The Portland daily press., 1872-07-24
The Greeley Bargain.

The correspondence, summarized elsewhere,
between Messrs. Greeley and Seymour and
other Democrats, will prove boom-shen in
the Democratic camp. OF course, the Tri-
bune and Sun will deny it; indeed, they al
ready have; but the case of the prosecution
is so full and so explicit that no buster of
''you lie, sir" can refute it. ss
Aside from the conclusive testimony in the
correspondence, every act of the contracting
parties since the making of the compact, goes
to prove the authenticity of what has been
published. .-. + II.
From being radical Republican paper the
Tribune changed in accordance with the pro-
gramme to an ultra Democratic organ; it
ceased to make protection specially promi-
nent; it ceased to Genounce the Tammany
ring and became its apologist; it opposed the
legislation that would deliver New York City
out of the hands of Tammany; it became the
defender of the men at Albany it had always
denounced, and to the establishment of its old
readers, frequently ventured to defent them.
In pursuance with the bargain, the Cincin-
Hall COufSublOu was oClZCu auu oiSSiSy
nominated. The Baltimore Convention, I'M
der the management of Tammany and the
South, ratified the nomination and made good
its part of the compact.
The New York Evening Post, in noticing
the success of the plan thus far, says:
Whether beyond that point there is any sue
cess, for the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES they can
Ia, al oh 1ioa INV fha M mi nf the
Republican party to give their votes to put the
Horatio Seymour kind of Democrats into pow
er at Washington, with the Waldo Hutchins
kind of Republicans into power at the White
House, as the result OF a bargain between
them-whether that can be done remains to be
seen. Politicians who can never see anything
beyond their leaders may think game of this
sort is likely to win. We don't. Greeley play
ed conspicuous part thirty years ago in a
campaign where noise and "log cabins" and
'shard cider made fools of majority OF the
people, and not unnaturally he thinks 1t can be
done over again with an old white coat and
hat. But that is kind of thing that can't be
done successfully twice in the same generation,
and particularly when, the second time, there is
a transparent bargain behind it to betray the
people into the hands of party that it cost
them four years of civil war to get out of.
Precisely what the terms of this bargain were
we probably shall never know unless Greeley
shall be elected, when the agreement will have
to be carried out These terms, doubtless, are
contained in letters that passed between Sey-
mour and Hutchins, which nobody but them
selves and Greeley have seen. Should Greeley
be elected we shall know soon enough. If he
is not, we probably never shall know. 1t is
quite enough to be sure, however, that there is
bargain; and we may rest assured, as the
Democrats evidently do, that it is all that Ho-
ratio Seymour could ask. 1t was safe to trust
the interests of Southern rebels and their
Northern allies to his hands, and if he is salts
fed with what Greeley will do for them then
Northern Republicans may know what to ex-
peet. One little indication is given of what the
South may look for in the talk, during the ne
gotiations, of paying pensions to rebel soldiers.
Bridge over the ''bloody chasm" with pen
sionsl How beautifully Hutchins must have
played that card at CINCINNATI! How such a
suggestion must have inspirited the rebel yell
which greeted the nomination of Greeley!