The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1872-07-24
CAMPAIGN NOTES.


ocratic sheet of the strongest charac-
ter, has but a poor opinion of its
Presidential candidate, and expresses
il in this wise:
IF Greeley is elected he never will
be the controller of his own temper
He flies in passion with every one
who refuses to agree with him or who
will not vote for him. You lie, vii
lain. Won He,' was his salutation to
Bryant of the New York Post.
Don't speak to me, Cd d-you,
was his objurgation to the poet
Duganne, in the Constitutional Con-
vention. He who controlleth his own
temper is better than he who taketh
a CITY or carrieth a State. But Gree
lev can neither do the one nor the
other.
The Chicago Times tells Demo
Gratis they must now choose between
Grant and Greeley, the time for
bringing out another candidate hav-
ing passed. For itself, it will never
support Greeley. We quote:
I'm view of this disagreeable al
tentative, what ought good citizens
to do? OF course the action of the
Baltimore Convention has not placed
Democrats under the slightest obliga-
ton to vote for Mr.. Greeley. 1t is
impudent to talk ofapplying the party
lash under any circumstances; but it
is unspeakably impudent to talk Of
using it to drive Democrats into the
support of one of the worst embodi-
mcnts of radicalism the country has
ever known. Democrats will vote as
they please, or abstain from voting if
they please, and they will be apt to
resent with suitable warmth any at
tempt at coercion The question is
not at all one of party obligation, but
one of personal duty exclusively"
WRITING from Norristown, Mont
gOmery county, correspondent of
the New York Times says: "In the
event of any third candidate in the
field this Fall, Pennsylvania will re-
peat her vote of 1860, when the Re-
publicans carried the State bv such an
overwhelming majority. In that
year our county, which prior to that
time and since, had been strongly
Democratic, gave a plurality of votes
for Lincoln of some 236. The same
was characteristic of several other
Democratic candidates. Hartranft
here is exceedingly popular, and sew
eral of the most prominent Democrats
in Norristown have joined the Hart
ranft Club We expect to carry the
county for him in October, and for
Grant with an increased majority in
November. Hartranft's majority
when elected to his present position
was Independent of this eastern dis
trict, Philadelphia, owing to local
causes, casting her vote against him.
This Fall, however, she is ssure to give
him a handsome majority, and more
than counterbalance any falling off in
other sections of the State"
OF the man whose abject fear in
times of trial and danger, crisis after
crisis in our history has exposed him to
the jeers of the whole country, the
Boston Adrertiser thus speaks: "Mr
Greeley has a monstrous faculty fol
surrender. For giving up a great
cause at a critically wrong time, his
genius is superhuman. After years
of vigorous controversy agains,
slavery, the South rebelled. What
does our leader of men at this prac
tical crisis? He surrenders forth
with. He Immediately does what he
can to allow the rebel States to des
troy the Union and build up theiI
slaveholding commonwealth in peace
He knew well that such an embodied
infamy as slavery was wrong and
hateful, and had just enough resolu
ton to last him up to the moment
when resolution was most needed
After years of fighting, General Lee
penetrated into Pennsylvania. Wha,
does our proposed COMMANDMENT
Chief theny Why, he surrenders
again. Luckily he was not in com
mand of the army in the field. But
he surrendered his own post-whict
was all that could be expected of hin
by distinctly avowing thatif things
went on in this way We had better
make as good a peace as possible un
der the circumstances.