Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-08-24
GROWTH OF GREELEY SENTIMENT IN
NAESAOHUSETTS.

AS indicating the rapid growth OF eenti-
mcnt in favor Of the Liberal Democratic
nominees, VIC copy the following letter of
u correspondent Of the Springfield Mass
Republican The impartiality of the
writer may be Inferred from the fact that
Republican supports the cause of the Ad.
ministratiou party. All over the the Un-
ion, the people are awakening to tho i'm.
portauce Of the approaching struggle, and
declaring for Greeley and Brown with an
uuanimity as remarkable as it is gratifying
to patriotic men
Horace Greeley was nominated early in
May, and the immediate effect of the nom.
inatiop, as l then wrote you, was to to kill
the Liberal Republican demonstration in
Massachusetts,. Searching high and low
among Republicans for week or two, l
could not find half dozen Greeley men
literally not six men who would even tolc-
rate the idea Of voting for Greeley. At
that time mono Of the Democratic leaders
here, except Charles Woodbury. AND an
freshman or two, favored II. G.. The Post
was against him, Judge ABBOTT, Geo. w.
Gill and Peter Harvey we're against him.
The only paper in Boston that favored
him was the Herald, which, to be sure,
has circulation as great as that Of all the
other dailies put together
Mr.. Bird came home from Cincinnati q
Greeley man, but found scarcely any res
ponse among his old Republican friends,
some Of them seriously expressed their
fears that he was loosing his mind, it
looked to them as so absurd for any Re-
publican in Massachusetts to support
Greeley. Three weeks after the Cincin.
natl Convention, will venture to say there
there were not in all the State 200 Repub-
licaus who would avow themselves Greeley
men, aud it would have been as impossible
on the first Of June to set up Greeley
State Committee such as now exists, as it
would be now to set up an anti. Masonic
State Committee. In this condition of
things Summers great speech found us,
and it left us very different from what it
found us. Then came Wilson's nominal
ton, the Southern enthusiasm for Greeley,
the Fifth avenue conference, Buffers
speech, and other events of June, all pre-
pairing the way for Greeley party in Mas.
sachusetts; and finally, early in July,
came Mr.. Greeley himself
From that time forward-lcss than three
weeks-thc Greeley party has grown with
great speed, and, among the men who four
years ago voted for Grant, there are now
Mt least 10000 who mean to vote for Gree.
ley. The 200 Greeley Republicans on the
first of June will pretty surely have in.
creased to $1,000 or 10000 by the first of
August. Of course this includes great
many soldiers of fortune, uneasy and uu-
certain characters, 81 sore heads" and dis
reputable characters it includes about
half Of the Butler men of last year, and
notably Trask aud Rice of Springfield,
French Of New Bedford, Shaw Of Boston,
Clcmcnce of Lowell, and perhaps Barney
of New Bedford.
But it also includes as many leaders Of
che ant-B Butler party Of last year, its head
anti Butler men in Eastern Massachusetts,
and among its members are Marshall =.
Wilder, Geu. Schou'cr, Rev. Dr. Miner,
Jesse a. Locke of Watcrtown, Louis Lap.
hap of Fall River, cx-Mayor Walden of
Lynn, and as many more representatives
of every shade Of opinion and character in
the Republican party. Most Of its mem
bers. however, are obscure men, the rank
and file of the party, who enrol themselves
quietly as Greeley nan, or pass unsus-
pcctcd as such until some inquisitive
friend finds it out.
Some of the Greeley leaders in cities
Al, I'D
In Fall River, for example, they are the
officers of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie in New Bedford, the Chairman and
Secretary of the Republican city Commit
tee; in Taunton one of them is Major
James Brown, an officer of some note in a
Bristol county regiment; in Lynn the de-
fectiou is so great that both the Chairman
aud Secretary Of the Republican State
Committee have told me they shall not be
surprised to see Lynn give majority for
Greeley in Taunton the last week or two
has developed Greeley strength that
may revolutionize that Congressional dis
trict.
In every city from which have heard,
the Greeley movement has made consider
able headway; in the country towns of
Eastern Massachusetts, not so much, yet
there is no town where there is no Gree.
ley Republicans. The Democrats almost
without exception support Greeley. The
only exception known to me is Henry W,
Paine, but suppose there are 20 others
10 this part Of the State, perhaps 100;
but seriously not more than that, SO far as
can learn.
The Greeley movement strikes all kinds
of Republicans, but chiefly three classes,
tho old anti.slavery men, like Messrs. Bird,
Davis, Wright, Locke, Lapham, etc.-the
sincere War Democrats aud the soldiers
of fortune who like to 90 with the winning
side, and who have an instinct that Gree.
ley is going to win: Of the anti;slavery