The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1872-06-22
Il Grand INQUEST.

Elsewhere can be seen the proceedings of
the Democratic-C conservative Radical Republican
Greeley Gratz Brown Convention of Baltimore
county on Monday of this week. Hon. John
Wethered was made temporary and permanent
chairman. On taking his seat as permanent
chairman of the convention, which assembled in
the grove in front of the Smedey House, Mr..
pliment it paid him in designating him as its pre-
siding officer and said: at is generally conceded
by leading Democrats of the country that there
are not Democratic votes enough in the nation to
elect President, that be agreed with them in
this concession, that we are in the midst of a
great crisis that the Democratic party should do
the best it could under the circumstances, that
the Liberal Republicans had nominated Horace
Greeley for the Presidency and B. Gratz Brown
for the Vice Presidency, that it becomes all good
Democrats to rally around the standard of this
ticket and endorse the Liberal Republican plat
form, that he correspondent with Horace Greeley
before the war and knows him to be an honest
man, that, in the event of his election, he was
SdllSucu tuuL at l6dSt Ouc-udll VI us CdOluel
would be selected from the Democratic party"
This is singular sermon to be preached by a
Democratic apostle over the expiring remains Of
the Democratic party. 1t was an amusing scene
and yet our sympathies were excited for the
mourning friends that wept over the death-bed
Of the Democracy. Long countenances, wry
faces, sick stomacbs, fearful eyes, Sobs and sigh
ing responded to the incantations of the applica-
ton of Greeley medicine by the presiding 'pow-
wow" The sick ones knew they were sick, but
they were not altogether aware CT the nature Of
their disease nor did they know what remedy
their ailment demanded, yet they were willing to
ah Prescriptions az - anstieg n4osis4see
and horace Greeley for the rest. Thisis virtual
ly saying nothing but Republican platforms, Re-
publican candidates and Republican votes can
save the Democratic party. 1t was amusing to
see the agony occasioned in Democrats by being
forced to endorse Horace Greeley for President
when they preferred JEFF. Davis or John c. Breck-
enridge
The managers of the Democratic party of Bal
:imore county were as much afraid of this con-
vention as if ii were infected with the smallpox
They acted upon the principle that distance
lends enchantment to the view" They thought
that if they should be tainted with the infection
it might be necessary under certain circumstances
for them to 60 into quarantine before they would
be allowed good standing in the Democratic
party again. The ruling managers of the De-
mocracy studiously avoided the convention
They did not care to "assume the responsibility
of going to theState convention as Greeley men,"
They preferred ''to let the Liberal Republicans
fly their own kite" They were fearful of taking
the disease if they should come in contact with
the convention that endorsed Greeley. To them
it was a smallpox hospital. To those who made
the convention it was an inquest over the Demo
cratic corpse, and its verdict was ''ded for want
of votes" but should have been "came to its
death by too much treason