The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1872-05-16
THE PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE.

THE PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE.
This great question continues to be dis
cussed with undated zeal, not only at the
great centers of political strife and parti-
Eanship, but universally among the people I
Of all grades and classes, and we find that T
the voters of our County are as alive to +
the situation, and anxious of results, as
though each man were convention IN his I
own person. This is one of the many |
hopeful signs in the future, and surety |
Of certain death to past political " mon
strosites of the one man power.
Whose chance is the best? is the con
slant query. From the present lookout
the National Presidential chances seem to
largely favor Horace Greeley. We feel
sure, conflicting reports notwithstanding
that Grant will be the nominee of the
Philadelphia Convention on the first formal
ballot, orders having been issued, through
his Cabinet and staff officers, to each State
to send Delegates to Philadelphia with IN
structions to vote for t. 5. Grant first,
last, and all the time, and they dare not
disobey that kind of an order from their
Military Chief.
In case Grant is nominated on june
5th, rs predicted, we fell every confidence
that Greeley will be endorsed by the Balti-
more Convention on July 9th. Not that we
are selfreliant in prophecy, or that we are
the Democratic party, or the embodiment
of its assembled wisdom. but because we
are strong IN the faith and somewhat
inclined to that gushing tendency 50
much complained of in the Chicago Times
and Milwaukee Ners. Yet it should be
attended the Cincinnati Convention as an
outsider, but had not, so far as we know,
an avowed candidate, and being reticent
on that subject himself, he has the right to
suggest its observance in others, without
being open to the charge of inconsistency
But just here the inquiry might be made
whether or no one Wilbur F. Story of the
Chicago Time, did not "slop over" while
IN naming Judge Davis-a man who has
been Republican since the organization
OF that party, advocating the same ultra
and extreme party principles (tarif in
cluded)-as the probable or possible
nominee of the Baltimore Conven-
ton on the 9th of July next Unless
Mr.. Greeley is to be punished for
his earlier ant-slavery notions, or
that he has more pointed way of stating
his party creed, We cannot divine the cause
of preference, as the Tunes had strongly
urged the nomination of Mr.. Davis at the
Cincinnati Convention. We might be
excused for denominating it as slight Y
gushing" at the very least
Yet this is not nearly SO bad, as our own
member of the committee, the Hon. +. W.
Horn, the "sase &C Cedorsburs," who
usually boils over ON Chaplains, whenever
he is member Of Assembly, but as men,
Der of the National Committee fears that
Grant may get as many Democratic votes
as Greeley with Democratic endorsement.
Soothe your fears, Uncle Horn. Grant will
get no Democratic votes in the great
Northwest unless the inmates of our in
sane asylum arc allowed to vote
A. F. Pratt, of the PiaiHdeuler, even
talks of boiled owl and snuff in preference
70 Greeley, but has never intimated the
possible contingency of voting for Grant
Again, we have heard it said that the
Baltimore convention would sooner endorse
Adams, Davis or Trumbull, and that the /
Germans would rather support either of
these, than Greeley on account Of his tenn
rerence and other eccentricities." As the
future must decide who will compose that
Convention it leaves q wide margin for
speculation on its action vet it is our firm
belief that Greeley is the most potent man !
to divide and disrupt the Republican party, |
that hey could have named, and it is but
nonsense to talk of fraud or undue influence
being used to procure his nomination. I
The temperance question is best answered
oy the Chicago Tribune of May 9th, which
says Greeley has not advocated the intro
ductlon of the temperance question into |
politics for more than fifteen years in any
shape or form. Individual Temperance NAV
seem eccentric to Grant AMI his oefce-hol- /
dcrs, but viii it to the Nation
We suppose that Mr.. Grcelsy's personal
integrity, political honesty, and lack Of
party-drill comes under the head of s. other
eccentricities'' 50 lamentel by the Grant
ties, but We do no. believe that this wide
divergence from Administration rirtues
will prove fatal to him with the peorle
should he be the nominee Of the Baltimore
Convention
Rcturn.cs Hon. Sos. Villas.