The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-08-23
The Tammany Candidate.

specimen Of the style Of personal attack in
which this campaign is carried on.
The Tammany Candidate.
From the Lansing (Micb0 Republican.
Horace Greeley is now the Democratic
candidate for the Presidency, and is also
the candidate of Tammany. As such he
is to stand or fall, and as such the vo-
ters of this country, and especially that
class which has hitherto called them.
selves Liberal Republicans. are in
great measure TO decide. Himself in
the past few years disgracefully connect.
ed with the Tammany Ring, though
Hank Smith and other Tammany Office.
holders, it is too late to deny that he is
to all int ,nts and purposes no longer q
Republican or an exponent of Republi.
can ideas. If he receives the vote Of
his own State. he receives it wholly
through the Democratic party. II he
receives the vote of any Southern State
whate er, he receives it through the
exertion of former shareholders and
rebel leaders. No bettey proof of this
fact can be given than that more than
one hundred prominent rebel generals
and notorious rebel leaders were dele
gates to the late Democratic Conven.
ton at Baltimore. No stronger proof
of this fact can be given than the EN-.
phatic declarations made by prominent
colored delegates a, the Philadelphia
Convention that ait was enough for
them to know that their former task.
makers and owners were IN favor Of the
nominations at Ciucin matt, now IN.
dorsed at Baltimore. They declared
there emphatically that "Gen. Grants
little finger was more effectual in secur.
ing to them their civil and political
rights throughout the South than the
soul and body OF any other man could
be-
The Democratic party is aided by
small fraction of Republicans whose
leaders are mainly men who have held
Off ial position and made fortunes
through the votes and influence Of Re-
publicans, but who turn upon the party
because they are no longer kept in OF.
fee, or unworthy men who failed to OBJ
tain office because they were not fit.
With them they take honest Republi-
cans who are acting without delibera.
ton. These men now sit down side by
side with those whom they formerly
hated, for the purpose Of destroying the
Republican party and trampling in the
dust the men to whose votes and infiu-
ence they are indebted for the power
they have been able to exert in the past
or to promise now to the Democratic Or
ganization. This so-called "reform"
campaign, if successful, can be made
such only by the promise of the spoils
of office to those who have indorsed
this movement at baltimore and these
are notoriously the most corrupt men
that have held leading political posi-
tons in the country for the last thirty
years. The appeals will be made to
the same men who in 1868 melted the
fearful riot in New York city, quelled
alone by the power of government.
The Democratic leaders whom Gree.
ley has stigmatized as criminals,
thieves, and liars" are now the leaders
of this professed movement for reform.
In our judgment the top wave has al.
ready been reached. The rank and file
of the Republican party are not 10 be
dragged f'om their anchorage to the
support of men who now throw off the
party armor and affiliate with elements
which they have formerly fought and
professed to despise. There is no honesty
no moral sentiment, no real patriotism
in the ,ome-outers from the Republican
party who are personally urging theil
Republican neightors and friends Z
place themselves upon the record il
favor Of the Tam:nany Ring candidates
Greeley and Brown.
lfthis campaign, through the position
of men who have been trusted and hon
, ored but to turn around at this late day
like the viper, to sting us-if from thi
class of opponents it shall become BIT
, terly personal in its nature, the Reput
. lean plty and Republican principle
: are to be held blameless. It is not il
human nature to endure in silence tn
calumny and reproaches which are a
ready being heaped upon the Republ
t can party by these deskrters; an
, whatever bitterness may enter into tn
: campaign, they alone will be held n
: sponsible for it. Let every individus
? Republican voter understand from th
n start that this movement no longer hs
. claims upon him as Republican. 1T
: in the hands of the great Democrat
!. party; and the fraction of Republican
n who, without any good cause, inaug,
t ted; this movement at Cincinnati
! are swallowed up and lost, and will
: : felt in the campaign only by the init
/ ence they will attempt to exert upo
b their late comrades and political ass
). ciates. They do this with the expect
!, ton, hope, and promise of reward. IT
Il Democracy are expected. as in Il
n Union movement of 1862, to nomina
ID one or two Republican deserters upt
y their State ticket. If he will accept
y ex-Gov. Blair is their choice for Go
N ernor. This question Of expediency d
:. aonds of course unou the salary, Whet