Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-05-23

WHY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
CANNOT ENDORSE GREELEY.

WIZ HE UL-HOCHd1 ~ ran
CANNOT ENDORSE GREELEY.
The above is the heading Of an article
in the New York World of the 18th, which
gives some sensible reasons against the
nomination Of Greeley at Baltimore. The
article followed Immediately after the
Rochester convention, upon which it was
predicated The World takes the ground
that that convention failed to endorse
Greeley and disappointed and mortified
his friends, who regarded that as the turn
ing point of his fortune. 1t says the arts
and activity of schemerS who were infect
ed with the "Grceley craze" brought to.
gether quite number Of men at the con-
yenton in his favor, but wiser counsel pre-
vailed and the delegates were not instruct
ed TO vote for him at Baltimore And it
remarks that "by the time the Balti-
more convention meets, his nomination
rs the democratic candidate will be deemed
as preposterous as every democrat in the
land would have unhesitatingly declared
ii three weeks ago The article then
continues as follows:
The expectation that the Democratic Party
will nominate Horace Greeley (of all men ,
for President, is too ridiculous All the cooler
and wiser heads of the party feel it to be so.
Even Charles Summer would he less obiec-
tionable to set-respecting, thinking demo-
Gratis; for Sumner was a democrat By original
instinct and early training and associations.
Sumner is not protectionist; Sumner is not
an ultra champion of the paternal theory Of
governments he has not abused and vilifed
every leading and representative democrat
by wholesale personal defamation he has
lad, what Mr.. Greedy has not, long expert
ence in practical craftsmanship; he possesses,
what Mr.. Greeley does not, wide acquaint-
ance with foreign affairs; he is :. gentleman,
accustomed to the forms of society, and fully
adequate to the social duties of any official
position; he is not teetotal fanatic, and would
not give State dinner, or diplomatic dinner,
on purely cold-wae r principles; he would OBJ
serve those courteses of language toward gen.
tlemen who differ frem him, which Mr.. Gree
ley habitually violates. But with all these
clean advantages over Mr.. Greeley, Charles
Sumner could no more get democrats to vote
for him than for the "eternal devil" 1t is
said that Mr.. Greeley is honest; but so is Sum-
ner. 1t is claimed that Mr.. Greeley has a
strong hold on the colored vote; but Sumner
is an altogether stauncher zealot for negro
rights and negroe quality. As the democratic
party would UNANIMOUSLY scout proposition
to nominate Sumner, with what consistency
could it nominate Greeley, who, TO all Sum-
ner's acrid hostility to the party, superadds so
many political and personal dsqualfcations
The chief and controlling reason why the
Democratic Party cannot, and will not, nomi-
nate Mr. Greeley is, that of all the public
men of the county with any kind of preten-
sions to the Presidency, he is the very farthest
from representing its principles. What COM
munion can the chief apostle Of Protection
have with free-traders2 or what concord can
the foremost advocate OF the bayonet election
law have with its opponents? or what part has
a centralzationist with Democrats2 or what
agreement a champion Of Boutwelrs policy
of grinding burdens for the rapid reduction of
the public debt with the advocates of light
taxes! Why should the Democratic Party be
''unequa,ly yoked together" with one who
represents all the principles and measures it
most earnestly deprecates? When Mr.. Gree
lay publicly renounces and adiures his violent
opposition TO free-trade, his advocacy of the
kuklux law and the infamous bayonet Elec-
ton law, his persistent defense of exorbitant
taxes to extinguish the national debt in this
generation, and when he shall have retraced
his many virulent libels on the Democratic
party as whole, and on nearly all its prom-
hen' living statesmen as individuals it will be
easier 10 indorse him in that recanting re-
pehtaht attitude than while lie learns nothing
anu iorgets nothing, like "a yeritable Bourbon
II ne Is ready to come over to us, not merely
10 get our votes, but to accept our prinrinles
let MN puollely signify it by a recanta,ion as
unequlFocal as his opposition and abuse have
been unrestrained and yituperatiye! But if
his selfrespect forbids him to thus abasa him
self and eat his whole record, even for tho
sake of our votes to put him in the high office
he covets, how can he expect us to practice a
similar establishment from lesser motive !?
Even If there were no other reason for re-
jecting Mr.. Greeley as the Democratic can
didaie, the license and wantonness of his
brutal, unretracted ISLANDERS would be sufficient.
They have been so coarse and offensive that
few Democratic statesmen of any eminence
could take office under him without forieitinR
their self-respect. Democrats do not want an
Administration in which their trusted states
men could not take a part, and with whose
head they could not even be on speaking
terms unless he should make suitable apollo
gies. We could I'LL every column OF our
space from now till the Presidential election
With Mr.. Greeley's gross and hideous abuse
of public men whom the Democratic party
honor and trust
The World then gives extracts from the
Tribune, in which Greeley abused Sey-
mour, a. an example of the manner in