The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-11-07
Democratic Column.
GEORGIA.
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Ths Campairu,

mother quadreniel campaign closed up,
and the people now breathe easier and
feel easier.
Political editors, and speakers feel no
small relief, now that six months OF
arduous toll is ended. The campaign
Just closed was in many respects without
precedent in the history of our politics,
beginning as it did in manner unlike
any previous Presidential canvass. On
the fist of May of the present year a
mass meeting Of so called Liberal Re
publicans met at Cincinnati numbering
between 700 and 800 men claiming to
come from every State and Territory In
the Union, and from this number the
manipulators of the meeting selected
certain number and called them dele
gates to Liberal Republican National
Convention, and on the third of May
nominated and placed before the Amer
ican people the man least of all others
expected, as their Candidate for presi-
dent of the United States, Horace Gree
lev of New York. Mr.. Greeley had
made loud professions of sound Republi-
can principles, and the meeting that NOM
mated him called itself Republican
Convention, and yet without stint pro-
ceeded to denounce the Republican par
ty and its work for more than eleven
years past, and the administration Of
General Grant in particular. For months
previous to the Cincinnati meeting Mr..
Greeley had devoted himself and tho
columns of his paper "Nep York Trtb~
une" to eliminating General Grant
and his administration as preparatory to
and in expectation of the nomination
which he then and there received. Mr..
Greeley had for years stood before the
American public, and was known from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from
Maine to the Gulf as the most implaca-
Bile enemy of the Democratic party in
the country.
No other man in all the laud seemed
SO capable of saying as hard things of
Democrats, and the Democratic party as
the man Horace Greeley, yet the mani
pulators of the Cincinnati mass meeting,
and the tone Of the Tribune for mon this
before it met, were no more nor no lees
than bid for Democratic grace and ia
vor the managers of the Democracy SC
understood and so received it and acted
accordingly when they endorsed the
Cincinnati Greeley movement at the
Baltimore Convention.
The campaign just closed is unlike
any of its predecessors when regarded
from another aud very important point
of view. This strange fusion of so call
ed Liberal Republicans and Democrats
infinitely more singular than Randoiph''
"Coalition of Puritan and Blac ckIeg" in
Adams and Clay times, set about over
throwing the great national Republican
party by arranging and systematizing
course of wanto n, bitter, malignant, am
untruthful calumny unparalleled in th'
history of political parties in this coun
try. They said Grant was gift taker
that he kept and run a military estoh
ishment at the White House, that h
urged war upon defenceless people tn
San Domingans, that he had unppecede
emily appointed relatives to Office. Tha
he was absent from the post OF duty
that he was common staggering loal
er, that his administration was seethin
with all manner of corruption, and man
other accusations of like character, eN
cry one of which they knew to be uttel
ly false, and with these and these onl
went before the american people, asi
ing to be ad dmitted to power, to be pla'
ed in possession of the government. o
the other hand the Republican part
had only to appeal to the facts Of hist
ry for the past IL years, compare th
condition of the country at the TIN
when it came into possession OF the gov
ernment, and its present condition, th
management of public affairs under Den
ocratic rule, and their management un
der Republican administrations, wit
its works, the fruits of its labor, 1t WEI
to the people both in the State and n
tional canvass, believing that there W
intelligence aud virtue enough with u