Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-07-20
WILMINGTON, DEL.
Saturday Afternoon, July 40.
COMING DOWN, LIKE A STICK.

The nomination of Mr.. Greeley, at Cincinnati,
had the appearance of a joke, because it seemed
Incredible that the Democrats would adopt him.
But their wire-pullers managed the job, and the
action at Baltimore gave his candidPcy a support
which made il, at least respectable. The move
ment, however, never rested upon the broad
basis of popular approval, and the inordinate,
preposterous putting by which its lean empty
ranks were made to assume the appearance of
fulness is already blowing out. The Greeley
movement is ON the decline. 1t went up
like flaming rocket, and it is descending
dumb. fizzed-out stick.
Perhaps we shall be asked for the proof that
this is the case We find it in several facts. One
of these is that the desertions from the Repub-
hcan organization to the Greeley " movement "
are already ceased, and considerable proportion
of them propose to return. Their number has
been, from the first, wilfully exaggerated and
ridieulously overestmated by the Greeley press,
and except in few localities, they are too few
TO cause the least political change. This shows
that the movement has no magnetic force,
no attractive power it repels rather than
invites, like the descending stick Of the rocket.
Again, there is a strong prospect OF a formid-
able Democratic Convention at Louisville.
Many Democrats are responding to the PROPOSE
tion, and there will be, without doubt, large,
respectable, and influential gathering, there. Its
platform will command the respect of the DEM
ocratic masses, and its candidates will be men
whom they can consistently support In such
case, the ticket it presents will receive tens of
thousands OF votes, and the independent men
who cast them will thereby teach a lesson to the
wire-pullers and jobbers of their party, which it
will be wholesome for all sides to observe.
but, still further, besides the gathering
strength of the straight Democracy, the fiat and
oontemptuous indifference with which Greeley
and Brown are regarded by nearly all classes of
people is conclusive evidence how weak they are
aud what tizzle the whole beautiful scheme
nowpromises to be. The Iammany ycoruptionists
Of New York, and a class of New Departure politi-
clans, whom this State and elsewhere have been
hanging upon the verge Of their party organza-
ton unable to get ON, and afraid to get Off are
now trying to crowd in, and and seize the con-
troll.
The New York Tribune has been sweating also
III his behalf, but it is now sufficiently occupied
m trying to explain the defects in his record and
Is likely to shed tears of dsgust,a as well as drops
Of perspiration very soon Besides these a few
sore-head trading Republicans, always ION tue
make, always in office or trying to get in, dis
satisfied while some fatter plses seems to be
within reach are working for the movement,
and performing that share Of the labor for
which nature eminently endowed them-the
blowing.
But excepting these, WHO is doing any earnest
work for Greeley The Democratic MASSES
have too much regard for their own self respect
to labor in his behalf. Many of them will vote
for him, as method of expressing opposition
to the Republican party, but a great mass OF
them will do no such thing. They are silent in
different, contemptuous, as it is reasonable they
should be, when they are coolly invited by a set
Of yenal party jobbers to vote for Horace
Greeley"
These are some of the proofs that the coali-
tion scheme, which went up in rocket styIe, is
coming down III the shape of played out stick
If North Carolina should go Democratic the
Greeley light may revive little but that State
is more than likely to throw another douche of
cold water on the sputtering flame. Its Repub-
lican majority will show that the revolution in
public sentiment is against such political jobbery
as that completed at Baltimore, and that the
people still prefer to keep the Government in
the hands to which, for twelve years, they have