The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1872-05-09
THE RESULT At CINCINNATI.

THE RESULT At CINCINNATI
We have dim recollection of read
ing in classic poetry Of a loud laug
that burst out among the usually digni
fed and sober gods at one time upol
the relation Of some funny incident. W
also have heard Of the red men-style'
so stole and SO enthusiastically bein;
lmpellcd by notice Of some very ridicu
lous fac, to burst out into choking Fl
Of laughter. Statesmen, soldiers, di
vines and all classes and kinds Of men
for the first time perhaps in the history
Of our country, raised a sidc-splitting
horse laugh all over the continent, When
the announcement came over the wires
that Greeley had received the nomina'
ton ut Cincinnati. He had been rep
resented for years rs q good-hearted,
well-meaning old gentleman-ccccntric,
impracticable, yet hard worker-bu,
very few had supposed it possible that
any convention could assemble in the
United States which would advance him
to the presidential candidacy. 1t was
simply ridiculous, and all laughed.
We look upon this nomination as the
browning failure OF the "liberal move
ment. Greeley, of all others, is the one
not adapted to satisfy the homogeneous
elements that have attempted to har-
monizc under the Cincinnati nomination.
Differing with the majority who were
foremost in tho so-called reform move
ment, upon the tariff question; at vari-
ancc, by his former advocacy, with the
land-g grant reformers hated by the Ger
mans for his prohibition sentiments, and
long a persistent anathematizer of the
democratic party, what kind of persua-
sive influences can bring all these ele-
ments in unison under this standard
bearery We can think of none.
Mauger the marshaled hosts Of Ad
ans, Davis and Trumbull, who loudly
called out their claims for availability,
Greeley was nominated upon the sixth
ballot, which stood as follows: Adams,
1877 Greeley, 4s2.
B. Gratz Brown, the present Cover
nor Of Missouri, was nominated for
vice-president upon the second ballot,
which was as follows: Brown 452, Ju-
Ian It's, Walker IS, Upton 3, Palmer 8.
The resolutions introduced and pass
ed werc in substance as follows:
The equality Of all men before the law,
the union of the states and no reopen
ing of the questions settled by the 18th,
14th and 18th amendments the remov-
al of the disabilities incurred in the re-
bellion; general amnesty, local self gov
eminent, the supremacy of civil over
authority, and respect for the
habeas corpus; return to the methods
Of peace; the maintenance of the con-
stitutional limit of power; the civil SER
vice reform and single term for the
presidency; a system of federal taxa
ton which shall not necessarily inter-
fere with the industry of the people, and
as there are honest and irreconcilable
differences Of opinion rs to the merits
Of the systems of protection
and free trade, that these questions be
RENTED to the people in congressional
and that the decision of con-
gress thereon be wholly free Of cxecu-
tive interference or dictation the main
tenancc of the public credit against re-
pudiation in every form, and speedy
return to specie payment; the recog-
milton of the services and sacrifices of
the soldiers and sailors, and against fur
Their grants of lands to railroads or other
in our foreign relations
the duty OF the government is to culti-
vate fricndship-desiring nothing not
right, and submitting to nothing wrong.
With such standard bearers as Gree
Icy and Brown, the "libcrals cannot
hope TO successfully cope with the sup
por.ers Of the Philadelphia nominees
and we look upon the matter as now
we'll fixed that the republican party will
larry triumphantiy the elections OF
1879.