Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-07-24
THE CHRONICLE
II THK CHAPPAOUA sAGE.

ssir THE .CHAPPAOUA SAGE;
Or Chances at His Political Record
Sudden changes of opinion Away
excite distrust unless they are accom-
panied by causes so adequate and ap
parent that the metamOrphosis is 8
once explained. When surrounding
circumstances are the same, anC
where no logical or sufficient reason
can be perceived for a revolution in {
life long action and sentiment, therl
naturally arises 8 suspicion of hidden
mercenary, selfish, or dlshonorablC
motives. III the conversion, beside:
being sudden and logically inexplica'
BILE, was calculated to subserve am.
bilious ends and aspirations, while q
continuance in the former sentiments
would not, the doubt Of honest con-
viction and high-minded sincerity in
the premises would almost, or quite,
amount to certainty. - -.
Such is the position which Horace
Greeley now occupies in the minds
Of those who have hitherto been his
political coadjutofe. Like Sgai OF
Tarsus he has betOok himself 10 the
companionship of those whom he has
ever before denounced as base and
dangerous. In the case Of the saint
there was q light in the heavens
visible to those who stood round about;
but in the case of the Chappaqua
philosopher there is only the black
ness Of Cimnnerian darkness, far from
suggestive of anything celestial.
Horace Greeley has deserted the Re
Hlfnoro hn-
and objurgations which for so many
years he bestowed upon their oppon-
ents, he now pours out upon them,
he well knowing that the Democrats
make 10 their greatest boast that they
are unchanged. Horace Greeley has
not kept his "irstestate," politically.
he is s. 80 ....... 4 -
"Hurl'd headlong namIng from th' ETHEREAL
with hideous ruin and combustion, down
To bottOnless pendition." -n-.--
Not only has he deserted the great
and noble party to which he was
attached, but his hatred towards 1t
q person who never belonged TO it.
During the old wars between the
Mahometans and Christians, the
latter were accustomed to say that
lone renegade was worse than ten
Turks" There is natural adherence
In the human mind against treachery
and selfish desertiOn.- The renegade
feels and knows il. He is sensible OF
the need he deserves from faithful
and honorable minds, and he hates
those who award it to him. AS the
Northern dough faces exceeded the
very slavemongers in their obsequi-
pusness and devotion TO the system of
slavery, so Greeley and the Tribune
will now exceed Marbleand the World
In the spitefulness, malignancy, and
venom with which they will pursue
the Republicans. is.'
Well, be it so. Let him do his
worst, and that t0Orsf will not be |
iound very portentious or dreadful.
As individuals OF the same family are |
.h&ry In public criticisms of each |
,ther, so members Of q political party |
ire reluctant to make attacks on an |
associate whose heart is right and yet |
whose conductism smischievous. |
This, Tolerance has long been exer-
Used towards Greeley; but now his
lesertion renders it legitimate to
the man as he Is and as he
las been. he is now an enemy TO
he Republican party.
The Cincinnati conglomeratian Of
dds and ends which eliminated in
he nomination of Greeley, is already
Iissolving into its original elements.
stanley Matthews, its first chairman,
las publicly denounced it as being
tseif the most striking exam pie he
ouldr 5dduce of chicGnery and cor
upton. The revenue refOrmers have
penly seeded and issued q call for
mother convention. The New York
Evening Post has deserted the con-
lection. The movement is not sup
'orted by any Republican papers Of
influence and ability. The Tribune
Fhen challenged to name any RePub-
ican daily newspaper except itself,
hat cast its lot with the Cincinnati
nOn9rel party could not do 1t, and
ould only designate four Insignificant
7eekly Tor weakly papers in its own
tate, aud one of them has since
erished for want of support. The
rerman Republican press throughout
1e Union remains true to its allegi-
nee, and both Republican and Demo
ratio Germans, as q rule, repudiate
+reeley as 3 candidate or rs chief.
hey are not dice to be shifted at will |
-onl one place to another by any ]
juggler however adroit. The {
reat body of American Republicans S
.jects the Tribune sage with the dis
ust his recreancy merits.
Among the Democrats, 80 far from
aiming new strength, Greeley con-
iantly becomes more distRsteful and :
The leading Democratic !
'urDals are opposed to his nomination
Baltimore, as are the Iuost prOmi. I
ent Democratic leading men. The
reat Republican party itself, IL too
evoted to its principles, too we'll
equainted with the needs and situa. l
on Of the country, too much aninat- 3
] with intelligenee, too sensible that q
berty and reform can only be main
lined by Its own success, too patriotic, T
nd too progressive, to be led into any 3
,ol's chase after Horace Greeley. .
Ever sipce, he obtainSd the IreRpta-
on and prominence as a partisan r
nd pungent editor Of the Log Cabin, :
/ 1915, it has been patent 70 all who /
new, and to all who critically OBJ I
rived him, that he especially lacked q
le qualifications necessary for an 8
de and suecesslm leader. fhe Har-
son ealnpaign Wis managed by
fre~d, d,1Riid SsagaeiOas men hike q
sYard and Weed. They made use q
Greeley to great advantage, ana as +
wfiter he did efficient execution.
:e was handled so adr0itly that he
ncied, he was the directing and con-
oliinY mind, and wished to establish C
triuInvirate with Seward and Weed. /
hey saw be was very well as awriter, q
It would be- rninOus rs = leader. v
thers saw il too, and greedy and v
lxlous as Greeley has always been O
r office, neither the Wings nor s
epublicans ever dared to trust him 9
prominent and executive positions. II,
he now and then reesived q no o
inRtiOn, he invariably ran behind G
Is party. ticket, and the circulation
i'd popularity OF the Tribune never
'uid give him q respectable currency
a candidate. The frequent dIsRp-
,intments he suffered in his aspirs- b
pms for Offiee led him TO dissolve the e.
M of Seward, Weed and Greeley, =
"a .frao Kb.v, IsI-o Darl-s. - - / el