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WASHINGTON CITY:
ItEsDAY ............. May n, ls72.
rs Ii ENpedient 60 Nominate Mr.
Greeley at BaItimOre?''

The Patriot gives conspicuous space to a COM
muDicatiOn from "A Liberal Democrat" ZEN
torSed by that paper a. ga citizen who has
occupied one OF the highest ard most respon-
sible public positions in the country,'O in which
n II maintained that the mass of the democratic
voters cannot be brought TO forget GreeIey's
denunciations of their honored leaders, or his
life long efforts to defeat their cherished prin-
oiples; that the large religious element in the
democratic party will refuse to vote for n can
didate whose editOrship has been distinguished
by its advocacy of doctrines that sap the very
foundations of religious teachings; that the ed
itOr who publicly justified the criminal parties
10 The Mcfarland tragedy can scarce expect a
large support from Christian men, or escape
rom the potential criticism of the yirtuous
women Of the land; that the democracy cannot
afford TO encounter the almost united hostility
Of CAPITALISTS who shrink from placing their
sensitive treasure within the reach of the Tri
tHHe's crude financial policy; that Greeley can
not be elected without the support of the
UNITED SOUTH" and this support, for rea-
sons named, he cannot get; that of the New
Englan states he can have hope of car
rying only New Hampshire and Connecticut;
that tie stern democracy of those states cannot
be induced TO vote solidly for their old enemy.
and that the absence of a few hundred in either
state gives IL 10 Grant; that of New York il NAV
be said that when Greeley, as a candidate of his
own party in 1869, fell far below his own ticket.
be can scarcely be assured a promising run as
the candidate of party whose chiefs are Sew
mour, Hoffman and Church-whom Nj. Greeley.
by pen and tongue, has impoverished the yo-
oabulary of invectiye to traduce; that New .Jer-
sey, the only northern state true to the de-
mocTacy during the war, has yet given no coun-
tenance to Greeleys nomination, and but one
paper of either party, of over two hundred pub
lished in the state, gives Mr.. Greeley a support;
that what Greeley may gain in Pennsylvania BY
his protective proclivities he will lose by the
hostility OF that powerful corporation, the
PtnnnSylvaaia Central, which has been the
object of Mr.. Greeley's attacks for years; and
that if he is defeated IN these states it matters
not what the West may do in her debatab,e
states. Further, that intelligent and thoughtful
men will consider the manifest weakness of Mr..
Greeley from such causes as his persistent adj
yocacy OF a protective tariff, that will array
against him great foreign interest and capital;
and from his Incorporate temperance procliyi-
ties, that will lose for him the support of large
class OF voters.
This showing of the case presents some rather
awkward points for the consideration of the
democratic party managers, and we don't see
exactly how they are to be met. The fact is, the
democrats are beginning to appreciate that
Greeley will be big elephant on their hands.