The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-09-26


praise the patriotism and the lofty princi
Die of Republicans who are striving for ;
Democratic victory, then cry, Stboy !an6
relapse into a smiling silence. Wha
a profound faith in the goodness OF Prov
| idence Senator Thurman must have hao
at Columbus, Ohio, when he introduced
Senator Trumbull as the chief advocate
of Democratic triumph
Maine, too, was filled with orators o.
the same kind. There were what were
called Liberal Republican meetings, al
which the crimes of the Republican
party and candidates, and the virtues Oh
| the Democratic candidates, were amply
set forth But although the unfortunate
Mr.. Doolittle, the President of the Demo
| cratic National Convention, was first In
the field, he was generally reinforced by
the allies. There have been some small
Democratic ward meetings in the city OF
| New York and elsewhere. But it is evil
| dent that the preposterous character OF
the campaign has weighed upon the DEM
ocratic heart There is an awful suspi-
cion that the last card desperately played
has already failed, and that whatever
may have been the kindliness of feeling
and good humor with which Mr.. Horace
Greeley was regarded by certain persons
in the country, that feeling is very differ
ent from desire to restore the Demo-
as President.
The Democratic passivity in the cam
paign is most suggestive. 1t shows the
consciousness of the party that nobody
believes in its conversion, and its unwil-
lingness to insist upon an absurdity. The
instant it nominated Mr.. Greeley upon a
platform intended to be one of reform, it's
guns were spiked. What could Demo-
cratic orator say about Mr.. Greeley?
Which had changed? Yesterday he was
rating the Democratic party as rebel at
the core, and as attracting all the ignorant
and vicious classes in the community.
To day he is its candidate. Has the party
ceased to be rebel, ignorant, and vicious,
or has Mr.. Greeley changed his opinion
of it? The alternative was equally hope
less. If the party orators should say that
Mr.. Greeley was supported not as Re-
publican, but as reformer, the necessary
corollary, that the Democratic party is
the party of reform, would have shaken
the continent with laughter.
Having nominated Mr. Greeley, nothing
could be said upon the stump of what the
Democratic party calls its principles, be-
cause it's candidate is the most conspicu-
Gus opponent of every one CT them. Moth
ing could be said of its history, for it is
CHASTITY. Nothing could be said of its
chief leaders, because the candidate had
denounced them There could be no
abuse of Republicans, because the candi-
date had declared himself more than ever
Republican. There could be no de
nunciation of Republican measures,
because those which Democrats consider
most offensive are those which their can
didate had most warmly advocated. In
deed, the position was SO ridiculous that
nothing remained butsilence, and aformal
and feeble echo of the personal ISLANDERS
of the President, and of the demand of
Mr.. Fenton, Mr.. Mcclure, General Banks,
and General Cochrane of civil service re-
FORM
Ex-senator Hendricks, indeed, the
Democratic candidate for Governor of
Indiana, has been stumping his State
but as a rule the Democrats have been
strangely quiet. eff we are to elect the
candidate" they seem to say to their al
lies, "you must carry on the campaign. "
But in the Southern States it is very diff
ferent. The Greeley meetings there are
Democratic meetings, and the orators are
Democrats. And there, as we have
hitherto shown, the real significance of
the Greeley movement is developed 1t
is the overthrow of the Republican party
and recovery for the Southern States of
all that can be recovered In the North
ern States the Liberal Republicans con-
duct the campaign by denouncing the
dishonesty of the Administration. In the
Southern States the Democrats declare
that in Mr.. Greeley's election "there is a
CLEAN Of hope" for the overthrow of
equal suffrage. He must be a very fool
ish or very angry man who sees in such
situation hope for greater prosperity
and truer harmony.
1t was natural that the course of the
campaign should be just what it has
been. At the close of every Administra-
| ton there is always great disappointment,
| and discomfort of all kinds, honest and
| dishonest 1t CHANGED, moreover, that
| at this time there were three or four Re
| publican leaders who were alienated from
| the Executive. The Republican discon-
| tent and the Democratic desperation offer
ed an opportunity for bold stroke. The
| cry of reform, always attractive, was
| loudly raised, and the Cincinnati Conven.
ton met. Some of its supporters, in a
kind of ecstasy, supposed that the ideal
hour of politics had arrived. But when
the rosy cloud vanished, the situation
was clear and the alternative simple, fo1
it was merely a question of Democratic
restoration. Forced to a decision, the
| ideal discomfort that went to Cincinnati
prefers General Grant and Republican
ascendency to Mr.. Greeley with the North
ern and Southern Democrats and the class
of Republicans who still cling to him.
The hurrah of the Greeley nomination
| the surprise of the Baltimore action, the
impulse to run for luck" have disap
peared before the steady question, Is il
wise to intrust the Government to those
who, as party, have made the Demo
cratic record of the last twenty years?-
Ha7per's Weekly.