Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-09-21
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SATURDAY. SEPT. Ell, 1919.
Gveoleyi.m Lacks something.

GveeieyIxm Lacks Something.
One Of the democratic "liberal" Greeley Or
gaus, feeling much discouraged, undertakes to
point out that the canvass in behalf of Greeley
and Brown is exceedingly defective. In the first
place, the Greeley people don't look the situa-
ZION squarely in the face, and see as they should
that the republican party is very strong, while
the Greeley forces are divided in council and in
action; III the second place, the Greeley canvass
ers don't work as they should; he might explain
thai they have become demoralized by waiting
to see some great 'tidal wave" arise and do their
worS. In the third place, they lack ''daily
organ" in New York city, which is
the unkindest cut of all. There are the
Tribune, World, Sun, and several other New
York dailies, all at work with an eagerness OF
zeal which scruples at nothing; and yet they
all fail TO meet the occasion, and fail so badly
that Greeley lacks an "organ" in New York
city. Ii is Tilton, Theodore Titon, who says
all this as mournfully as if he were talking at
funeral. He thinks an "organ" such as he
dreams OF would make the democratic '1iberaP
coalition appear to be very sublime and re-
veal an astonishing depth, grandeur, and SPLEEN
dor in its principles and designs. Nobody
sees all this richness and glory, at present, be-
cause there is no "organ."
We fear that Mr.. Tilton went into the Greeley
campaign very much as he went into the bust
ness of writing the life and loves of Victoria c.
Woodhull,-a business of which he now pro-
fesses to be ashamed. He gave way to blind
impulse; he was inconsderate, hasty, land
thoughtless. Now he is beginning to think; but
he still draws on his Imagination when he talks
Of the possibility of finding grandeur, splendor,
and other glorious things in the INSCRIPTIONS
coalition which has undertaken to make Horace
Greeley president. II he will look and think
carefully he may at length discover that the
Greeley organs do not reveal the splendors
for which he signs, because there are
none TO reveal. If the democratic Glib
eraP' canvassers had principles and aims
which they could discuss with advantage to
their candidate they would give attention to
them; and if they had candidate so eminently
fit for the presidential Office that they could
eXpatiate with effect on his qualifications, they
would discuss their candidate, daily, in glowing
articles and speeches. They are sadly deficient
in both particulars What they lack is, not an
Oi-dA5 bul oohlCilllS great anu SIdilu lOt Ill
organ to talk about. How is it possible to have
'arteles written out of the depth of conviction"
where conviction does not and can not exist?
AS a rule, the "libera" democratic organs
and orators studiously avoid a free discussion
Of their candidate, They know very well that
he can not bear discussion, because everybody
understands his unftness for the presidency.
There is not a democratic paper in the country,
probably, which has not pointed out in the
strongest way the peculiariues of Mr. Greeley's
mind and character, which make him unfit for
the presidency. As for the "liberals" who as.
sist the democrats, they have not failed to talk
OF him in the same strain; not very long before
he was nominated, the Chicago Tribune, with
great force and earnestness, pointed out his I'M
fitness for any important office. These newspa-
pers now profess 10 support Mr.. Greeley; but,
if their editors should make him
special topic, and write honestly "out
of the depth of conviction" they would say
vigorously what they have all said heretofore,
namely, that he is utterly unfit to be president:
The sad, critcising Tilton ought to see that the
great lack he laments is in the candidate and
not in the organs. And it is no better when we
come to what he calls principles and designs. 2"
The only attempt, on that side, to raise an issue
for discussion, relates to the amnesty question;
but this furnishes nothing to supply what is
wanted, and can not enable any organ to do the
wondrous things Of which Mr.. Tilton talks.
Under these circumstances, the Greeley can
vassers work for success, not by advocating
their candidates "from the depth of conviction"
which is impossible, but by vilifying and cal
umniatng President Grant and prominent re-
publicans who support him. They condne
themselves to this business, because they find
it impossible to adopt any other tactics in which
they can have confidence. Such a constant flow
of INSCRIPTIONS ealumny as they have kept in
motion against President Grant, has not been
heard Of in our politics more than once or twice,
since the government was first organized.
There was something like it in the time
when John Adams was president, and
again in the time of President jackson;
but in no case have the calumniators been more
deliberate, more inscriptions, or more per-
sistent in circulating their manufactured lies
This, we suppose, is the 'lbera" method of re-
forming the civil service and introducing
higher and nobler style Of politics and political
discussion. 1t must be plain to all honest minds
that those who seek success by such means
ought to be defeated; and we feel sure that the
public opinion of the country will record judg-
ment against them, which they will be con-
strained 10 respect.