The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-07-26

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DENT, HENRY WILSON.
While it is true that the great major
ity Of the women Of America did not
get the man of their choice as nomi-
nee for Presidential honors in the COM
ing Republican campaign, it is also true
that they have not the ghost Of a show
for political freedom in any other party.
We have not not been wanting in cour-
teous overtures Of amnesty toward our
Liberal Republican, but really illiberal
Democratic brethren, who have swal- |
lowed Greeley whole, taken possession
Of his citadel and hoisted him at the
end of their banner, from whence he
looks down upon them with self-com-
placent grimace, as much as to say:
"What an honest DEMOCRAT I am =
And when the rebel horde get me for
President, 'coIft l get my pay with
usury for all the abuse they heaped
upon me in the days Of their pet insti-
tuition, sldreyy' Isn't it a jolly joke that
they, Of all men in the world, are foist-
ing me into power? or course I'll have
to promise them Office and all that
they wouldn't vote for me if / didn't.
But then I'm such an honest man that I
can change my mind or my policy
when I please. When / go back on
my well-established principles and de-
clare, in spite Of records, that / was
never other than a steadfast Democrat,
you know they will believe me. Oh,
it's better to have a name for honesty
than-than-anything but the Presi-
dents chairr'
O tcapora, o nores!
Now, women of Oregon, let me say to
you, grid on your political armor! Old
party ties are as nothing. We have
had a general political upheaval. Grant,
a reformed, reclaimed, victorious DEM
Ocrat, at the head of the Republican
party, with a plank in his platform
upon which the women of America can
stand and sip unsalted water gruel-thC
only political sustenance ever yet ofIeret
them by any party-and Greeley, ;
renegade Republican, who has bartere'
his birthright for a mess of pottag
(which he viii never get, as leader O
the Democratic cohorts, are in the fiel
to-day, and to one or the other mus
descend the Presidential toga. The Re
publican party declares that our "dc
mand for additional rights shall
treated with respectful consideration,
General Grant has done more for won
en- than any former President, and Wi
son mot our joe says that "woman
claim to the ballot shall be respected,
while Greeley thinks it will be his dut
to turn every half-paid woman out {
Oflice-when he gets in-and that Heay
en- has commissioned him to proscrib
all women, and Brown can't see a WON
an in a Liberal Convention when sh
presents herself as delegate.
Woman Sufiragists of Oregon! nobl
men and women who work for princi
pie! two Presidential evils are befor,
you. Which do you consider the least
respectfully urge the women every.
where to form Grant and Wilson clubs
Become political managers, dear, dis
franchised friends, and when the poll.
tieians learn your real value, depend
upon it, they will appreciate you
To-day, at the head Of this column
Iraise the banner Of Grant and Wilson
and while, as usual, holding an indie
pendent position, with the right t
think, speak and act for myself, I shall
work till this campaign is over TO de
feat Horace Greeley and sexual suf
irage. And it is Il consoling reflection
that the Republican party has taEel
|. ,. Grant from the depth and mire o
Democratic decentralization and made
decent President Of him. Il is ais,
pleasant to remember that
And our Ulysses ne'er surrenderS.
A. J. DUNwAY.