Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-05-30
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HORACE GREELEY.
ssEli Perkins Goes for Him.
How to Manage His Campaign.


"Ei Perkins" Goes for Him.
How to Manage His Campaign.
am for Greeley
The Commercial may not be for him
but Eli Perkins is going to supper
Horace.
We have nominated Mr.. Greeley ol
the g-e-l-o-r-i-o-Us Democratic Republi
can platform, and now my friends W
mast elect him. Our candidate is |
man of a great many principles. HI
has been on both sides of almost every
political question, and there is such ,
chance for our oratorsi
Listen to me and I'll tell you how W.
can elect Mr. Greeley.
1. For the New England States W.
must instruct our orators to talk th'
high-tariff dodge. They must show
Mr.. Greeley's record, and point out how
he has always stood for the highest pro
tective tax on cloth, hoop skirts, and
oroide watches, and favored keeping
foreign cheap articles out of the market
Then how the Yankee manufacture
will go for him, but
Out west we must lay low on tht
tariff. You must say that Horace ha.
gone back on protection, and that hi
don't care darn about it, for the west
ern fellows hate the New England
shoemakers like the devil. They
wouldn't vote for a President who
would protect manufacturers, for they
are sharp as lightning out there, apd
they know when they wear the bobts
that if they didn't pay for the protec.
ton whistle, they would come good
deal cheaper. Our western orators
must say that Horace will leave the
tariff question to Congress-for you
know well enough that ne is head and
ears for the present high tariff, and thai
when he is President he can veto any
act of Congress to repeal it. The west.
ern fellows will catch at this ambiguous
dodge, and they will go for Horace like
political sheep.
2. To the respectable old slave-own.
ers of the South, read Greeley's old
1852 editorials about Compensation te
Owners for Emancipated Slaves" but
That national slave-buying idea
would kill us with the lOld New Eng.
land Abclitionists. To them read Mr..
Greeley's defense of John Brown--his
editorials on Sharp's rifles for Kansas
slave owners-and say how he stood for
Owen Lovejoy. This will take such
as Gerrit Smith, Fred. Douglass, and
Mr.. Beecher.
8. For the old Southern Secession
lists like Alex. Stephens, JEFF. Davis and
Wade Hampton, republish Horace's
editorial, "Letthe Way0ard Sisters Go
IN Peace.u If this don't satisfy them
that our candidate is sound on Seces-
sion, read them the sentiment which
Mr.. Greeley wrote in 1860: "If any re-
spectacle number ofthe citizens of a State
desire to seceds from the Government, /
k7oac of no poa0er a0Isich can or ought to
retain them" That will satisfy any
reasonable secessionist that in case Mr..
Greeley becomes President he can walk
straight out of the Union without be-
ing troubled by such men as General
Grant
4. To the lovers of Peace say that
our candidate went to Niagara Falls to
treat with Jake Thompson and c. G.
Clay in regard to acknowledging the in
dependence of the South, and that he
came back and wrote advising Lincoln
after Harrison's Landing, to "make a
peace upon the best attainable terms -
but
To the war men talk about Mr.. Gree
ley's "On to Richmond"
5. Fool the editors into believing
that Horace is great farmer, and
Make the farmers believe that he is a
great editor. Neither will suspect the
dodge.
6. Prove to the Mormons and the
people of the Oneida Community how
our candidate was once a Foarierite, and
that he leaned toward and wrote free
loveism for years, but
To sensible married people say that
Mr.. Greeley is regularly married, and
that he can show his certificate of mar
riage at any time in the Tribune Office.
Z. To the cold water people tell the
story how our candidate lived for years
on vegetables, such as cabbage, turnips
and squashes, without a mouthful Of
meat, but
To the high livers say that everybody,
from Dean Richmond down to Lord
Gordoe, have bought him with a free
lunch, and that good beefsteak would
buy foreign ministership.
s. To orthodox religionists say oul
candidate belongs to the .Universalis'
Church, but
To the world fellows say that he
swears like trooper, and damns every
body in common conversation like 6
Flanders soldier.
9 To the officeholders say Mr.. Greeley
never declined an Office, that he has
run for Office eleven times, but has al
ways been defeated, and that he spill
off from his best friends, Weed ant
Seward, because they did not give theil
'.junior partner the New York post
Office, but
To the ''outs" say-why say Horac'
never held an Office in his life-that ht
wouldn't; but don't draw this dodg'
too strong, for they might look up hi
old letter to Seward-and--