The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-08-15

More from 0resIsy-tAs aensst Demo.

More from 0resIsy-tAs Hensst Demo.
In the New York Tribune, under
date of February 9Th 1871, we find the
following Editorial:
1--WE learn with pleasure that quite
q number of the Democratic leaders
have resolved to push B. Graft Brown.
the new Governor of Missouri, to next
President. We do not see how thew
could better this choice. Gratz isn't
much to look at, but he has ideas in his
head, and is rather honest for a success
full politician. He was a good second
rate Editor, makes a fair speech, is a
radical Free-trader, and can get some
negro as well as some white Republi.
can votes; whereas any known Copper
head will get none of either but those
who can't help themselves. If the
Democrats were in the ascendant, they
wouldn't touch him with o ten-foot
pole--that we all understandable
they are the under dog at present, and
must resort to strategy to get upper
| most. We assure them that they
might select a much worse candidate
than Gratz Brown; and since he has
just helped Frank Blair into the Senate.
we assume that the Blair family will
60 their length for him. They mustn't
attempt to put him OF with the Vice.
Presidency, for he has already better
place but If they will suppress their
ku-Klux, put themselves on their good
behavior for two years, run Gratz
Brown, for President, make q noise
about the Tariff in the next Congress.
but take care not to pass any bill till
they get control of the White House,
they have a chance to win the next
election. If they choose to rum clean
Copperhead ticket, on platform that
ignores the last ten years of our coun.
| try's history, the road is beaten one,
and they ought, by this time, to know
whether 1t leads them. We can but
give them good counsel they can take
it or not at the same price,"
Old Horace then thought that the
resort to Graft Brown, as candidate
by the Democratic party, would be a
"reson to strategy to get uppermost.' y
The old nincompoop told the truth ; he
like everybody else with five grains OF
common sense and reasonable trifle
Of honesty, knows that the Democracy
had no sincerity in their movement for
the nomination of Brown, and their APP
parent acquiesence in the work of the
Republican party. Greeley then said
what he knew and believed.
Now how is it? The willy demo-
cracy thought they could catch great
many more gudgeons, if they put
Greeley on for President and Brown
for Vice President, and in this they
were right. Greeley himselfis cajoled
into The game of strategy, with the
tempting Presidential bait, and this
game becomes suddenly great and
noble scheme of reconciliation, with
Horace. 1t does make great deal of
difference with him, when he finds out
whose OK is gored. With Brown the
nominee, it was a piece of strategy,
but with Greeley and Brown, as the
TICKET is, it is a grand humane and
glorious movement, that is , usher in
the millennium ofpeace and 81 I'd will
among all men. We believe in Sling
things by their right, names, and we
say that Horace Greeley, ii Speaking
of the Democratic Brown movement.
eighteen months ago, spoke as an hon.
est man, his honest sentiments; but
that Horace Greeley, now q prominent
actor in the very strategy he denounced,
is dishonest man, and has set his per-
sonal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT above and para
mount to his country's welfare, and
the welfare of his fellow men.