White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1872-05-23
The Outlook.

The Presidential outlook, at this stage Of the
canvass, reveals nothing to Discourage, or even
seriously concern, steadfast Republicans. num-
Der of disappointed or excitable fellows, who al
ways 90 off at halfcock ON occasions of popular
furry are gradually coming back to the fold, hav-
ing discovered that the movement was sell, and
that the most noisy advocates of the Cincin-
natl ticket are dyed-in-tbe-wool Democrats, who
have hitherto been most bitter in their denuncia-
tious of the man they now laud SO highly. No
honest Republican can see any good to come OF
ticket that gives so much pleasure to this class OF
men.
But q very large proportion of the Democratic
party refuse to support this Liberal ticket. lhey
demand ticket of their own; or, failing IN that,
and being under the necessity Of choosing oetween
Republicans, they unhestatingly declare their IN
tention of voting for GRANT as the oetter anu sier
man of the two. But the Democracy VIII probaDiy
nominate ticket. THERE'S an clement IN the party
that s,v iftbcv can he yinced that GREELEY can
heat Gp beyond the possibility of q doubt they
are in favor of making no nominations, but aiding
Gprrrry. Another influential portiton of the
Marty are in favor of nominating at all hazards,
and having nothing to do with the GREELEY tick
ct But if the ring that is in favor of coalesciDg
with the Liberals succeeds in controlling the Con-
yeution, thousands of Democrats will go over to
the support of GRANr-a much larger number
than the Republicans who will support GREELEY.
We heard Democrat say, recently, that he had
been looking for excnse for several years past,
to get into the Republican party gracefully, and
now that opportunity had presented itself.
The other day, we talked with a Kentucky
yl,a hal laau mi isf he
war. He said that, as it had come to choice be-
tween two Republicans, he had initiated GREE
LEY's tactics-had gone over to GRANT, and burn
ed all the bridges behind him. He said that, at
the beginning of the rebellion, those of them who
were trying to keep Kentucky in the Union,
were met with the argument that the New York
Tribune edited by the great light Of the Republi-
can party, had said that they had perfect right
to secede; and if the Northern Abolition leaders
admitted it, Southern Democrats had no business
to object. He said that GREELEY recruited more
soldiers for the rebel army than all the rebel re-
cruiting officers in the State.
Last week we met an old gentleman from that
Gibraltar of hard-shell Democracy, Butler Coun-
ty, Ohio. He said he had left Ohio about week
after the Cincinnati nominations were made, and
that majority of the old line Democrats in his
region declared their determination to vote for
GRANT. They did not seen to have any hope
that Democratic ticket woull be brought, ont,
spoke rs if they had fully settled down in the de-
termination to vote for GRANT.
So the stands everywhere. Those Demo-
Gratis who have been aching for the past ten
years to be on the beating side, and those small
fry renegades from the Republican party who think
they see in this movement an opportunity to be- /
come famous, are just now exertins themselves to |
keep up dust and clatter; but there are those
who make little noise and do deal of thinking,
whose votes will count just much in the cleo
tion who will not rally in that procession, to the
sound of gongs and wind Instruments.