Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-06-28

The view Of cue, at leas-. o. the chief orig
. ua. movers of the Cipciuns.i Convention Is Civ
ca belog IL recent editorial frcm The New
York .Nl,ioa:
Ar. Adams SCu.I have drsVu 90 his support
a. orcr "a large sai rc'FecJGhe .ui influential
body "a tae epuh.ican party. Surrounded by
then. be vcut have entered on BIS cAuvxss and
his Administration. The casiri1an OF his con-
mittee IN this sts.e would not have tesn Gen.
John CccArSne, nor his ch.oi mr'5man Ar.
theodore Ilt1u, uar the Srtt v,ce rresilent AZ
his ra;i5cstiol meeting the notorious Ben Wood
Moreover, bis appearance you'd have zen ha LED
All over The country - the siga cf real revolu-
uon IN politics, sni would for th4t reason hsve
excited real enthusiasm Ia Thousands Cf breasts
in which erthusiAsm burma deep Aud long. Lsst
OF sil. be would not have alarmed the c.pitSlists
eud business mon as Greeley do,s he would
have csrsiel them With him, almost to a mSn.
HIS very name would hSve h,ea guarantee Of
stability, order, AMI economy in the administra-
tion OF tie government, which Is whst the dnAn-
cal wori above all things decree Greeley, on
the oiher hand, as-ocistcs with even more rxs-
cally politicians, sai has more cf the hAhits ami
training ui 6 p2iilicsn h.m,eif thsn GrSnt ; be
has warmly supper ed, except the SaE Uoniugo
scheme. every Objectionable feature in the leeis-
!'iion Of ihe lsst 6escn yesrs lie is neither
revenue ref riner civil service relorIssr, nor any
other kind of rcfgrmer thst people now care
about sad ne TO uncertainty. the very wind
has. since the establishment Of the weather bu-
resu, become more reliable than he The result
is, ard the history Of the lAst month shows it, he
has not only not drawn 10 himself sny Of the re-
putahle droontent OF the republican party, but
he hiss driven it back into the ranks repentant
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az the republican North j. concerned, IN the
InAin by soreheais' AMI blsiherski.es His
great and indeed only reliance is the democrats
Of the Eorth and South, but especially Of be
South. aai ne therefore presents himself to the
republican party as simply the visible sign Of =
renewed attempt on tie part of the o.d copper
hesis and rtbes to get p0ssrts on 1f the govern
ment Nc wonder there was revival Of the
Old military tnthutissm at Philadelphia, that
the picture Of = The m on horsebAck" was let 7
down fcom the ceiling, and worshipel. with old /
camp chters. and that the Old songs Of the war
were hesrd scsn, giving vent 10 pssticns which I
every patriouc man must Wisl from bic heart /
were for ever cxtingufheI. Whist il offered Us I
to cover up this GN'Ns,ropheg Why, tae deliver
ance Of the people from the tyranny OF me elec- .
tcrsl college on the tariff question
Whst hOnest men 10 DO nov ? Well, if .
convention commits the absurdity Of raising
" the old white hat ss it's standard at Bslti-
more. the only way for republicans Of our way
of thinking TO DO is 10 choose the lefs Of two
evils, and TO vote for General Grant We eex-
pect no improvement in the administration from
him We DO not look 1T bis hands for the remov-
al Of any of the existing abuses we know Of
no answer to any Of the wsighty and ressona-
bic objections made to Lis sdministration ; but
We do know, rs near ss may he. what he will do;
we know. st lesst, the worst he vii do The
probabilities are that. the temptations connected
with denomination over, he will on many t,oints
change for the better. Moreover-and this il
the most important point Of sll-if he is re-
elected. there will he DO general Redistribution
Of offices sud 10 daan ial disturbance. What
Greeley viii 10. snd what the motley crew whom
be would lead to Washington would 10, nobody
knows.