New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09

him, if they take the movement which has
| put him in the field, with real enthusiasm.
1t has been evident all along that the
Democracy have desired only chance to
indOrse this Cincinnati movement 1t could
have been wished that the chance now pre-
! sented had been attended by no circum-
stance to qualify or blot it. But, such as it
is, it is not marred by the presence of HOr-
ace Greeley. 1t would have required some
pulling to get Adams through the maze of
Democratic prejudices; it would have re-
quired a good deal of pushing to drive
Trumbull through; but, as far as those
prejudices go, Horace Greeleys known
honesty, kindliness and magnanimity will
make their own way, and the Democratic
peOple-in spite of the politicians-wil 20
it with whOOp.
Ihls is the truth about it, and it would
be better it were otherwise, for "holdbackv
is just now the word for the South.
The same writer adds;
have given, rapidly and without need
less detail, the story of the convention
from the standpoint of what l understand
10 De Its morale. Its proceedings, the con-
crete part OF them | mean, are before the
country. Everybody knows what was done,
and have endeavOred to sketch what was
tried to be done and what methods were
appled which do not appear in the official
reports OF that which was done. 1t is now
LOT the Democrats, who know enough, to
oegln to seriously consider the matter, to
decide what they are going to do.
They should consider this seriously and
discuss it temporarily, for they may rely
upon 1t that their leaders at Washington
and elsewhere, headed by Mr.. Pendleton
and Mr.. Hendricks, are so far committed to
this movement that there is no possibility
OF securing a harmonious, straight-out
Democratic organization, or enlisting any
national Democratic leader in march to
certain disaster.
Ali roads that lead from Greeley lead to
Grant; but there are times when the pOliti-
clans obstinately refuse to take any road
that does not lead to ruin, and this NAV
mlslead many of those who are not in
structed as to the designs of the national
managers. The present time does not be-
long to the class of periods named. There
has been for months at Washington but one
opinion, and that is that the Democratic
party as a separate organization, has no
chance whatever of fair election or fair
count of the vote, and that the only hope of
beating Grant rest solely in so dividing the
Republicans as to produce a popular
ground-swell, and by this agency of so
working upon the present Radical House of
Representatives as to compel it to do the
clean thing, having previously at the polls
overcome by numbers and enthusiasm the
machine work with which the administra-
ton will invest the ballOt-box.
give these as facts and as suggestions
In Kentucky our way is plain and open.
We have nothing to do but continue as we
are, leaving the national convention, which
will be called in few days, to settle the
details.
There was a movement begun in Cincin-
natl by the Revenue Reformers after the |
of the Liberal convention, |
which had for its object a union of the Ger |
mans, the free traders and!the Democrats,
with the view of putting Mr.. Graesbeck |
forward as a Reform candidate for the Pres |
idency. But this does not seem to me to |
nave any cohesive power to it. 1t presents |
us a figure with too much brains and too |
little popular enthusiasm to mature into /
anything more formidable than a third /
party, which would render the election of |
Grant, in advance, an accomplished fact.
1t may or may not mature. If it it does it
should not turn US aside from our purpose
20 hold together and go with the Democratic !
BODY. l believe that Greeley and Brown
an be elected. They do not give us the
arif reforms we sought, but they will in
ure us other reforms which are equally
eedful and more urgent. If they do not
nit US, no more does Grant; and we run
title risk when we select them as a choice
f evils, while they may prove real bless
lgs in disguise. As 1 have shown, they
Ossess some rOusing features; some strong
ractical elements; some genuine points Of
aspiration and attraction. On the whole,
be Democracy can not do better than pre-
are to support them, for it requires little
Dresight to see that it is that or four years
lOre of Grant and Grantism, misrule at the
forth and bayOnet rule at the South, with
o end OF dangerous possibilities
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