The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-05-30

- Mr.. GREELEY's HEADQUARTERs.-AN New,
York special thus speaks of the Astor House
headquarters and the conjectures and rumors of
the future of the Cincinnati ticket:
81 The Greeley headquarters at the Astor
House is one of the dullest Institutions in this
city. A few humble politicians assemble there
each day to discuss the situation, and to per-
feet the organization" They rarely talk of
business until latter dinner, and their each man
seems 50 much more inclined to speechfy than
to take counsel that they make but little pro-
gress towards perfecting the organization. A
few countrymen- come IN each day TO see Hor-
ace, but they seldom gain, their object, and
leave in disgust. Once upon a time the great
farmer received all his public friends with ru-
raj warmth that sent them rejoicing on their
| way. That time is gone The press of other
business has scared it away. and 1.-THE fear of
| having to answer awkward 5qnestions makes
! Horace careful that it shall not return. Those
ceuntrymen have an awkward habit of asking,
s'what would Mr.. Greeley do supposing he
| should not receive the Baltimore endorsement"
| Mr.. Greeley has said. more than once that in
| that event he will not rum aialnao.5
|sg Then comes the further question, suppose
Mr.. Greeley retires from the Presidential con
test and returns to tho management of the Iri-
bune newspaper, what will he do then-whom
win he support? There is the authority of
| Mr.. Whitelaw Reid, his first lieutenant, and
Others equally worthy of belief, for saying that
in such an event he would vote the Republican
4 ticket. This places Mr.. e. in queer position
1 from which he virtually threatens that if the
| Democrats refuse to accept him, he will turn
on them and defeat them. Of themselves he
| tells them they cannot hope to make the slight
est breach in the Republican trent, and if they
are not willing to take him for their king, they
shall not only not have his support but they
will have him for an enemy. OF course high
| principled Democrats regard this as anon
] strous, proposition, the acceptance of which
/ wouldbe absolutely DEGRADING. to them, There
are those, however, of that political stripe who
prize the chance of Office more than the princi-
Piles of their, political creed This the Sage of
| .Chapaqua knows well, The informationp erhaps
was derived from the many applications for IA
4 vors that came to him from men OF that party
| before the flush of surprise caused by the an
! nOuncement of his nomination at Cincinnati
| had faded from his cheek. -
| Wherever the knowledge came from, that it
has come is proved by the action of the men
who compose his committee at the Astor House.
| Each day one or other of those men takes occa-
sion to intimate that the spoils of Office will fall
in Democratic ways. Yesterdayit was whis-
pered Sin strict confidence, !, of course, that
| Horatio Seymour was to occupy the position of
Secretary of State when Horace sat in the
1yWhite House; that the support of President
| Greeley has been promised to the Democratic
candidate for the governorship of the State of
| New York, who is supposed to be John T. Hotf-
man, who pulled the wires of the Rochester
convention Greeleywards Further, that Presi-
dent Greeley leaving his hoe uncared for in the
White House potato patches, and donning his
white hat will descend upon the city of New
York to fight for the Democratic party and ''to
do all in his power to have every compression al
district represented by a Democrat" 1t is to
ask Mr. Greeley if those things are true that
| countrymen throng into the Astor House, and it
| is to avoid giving them an answer that Mr..
| Greeley has retired to the fastnessss of Flush
| ing. e.-