The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-18
Nominees of the National Liberal
Republican Convention.
Biographical Sketches Of Horace Greeley
and Gratz Brown.
HORACE GREELEY. OF NEW YORK.

or more widely known than the old
printer and Journalist whom the Lib
eral Republican Convention have Sc
| lected as their candidate, for the next
President of the United States, in OPP
position to President Grant. Whilst
Mr.. Greeley's peculiarities and oddi-
ties of dress, manner, temperament
and intellect have become matter for
| witticisms and humorous comment to
the entire newspaper-reading world,
and his Jealous advocacy of many So
cial and political theories and fierce
attacks on others have created for
him a host of opponents all over the
country, he has always had a strong
hold on the masses from the beliefen-
tertained in his thorough sincerity,
uprightness and honesty, and his per-
sistent desire for the well-being of the
people at large, physical, mental and
moral. -
Among journalist who respect their
profession, it might seem a fall from
the usefulness, influence and import
ance of their yoeations for man like
Horace Greeley to accept even such q
post as that of President of the United
States. That Mr.. Greeley would
make an honest and an Independent
President there can be no doubt.
His chances for election, especially
| if supported by the Democracy, are
very great; and these chances are in
creased by the support that the West
| will give to Gratz Brown.
A brief sketch of Mr.. Greeley's life
must close these hasty remarks.
Mr.. Greeley was born at Amherst,
New Hampshire, in February, 1871,
and is now in the 62nd year of his age.
His father was poor farmer, who
removed to Vermont in 1921. 1t was
at East Poultney, in that State, that
he learned the. art Of printing, and
| there he worked for four years at his
trade. Even at this early stage of
| life he took lively interest in poll
ties.
He removed to Erie, Pennsylvania,
where he found employment for sew
eral months at his trade. In August,
| 1881, he sought work in New York
citv. arriving there with only ten dol
lars in his pocket Having no friends
! or acquaintances, and his dress being
very odd and shabby-a reproach it
| has frequently met with in latter years
1T was with difficulty he obtained
employment.
For over year he was engaged as
a iourneyman printer, when, in Jan
uary, 1893, he became a partner OF
Francis Story, and began the publica-
ton of the Morniag Post, the first
daily penny paper ever issued. 1t
lived, however, but few weeks. In
March, 1894, the Nem Yorker, a
weekly library journal, neutral in
politics, was founded by Greeley & Co.
| MIR. Greeley wrote the leading editor
ials. This journal lived for seven
years, during which time it became
quite an influential paper, but vas moi
| profitable to the publishers.
In the year 1886 Mr.. Greeley mar
ried Miss Cheney, of North Carolina,
and he then returned to his trade us a
journeyman printer.
From March, 1888, to March, 1889,
he edited the Jefsrsonian, a weekly
paper published under the auspices OF
the Wing Central Committee of the
State of New York. About May, 1910
he began the publication of the Log
Cabin, a weekly paper which supper
ted Gen. Harrison for President. Sc
great was the popularity of this jour
nal during the celebrated Hard Ci
der" campaign that its circulation
numbered over $4,000. 1t has beer
remarked by Mr.. Parton, his biogra
pher, that this paper ''gave Greeley
an immense reputation in all parts o
the country as. an able writer and {
Jealous politician
In April, 1871, Mr.. Greeley estab
lished the Daily Tribune, price on,
cent, journal that speedily becam,
political power in the land, and il
still so. Mr.. Greeley still writes fo
it, though he is not the managing edi
tor, Mr.. Whitelaw Reid holding tina
position. In 1914 Mr.. Greeley adyo
Gated the election of Henry Clay t,
{ the Presidency. In 1848 he was elec
ted member of Congress to fill va
cancy for term which expired il
March, 1849. In 1851 he visited Eu
rope. He supported in successiv
Presidential elections, Gen. Scott il
1882, j. C. Fremont in 1856, and Alb
raham Lincoln in 1860, having exerte'
his influence against the nomination
/ of ex-Secretary Seward at the Chicag
, Convention that year.
He was the first to proclaim "uni
, versal amnesty and universal suffrage
at the end Of the late war, and ofere
himself as bail for Jefferson Davis j
May, 1865, for which he was muc
: censured by many of his Norther
friends, but greatly approved by thos
t who saw in it proof of magpanimit
, and moral courage.
&. GRArz BROWN, OF MISSOURI.
The Liberal Republican candidat
for the Vice-Presidency, isa Kentuck
ian by birth. He was born i'll Frank
,, fort, in the year 1926. His father ws
I +bo Ia+a Iudna Macon Rrawn