Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-07-04

Six mOntnS ago, IN q Democratic
Convention, the name of Horace
;! Greeley would have been greeted
with jeers of ribaldry and boots of
;, ridicule; now it is greeted with en-
thusiastic cheers. What a world
g we're living in, y '-'.s ls."'t.
II. G. has changed his immortal
white coat for one of butternut
color. He is. vain enough to think
r that he can carry with him, in the
= tehange7T ge7TenoughRepubiicans to help
l elect him President and put Demo
Gratis in office
!, A South Carolina paper says; ''If
Raphael Semmes and Braxton Bragg
!. can vote for Mr.. Greeley, We cannot
= well perceive how any Southern
man can see any insuperable objec-
, tion to doing the same thing" That
is probably true, and Union men
can make note of it.
/ Gen. Cox is losing his 'sfaith in
/ human nature" As he sadly shook
the dust off his feet at the little Free
Trade conference and departed once
again, he YEARLY remarked: Il
have Signed calls now for five diff
ferent conventions and conferences
and l won't sign any more"
Since H. G.'s nomination at Gin
cinnati, his paper, the New York
Tribune, has dropped like hot po-
tato, the matter of Tweed d Co.'S,
having stolen from $26, 100000 to
500, 900, 900 from the treasury of N.
Y. City. And why? Because the
thieves are all supporting him for
the Presidency. -
The Terre Haute Ind. Express
says that painful, but we'll authen-
ticated report reaches it that the
candidate for Vice President on the
Greeley ticket has once more aban-
doned his total abstinence, and is
in imminent danger of again indulg-
ing in buttered watermelon as soon
as the season fairly opens.
The Iowa Falls Sentinel analyzes
the names of Grant and Greeley
thus. "Both have the same handle,
gr. One has the suffix ant, which
means industrious, prudent, full of
work, foresight, and energy; and
the other has the suffix eeley, which |
means wriggling,, slippery, and not
twice in the same place. .aara
This is to be put in the Democrat
ic pipe to be smoked at leisure, and
Ben Wade furnishes the weed: ''By
adopting Mr.. Greeley as their stan
dard bearer, the Democrats deliber-
ately admit-if they are honest
that the poorest, weakest, most vas
cillating'and uncertain Republican,
is an improvement on anything to
be found in their own party"
During the last three years the
losses to the government in the Gus
toms department have been only
$2S,OOO out Of over $500, 100000 Of
collections. And during the last
eleven years, out of transactions at
the Treasury Department involving
over $55,0O0,OOO, ,OOO,t the losses have
averaged only one dollar in every
million. No other government in
the world can show a better civil
service record than this.
The Wooster Republican sums
up DIR. Greeley's virtues as follows:
Greeley is Universalist, a Unita-
rlan, a materialist, an alarmist, a
.Fourierist, socialist, secession I
ist, a vegetarian, dreamer, the
orist, a sophist, aradical and rabid
rationalist,who strides up the gang
way OF every modern, monstrous {
heresy, and with one foot on the |
Bible and the other in the Presi- !
dental stirrup, revels in metropoli- t
tan mutton and swears at every t
body"
The charge against a President
of appointing relatives to office is
nothing new. 1t was employed
against Madison as vigorously as !.
against Grant,and found expression
in the old song: sfl,.
mo Sister Cults and Cuts and /,
and Cults children three. r
Cults was brother-in- law to Mad |
lson, and was appointed Auditor of '
the Treasury. Notwithstanding the '
charge and doggercl, the people '
twice elected Madison, and he made II
an excellent President. q
Senator Schurz is able to so far
overcome his personal dislike and
for Mr.. Greeley as to sup,
port the nomination, but he can't :.
bring himself down to personal re-
lations with the candidate. On y
Friday morning there was break q
fast given at Delmonieo,s, at which
were present Greeley, Horace White =
and Theodore Tilton, and Mr.. .
Schurz was also expected, but he u
failed to come, ,and sent his regrets,
IN his place. To bring him and
MIR. Greeley together was the oc- L
;asion of the feast, and the failure p
much comment in political v
circles. ''4--+ - s' . '- A