The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-03-23
Greeler for Yice.president.

The indications are daily increasing
thatno Democratic ticket will be norni.
mated for the next National campaign,
and that tho contest viii DO between Re.
publican candidates Anticipating this
shaping Of events, q movement has been
set on foot In the Eastern States TO nom.
mate Horace Greeley for Vice Presi.
dent
II theeditor Of so great newspaper as
the New York Tribune can come down
from his high position to preside over the
United States Senate, then we arc bound
to say that Mr.. Greeleys name would be
the strongest and most popular that was
ever submitted to the sufIrages OF the
people for the Vice Presidency. There Is
not q man or journal In the country but
has differed with him on some points.
This Is, in part, tue natural effect OF his
position at tho head OF Republican
newspaper which has always been q
leader rather than aiollower OF the party.
AT the same time, not q man nor journal
ever doubted Mr.. Greeley's integrity Of
purpose, his broad patriotism, his anti
slavery character, or his intent, In all that
has been said and done, TO serve the best
interests OF the whole American people.
He is known 10 the people In many capa.
cities; Us the founder and editor Of the
most widely circulated journal in the coin.
try-a journal distinctively devoted 10
the cause u free labor, and one of the
most pure in It's moral and political in.
lluenco published; as a bad political
economist; as author of u series OF works,
hastily prepared in part, but generally
popular, and all animated by the most
hopeful faith in progress, in industry, and
in the intelligence Of the people; Us Ice.
turer before agricultural fairs and ly-
ceums, which he has often Travelled thou.
sands OF miles 70 CRAFTY, at the same time
allordlDg himself the highest possible
pleasure, In becoming better acquainted
with American farmers and mechanics,
their wants, progress and opinions. In
these and other ways Mr. Greeley has
been longer and better known 10 the
American people than any other public
man now living, and yet the man who
should impugn his honesty Of purpose
would forfeit his own reputation for that
quality. Nearly every farmer and artisan
in the land has heard Mr.. Greeley "talk,"
sometimes dlscursively, but often with
great beauty and grace, as well as pith
and force. Every man knows his pistol
shot style Of writing, derived from d.
rect and unequiyocal way oil thinking, and
singularly coupled with gentle, sensi-
tive and genial tenderness. Mr.. Greeley
might address the American people, Of
whatever party, in the words Of Brutus TO
the Romans,-"Friends, countfymen, and
lovers" To say that he has friends in
every town, from the Bay of Fundy to the
Golden Gate, who would gladly work for
him in a Presidential campaign, without
the hope of reward or fear Of punishment,
Is only 70 state that his long life oil useful
ness is gratefully appreciated by those
whom he has labored 10 serve.
In New York, and for radius oil q
hundred miles around, Mr.. Greeley's pop.
ularity during the past ten years has
broadened from mere popularity among
his own party to o good will which is
irrespective OF party-such as is usually
reserved even from the best and purest
public men till they are laid in the grave.
he is nearly as popular among political
opponents in New York City and vicinity
as among members Of his own party. lie
has met and addressed them on indus.
trial, cooperative, temperance, educa-
tional, or other questions, and they re-
spect him Mr.. Grecley's name would
have talismanic power in the Eastern
States, New York, New Jersey, Penn
sylvania, and would have great popular.
ity at the South. His name would mean
that the animosities of the war are for
gotten, without forgetting any of its tri.
umphs, its heroism, or its results; that the
Federal appointments and removals arc
not 10 be national corruption fund, out
Of which Presidents to pay for his own
continuance in power; that the reform OF
the civil service from incompetency, ne.
potism, dishonesty and despotism is to be
honest and sincere %.
Whoever may be elected, a ticket upon
which Horace Greeley occupies place
will be sure to get great many votes in
the back country that nobody else can
reach. J. -