Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-08-15

Executive Committee 0f Kentucky.
LOUISVILLE, Ky., August 1.-THE Demo
cratic Executive Committee have issued 4
circular to the Democrats of the United States
urging immediate organization, for the ptirs
pose of supporting the principles of the party
as they will be proclaimed by the September
Convention at Louisville. Tie committee say
that the utter Abandonment of principles Is
evinced by a coalition between spoilsniefl and
ce-hunterst In their attempt to elevate
Greeley to the Presidency, is a sad evidence
of Generalization and corruption, based as
the bargain isupen fraud and hypocracy, and
the utterance of one set of sentiments in the
North and another in the South. 1t must be
repudiated and spurned by every man who
has q spark of honesty in his heart There
are hundreds Of thousands who already pro-
claim their purpose of maintaining the Demo-
cratic organization at all hazards. The dis
integration of the Radical party into two fac
tions renders it self-evident that the Demo-
cratic masses can elect one of their own faith
instead of lifelong enemy like Greeley, who
still loudly asserts that he has never aban-
doned his principles, and points proudly yet
to his record-and such a record! Can Dem
ocrats, who have iboasted that they support
principles and mot men; agree to falsify their
past life by claspings hands with thegworst of
bull; Fentonb and the thousand other leaders
who rally around Greeley, and would control
his administration If his election could be
secured? Who are; the men that thus seek
for the highest honors and emoluments of the
country, and who have extended their support
to trading politicians Of the TammanY school,
by promise of dividing the spoilsp Without
exception, they are big6ts, whose1 bitterness
has been eyinGed fox the past twenty Years in
defamation Of their opponents; !; ~ men who
have uttered the most uhchristian, MOST fero-
cious, most VillainOus sentiments about and
against the Southern people, swbinent land
children, as well as men during the war;, and
who have done the most to develop and pass
that legislation since the war which true Dem
pcrats denounee as stibvefsive of. liberty and
against the spirit of, our institutions; men
who have nveted the South in chains and
burdened it with burdensome debts, the pro-
ceeds of which have gone into the pockets of
q select few who have fattened upon the mis-
fortune of the people; and who turn to. the
new ring and Tammany allegiance in order
tostill further enrich themselves. Yarmouth,
who has increased the debt of Louisiana to
$4,000, 900 or 80, ,OO0, 900 in three years, and
whose fraudulent acts and villain6us State
legislation has been denounced in Democratic
papers from Maine to Texas, is the leader
par excellence of the chiyalry of the South.
His influence at Cincinnati and the sixteen
votes of his delegation, insured the nomina-
ton of Greeley. Yet, we are coolly informed
that the people have done it with enthusiasm,
Yarmouth can by fraud elect who he chooses,
just as the Mayor of New York has the de-
Gliding vote in appointing all return officers.
The committee declare that il is the purpose
to carry the election there and in other States,
where practicable, by fraud, and protest
against it as no better method of securing the
liberty of the people than by the use of parti-
san laws, originated by prominent leaders of
Greeley's party, to be enforced by bayOnets
under the present. Administration. They de-
clare that the South cannot clasp hands with
those who have wronged them from the ter
mination of the war; that Northern Demo-.
Gratis cannot but condemn the offenses of men
like Pease, of Texas, and Rice, of Arkansas
orload with honors Gratz Brown, who, In
1868, out done Herod for Acknowledgement
and persecution, and only recanted when an
Office was to be obtained. They notice other
leaders of the GreeleNmoyement: Blair, who
came into the party to destroy it, and nobly
has he fulfilled his mission; Schurz, who;
was the loudest of all to sweep the South with
the besom of destruction, and viewed the
election of Democrat as the worst calamity
to befall the country only six months ago;
McNeel, the butcher of an unarmed prisoner
in Kentucky, as well as Burbridge, the most
detested of all its citizens; in Georgia, Brown,
who as an official during the war and since
under the corrupt administration of Bullock,
which has plundered' the State of millions of
dollars, has been and is accused of using his
official station for private gain. .',.o'
Against a union with such men, and
against their riuse of the Democratic name,
the committee protest and declare their be-
lief that the people viii condemn the corrupt
bargain. AS tbesonly precedent, they say, in
history for the selection of deserter fora
commando -m-chief is that of Coriolanus,
and for the Democrats the. comparison is tln-i
fortunate, as Coriolanus. betrayed his army
and saved Rome when she was PROSTATE at
his feet. So Greeley, with Summer and other
negro social equality champions, is reinforced
with emphasis since his nomination, with the
truculent advisers of decentralization and tyran-
ical oppression of their adversaries and uncom-
promising enemies, that constitution which
to them is league with he'll and covenant
with death, are ready to do anything for
betray their own followers If necessary for
their own advancement, even in the hour of
victory. They declare that the Democratic
party is the party OF the. future, and that its
honesty of purpose viii attract the support of
the masses, and that It's future will be crown
The circular concludes with recoDnnnn,,ens.. il, 4.
dation for the immediate appointment in every
county of q committee of five or more, with q
chairman, which shall constitute D district
committee; that conventions be assembled on
or before the 25th of August, and select two
delegates ard Two alteFnates from each Con-
igressiOhai distries, and that full delegations
sfronl each State shsil certainly, be present on