Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-07-26
Running for Luck.


1T is interesting to observe what mere
running for luck the Greeley campaign is
in the estimation of those who support
that gentleman. They speak of him per-
sonally in tone of badinage or derision
which it is astounding that men should
use Of candidate for whom they pro-
pose to vote for President "We'll sing
him through, if it kills us" says Governor
Vance, and that Is the almost universal
tone. He gives his faith to those who
fawn upon him to use him, says Samuel
Bowles, In the interval of cheering for
honest old Horace" 'Some of the
worst men in the country have donned
white hats, and are hurrahing Justify for
Greeley" remarks the same gentleman,
intent upon 'reform" and purity of ad-
mlnlstratlon. ut is true, also, within
our own knowledge" say the Cincinnati
commercial, which warmly supports Mr..
Greedy, that some of the worst men in this
community those who have lived and fat.
tened upon public plumber, and are notori-
Gus schemers to empty the pockets of the
many into the hands of the few, are
Greeley men. -. And Boss Tweed is a
Greeley man." The Commercial, how
ever, does not agree with it's ally, Mr..
Bowles, that Mr. Greeley will be control
ed by the bosses. But could anything be
more comical than the grave assertion that
reform is sure, or in the least degree
probable, from a party which attracts
such elements?
Governor Randolph, of New Jersey,
also, who has been the leader of the anti
Greeley Democracy in this neighbor-
hood, has given us his theory of Mr.
Greeley and the movement. The Demo
cratic stampede having become irresisti-
bic, Governor Randolph joins it, and says
that if the Democratic party can win with
Mr.. Greeley, it is, indeed, absurd, but it
must be done. The Governor alludes, as
all Democratic orators are obliged to do,
to st. Paul and his conversions; but he
thinks that Greeley, nominated at Balti-
more, is the regular Democratic candi-
date, and If elected, he may, indeed, have
the place, but the power will be with
those who elect him-that is, the Demo
cratic party. And at last the Sage him.
self, who some months ago prepared him
self for nomination by saying that his
paper had ceased to be party organ
that is, Republican party organ-now
writes that, if elected, he viii treat all
who support him alike, mot asking
whether they had been in the past Repub-
licans or Democrats" The only creden-
tials in the Greeley civil service VIII be
Greeleyism.
This movement, so interpreted, so COM
posed, is offered to the American people
as a regeneration and elevation of the
Government. If we ask why those who
describe the Greeley partizans in the
manner that we have cited support their
candidate, we are told that there are
Grant scalawags also. Is that an an
swer? Suppose that there is somewhere
dull preacher who puts the congre
CATION to sleep. A reform party, with
fine flourish of phrases, brings in another
incumbent; who not only puts the con-
gregation to sleep, but to snoring. SIS
this reform or improvements" asks some
body. "Why doesn't the old minister
put everybody to sleep too?" And that
is meant for a triumphant answer. Or
again, it is asked whether Governor Ran
dolph is not right in saying that the elec-
tion of Mr.. Greeley by the Democratic
party will be Democratic success; and
If that will be more reform now than it
would have been four years ago. To
which it is answered that the Democratic
leaders expressly declare that what they
chiefly care for is not the success of their
party, but peace and harmony and fra
ternity and economy and simplicity and
purity and virtue in general, and that to
obtain these excellent things they are
willing to take candidate who was
formerly opposed to them. What
heavenly disposition? There was a time
when the Sage of Chappaqua, hearing
such reply, would have mildly observ-
ed, you lie, you villains you lie!"
The Greeley party is composed of vari-
Gus elements, chief of which is the De-
mocracy. Each is intent upon its own OBJ
ject, and they all agree in nothing but the
effort to defeat General Grant under the
cry of reform. The reform is begun, and
its character illustrated by the most reck-
less and absurd ISLANDERS upon the Pres
ident and everybody who supports him.
Even man and Republican like Judge
HOar is not safe from the deliberate mis-
representation of the Greeley "reform-
belied and distorted. and it is evidently
hoped that the vehement reiteration or
lies will somehow establish their truth.
A disreputable adventurer who had foist-
ed himself into office could not be more
scornfully denounced by the "reformers"
than the President of the United States
a man whose services to his country are
so immense, whose purpose is so patriotic,
and whose Administration has been, up
on the whole, so satisfactory. reform"
so sought; the reform" which certain
Republicans only too well known demand;
the reform" which the spirit of the Ku-
Klux favors; the "reform" which the
regular Democratic Convention, in con-
cert with the late Tammany Ring, sup
ports-is reform" which the honest
and loyal American people win spew out
of their mouths.-Harper's Weekly,