM contest
always awakcs It, The battle Is already as
good as won. In no Presidential campaign
for the last twenty years has the result been
Iess n matter Of doubt and speculation before
the day of election than In the present In
fact at no time during the canvass has the
result been doubtful, except, possibly, during
the two or three days Immediately after the
Baltimore convention, when the followers OF
the Liberal ticket raised sort Of wild ln-
dian veil, and INDUCED In the most enthu-
static predictions Of the hundreds Of thou
sands Of people and the scores Of leaders
who would abandon the Republican party,
aud cast their fortunes with the coalition.
Mr.. Greeley and his friends had 1t all their
own way for the first week after his nomlna-
ton. Like the dozen men in the wood
who kept up an immense shouting no one
could tell how numerous the LIBERALS were I'M
Ill they were beaten out Of the bushes OF North
Carolina, aud the country for the first time
saw that they were mere handful. The Gree
Icy organs and orators struggled hard to |
stem the tide that Immediately set In against
them, but to this day their efforts have all |
been In vain.
Beaten In the lrst election, they turned to |
those that were to follow, and again pre- |
dlcted victory. The principal organ printed
long lists Of converts to the cause Of Its ex-
editor; the hired slanderers Of the Admins
tration were spurred to fresh exertions by
arA al ha hRWa Of fttUrR
emolument. Maine was made the battle
ground Of Liberalism; almost as many stump
speakers were sent into 1t as there were
Greeley men within It's borders; superhuman
efforts were made to defeat the gentlemen
who supported the Admnistration-Mr.
Blaine aud Mr. Hale-but when the day Of
election came Maine rolled up her old-fash-
Toned majority, and angry Democrats began
to cipher out that there were only seven hun
dred followers OF the Chappaqua candidate in
the Pine Tree State. Beaten and baflled In
Maine, the opposition next concentrated It's
efforts upon Ncrmout-thc Vermont that has
ever since 1886 held the right of the Republic
can line; the Vermont whose wisdom and
intelligence Mr.. Greeley used so often TO
commend, upon whose green mountain sides
Weekly Tribunss fell as thick as the winter
snow flakes. Well Vermont at last spoke
and rolled up her laundering majority
against the old man, covered with trea-
son and lnfamy, whom sho had fol-
lowed US long Us he was true to his party
and convictions. Driven in ignomlny out
Of New England. the coalitlonists next turned
to the chain of central States, to Pennsylya-
MIA, to Ohio, the homo of Liberalism, aud to
Indiana, always and ever doubtful. North
Carolina, they screamed, had been carried
by fraud, and 1t was folly to expect any other
verdict from New England. Well, the chain
Of central States pokc-Pennsylyanla as she
never spoke before; Ohio hotly contested,
bitterly fought, Joined her sister Keystone
commonw eallh In the victorious Republican
column, and Indiana all but repudlated the
moot popular Democrat within her borders,
and, indeed, within the borders Of the whole
United States. From the day that Mr.. Gree
ley was nominated until the present time
| only one ray of hope has beamed upon him
from the political skies, and that from dark
aud benlghted Georgia, where the ku-Klux
assassin interposed his murderous hand to
save him at the ballot.box. There never was
candidate for the Presidency so emphat-
| lcally repudiated, so branded with all the
marks OF popular disapproval, preparatory
to his entry upon the great November race
that shall decide his fate.
The reasons Of this terrible condemnation
are apparent to every one who gives the sub
Ject the slightest consideration. From the
very beginning the hollOwness, the insincer-
lily and the treachery OF the whole Liberal
movement have been as transparent rs day
light. The motives that led to the Cincinnati
conclaye, the personal luminosity to General
Grant that inspired It's leaders, the dlsap-
pontment Of Office the expectation of re.
ward for political treason have stood out 10
such strong and vivid colors that no one In
the land has been deceived by the wretched
travesty Of political honesty that was per.
formed there. To come to the next stage In
the perfoTmance-the Baltimore surrender
The honest Democrats who had followed thai
party and stood by It's Organization for years
who honestly believed that It's platforms
and principles were something more thar
mere tinkling brass, turned away with lORth
leaders sign away the title deeds OF thell
organization to the man who hat
been their enemy for thirty years
The trick was so palpably a trick /
bore 80 Enthusiastically tho eaTmarks o
fraud and political dishonor and degradation
II was so plainly a himsy device TO obtain tn
spoils of Office at the sacrifice Of party feAlty
that In all sections Of the Union thousand
upon thousands OF intelligent Democrat
next morning hung their heads 10 shame ant
resolved to fight no more under the oil
standard they had so long followed and Tough
for. From the day Of the Baltimore conVen
ton to this, Mr.. Greeley has been growin
weaker and weaker He Is stronger to-dA
than he will be week hence, and the Reput
lean party will poll larger vote on the 81
D of November than II has pOlled In all Its hor
I ored career. Democrats who refuse to b
c drilled and dragooned by false party leader
are enrolling themselves by the thousand
q Its inyincible ranks. To-day II stands for q
i that there Is in the land of patriotism and (
II principle with lis platform of peace and goo
/ will to all men and all nations. II stands Il
n the worth, the culture and the Intelligence {
L. the republic. And the triumphs that 1t HI
n won arc only the earnest of those that II
= yet to achieve against all who dare oppo,
a ii. Republlcanism Is great because 1t Is RICH
il because II means advancement, pTOsperit
= equal Justice to all men, the maintenance
d law and order. Democracy and Liberals
II cover before It. beaten and buiiled, becau
n they stand for the worst vices In our polite
y system, the dangers and the disasters, n
l. tiOnal State and municipal, that were ha
PLY defeated and averted In four years
q, civil war.
= THE uoRsE DIsTEMPER has reached Nc
= York, and an idea Of Its extent there ma
perhaps, be obtained from the head lin
IS with which the Herald prelaces four or a
c columns OF Information on the subject Tn
n are ia follows; 1.-THE poor beasts, fifteen tho
o sand horses stricken with ehills and few
n an alarming pesdlence, Manhattan isla
D turned Into a vast horse hospital; the sire
u railroads stage companies, private live