Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-07-31
Views OF Business Men.


We hope no reader of the State
Journal failed to read and ponder over
the extract in the State Journal from
the business circular of T. j. Pope &
Bro, N. Y, dealers in iron and
metals. 1t presents a strictly business
view of the effect Of Greeley's NOM
ination. There is not an atom of
90 politics in it. And here is the
conclusion arrived at by these iron
men:
The nomination Of Mr.. Greeley has
had q depressing effect on business
and has filled the minds Of financial
men NTH alarm and apprehension for
the affairs Of the neTt season, should
he unfortunately be elected.
The New York Evening Journal, a
paper edited by men who know
Greeley thoroughly, says the same
precisely.
The New York Evening Post, one
of the prime movers in the Cincinnati
business, now opposes GreeleyIs cleo
ton, for the same reasons. 1t has an
article on the subject of the most ex-
elusive kind, founded upon an acute
analysis of Greeley's character. The
Evening Post is an Independent news
paper of the highest character, and is
one of the ablest and most influential
papers in the Union among bankers,
merchants, and business men gener-
ally.
We might fill columns with I'M
prejudiced observations of a like
character, all showing the utter dis
trust entertained OF Mr.. Greeley by
business men everywhere.
We cZnnot refrain from quoting in
this connection from a personal letter
certainly not intended for publica-
ton, though no Injunction of privacy
is laid upon it. The letter is from q
prominent and .sagacious business
man, who is one of the principal
movers in the Cincinnati business,
and one of the most regretful of all,
perhaps, on account OF its ludicrous
failure as a reform movement" He
is writing at considerable length with
regard to the excellent speech oil
Secretary Boutwell,, at Greensboro,
North Carolina. He says:
Perhaps you have contemplated
or at least written of the matter. but
L cannot refrain from calling your
attention to it, and expressing the
hope something will appear from you
on the subject. Let me particularly
ask your attention to his four points.
He might have added to the amount
of his calculation ofreUenue u1coHeted
by q Democratic administration, &C.,
that in all probability we should have
had the immense rebel debt saddled
on US, the statistics of which I have
not at hand.
You may think it strange that a
man who has been identified as anti
Grant should hold such views as
thee, but never mind that. / am
and always have been, a Boutwell,
man Except that 1 aOiU disagree with
him on one of his pet measures, pay
ing interest abroad, &C., and I am,
and nearly always have been, an
anti-G reeleyite.
Excuse haste, length and all else,
but give circulation to Boutwell's
capital idea, and his splendid achieve
ments in paying off the debt, and his
general management of the finances"
That is an unbiased expression of
opinion by q Liberal Republican,
who is too shrewd and sagacious a
man of business to support Greeley.
We shoEld like to ask him and others
Of his kind, how can you better
secure q continuance of this states
like financial policy than by voting
to continue the Administration under
which it has prevailed?