Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-08-07
ALiberaI ArtiRce.

Every ward in Warren, Ohio, has a
Greeley club. The Republican mem
bers are 3S1.-M. Y. Sun.
The above is but one of the many
willful lies which emanate from the
brains of those who do the distortion
work for the What is it" party.
By prevarication theyseek to retrieve
their sunken political fortunes and
give prestige to a movement which
depends upon the dissemination of
such bare-faced falsehoods for support.
They seek to enhance their prospects
of political success by the promulga-
ton of falsehoods, whose exposures
are, as a natural consequence, fol-
lowed by the most disastrous results
to the cause whose interests they
would further by so reprehensible a
course.
Coming, as the above does, from
the n. Y. Sun, a paper which has
gained such unenviable notOriety in
consequence of its libellous attacks
upon the administration, a paper
whose editor entertains a feeling of
personal animOsity for the President,
engendered by disappointment in the
acquisition of a remunerative position
at his hands, the fact that his every
energy is enlisted in the work of
creating dissatisfaction with the adj
ministratiOn by the manufacture and
publication of such articles as the
above, fully accounts for the appear
ance of that, as well as other state
ments equally devoid Of truth, in the
columns of his paper. One of these,
to the effect that that staunch old
Republican journal, the Ashtabula
Sentinel, had taken down the names
of Grant and Wilson and substituted
those of Greeley and Brown, we
refuted in our last issue.
The opposition party is working
upon the principle that a desperate
cause, to succeed, necessitates the en-
ployment of desperate means, and
have accordingly set themselves at
work not only in a desperate but des-
picable manner, for the attainment of
their object. The assertion of the
Sun that " every ward in Warren has
a Greeley club" scracely requires
refutation among those who know
the political sentiment of the majority
of the people of this vicinity, and are
cognizant ofthe fact that the attempt
ed formation of such organizations
would be attended with insuperabie
difficulties insomuch as the eonsti-
tuents of Greeley are not so numerous
as to warrant the assertion that ward
clubs, if formed, would consist of
more than two or three Republican
members each. The latter portion of
the extract is a fair sample of the
manner in which the opposition party
is corroborating Mr.. Greeley's state
ment that to lie is q Democratic
virtue" Such fragrant misrepresen-
tations and unsubstantiated state
ments are not without effect upon
those who, though opposed to the
administration, are averse to duplicity
and double-dealing, and instead of
advancing the interests of the party
in whose behalf they are gotten up,
they tend materially to the retarda-
ton of its prospects of success, as is
most apparent from the fact that
many of those who were foremost in
advocating its principles are daily
severing all connection with the
organization, which they perceive is
being made to subserve the purposes
of its corrupt manipulators. Espe-
cially is that the case here. The
detection from the Republican ranks
is not noticeable, while many life
long adherents of the Democratic
party are espousing the Republican
cause, anda still greater number avow
their intention of voting for neither
candidate now in the field.