The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1872-07-25

Who il the Dupsr

VINO - the Oupor
The New York Evening Post, one Of
the earliest and ablest advocates Of the
Cincinnati movement, has evidently
got its all Of that sort Of reform. -
In an article on the late meeting OF
the "reformers" In New York IL
truthf0lly sums up the political situa-
ton - follows:
"Recent Democratic conventions all
over the country indicate unmistaka-
bly, that Mr.. Greeley will be the
nominee Of the Baltimore convention.
The speakers In the conference on
Thursday who approved of his nomi-
nation ct Cincinnati, and who were
evidently desirous that the conference
should sanction Il with their approval,
were Tor the most part Democrats.
The Republicans who agreed with
them were few, and some Of them, at
least, were men the root Of whose zeal
for purity and reform In politics l.
bedded deeply In defeated desire for
oflce or onicial patronage. OF those
Democrats who wefe the advocates OF
the Greeley nomination not one of
them, It will be observed, could speak
Of him In other terms than those Of
the most marked contempt, almost of
loathing, for that much they evidently
felt due to their own self-respect and
sense Of decency. Greeley the candi-
date was one thing to them; Greeley
the man was quite another. The
whole denomination, SO far as 1t has
any Significance at all, shows this
that the Democratic purpose which
made Greeley the nominee of the Gin
cinnati convention was followed up
and striven for In the Fifth Avenue
conference by men who have not the
least respect for Greeley, but believe
him to be convenient tool.
What, then, 10 that purpose? Sim
ply that the Democrats, believing that
the Liberal movement might be used
to resussitate their party, have seized
1t to that end. Whether it was pre-
concerted plan to do this at Cincinnati
which, as we all know. was most
likely the factor whether q happy
accident at Cincinnati made 1t possible,
the fact remains the same, that the
proposed election Of Greeley is merely
now a measure Of the Democratic
party. The party will make q straight
nomination at Baltimore In putting
Greeley's name at the head Of the
ticket, the very straitest nomination
possible, for It proposes thereby to re-
instate the old party organization in
power ut Washington. Yielding
nothing. compromising nothing, &C.
knowledging nothing, promising
nothing, they have captured feeble
old man. whose desire for Office is al
most IN insanity, and who, to compass
IL is ready to turn his back upon the
record Of his whole life and on the
supposition of his popularity with hia
own party they propose to capture
Republican votes enough to put them.
a.lves intn rnwer. Whether they will
succeed in carrying such . scheme a.
this to successful termination or
whether, succeeding in II, they will
cheat Greeley or Greeley cheat them
is another question. But cunning as
Greeley is-and an unfathomable cum
ming is one Of his strongest character
istics, a. It is always Of the class Of men
to which he belongs-we believe he
will be no match for the men into
whose hands he has delivered himself.
A share Of the plunder no doubt will
be thrown to the hungry adventures
men and women, whom he would
carry to Washington; but q share Of
political power-not . bit Of 1t.
Whatever else we may think of the
Democratic party, its long record
shows that it is not . fool. Aud 1t has
never given stronger proof of its 40.
gacity than it has given now In the
way 1t has availed itself Of one Of the
purest-if not the purest- movements
In the history of American politics to
reinstate In power the corruptest party
that American politics has eveI
known. It seemed rs ii 1t could only
be saved from dissolution by miracle
and there comes this curious concate
nation Of circumstances, that offers i
one more chance Of salvation. Proba
bly, there never lived before since tn,
beginning Of the world man who
having for nearly half q century beer
in the relations of opposition ant
hatred that Greeley has to . politica
party. could be taken, and consent t
be taken, by such party In Its morts
agony, and made to lay down his owl
to save that party's life. But that |
precisely the spectacle which is pre-
sented to us at this moment.
The question then Is, is Greeley
popularity, like the ideal Greele.
which people are said to believe In,
mere myth? And will this prett.
plot of ms king him . nominal Presi
dent, and putting the Democrat
party back into power, fail. becaus
Republicans will take no part in 1t
Without Republican votes the Who'll
thing falls to the ground; and whel
this comes to be understood the figh
will really be between the Republican
party as such on the one side, and ol
the other the Democratic party, totall
unchanged except that it rallies unde
Al old white hat, practically. - the
believe and hope, without any hes
In 1t. Those sagacious gentlemen .
the Fifth Avenue conference, VIII
avowed that their great purpose .
this juncture was to smash thing
generally, will deserve the gratithd
OF posterity should Greeley be elected
So far from breaking up the old part
ties, the movement on his behalf is /
this moment, crystalising them int
the forms and relations that existe
before the war, and arresting th
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