The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-09-12
WHAT THEY SAY.
The North Coroliaa Eagle, q Creole

The North Coroliaa Eagle, Greeley
Democratic paper says:
The people of the Conservative party
do not see the benefits In reforming
| things when reform has been SO much
promised and SO seldom practiced. The
| effect of our victory In 1870 has been
counteracted, and that by our OWE party
| mismanagement. Stuffed ballot boxes
| and fraudulent registration may be the cry
in some places, but was the vote fradu-
lent in Wilkes, Yadkin and Alexander
There was but little if any, unfair or
illegal voting in Cumberland, yet we lose
from our majority In 1870 notwithstand-
ing our almost superhuman efforts. No;
| We need try no longer to disguise facts.
The St Louis Democrat speaks the so
| Der truth as follows:
The Greeley party has acted very
| much like the boy who took run of
mile to jump a creek and then let down
before he got to it. Ii the election had been
held three weeks since. the show made
by Greeley would haye been respecta-
BILE indication of lunacy on the part OF
the American people. BY November
| however, be will be left so far in the
| lurch that he will never want to be can
didate again. Indeed if his fortunes con-
tinue to wane as rapidly as they are wan
ing at present, we should not be surprls-
ed to see him withdraw within the next
six weeks aud an effort made to concen-
trate the Democratic party on the Louis
vile nominee.
The Philadelphia american says OF
Senator Sumner in depreciation of his
appointment to executive Office, thai
"while his mind is bold, decisive and
remarkably direct in its action, it is de-
| fective in its general elements that 90 to
make up administrative or executive sue
| cess. No measure he ever introduced
into Congrtss, of public nature has
ever become a law"
The Chicago Times says of Greeley:
The fact is that there is no man whose
name any. one would think of mentioning
in connection with the Presidency, who
is worse fitted to select suitable men to
An the public offices. And, aside from
his personal unfitness for that work, no
man could be more likely than NJ. Gree
lev to be pulled and hauled and bedevll
| ed by spoil hunters, in the event OF his
| election, Instead of being detached
from both political parties, he IS very
uncomfortably attached to two discordans
and desperately greedy factions. In,
stead of going into office untrammeled
he would be the worst trammeled, man
that ever occupied the white. house.
Under obligations to two grasping FAC
| tions he would be unable to satisfy both
and the result would be confusion, chaos.
unfit appointments and family quarreis
of the Hveliest description.
Here is Richard I'll. Dana's portrait Of
Greeley;
He seems to be a visionary without
faith, radical without root an ex-
tremist without persistency and a strife.
maker without courage. lie is generally
admitted to be vain, impractical, ioqua-
eious, open to fattery, easily intlmldated,
easily deceived as to men and intensely
desirous of Office And, while / have
never regarded bis hat or his. trowsers
as strong arguments for or against hln,
there is no reason why we should shut
our eyes to the fac. that he Is wbimlshi
affected, boorish and profane.