The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1872-07-16

ENDORSED BY THE DEMOCRATIC MA.
TIoNAL CONVENTION.
1t has been done. Greeley and
Brown were nominated by the Balti
more Convention, on the first ballot
The Democracy have swallowed Hor
ace, soul, body, breeches and old white
hat. One of the most common re.
marks We have heard since the nomi-
nation, by members of both parties, is
the exclamation point expressed in
words, thus: at beats the d-lp
And about as near rs we can find out,
that expression defines the feeling OF
most voters, Democratic and Republi-
can, throughout the land. That it
cheats the d." is generally con.
ceded but if the succotash party ex-
pect it to beat Grant, we are afraid
they are building upon the sand, and
that when the floods of November
come, and'the fall rains descend and
beat upon that house, it will fall, and
great will be the fall of it.
Horace Greeley has been big man
in the Republican party, and has writ
ten much and we'll against the Democ-
racy; and, moreover, has said meaner
things of them than most other editors
of prominent papers could think Of
But behold the magnanimity of the
deluded Democracy kissing the hand
that has become calloused shifting
them And Horace-receiving their
worship with as much pride, apparent.
ly, as if it came from parties he had
always commended, instead of those
whom he has spent the best years of
his life in villifying, abusing and ex-
posing! Alas for consistency Alas
for the Democracy Alas for Horace
He has been laboring assiduously for
the past two years to convince the Re-
publican party that the one term prin-
ciple is the correct thing, and that the
Farmer of Charpaqua is the right man
to occupy the White House next term,
He has piped unto them, and they
have not danced; he has mourned un-
to them and they have not lamented.
Ii. G. is not their choice and they re-
fuse to bow the knee to this Baal COT
Cotton; regarding him as the choice
of the South).
Shakespeare says that "man in his
life plays many parts" This is true
of Horace. He is now engaged as the
principal character in q broad farce.
The last scene will take place in No
vember, and Horace will make his
exit, sans Office, sans influence, sans
honor, sans everything for which he
was once respected.
We cannot help asking, "Is Horace
Greeley honest?" But now that he is
at the feet of Democracy, begging for
political aid in his work of rule OF ru-
in, doing his best to prove that his past
life has been a miserable sham, a ca
recr of deceit and hypocrisy, in the in
ter.st of his free-trade friends, let us
permit Horace to speak for himself,
lest our words might Go him injustice.
Speaking of the Democratic party and
its policy, he not long ago paid it the
following compliment:
"Point whenever you please to an
election district which you will pro-
nounce morally rotten-given up in
great part 20 debauchery and vice
and that district will be found at near
ly or every election to give a large
majority for that which styles itself
the Democratic party. *
Take all the haunts of debauchery
in the land and you will find nine
tenths Of their master-spirits active
participants of that same Democracy.
"May it be written on my grave that
| never was its follower, and lived and
died in nothing its debtor"
Was he honest then? If he was, he
is dishonest now. The Democratic
patty has not changed, for the same
element rules it to-day that ruled it
when Greeley wrote the above. But
Horace is not himself. He has caught
that terrible malady which has car
ried so many leading men to untimely
grayes-the presidential fever. He
has very severe attack it has turn
ed his brain, and out of charity we are
willing to forget the wrong he has done
his party, and leave to his own con-
science the future realization of the