Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-05-18
THE POSITION OF THE DEMOCRACY.

We can not recall a period in our politi-
cal history when a political party was In
such an anomalous and dangerous situa-
ton as that occupied to-day by the De-
mocracy. It's proposed surrender to Gree
lev and his few boilers, is so shameless
piece of bargain and sale, that it will GER
tainly drive from the party the men who
have been honestly Democrats from prin-
ciple. If the surrender is consummated at
Baltimore, it will drive twice as many
Democrats from the party as the coalition
will win Republicans. We have good au-
thOrity for this belief. First read the fol-
lowing from the New York World of the
18th:
The eXpediency of nominating Mr. Greeley
(Selt-respect, principles, and political consist
ency apart depends upon this simple censidera-
ton: whether more Republican votes will be
gained than Democratic votes repealed. There
are Democrats who will not vote for him in any
event, not even under the constraint of the
Baltimore nomination, if he should get it. The
extracts which we print this morning from the
Catholic organs show that the Irish religious
influence aviU nercr be TecORciLed to him. A
large section of the German Democrats will
never accept him. More important than all,
multitudes of Democrats who prefer principles
| to- eXpediency, have already made up their
| minds to bolt the Baltimore ticket if the Con-
vention dominates Greeley. With oar present
/ data for for6castiRg the situation qce haUe no
! doubt that Mr.. Greeley's nomination at Balti-
| more lrouLd drive acay ttgo Democrats for
every Republican that will follow Mr.. Greeley
IN Democratic alliance.
The Cincinnati TolESbLatt quotes from a
letter from Fred Hecker, great German
| leader of Illinois, who left the Cincinnati
| Convention in disgust, as follows:
'This sort Of reform is ,corSe than the euil
ITSELF The whole swindle was cOnsummated by
Blair and that 6eSotted Chief Of SloindLerS,
Scratchey Brown. Schurz was com.
pletely fooled,
The whole thing was plan to kill him off,
and at the same time to deal Germanism blow,
| and heavy old one it was
The VoLkS6yaH quotes further from
Frederick w. Horn, German leader of
the Northwestern Democracy, member of
the Democratic Executive Commit
tee, &c:
I'm my opinion, the most stupid of men must
feel that the views and wishes of the Democracy
are no more represented by the nomination OF
Greeley than they will be by that of Grant al
Philadelphia. 1t will be hardly possible to per-
suaue Iue DenlocFaCS 10 vote LOT Greeley rather
than for Grant, and it is very likely that they
will cast as many votes for the one as for tbs
other the majority abstaining from voting alto
gether."
The Cincinnati Courier German Demo-
cratic) says:
There is no denying the fact that, in case the
fight narrows down to Grant and Greeley, very
many Democrats will either not vote at all, or,
in fit Of sheer desperation, go for Grant at
last"
These strong expressions fully confirm
the CHRONICLE in its position taken from
the very first that the Greeley ticket, if
forced upon the Democracy, would dis
rupt it and be the most effective way to re-
elect Grant