Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-10
The Campaign.

THE activity of the Presidential cam
paign is now at its height The whole ar
gument upon both sides has been submit
ted to the country, and there remains
only the necessary repetition and appeal.
The only novelty will be new slanders,
and of those there will apparently be no
lack. Indeed, every sincere friend of the
Administration, every man who compre-
hends the enormous risk ofssurrendering
the government to party which COM
prises all the most perilous elements in
the country-a party to which Mr. Greeley
says that the most dangerous classes nat
urally attach themselves-sees that the Id
ministration is not seriously assailed upon
its policy or success, but almost exclusive
ly upon personal grounds.
The friends of the President, or his
manners, or the probable scope of his in
formation, or his tastes, are offensive to
somebody. He has appointed relation
to Office, or he accepted house after the
war; Somebody thinks that he merely
pretends an interest in the reform of the
civil service. He has bought land under
questionable circumstances, and some
body would like to know about this stock
or that investment. Somebody anony-
mously asserts that in "Ringo's banking
house in Mexico, Missouri" he declared
that he would have fought for slavery if
he had only understood the situation
Somebody else heard Mr.. Wilson agree
that he was a confirmed inebriate. Then
great Senator tells US that he "gobbles
gossip" and quarrels, but does not say
with whom. He is also pretentious, al
though those who see him most nearly
have not discovered it. Ascending lit
tie in the scale of SANDER, the President
is gloomy despot, a Cesar, trampler
upon the rights of human nature-as
Lincoln used to be gorilla, an ape, and
a third-rate lawyer.
Then, leaving him for a moment, we
are assured that his supporters are
bought. The ice-holders-those name
less creatures in human form whose es-
sential worthlessness is we'll known to the
ce-seekers-are his chief friends. No
body else favors him. Mr.. Fenton
thinks he is a very poor President, and
General Cochrane will despair of political
purity if the Democratic party does not
succeed. Mr.. Fernando Wood, also, an
nounces that all good men are united
upon Greeley and Brown; and the worst
henchmen of the old Tammany Ring
were the first to salute the prospect of re-
form which was disclosed by the nomi-
nation of Mr.. Greeley Besides, all those
gentlemen whom Mr.. Oakes Ames
bought with his Credit Mobilier stock,
they are knaves, and they are all jealous
for the President. Such swindlers as
Boutwell, and Dawes, and Henry Wilson,
who is notoriously, oppressively rich,
and the dishonest Garfield, and Patter-
son, of New Hampshire-what could be
expected of them but that they would
support the President, although they
know him to be that monster of ignor.
ance and incompetence which those
patriots, Pcmberton and Lee, long ago
discovered?
This is the character of the campaign
against the Administration. For its great
success, its plain results, cannot lie de-
MED. The crowning proof of them is
the horrible extremity of the Democratic
party, which desperately attempts to steal
success by adopting candidate and a
platform presented by those who had
been its political opponents. Now if the
Administration had failed, a personal
campaign might be successful. If the
debt had increased or been but slowly
removed: if economy had been despised
if equal rights had been neglected; if the
Ku-Klux had not been restrained if for.