Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1872-10-12

Mr., Greeley's standard, to save the country
as It was called, TO give us purity Of admin
istration, to put an end to fraud these men
Mr. Greeley knows very well to be mere
charlatans. He knows that he would not
trust seventy-fve per cent. Of them In any
private business whatever. And yet to obtain
that goal Of his ambition, the Presidency,
he was guilty Of the greatest piece Of polltl-
cal perfdy that has been pructlccd since the
foundation Of our Government lie made
corrupt combination with the most unscru-
pulous politicians In the country endeavored
to destroy the only party Of progress, OF re-
form, In the country; party whose annals
are respondent with deeds In behalf Of hui
manity. lie allowed bis great journal to be
prostitulod to the service Of the corrupt cabal
Of which he was made the centre. He threw
the record Of au honorable life to the dag:
abased himself In the mud and dirt Of politics
to attain his ends.
"Our cause Ia just" no tells us. Nhose
cause The cause Of the party who have for
twelve years blocked the road Of reform, who
to-day evidence their murdcrous propcnsiliCs
In Georgia and show their uuftucss for self
Government II there Is any principle ut
stake In this whole Liberal movement We
have yet to learn 1t. We have searched for
It 10 vain in the pages of Mr. Grcelcy's own
organ and have found In II only the gross
est Calumny, the most grouudlcss accusa-
tlons against every man eminent In the ser
vice Of his country. We have been told Of
Henry Wilson's alleged acknowledgement
reckless charges have been preferred against
leading Republicans, repeated and reiterated
in the face Of the most absolute and conylnc-
Ing proof Of their falslty. For six months
the Tribune has kept In Its employ gang Of
slandeTeTs and defameTs who stop short Of
nothing mean or mendaclous. Tho Que great
moral paper Of the continent was turned into
political sewer aud It's columns opened to
every anonymous coward in the country.
And In the interest OF reform, all to advance
Just cause!
The mistake that Mr.. Greeley aud bis
friends have made in all this campaign was
In undertaking the intelligence Of the people.
They imagined that the masses Of the rcpub-
lie could be led away from their firm ale
glance to the Republican party by whole
sale system OF defamation and Islander and
abuse Of It's chosen leaders. They forgot
that we arc living In 1872 and not in 1910;
that the generation educated In the late war,
living in this age of telegraphs and railroads
and newspapers, Is an entirely different qucs.
ton from that Of thirty years ago From
the beginning the character Of the coalition
that was cOnsummated at Baltimore was
thoroughly known to every man aud woman
In the country. They saw and understood
that It was hollow, treacherous, inslncere
movement, whose success would lmperll all
that We have won at so terrible a cost since
1869. They saw It's rottcnness In tho charac-
tors Of the men who engineered and brought
II into oxlstence-tho Fcntons, the McClures
aud the Cochranes and hundred others
equally as corrupt aud uuprincipled. Mr..
Greeley Is now satisfied that he has made a
great and grave mistake. The only way he
can atone for II Is to refuse to keep up the
deluslou any longer 60 back to the position
be resigned, and do what In him lies to re.
pair the mischief he has wrought.