The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-05-10
THE CINCINNATI NOMINEES.

Mr.. Greeley, we yet believe that it is
%eminently fitting that he should be
selected to lead the great anti-Grant
movement in the Republican party-a
movement which he has been most
instrumental in inaugura ,s nd one
which he will be most potent in the
propagation of. Having been FORE
most amons taose of his party who
daraA :. T.. ard from the ranks
aud r.~elaim u II hostility to Grants
shameless ana rogar' abuse OF pow
er, it is a.s.ny prop at Mr.. Gree
ley should be selecte,. IS the recog-
nized leader ap' champion of those
whom his i,>sepenaence has inspired
to throw off the party shackles and
rally around the standard of liberal
government and civil service reform.
He is % the recognized head of that
large and respectable body of his
party no believe that the time has
come when political Offences of the
past should be pardoned; when all citi-
zens she nd be protected in the rights
guaranteed them by the Constitution;
when a reform in the civil service
should be effected which will relieve
political action from the influence of
official patronage; when the rights of
local self-government, the foundation
of American freedom, should be re-
asserted, and encroachments of feder-
al power checked; when corruption of
every naturein official channels should
be .eeded out, and our country re-
turned to that purity which character
lied it before the resent Radical
party destroyed Its character abroad
ard 81 ability at home.
That ,ue Cincinnati ticket will com
mand the respect and Support of a
large class of those who have here
tofore acted with the Radical party
there can be no question. The New
York Ifi6uRe-of which Mr.. Greeley
has been the editor for so many years
past-has SO long moulded the public
sentiment of the Republican party
has virtually been the political Bible of
that party for years past-that it is
nothing more than reasonable to pre-
sumo that many of its followers in the
past vii, continue their adherence to
us fortunes in the future. Aside
from the soldier element and the fed
eral ofice-hoiders, Greeley unqnes-
tionably can command a greater
amount of support in his party than
can the renegade Democrat, Ulysses
and the negro voters of the South,
whom Greeley's pen vas more instru-
mental in emancipating than was
Grants sword, will almost unanimous
ly flock to the standard of the former,
and thus manifest their gratitude to
him who was battling for their free
dom for years before Grant was even
heard of outside OF his Galena lanyard
his little circle of rumsoaked COM
panions in the yillage tap-room.
With this almost certain prospect of
the utter decentralization and hopeless
division of the Republican party, a
victory will not only be
be possible, but will amount to a GER
provided that a National Con-
vent:on is held and a ticket nominal
ed which will command the respect
and support of the entire Democratic
The National Democratic Cen
trail Committee was TO have convened
in New York City on Wednesday
last, the Sth inst, when it was fully
understood that a call would be made
for a National Democratic Conven-
ton. With a platform of genuine,
progressive, aggressive Democratic
principles, and standard bearers of
tried party integrity and acknowled
craftsmanship, wisdom and ability,
the prospect for a Democratic victory
is of the most fattering nature. AS
the Republicans took advantage of
our party disruption in 1860, thus Sc
curing a victory when they were much
less in numbers in proportion to the
opposition than we are to-day, SO
can we gain an easyvictory over
The two wings of the disrupted Rad
ical party of to-day if we but
stand by our colors and allow no
internal dissensions to disturb our
harmony and no false departures to
lure us from our trne allegiance. Let
the National Democratic Committee
give US a National Convention, let
that Convention give us a Democratic
ticket, and we will sweep the country
in November like a mighty whirlwind
and once more restore our Govern
ment to its pristine purity and glory.
HIS LAST CLERICAL EXPLOITATION.
Our intensely moral and emipently