The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-06
WHO ARE THE DEM0CRATSY
To TIE EDITOR OF THE HERALD

To TIE EDITOR OF TIE HERALD
Many OF your readers were much amused with q
report made by one OF your intervlewers of con-
versation with q welknown and respected lawyer
by the name OF W. c. Barrett. who claims to be
an ''old, stanch democrat" and therefore refuses
to vote for Greeley. How can he be democrat
and refuse to abide by and support nomination
made by an almost unanimous vote OF the regu-
larry elected delegates Of the party9 He may be o
citizen OF the United States, but he Is not demo.
crat. Democrats say that majority must rule in
all party questions. Mr.. Barrett was one of the
Committee Of Seventy, who tried to make the
minority govern. He may have been that iustrous
juror who differed In opinion with his eleven col
leagues and pronounced them damned obstinate
for all that This reminds me that Mr.. Barrett was
In 1910 an "old, stanch whig,"a Henry Clay whg"
an "odne wng" and that when General Har.
OF the West, he was loud In denOuncng the whig
party and derlding our Old, beloved General as
woman" and the wing party as being disgraced
and demorallzed. But the people did not appear to
defeated the election Of Mr. Clay they arose to the
occasion, and with Joy and gladness gave every
electoral vote but forty toSthe good Old, honest
democrats" as Mr.. Barrett.
In referring to events that occurred In our cleo
ton of "Tippccanoe and Tyler too" more than
thirty years since, we are reminded OF marked
similarity III many oil the features OF that Struggle
and the one now instituted between Greeley and
Grant. When Van Buren, was renOmnated his
friends saw NJ TO drop from the ticket Tor Vice
President the Nell-tricd and popular Western man,
Colonel Richard M. Johnson This caused much
dissatisfaction. This fact corresponds with the
dropping OF from the Grant ticket one OF our most
popular men Of the West.
The nomination OF Harrison, like this OF Greeley,
did not take well at first, nor until Mr.. Clay, In u
speech at Lexington, raised his clarion voice in
favor OF s'oId granny Harrison. Then the Clay
wings" obtained the name OF 'old-line wings be-
cause at the call OF Clay they wheeled into 'linc,n
and sustained the choice OF the party This recon
ced all the dscOntents, and they, with our friend
Barrett, voted for the cold wOman.r
not what we call stanch Old democracy. This is
not a rule of majOritcs but the law Will OF die
tatOr Mr. Barrett has never been either wing or
a democrat, because 1t is not in his nature, as he
told your interviewer, to yield his opinions to the
decision OF a majority
In the case of the nomination of Mr.. Greeley
much discomfort prevailed among the discontents
of the Republican Cincinnati Convention until our
leading democrats advised reconciliation, and then
q concord OF sweet sounds went up at Baltimore to
the throne OF peace and good will to men, which
has the approval OF the "Judge OF all the earth,n
and now, with an honest and patriotic leader, we
are bound to have q jubilee that will give TO Uncle
Horace every electoral vote but forty. And then
shall hear brother Barrett eXclaim, What an gno-
rant and dsgraceiul nation this Is to elevate man
to Ofllce by majority OF the votes of the people.
Notwithstanding brother Barrett and the minority
committee, We must submit TO ma0lities.
vOX P0PULI.