New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-10
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me Democracy and the Cincinnati Ticket
~ TFrom the st. Louis Republican,


TFrom the st. Louis Republican,
Tto presentation of the Cincinnati ticket
t-;ngs more sharply before the Democracy
+ban ever the question: What SHAH we w
SSbe onestiOn does not acquire any adol-
tionaf interest because the Liberals nave
nominated Horace Greeley Tor Fresi9eht'
NOR because they have nominated b. Gratz
P D. for Vice President 1t would have
come M with equal sharpness, perhaps had
fbe ticket been Adams and Brown. or Adams
End TTnmbnlI. or Trumbull and Greeley, or
Rrown and Greeley, or Davis and Curtin.
Either of these tickets would have yielded
sensation of triumph to its particular Irlehds'
and a feeling of disappointment among the
friends of the defeated aspirants. The ticket
aotnaIIv nominated. will. undoubtedly, &C
complish one part of the task it was noml-
mated to accomplish; it will attract the Re-
nubliean oppositiOn to Grant, and 1t Will do
f more effectually, perhaps, than any other
one suggested at Cincinnati. Greeley and
Brown are both Republicans who fulfill all
the conditions that the malcOntent element
in that party exacts.
1t is true this malcOntent element is
mainly in favor of free trade, and Greeley
is a protectionist; but fair set-of to this
is that Brown is a free trader; and the
Vice President has really as much to do
with the question as the President. The
question is one for Congress, and there is
where it must be fought out at last. 1t was
estimated before the Cincinnati convention
met that the movement 1t represented
would be supported by something like
twenty Der cent of the Republicans who
voted for Grant in 1863 The ticket nOmi-
mated does not derange this estimate; it
will receive the support of that faction of
the Republican votes, and may receive
even more. 1t is in the power of Horace
Greeley to write letter of acceptance that
will dissipate whatever feeling of disap-
pointment the nomination may have caused,
and to attract to the support of the ticket
every Liberal Republican who felt an in
terest in the Cincinnati meeting.
The vital question is, what will the Dem
ocracy do ALI depends on that. The
anxiety with which an answer to the ques-
ton is awaited attests the decisive power
which the Democracy may WELD in the
contest. 1t rests with them to name the
next President. Shall it be Greeley or
Grant There are some noisy calls for the
assembling of National Democratic Con-
vention, and the nomination of Presiden-
tial ticket; and we are not surprised at this.
The spirit of party is nowhere a stronger
tradition than in the Democracy, and it is
not strange that it should exhibit itself with
some vigOr in the presence of two Repub-
Ican tickets, and a divided Republican
party. But what does the demand for a
Democratic ticket actually mean Itmeans
another four years Of Grant. The admins
tratiOn partisans are even more anxious to
have a Democratic ticket put in the field
than the most uryielding Democratic par
tisans are, for they know that it would
change the present aspect of affairs; revive
their PROSTATE chances, dispense the Liberal
instruction. defeat Greeley and Brown,
and insure the election of the Philadelphia
candidate. The administration partisans
will certainly do all they can to force the
nomination of a Democratic ticket; but it
may be fairly suggested to the Democracy,
whether advice from that quarter is worth
listening to.
1t is in the power Of the Democracy, on
the other hand, to make Horace Greeley
the next president, and to do it. too, in
such way that he can never forget the
obligation. Greeley would be an immense
Improvement on Grant, and this fact alone
would be ample compensation for his cleo
ton. But this is not all the main con-
sideration remains to be stated and it is
this: The election of Greeley and Brown by
Democratic votes involves the inevitable
accompaniment of the election of a Dem
Ocratic majority in the lower House Of the
next Congress. This is worth more than
the Presidency or the Vice Presidency, or
both together, for Congress is the real seat
of power in our government, as the plain
lesson of the last eleven years has demon
strated. A Democratic President, with Re-
publican House to oppose him, would
be the most helpless of beings
but a Democratic House, even with
Radical President ID the White House,
would be an immense acquisition, while
Democratic House with Horace Greeley in
the White House and B. Gratz Brown as
presiding officer of the Senate, would be
all but full Democratic ascendency. 1t
would undeniably be something immeasur-
ably better than Pendleton, or Hancock, or
Hendricks in the White House with his
hands tettered and hostile House finging
his vetoes back in his face.
Between Greeley and Democratic Con-
gress. and Grant and Radical Congress a
Democrat ought not to hesitate an instant,
yet this is the solitary choice All the Dem
Ocratic national conventions that can as
semble this year can not alter it. The pre-
sentatiOn of a third ticket, instead of
widening the field of choice, would, in re-
atty, narrow it down to Grant and make
him the inevitable next President.