The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1872-06-05

Greeley & Co. has written letter to
Wade Hampton declaring for his
friend. c. NJ.
Notes ON tho Cam mpaign.
The Chicago Times makes this
frank statement of the situation
"There is not a Democrat in the
United States who could be induced to
vote for Mr.. Greeley by any other
consideration than success. If he can
not bring votes enough with him from
the Republican party to place his cleo
tion beyond all doubt, the Democracy
would be perfect idiots to take him
for their candidate. His nomination
has not changed the tone of single
Republican party convention. 1t has
not brought to his support dozen in
Huential Republican journals in the
United States, so far as the facts show.
1t has not induced a single shrewd
Radical politician in Illinois to ex-
press any doubt that the Radical par
ty will carry the State in November
by sufficient majority to elect its
State Ticket and give the electoral
vote of Illinois to the Philadelphia
candidate"
And the Chicago Post administers
this mild rebuke:
This is factious. The Democrats
ought humbly to eat what is set be-
fore them by the superior beings who
met at Cincinnati. The overture
of the Liberals was, Well take the
Offices and you furnish the votes, or
you furnish the votes and zee will take
the Offices"
MIR. Edward Atkinson, the we'll
known Massachusetts political econo-
mist, and one Of the foremost advo-
Gates of the Cincinnati Convention,
fairly and squarely bolts the nomina-
tions. He says Lest l should be
supposed to intend to support this
nomination, | desire to say that | have
been an humble candle of the Lord in
promoting the nomination of Horace
Greeley, for President | desire to
atone for my want of sagacity and as
tuteness by opposing his election in
every possible way"
The Richmond (Va) Whig is en-
thusiastic over "Uncle Horace" "In
our deliberate judgment" it remarks,
'the election of Mr.. Greeley, under
existing circumstances, would be a
thousand fold better, both for such
and for north, than that Of Dir. Jef-
ferson Davis himself" This is deci-
dedly the most equivocal compliment
paid the "sage" since he sold out at
Cincinnati. To be preferred bv the
chivalry to JEFF. Devis iinnself! Oh,
Horace.
1t is noteworthy fact that of
the Democratic newspapers received
at the New York World Office, twen-
ty-nine favor the nomination of Gree
ley, forty-fve call for astraight-out
Democratic nomination, and eighty
eight express a willingness to wait for
the decision of the convention.
1t has been asccrtained that
of $50 delegates chosen to the Phila-
delphia Convention, l6S have been in
structed to vote for the nomination of
President Grant. New York, and the
States yet to appoint delegates, vii
largely increase the list on the side ol
Grant. 4
A prominent Western Democrat
was recently asked if he would sup
port Greeley. He said, 81 would
stoop great way to conquer; but to
stoop so far and get licked after all,
wouldn't be agreeable"
The Christian Union asks: What
are We to gain by new party-made
up in haste, without common princi-
Piles, jumbled together, not to correct
grave public evils, but to avenge pri-
vate griefs, or to reward violent and
irregular ambition ?"
The Richmond, Enquirer, in the
course of an article on the Presidency,
after stating the objection of the late
Southern rebels to voting for a man
for President who contributed to their |
defeat in the field, an objection hold
ing good against even General Han
cock, says: with Mr.. Greeley it is
quite different thing. He was not
a soldier in the war at all. He was
not in power-and he used all his in
fuence, first, to permit the South to
depart in peace, and afterward to set
tie the difficulty upon any terms that
were honorable alike to both sections. !
Every confederate soldier in the
South can vote for Greeley without
feeling that he made any sacrifice of
his principles or his manhood"
The Norristown, Pa, Herald SAYS !:
There are two men hereabouts who
declare for Greeley-when they are
drunk When they are sober, they
are Democrats. Judging from the
past they will be for Greeley three
weeks out of each month until after
the election.
1t has been noticed that red-headed |
men take more kindly to white hats
than any other class, the nomination
of Brown evidently being considered
a special compliment to them The
effect, though little woodpeckerish,
is striking.
OVER the doors of the Baltimore
Convention ought to be placed the
emblazoned in letters of
gold by day and fire by night, which
is quotation from an article written
by Greeley short time ago-"All
Democrats are not horse thieves but
oil horse thieves are Democrats"
1t is stated that there are received
and kept regularly on file at the Amer
ican Newspaper Advertising Agency
Of Geo. p. Rowell & Co., New York,
no less than $50 different American
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