The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-05-10
GREELEY AND BROWN.


about Hora. e Greeley for an intelligent
people to read. For thirty years the
New Yo k Tribune has told the people |
who he is. His history Is more inti-
mately known than that of an other
man IN this nation. The principle
points In That history are briefly these:
He was born in Amherst, New Ramp
shire, on the Sd of February, 1911;
commenced the printers trade in Yer
mont in 1926; after working in New
York towns, he went to New York
city in 1851, where he soon starred the
Morning Post, the first penny paper
published in the world, His next VEN
ture was the New Yorker. This lived
seven years. In the great and exciting
campaign of 1910, he published the
clog Cabin,'' and through this made
n national reputation. 1t did great ser
vice fer the Wing party, of which he
was a devoted member. The next year
he started the New York Tribune. He
seems to have always. had an ambition
for office, but was scarcely ever sue
cessful. He filed a vacancy in Con-
grGss in lS4S, and was a member of the
New York Constitutional Convention
two or three years ago. He has
written several books. In 1851 he
Travelled through Europe, and wrote an
interesting series of letters for the
Tribune, which were largely copied by
the country papers and afterwards
printed in book form. He was guilty,
some ten or twelve years ago, of that
most inexcusable piece of vanity, writ
ing and publishing an account of his
own life. In fact, he has, to all intents
and purposes, written It twice, to-wit:
his autobiography" and "RecOllec-
tions OF Busy Lite,' Vanity is one
his weaknesses. His american Con-
1iict," history of the late rebellion, is
perhaps his greatest work, and the one
that will live the longest. He is the
greatest journalist of this century,
and an honest man. He has exerted
FOL many years more influence in
American politics than any other man
in the country. But notwithstanding |
all this we do not to-day nor have we
ever believed him to DC a tit man for |
President. While he is perfect walk |
ing encyclopedia of knowledge, he il |
rs tickle and uncertain as March |
wind. No man In the country has |
been more inconsistent than Mr.. Gree |
lev. He has done things as an editor
which the public have excused, which |
h,4 he done as a President, he would |
lave been denounced from one end of
the country to the other and his adj
dI:nlstration would have been kissing |
and 4 by-wUrd. He Is Us crotchety |
in his Judgement of men. His admin
Isl -ation would be one for tile trial of
expei ;ments and theories, and there
would be no feeling of security in
finances or anything else. He will not
do for President; and while thousands
upon thousands of American voters
GGmire him, yea, revere him for what
he has done for American Freedom,
they will not vote for him for President.
lie occupies n prouder position to-day
in the American heart than he would
after he had been President four years
and we hope he will be permitted to
retain 1t.
BENJAMIN GRAFT Brow.
Mr.. Brown would make better
President than Mr.. Greeley. OF him
the Chicago Tribune says:
"Ie was born at Lexington, Ken
lucky, and is just 46 years old. He
settled as lawyer at st. Louis; en-
tered the State Legislature 1t the age
OF %; soon after became connected
" ith the st. Louis Democrat, and edit
Ell il from 1854 to 1857; started the
Republican party in Missouri in 1857;
raised and commanded n regiment in
1861 ,-Jubseqnently brigade; led in
the abolition of slavery i'm Missouri in
1864; was United States Senator from
'G3 to 'G7, and Was elected GOveI nor of
Missouri on the broad platform OF
General Amnesty in 1871. He, per-
baps, precedes any other Republican
as IA founder Of the Liberal party. Mr..
Brown is a good speaker, scholarly and
original, an able editor, and 4 sdgacious
politician. He is still In the freshness
of his youth, has long political ca
reer ahead, and will stand u strong
chance OF being one of tie leading
and controlling statesmen of the
Daring his Governship he has APP
pointed several old rebels to Office, and
" hat is worse than anything else, lie
is to blame more than any one else for
the election of Frank Blair to the Sem
ate. How he can reconcile his former
political course with that he lie pursu-
Ing now is n mystery.
Mr.. Greeley is Universalist, and Mr..
Brown is Presbyterian, but very Tree