, 1872-05-23
Greeley or Grant.

No event in the future can lie predict
Ell with greater certainty than that eth
ed Greeley or Grant will be the next
President of the United States. This is
clear to every disinterested, intelligent
observer of the current of political events
for the past ten years. If the Demo
cratic National Convention declines to
make nomination, or indorses the NOM
inees of the Cincinnati Convention, the
election of Greeley by such majority
as no candidate has received for the last
twenty years can scarcely be doubted
But if the Democrats place u party cam
didate in the field, it can have no other
effect than to divide the forces of the
opposition and thereby elect Grant by q
larger plurality than he received at the
last election. The reasons for this ara
obvious to all who are not blinded by
party prejudices or personal consid-
erations. The last State election in
Missouri is fair illustration of this
proposition. No man believes that the
Liberal party would have succeeded or
the Radicals been defeated in that elee-
tion had there been Democratic ticket
in the field. Parties stand divided there
upon the same grounds to-day; with a
Democratic ticket and a Liberal ticket
in the field, the Radicals would sweep
the State; or with a Democratic ticket
and Radical ticket only, more Liber-
ais would vote with the Radicals than
with the Democrats and thus turn the
scale. The same result would follow in
nearly every State. With three candi-
dates for President in the field, the con-
servative elements of the Southern States
which have heretofore cooperated since
the war, would be divided so that it
would be impossible to carry one of
them against Grant, and no Democratic
candidate could possibly be elected with
out them. But if the Democrats make
A nomination. Greeley and Brown will
be Withdrawn, the Liberal movement
will be dispersed and parties will resolve
themselves into their old elements, with
greater powers in the hands of the Ad-
ministration to maintain its supremacy
than ever before The Liberals will not
consent to be made the tail of Demo-
cratic kite, and thousands of Democrats
disgusted with the bourbonism and sell
fishness Of their leaders in rejecting the
certainty of triumph of their princi-
pies for the uncertainty of party tri-
umph, will vote fer Grant as q choice of
evils; and they will do right. The De-
1nocracy have professcd to regard the
Administration OF Grant as the greatest
calamity which can befal the country
short Of political destruction. The Gin
cinnati nominations test the honesty of
these professions. IF they are sincere
and those who make them are actuated
by patriotic motives, they will accept the
conditions upon which thorough re-
form of the abuses complained of are Of
fered. Every principle and every meas
IRE, which they have pretended to be
willing to make any reasonable sacrifice
10 establish, they have now the assur-
ance they can secure by their suffrages.-
They have no reason to doubt the integ-
rity or fidelity of the nominees. The
only reason which they can offer for re-
jecting this proposition is, that they
prefer party to country, and would sur
render the certainty Of establishing the
principles which they profess to regard
as vital to the best interests of the coun-
try, for the desperate chance Of achiev-
ing party victory and the control of
party spoils. Those who imagine that
the Democratic party by this exhibition
of selishness and insineerity puts it
self in a position to profit by the disaf-
fection in the Republican party, will
find themselves previously mistaken
BY it they lose the confidence of all sin
eere and disirterested supporters of re-
form measures and postpone indefinite
ly the time vixen the Democracy might
hope to regain its supremacy in the land.
Late Democratic party rule in New
York, California and Oregon has not
been calculated to inspire confidence in
the integrity of that party or faith in its
pledges, and thousands of honest re-
formers of both parties would deem it saf-
er, sc to endure the ills we have than fly
to others that we know not Of We be-
iieve we have seen the worst of Grants
Administration, and have no doubt it
would be better for the country to en-
dure it for another four years, with a
reasonable prospect of the disintegra-
ton of both political parties and the for
nation of a new one upon higher
plane of political morality at the end of
that time. than to change for the rule of
another party which has for the past
few years only manifested itself through
packed conventions, subsidized Legisla-
lures and corrupt rings organized for
public plunder.
Politics IN ORFGoN.--Party politics
are now running high in Oregon, pend