The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1872-08-01
Masnnrn w. JaIy ealh. ls-2.

MasapTa. W., JaIy 29th isT2.
Editor y Manchester Journal
The question "wbo viii be Presi-
dent has beea decided sooner than
anyone anticipated. It cannot be con
sidcred visionary or absurd 20 believe
that. ifau election could have been
held six weeks ago Horace Greeley
would have received a majority Of the
popular votes ei the country. II has
been true. however, that from thc day
Of Greeley's nomination. to the present
whenever rank copperhead has APP
preached a Republican with a Ku-klux
smile add ava extended palm there has
been a shrinking, a fccoil, an iuyolun-
taFy and Undesirable repclliug force
felt. Audcrsonyille aud Libby have
come suddenly 10 mind, and an uneom-
Portable feeling has iuteriered with the
enjoyment Of a social hour and some
Republicans when brought TO this test
Of the correctness of their course have
followed the example Of Pat, who when
riding down avery steep hill his horse
caught the toe Of his shoe in the stirup
Pat dismounted Immediately saying,
BE jabbers if you're going to get on I'll
get or Reform is a potent word, and
very liable 10 create powerful, impul-
siye, agitation in communities or ma
tons, aud ifthe voice that rang out the
startling cry from Cincinnati had by
subsequent tones given evidence Of
sincerity its call would have been
heard and needed by millions of free
intelligent voters.
How humiliating it is for these same
free intelligent Republican, voters to
read the letter over the signature Of
j. A. Berry in the Tribune of July Goth.
Whether this silly disgusting dish was
made up in one Of the back rooms of
the Tribune building, or actually writ
ten by Berry in Arkansas none of the
voters of Vermont will care. But that
the New York Tribune has given it
place The organ and mouth piece Of
the great reform candidate. The child
of his young struggling boyhood-and
the pet Of his prosperous sturdy man
hood. The New York Tribune, the
JOURNAL that has done more to educate
Republicans in RepubIicanism than any
other two Journals in America. That
this journal should offer in form of q
letter such an apology for Arkansas
ruilians, and offer it as political capital
outrages every Republican principle,
and every intelligent voter The real
or fictitious Berry afiirms that the Ku-
klux outrages in Arkansas are myth,
but that in order to produce proper
political effect Grant leagues divide
their numbers and one part shoot the
others and charge it to Ku-klux organ
izations and this is all done to elect u
s. Grant to the Presidency in order
that the few Office holders of Woodruff
County may retain their Offices, the
most lucrative of which is $500 per
annum or about one half as much as an
ordinary hod-carrier receives for doing
cleaner work.
This letter of J. A. Berry clearly in
dictates the work laid out for the great
reform party through this Presidential
Campaign and needs only to be circula-
ted to open the eyes Of every Republi-
can in the country. / have taken the
Tribune for Is years, and take it now,
it has been my school master in Repub-
licanism, / shall not send twenty-five
cents to have it stopped as your sub
scriber did, but must hereafter look
upon it as the apologist, and supporter
of Rum" "Ku-klux,' and "let us
alone" aud read it accordingly, and as
/ have been strongly inclined to the
support Of Greeley, and reform l have
been slow to sec, and find on waking
up that the great mass of the Rcpubli-
can Party had discovered the true
issue already, and that the question Of
who will be President had already been
+ decided. +.
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H. " Iri,y OOH 1919