Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-03
Hon. Alexander Meggett, of WiscOn-
sin, Lifelong Democrat,
Repudiates Greeley.
MADISON, Wis, September 20

N.
Claire, lifelong and leading Democrat
of this State, two years ago a candidate
for Congress in the Sixth District, who,
it was announced some time since, had de-
clared he would not support Greeley, has
addressed letter to Hon. E. w. Keyes,
in response to one from the latter gentle
man, which is published in the State
Journal, in which he forcibly presents
some of his reasons, from Democratic
stand point, for refusing to vote for Mr..
Greeley and for supporting President
Grant. He also consents to fill appoint
ments to speak for Grant and Wilson in
October. In his letter he says;
The nomination of Horace Greeley at
Cincinnati was one of the most surprising
and unexpected episodes in American poll
tics, accomplished by the adroit manage
ment of a few designing politicians against
the better sense and judgment of high
minded leading men, who sincerely desired
reform in civil affairs. Though the peculiar
character, idiosyncracies and record Of the
nominee rendered this painful necessity,
yet, considering that the Horace Greeley
who, at Cincinnati, died to his past record
that after many days he might be resurrect-
ed at Baltimore, in the incongruous habili-
ments of Democratic high priest and Re-
publican saint, had up to the time of this
remarkable decease no superior as bitter,
unrelenting Republican and ardent hater of
the Democratic party, even in its most re-
spectacle aspects. It is no wonder and to
be expected that all restless and selfish
malcontents of the Sumner-Schurz-Tr -Trumbull-
Banks type should espouse his cause and
blow his bugle in our public places and from
every house-tep in the land. But how the
great powerful Democratic party of the
country, whose principles are older by far
than the Government itself, upon which for
nearly all the years of our national life has
rested the responsibility of vindicating and
applying these principles in national affairs,
which had achieved an enviable record for
administrative ability and broad national
policies, and had abundant promise for
the future, could, in its Convention as
sembled, practically resolve that in all
these years of Republican ascendency it, as
party, had been wrong, and that the form of
political faith denominated the Liberal
Republican," really the most radical and
least conservative, is right, and by political
suicide in the house of its friends, go back on
its former record, blast its hopes for the
future, and send many of its devoted ad
herents into Presidential canvass as politi-
cal orphans, and the emainder of its mem
bers into the business of bitter pill taking for
the entire canvass, all for mess of Liberal
Republican pottage, promised it is true to the
ear but never to be tasted by the lips, unless
in the bitterness of disappointment and
defeat, must pass the comprehension of all
right-t thinking and high-minded men, and can
HOb, IL SeelHS 10 me- even Ill view Oh I'LL Lue
excuses and reasons given for IL, be justified
in any degree. When it is considered that in
taking such action the most bitter, unrelent-
ing enemy of the Democratic party, by edu-
cation, instinct, conviction and record, was
selected as the chief standard-bearer, to be
supported by those he had thus abused and
maligned for two decades of years, such
action is not only inconsistent and repre-
hensible, but by every consideration of self
respect and devotion to a cause and its
principles it should be repudiated by all its
members, except those responsible for the
folly of such action and those who prefer to
embrace affectionately the very serpent that
stings them. Its effect is death to the party
and its hopes, and every speech and word
uttered in the canvass in its defense is pro-
nouRced requiem over its grave.
The supereminent alopath of protection is
prepared in Liberal Republican apothecary
shop, taken to the house of the victim, and
then gulped down by it almost without
vince, in the fallaciOus expectation of con-
tinued and more vigorous life. But public
judgment pronounces il an inexcusable sui
eide of party and principle. The numerous
political orphans made by this premature
death are asking whittier shall we go until
the spirit of the party shall rise again into
resurrected life. Strangely enough many
have sought refuge in the house of him whose
prescription has been thus fatal to their
hopes. But, like many others, cannot COM
NIT my political future to so uncertain and
hazardous guidance. In view of a nomi-
nation which, if ratified by the people, prom
ises nothing but peril and disaster to the
country, and believing, as do, that General
Grant, by instinct and education, is more of
Democrat than Republican, and that his
record is free from abuse and hate of the
party and its adherents, that it is virtue
for public man to be true to the party that
elevates him to place and power, and his
now nearly four years of official responsible
q G No Qgris ST full
vinced me that he possesses this virtue in an
eminent degree, that his faults, whatever
| they may be, do not prevent him from dis
charging his executive duties admirably
well for one of his limited experience in civil
| affairs, though somewhat removed from my
first choice as Presidential candidate, yet
when the alternative is of choosing between
| him and Mr.. Greeley, who is by nature and
habit erratic, gullible, mentally unstable,
| crotchety, blunderer in public affairs, and
without a single qualification that fits him
| for executive duties, and knowing full well
| from his past utterances-as every one by
| this time must know-that by education and
long years of journalistic labor he is a cor
dial and outspoken hater of Democrats, thei,
| principles ana party, / have no hesitation,
as lifelong Democrat, in declaring my
preference for General Grant; and to pre-
vent, so far as am able, SO great calamity
as awaits the nation in the event of Mr.
Greeley's election, l am ready by speech
| anu ChOIl W lOdilCbSIy oClLO tuc lcsoCI CIVIL
and upon every proper occasion urge the
claims of the former for reelection. In my
humble judgment, General Grants Republi
canism, influenced, as it must be more o.
less, by his Democratic impulses and sympa
thies, is safer for the country by far thar
Mr.. Greeley's spasmodic Democracy. label
led Liberal Republican can be in an.
event. Besides, if by the official action O.
the Democratic party, as one of its member
l am to be turned over to any form of Repub
licanism, much prefer the genuine articl,
to the sore-headed kind known as Liberal.
I am ready to advocate the claims o
Grant and Wilson as the candidates which
believe, under the present issues and statu
of parties, should be supported by ever.
true Republican and Democrat in the land.
The letter and action of Mr.. Megget
will have great influence in the State, es
pecially in its northern section.
THE Secretary of the Iowa Board O
!, Agriculture states that within a fey
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