Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1872-10-08
NUMBER 3S. .


finding which he has been 81 Jected
10 by hose ndepende oraccs. Scarce
Iv ore Who loss deserved the criticism of
Bowles and Woito. aYd Hsistead, aHd
Walters" So Greeley thought. Nay
5th, 1871
We will instance the Saalo Don'nso
and The Ku.kiux topics TO i'!as-
trate the meaning.
Ssnto Domingo. through It's own les
sought our soTslumsnt, and pre- I'D
annexation The President gave ~n.
couragement. ill after an intsrr' OF
months, the proffer was renewed, aad
action upon il urgently solicited. Then
the President looked carefully into me
matter. and decided that our country
well-being would be promoted by our
acceptance of Baez's proposition. Per
haps this was MI error OF judgment.
though we can not so regard it," We,
Greeley.
Had he decided differently, us
believe the President would have been
far moro vehemently assailed than he
has been. Just consider what . Dem
ocralic howl would have gone up ii.
after we had offered SO many millions
Ter Cuba, Gen. Grant had refused 10 sc
cept Santo Domingo virtually for moth
ing"
Democratic howl, almost ~ loud rs
The Democratic howl for Greeley and
lsswn.
Then NJ to tho Ku-Klux legislation,
and all executive action tending thereto
or based thereon, We hold The admins
tration most unfairly treated by most OF
the Independents The President is
bounded by solemn oath to support
the Constitution, enforce the laws, and
project the rights and liberties OF The
people.
Such IRE the convictions that impcl
us to say, rs we feel, that the 'indepsnd-
snt' pro.s treats tho administration
harshly. cautiously, unjustly. We would
faln induce its conductors 10 reconsider
and modify their oourse. They may
fancy that they are dlsp,Ia.ins aad
weakening Gen. Grant, but they are,
in fact, undermining and subverting tho
Republican party
Now. the man lhat wrote those words
is to-day The leadcl Gi the independent
press oday. va.neycr their criticism
is har-h auI "a. ..'as his = more bar.h
and csptlous; ton. neuc,eI thei ire
IS a running iir. his ire ia u tiro all over.
Horace Greeley. who deprecated The in.
dependent press a year ago. in i.s critic.
i.ms OIL Gen. Grant, to-day is their can.
didsts for Grants place. because OF The
Justice, ~ lie cl,ln,. q, those very criti-
1i.ms.
Wei, Ii IS sasi.J understood why he
deprecated their criticisms. tor, in 80 ag
as far back ~ January, 1871, 10 I.e III
5unc, We fni what Mr. Greeley t"""s
about independent journals. "'Tha, at
style. itself an independent journal ~
evitably fraud We have long felt and
kpown." Think OF that! HaI,tead u
fraud Veal know better than that.
Then Mr.. Greeley is 4 fraud for saying
So Is he fit TO be President
think few little thing have happened
in my liz: TO tickle me more than some.
thing which occurred the day after Mr.
Greeley WAS nominated. ! was away
down in the depths, and Sam Bowles
had ,slegrsphsd from Cincinnati miser.
able article, saying that Greeley was IN
fit, but we must support him; and the
very morning that was printed in his
paper Greeley pablished in the Tribune
an article. saying that something Bowlcs
had said was "ons of Sam Bowles' lies"
That was right quick punishment.
don't believe independent journals
arc frauds, and don't think Mr.. Greeley
thought they were frauds when he said
so, and therefore | think Mr. Greeley
amt fit 10 hold the place OF their leader.
their champion, their chisitan.
Now, what else has Mr.. Greeley done'
He has done a good deal more. There
will not be time for me to tell it ALL But
in January, II, he took hi, seat as chair.
man OF the Tammany General Repubi'
can Committee of the city Of New York.
They were almost all out here. You
had a chance TO see some Of them. One
of them was fellow by the name of
Hank Smith heard there wcro some
pockets picked during the Cincinnati con.
venlion, and | presume .Sme Of ,he
Tammany Genera COMMITTEES went back
4 little richer than hey come Greeley
took his seat, and what did hs say ?
"While asserting tie righl OF every
Republican 20 hi, untrsmmelled choice Of
Il candidate for The next President Until n
nomination is made. | y.nturs suggest
that Gen Graut r III bs fat belIel quail.
fed for that momentous hust in 1872
than he WAS in 1868"
Mr.. Greeley said that little more thar
fifteen months before his nomination.
Although he was a one term man, recol.
lect all the while. he said that Gen.
Grant would be filter man in 1872 than
in 1868 for reuomination. And now, be-
cause although Grant was then, accord.
ing to Mr.. Greeley, he is not now I'll