The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-02-02
The Tribune and the PRESIDENTIAL
What Mr.. Greeley
did Say.

The Tribune and the Presidential
Nomination.-.What MI! Greeley
did Say.
From tho Tribune of,WedneadAy.
This Misrepresentation impels Us Il
state the fact that Tue fibIgeIhas never
vet favored the e1gnninsil 0flof any Pfesl.
dent, will coftilfly not hegiii bis year
and all the oillees Ia died mon eahnotlIt
so dispensed as 10 affect Ills 0eterinina
ton. The editor has, never favored the
denomination Of D President during hi
forty years Of manhood, and placed on
record more than thirty years ago reasons
for his adhesion TO the one term principle
which seemed then, and still seem, TO him
conclusive. He has once supported q
President for reelection, and may do &c
again; for he does not exalt the One.term
principle above every other consideration;
but he not only believes In Il himself buI
has good reason for his faith that Gen.
Grant gave his assent TO II less than four
years ago. Hc Is well assured that tie
editorials In successive issues ofthe WaSh.
ington Ollr0nic!e wherein this prfnniple
was forcibly commended were published
with his knowledge and tacit Il not ex.
press approval. I''35 >.
But we further object TO the renomina-
ton of Gen. Grant that he Ia maniiestly
a weak candidate, there being many Re
publicans who will oppose him If renom.
mated. That 1t should be 40 in this
State, and In any other where his heavy
hand has been laid upon one ewing" Of
the party which elected him, Is too plain
10 need proof. There are hundreds Of
active, prominent, influential Republicans
who have been expelled from Office by
him, or his instruments, and who cannot,
in the nature Of things, work for his re.
election as they would work for one who
had vertreated themas enemies. Who
doubts that II Is 80 In other StatesP Who
believes that he could carry Louisiana
alter the Calling gun performances of
last summer, engineered in part by the
brother.in.law who holds the best FEEDER.
al office in that State? We speak to sen.
sible men, and demand an intelligent
judgment on the undoubted facts. z.
-Four or five years ago, the Republi.
cans carried Georgia by majority of
eight thousand. The majority has been
squandered by mercenary, corrupt off.
Gals, some OF whom have had the decency
to run away, and who have ruined the
party's prospects almost beyond redemp.
ton. But, though there Is but the skele.
ton Of q party, there Is State Committee;
and that Committee gets together, elects
to Philadelphia a delegation composed
mainly Of its own members, and pledges
them TO Grant, first, last and all the
time"-well knowing that they can no
more give him an electoral vote from
Georgia than they can make him Pope.
Contrast this with Connecticut, where
the Republicans meet in convention,
nominate State ticket and choose dele.
gates to Philadelphia, taking care not to
pledge them to Grant. Can you ask
whyI They want to carry their State in
April, and know that the way to do II Is
not to nominate Grant.
Now look at the case Of Missouri. The
st. Louis Democrat, having turned its coat
since 1870, now belittles the Liberal move.
ment, saying that 1t is Of no account, and
the Times echoes it of course. But the
men who led that movement TO victory
were Carl Schurz, Gratz Brown, Gros.
venOr, SC, and not one Of these is for
Grant. On the contrary, they are all
dead against him. The Times says they
only led off twenty-five thousand Repu6-
licans in 1870. We answer, they led off
enough to carry the State by over forty
thousand majority. Perhaps enough Of
these have come back TO reverse that yer.
dict; but we know that there are thou
sands Of them who would vote for another
Republican candidate, but will not vote
for Gen. Grant. And there is scarcely
nearly balanced State in the Union
wherein Gen. Grant is not weaker can
didate than almost any other Republican
who could be nominated.
We state facts well known To intelligent
politicians. We do not say that Gen.
Grant will not, il nominated, be elected;
we do not say that we shall not support
him; we do say that his nomination rem.
ders doubtful Republican triumph
which, with a new candidate, publicly
pledged to the onc.term principle, would
be morally certain. And this is so palpa-
bio that intelligent, thoughtful Republi-
cans, who esteem the cause more than
any man, are bound to consider it.