St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1872-05-10

dtlon OF such men a. ilNGh Allhl. an
gers well for the Portland and O"dem>-
burg Railroad enterprise.
The Spoiled Horn"
When Mr.. Samuel BowlcS telegraph
ed from Cincinnati I" his paper on last
"Wednesday that it WAS vet uncertain
OF spoil IL h"ln. he evidently had u
lremonitiun of the final result. How
ever that may he. all our readers have
heard before this that Horace Greeley
was nominated Ton President on the
sixth ballot hN the >o-callcd Liberal
Republican Convention of Cincinnati.
This result was unexpected to the
country. and We hclicNc just ~ much
50 to the convention. The Liberal Re
puhlicans went t" Cincinnati 1" n"ml-
nate Il statesman fnI the presidential
chair. This was the rallying cry OF the
diSaffectcd, from Carl SchulI down.
They did not want Il politician. they
did not want Il soldier they wanted u
statesman. one of broad Views. culture.
talents. weight. Had they nominated
Charles Francis Adams. ~ they came
near doing. nr Lyman Trumhull. they
would have achieved what they sought.
Whether either could have been elect
eel we have doubts. But ton Il comNcn-
tion with such ambition and aim t."
finally nominate Horace Greeley. was
descending Ia the ridiculous at one
bound. The Ho>ton .IoHH0I puts this
thing tOrcillN and truly when it say : ::
Nh Greeley i Il great editor. OF couI>c {:
and perhaps re shall he paidoncd if We
regard til>t rate editor ~ the equal of
Il iir>t-Iatc statesman. But the terms
as distinct a> tho>, at II music cnmpn>,I
and an engineer. OI IN artist and Il gcIi
cIal In fact. there i little 81 nothing
IN common between them. Now of all
the editors in this country. there i
none that can beat MI. tircclcN in utter
unlikemr>> to the ~tatc>manlIkc clpacl-
" and character. Imagine him the
centre of the intriguing politicians of
the whole Mon: likely to fancy him
self aS closely connected with all pub
lie measures H. he i NOW with all pub
lie topics IN the IjibHnc office: with
power To affect for veal uI toI woe. not
only the network of our business affairs.
but ON delicate relations with foreign
countries "A bull ia II china shop" i
not figure nearly ~tron" enough to cx-
press the popular dread of such result
How Mr.. Greeley was nominated. i
evident from the account which We give
of the votes taken. and the full extracts
published rl>ew here. He l. in favor
with cN-rehclS, as strange H. it may
seem and he is popular in the north 10y
reason of his many good qualities of
head and heart. But it seems Ia It's
and it will he seen that the impression
Is vide spread that Horace Greeley i
about aS Impractical. cr"tchrty. and M
safe a man a> could hc thnught of in
connection with that office Not that
he isn't Il yleat. and fnr augh We know
an honest man hut a> Mrs LivcImorc
would say. the presidency is not H. g :
sphere"
What are his chances of election We
seem to hear asked. That depends
There are many minds ON this question.
II the democratic convention accept
him is THEN candidate if the south.
white and black. support HIM heartily
If the Irish vote concentrates upon
him-if Schurz carries Il large part of
the German vote for Greeley all these
and other IFS" come up. We give cx-
tracts from I'LL parties and I'LL CLASSES in
the Fdied0Hian to-day: and Vet most
seem to hc waitin" Ia see what the two
regular" conventions will do: and
whether the democracy can swallow 81
bitter Il do>c H. Horace Greeley II
seems highly probable. however. that
Cincinnati spoiled horn" and made
i first class tiZzlc of what might under
other circumstances have proved a sue
"e>>tul convention.