The Portland daily press., 1872-06-28
Mr.. Greeley and Tammany.

The Cincinnati Commercial admits that
if Mr.. Greeley's connection with the Tam
many Democrats is proved it will ruin his
election. 1t saws :-"Convict Horace Greeley
of bargaining with Democrats, as TO the dis
tribution of offices, and his candidacy is prac-
tically at an end, for his unfitness to be Pres
ident would be proven, and the people would
certainly prefer Grant"
In reply to this the New York Times says
there may be some difference as to the amount
and kind of evidence necessary to produce
conviction but in New York city it is well
know fact that Cochrane, Mudgett and all the
leading Tammany Republicans are Mr.. Gree
ley's most active partisans. 1t is also well
known that nearly all the leading Democrats
in that city who support him are or have been
VIGOROUSLY connected with the Tammany
Ring. Sweeney is actively working for Gree
ley, and has certainly held consultations with
some of his leading friends. Sheriff Brennan
is enlisting his clubs under the Greeley ban
ner. Gov. Hoffman has good understand
ing with the Greeley managers. These are,
says the Times, ''undeniable facts-you can
only say you do not see them by carefully
shutting your eyes. Then what does it all
mean? Are these men using Greeley, or is
he using them, or are we to believe that
Sweeney & Co. have given up all thoughts of
plumber, and are now intent upon pure gov
eminent and reformr'
The Times continues: rs..
The issue is not misunderstood in this city,
whatever may be the case in Cincinnati Here
we see the Greeley men, and we all know how
they stand in the community. There is not a
corporaPs guard of respectable men among
them. Ask the Democratic merchants and
bankers-they are all against Greeley. On the
other hand, the Tammany wire-pullers and
roughs, the scalawags in search of place, the
rascals who have recently been turned out of
office, are all in his favor. If the editor of the
Cincinnati Commercial questions these facts we
ask nothing better than that he shall come here
and make inquiries for himself. Three days in
this city will satisfy him on the subject. A
vote for Greeley next Fall will be a vote for the
restoration of Tammany rule-and there is no
branch of business which would not be involved
in Unreasonable disasters in consequence.
Newspapers cannot deceive the public one way
or the other on this subject The people OBJ
serve facts for themselves, and draw their own
conclusions-and it is because they do this that
we are confident New York State will give
larger majority for the Republican party next
Fall than she has done for many year past.
The people have beaten Tammany organiza-
tions once and they can and will do it again.
THE town authorities of Waterville are to
be commended for taking into their own
hands the late actof incendiarism on the part
of some OF the undergraduates of Colby Uni
versity. When college students begin to feel
that theft and. arson are mere vulgar crimes
,s4..-..-.-ssrnmltfad f,yr .thana VOL as by the
commonalty, and that there are undesirable
penalties attached thereto, they will be less
inclined to indulge in the classic pastimes of
burning outbuildings and robbing hen-roosts.
A new code of academic ethics is one of the
pressing wants of the times. Whately, But
Ter and other teachers of abstract morals
seem to have little effect in restraining ''col-
lege boys'' even from the grosser forms of
vice. An appeal to the law will doubtless
prove more efficacious.