The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-21
The Fun and Frolic Of the Campaign
Dash Through . Days Exchanges.


The Fan and Frolic OF the Campaign
Dash Through . Days Exchanges.
So far as the present Presidential contest has
progressed there has been exhibited SO little
bitterness Of feeling that we might almost
imagine that another edition of the second
Monroe campaign Of 1920 was before the
American people--a campaign when all was
harmony and fraternal feeling. The Convention
at Baltimore may throw in some disturbing
elements, some frebrands to revive the almost
| extinguished enbers Of sectional preiudice
| but the expectations are to the contrary. So
far, we say, everything augurs that the
Presidential campaign of this year viii be a
| jolly one. It will we think, show to the
! governments of Europe that after getting
through their local troubles the American
people are prone to fun and frolic. with
occasional interstices of seriousness, which no
will make a dash through our exchanges of
to-day and reproduce in brief what the papers
say, quoting od lib.
Western paper (anti-GranD declares that
insects rob American farmers of three hundred
millions year, and is sure that by the election
of Mr.. Greeley, with his careful regard for
American industry, the most stringent legisla-
ton against oil foreign bugs will be instituted.
The Toledo Blade Grant declares that only
in 'little Delaware" the democracy show any
consistency. The eyes of the country ''are
therefore again cast upon little Delaware"
The Blade proceeds in more serious strain:-
II Greeley shall be elected there will be end Of
the peace we have had under Grant Democrats
will demand and obtain the practical enforcement
OF their principles and all the offices.
"All the Offices seem to DO the animating
motive of all politicians.
A Southern Greeley poet vents himself in
this wise:--
The state OF Dadc has about played;
We haven't any money, but plenty OF peach and
Which we drink very freely to the health Of Horace
Greeley.
Down with the Dents for they are very big eX-
penSe,
Ana we can't afford to furnish them with board.
Let every man in Dade sharpen mp his blade,
And go into the fight shouting for what is right
Shouting for what he has made would
have made a better rhyme for blade.
A Western democratic paper, called the
NonLtecest, refers to General Grant as the
''flthy baboon" and the nations hog
terms that are regarded as ''very elevated
by an opposition contemporary.
The Council Grove (Kansas) Adyocate notices
as a significant fact that no President who re-
ceived nomination by reclamation was ever
elected. And, inasmuch as Henry Clay and
Van Buren, were nominated unanimously and
defeated, therefore Grant must be defeated,
because he was unanimously nominated at
Philadelphia.
The Utica Herald Grant declares that s'the
antagonism of Mr.. Greeley's character creates
enthusiasm against him, and produces disap-
pointment and dismay on the part Of his sup
porters;' therefore General Grant will soon
tinue four years longer the safe and judicous
ruler of the republic"
sTwo dollars day and roast beef was the
old war cry of the democracy, and Western
democratic paper says they will not this year
be contented with democratic war cry of
'.Greeley mush and watermelon
A Western man declares that he is ssfor the
man who whaled and not for the man who
bailed JEFF Davis, and another prays in regard
to Dan Voorhees, -"Oh! that some head red
devil of the Plains might gobble and scalp the
red-head devil of the Wabash
The Richmond Enquirer straight democracy
s'honestly believes that the nomination of Mr..
Greeley at Baltimore will secure the re-elec-
ton of Grant If it must be so the Enquirer
cannot help it. In the words of the ancient
Father Richie, who welded the Enquirer s
editorial sceptre with SO much vigor in the
days of jackson, discoursing at the time upon
the nomination of Martin Van Buren, as ssOld
Hickory's" SUCCESSOR nomination he did
not at first relish-''sink or swim, survive or
perish, our fortunes and our influence are
with Martin Van Buren," Some anti-demo-
cratic editors at the time compared this re-
mark to man who had thrown q rope, with
an anchor attached, around his neck, and cast
himself into the sea- But old Father Richie
lived to see Martin Van Buren, President of
the United States. What will the new En-
qirer do? ''Sink or swim, survive or perish?"
The Indianapolis Sentinel Greeley demo-
craft referring to the HERALD reporters inter-
view with the President at Long Branch, dur
ing which General Grant said that Greeley
would withdraw if he was not nominated at
Baltimore, remarks that ''Grant is building
his hopes on sandy foundation. Greeley
will be nominated at Baltimore, make the race
and be elected by an overwhelming majority.
There ia tide in the affairs of men,
Taken at the n0od, leads on to fortune.
And Greeley is on the food tide"
That Mr.. Greeley has been invited to visit
Il
an anti-Greeley sheet
| Come Mr. Greeley come to the South,
The land you have lied and relied on;
You can lower your chin and open your mouth
When your neck strains the rope you are tied on.
Mr.. Greeley has been to the South and
did not observe any signs of that rope; but
perhaps this couplet is only intended as a
dodge to ''rope in some unreconstructed
democrats