The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-10-25
THE FATE OF THE CONSPIRACY.
Lessons to be Drawn from the Verdict
Of Tuesday.

Standing in the presence of the
thousands who assembled at Gin
cinnati Oh the third day of May,
it needed no prophet to foretell the
results of last Tuesday. Anger,
disgust, unconcealed and deep in
dlgnatlon were upon the counter
ances of thoughtful, earnest, and
determined men everywhere in that
assemblage. Then the packed squad
of corrupt political traders from
New York, Greeley's battalion of
intrigures-headed by the notorious
John Cochrane, tailed by the con-
temptible Theodore Tilton-roared
and roared again. Anger and dis
gust deepened to fierce passion, and
men by thousands rushed from that
disgracetul scene of corruption tri-
umphant to express out of doors
the Interchangeable conviction that
was upon them. "We are sold out
by political traders TO our worst
enemy; the opportunity is thrown
awayw
These men, called Republicans
because, while agreeing with Dem
| ocrats upon the fundamental princi-
pie of Democracy, they had stood
in opposition to many of the meas
ures proposed by the old Democrat
ic party organization through it's
| conventions aud selfish "leaders,"
went to Cincinnati with the fixed
purpose of devoting all their talents
and energies to the cause of a poIit-
ical reformation which should be-
gin with a resurrec ton of pure
Democratic principles. They as
sembled under a call which pro-
claimed to the world that such was
the object of the movement. They
went TO Cincinnati proclaiming hos
tllity to the paternal system in all
its forms and measures. They went
proclaiming the freedom of the
states, the freedom of society, the
freedom of the individual, from the
1ntermeddling hand of government.
They went denying the omnipo-
tence of legislation, and asserting
the sovereignty of man. They
went in the resolution to work for
the overthrow, in every part of that
monster system of wrong, oppres-
sion, peculation, rapacity, plumber,
and public decentralization which re-
suits from the unrestrained tenden-
cy of power to aggrandize itself,
and of which Horace Greeley has
ever been the most ferocious cham
pion.
They found at Cincinnati q COM
pact battalion of their most deter
mined political enemies; corrupt
partisans of an exactly opposite
purpose; drilled and skilled politi-
cal bummers for the great apostle
of governmental Interference and
spoliation. They found there the
most intensely selfish of radical
party Office seekers, whom Grant
had offended in his distribution of
the spoils. By these arrogant self
seekers we are told: "You must
repel and spurn the men who agree
with you in convictions and princi-
Piles !; you must disregard their
wishes and insult their sense of
right by nominating not q citizen
who holds the fundamental Drinci-
pie of their political faith, but one
who is distiactiCely Republican"
So ordered from Washington the
autocrat of sore-head Office beggars,
Lyman Trumbull. This one SUI
premely selfish and fish-blooded
fffce-beggar enabled the corrupt
battalion of Greeley intriguers, by
striking hands with the no less cor
rupt Frank Blair, to capture the
convention, to expel the cause of
Democratic reform it was meant to
serve, and to constitute it the first
step in the most infamous political
intrigue that ever disgraced Ameri-
nnlf4So1 int 60 q, -
of Lyman Trumbull and the cor
ruptness of Frank Blair, the Gree
ley conspiracy, skillfully planned
though it was, must inevitably have
failed. To these two self-seeking
demagogues the Grant party owes
its present triumph. And this tri-
umph of the party of corruption
over q conspiracy 30 less corrupt, is
an event that was discernible, with
out any gift of prophecy, from the
moment when the unlimited cham
pions of Greeleyism at Cincinnati
triumphed over those who sought
to promote the cause of Demo-
cratic reformation.
In the light of last Tuesdays re-
suits, it is no longer hypothetical
proposition, it is a matter of moral
certainty, that had Charles Francis
Adams, or David Davis, or j. d. Cox,
or any other character, not "dis-
tinctively a Republican" but stand
| ing on the fundamental Democratic
ground of hostility to the paternal
theory and practice, been nominal
ed at Cincinnati, Ulysses Grant would
never again have been President of
the United States, and the party of
| spoilition and rapacity, with its
apostle Greeley, would have been
completely overthroWn. The cause
of Democratic regeneration and re-
form, which stopped at Cincinnati,
would have proceed to a triumph
ant issue. The best and ablest men
in the country; the large and in
creasing class of representative
men" of rising political school
whose central idea is the highest
principle of Democracy-men who
upon hearing the announcement
| "Greeley is nominated" turned
their backs upon the corrupt bust.
ness and resolved to support Grant
under protest rather than give
eountenance to conspiracy whose
success must be the death-knell
of every hope of the reform
they sought TO achieve; such men,
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