The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-07-30
acknowledgement
General False POslsi0n'

81, General False f"'''i
From ~ n n. u ,,a sS things ever said va wa
he spy, % y he feasibility bis be ,SInH
lItel = .. y AZ candidate "DGnt ial ,I.c y
It, Be Ten ma 10 The islsest Of positions, f.
20 s91 S sn:e no! yet blunte o,C OF t ~
H. s,. s'iSS y b; ambition saw at S,S Gn .Sran Is
aa,l \ !. from something that ought gEci nj
hon mi the alliance has been siI !, a.
u 'f isySTed, strange awkward and n So
9; i sTU OCiGcai canyse, that 1 was PER +
a.u aver recorded Human l1Se ana, ~ Il
ly'p SSIS aS about more whimsical cal o. o.
ss sTS Combinations Things :, arc so s.
isls!eG, 'h boSSS no small resemblance e
isPey.jS r'sSIoned donkey races ID Eng
. as r Which each man rode his t nglEn
S ,1"S2 as q and the one that came In Oen'n'
won "a, tn General gT displacement Is reflected Il
. lug .Sg SST among which, with iht
@e I nS%SP ~ those optimistic prints like
slsF RTS The Independent and HdTT!
' as,B~ which find all things for the Oes'
!, 0a n bst Of possible administrators !
y W. b hardly one Of any character thai
t4s.' moi teel itself slightly out Of tune
T ~ s re- frcc to confess for ourselves, e
, w with, that having thought some 70,
~ necessary in party management, lne
", g,T nrodered isSo abOminably bad thaI We
az 4. ip.ck 10 The old status as infinitely to
!; !. D y bat the position, for all that,
\ s5otofthC pleasantest. Take, for ex'
: s, ny,O tbe Word, which lately demon
',..S,sl with more than customary elo-
' Ms,ss and LOGIC, the cowardice, the folly
! w The e disqualification Of a course
M -Sicb having been adopted at Baltimore,
4, |T nav shows, with equal elOquence and
Inc r 10 be marked by many and signal
. 20, Or take the lIi6uHe-once
,Ss most Rec and ouspoken Of independ-
IN. ,1t journals, whose criticisms Of Demo-
sT,ic fsitb AID practice were like the dis
, charges Of ordnance, and whose vindica-
,'ors of its protective isllaCies were con-
. .,,, loud and reverberating. Now 1t
Nam Won on those topics "as gently asany
nrEi5r dove But most lsmentable and
i9jIcrous Of all, mark the state Of those
81 Liberal Republican" journals which
went IN for a grand, dignifed, elevated
D5Iicsl reformation, and find themselves
fbeek By Iowl with the Republican "sore.
besds" The Tammsny ring, and Southern
Byqrbons, upon any and all Of whom the
erlboucht Of reform acts like an acid
mon alkali-prOduCiug furious and angry
stervecenCc. They put good face on
il, DOOR fellows, but II Is q funeral rather
than a wedding entertainment which they
attend.
Behold, again, the Democratic leaders
Thurman, Bayard, VOORHEES, and 9th
ar, men Of conviction and integrity, with
1ne Of the characteristics Of statesmen,
Who actually despise Greeley and detesI
bis whole political career, but who are
ret making speeches in his favor in order
Oreunify and preserve their party organ.
iitiOn. On the other hand, behold
T1mbull and SChurz, whose political
cred IS the very reverse of that Of their
candidate, whom they nevertheless sup.
p0t-not like Thurman and Others, IN
Ofler to rebuild the shattered fortunes oil
democracy but in order to dash it anew
iltOpieCes. Saddest Of all, behold Sum,
ler, The moral hero, both the Godfrey AMI
The Caur de Lion OF the anti.slavery cru
Hle, the dauntlesS champion oil race
agsr to fling his lance against an mag
mary Cesar, but only able to do so ID
company with Tweeds and Cochranes,
S,HdeEes and Hamptons, whose very
presence Is to him a mephitiC air. What
more strange than to see Morrissey and
b; ike shouting Tor the "simple.minded
s1l honest Horace" the late slave driving
ttbels aiDgiDg up their hats for an aboli.
tNnsts, and free traders spouting maud.
.h enthusiasm Tor "ferOciOus protection.
sl!' BaEnum's cage, called the Happy
Family, in which cats and dogs, snakes
lad rabbits, monkeys and hyenas, and
sheep and tigers were gathered together
VS. no more than a fitting emblem and
.IAnPlarot these singular political con,
generations.
What Is 10 come Of it, We do not know
lhe probability Is that the discretion and
Agactiy Of the people will tell them l.
suck TO what they have, uusatislactorily
: IL may be, rather than, rush inlC
.lc1 a nselstrOm Of confusion as would
Se likely TO follow the other course
q Ggt whatever the immediate result, one
alng will be demanded by all consider,
ne and patriotic minds. 1t will be :
S " IL ouFmode Of election, by which
Aaollales as We now witness can be i'm,
po:ed upon tue people, by NOMINATING
s gu against their will and with.
U UuIt nope Of escape. That change should
embrace 'il two points at least; llrst, an clec
u nI.i o. The President direct by the pop
u uoM VOC, so doing away with electoral
splese; and second in the event Of M
Ma ". On The first ballot, a reference d
.as 'So highest candidates 10 a second
v D9Ie, 50 doing away with the possibiIitT
" " proving The decision into the HousI
" ,., representatives, which is always dan,
E IS1,as and liable to endless bargains and
n muIsueS' A scheme Of this Kind wa
E RST,oS I nearly thirty years ago by Mr.
RRg saSe. with the approval Of MIR, Var j
" Vr'T Gi,S MI. Macon, Mr.. r. NJ. johnson
6 M; sGIaiaoun, Nj. Hugh L. White, Mr.
i D'E Salr and a great many Others. anf
, " UsiStyes 10 be revived with suct
iB eUionm y as experience my suggest
Iio N1,T .I W away with nominating conyen
he o a,IUsSlaef; and If he was right il
s ~ ISuPpsltio3, our statesmen Cannot tot n
'Aace Of the people, " 'u' aScep