The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-10-24

form movement for a generation to come.
But III it's place has left to us many columns
or newspaper articles that will be forever q
standing monument of the reckIessness and
degradation that attends all men when blind
ly following where base, designing parties
lead the way. More particularly is this the
case with regard to the Kenosha Union; very
much of what has been published therein
bears on it's face the evidence ofhaving been
written more to cover up the EDITORS cha
grin, than to develop among it's readers a
healthy, sensible, and respectable political
feeling. This has carried the editor so lar
that, having lost all prudence, he has pub
lished articles of so BLACKBOARD a character
that their slime will stick to him forever.
and tarnish the fair fame OF man whose
generous impulses If properly nurturcd
would have placed him high upon the scroll
OF fame, and to whom we, who have known
him might have pointed with pride, and
stimulated our children to high endeavor by
recounting to them the glorious record made
by Webster, during life not unmixed with
care, nor unalloyed by the many Ills that
flesh is heir to-"
Alasl Instead he will go down on the 9Th
day of next November. covered all over
with his self eugendered'1lth to the political
death that knows no waking, "unwept, I'M
honored and unsung" I sfor one would
have preserved him for better fate This is
the more to be deplored. in that he takes
with him many good citizen, altogether too
good to beIsent to such!an untimely end.
tits scarcely worth while for man to
spend his time now in argument on the po-
litical situation, but the final vote will be
cast on election day on one side or the other,
and to those who are as yet undecided there
might still word be said
Grant will be our president but many will
vote for Greeley; for myself will say just
here, that shall vote for neither of the m,
although was there the least doubt, or most
remote chance of Greeley's carrying this
state, | should under the circumstances con
slider it my duty to vote for Grant.
And should do this because honestly BE-
lieve that the election of Horace Greeley to
sense q curse to us, without one redeemiug
qualification.
This opinion formed at the commence
ment and before the Baltimore Convention,
and as Democrat could not see, neither
can / now see how an alliance of the Democ-
racy and Mr.. Greeley can produce anything
that will help to advance single idea that
conceive as belonging or essential to the
success of democratic principles. Mr.. Gree
ley's whole career down to a recent peri
has been of kind that made it impossible
for Democrat to support him without such
a serious modification of opinion on the part
of one or both that must have gone fas, as it
In reality has gone, to cast q doubt on the
honesty and wisdom of both parties.
If he has been right for twenty years or more
in his opinions, Democrats must have been very
much in the wrong, and such sudden change in
the attitude of the parties to this contract is de-
cidedly of such a nature as to make any thinking
man doubt the ones virtue or the others homes
ty Then defeat OF what l, with many others,
look upon as most corrupt bargain and sale on
the part of politicians who controlled it, is in my
path that will carry us to the reform we are, as
sincere well wishers for the welfare of the nation
40 anxious to see inaugurated.
With regard to General Grant, there is this much
to be said in all candor, that those who start
ed to beat Grant, stand to day GOV cred all over,
most OF them at least, with the mud they so cour
ageously threw at him.
I napd onlv mcmillan nno1ift1a ond Copott1y
Trumbull and his $4,000 fee as the most prom.
nent amongst the many that went out for wool and
have come home shorn, while Grant stands before
the people with cleaner record, and better char.
acter than when they ''went for him." and ap-
pears to have been a more faithful President than
very many Republicans who strongly supported
him, even dared to paint him.
Anything to beat Granti' was the original fool
ish cry of disappointed politicians. 1 would not
say sang thing" to beat Greeley-but would
say beat him, if he not beat already, and beat
him well. laying him out high and dry, and thus
show politicians of both parties that the Americans
will have FOR leader If no Is to be successful,
man whose character Is above suspicion, and
who is every way practical and not theoretical
statesman man whose past steadfastness in life is
a guarantee for the future Nobody doubts Mr..
Greeley's ability, MIR. o'Connor no doubt stated
the truth when he said Greeley" was an exceed
ingly able, exceeding Aamiahle and an exceeding
Iy misohlevous man. but he is also cratic, I'M
stable, and one whose every act show him to be
superficial thinking one, who will do thinking
enough in one hour to enable him to write on
any subject for week.
The celebrated remark fnsde years ago in regard
to Lord John Rnssell is very apt and appropriate
to Mr. G5e eley-the author of the remark SAID that
Lord john Russ i, had so high an opinion of his
powers, that he would in case of war, take COM