The weekly clarion., 1872-09-12
Tl.e Farce a. LeuIssklle


The Farce at Ieosafsxfale- -
The most complete farce ii the hes
was the Louisville Conveas jon Of I'Iayed-
Outs who met under the patronage. of
Grant to nominate third candidate in
the hope that j. vi uld Withdraw q sgftii-
cient support From GsresIsy 10 sscsheSAis
re-eleotia4ls Elss kisnxe17iion- 80 E.al-
pably Grant ac0nee IN s1hats the whnle
country felt it and knew 1t before it as
sembled As the Louisville Ledger re-
marks the auin1ns of the body was
desire to select Grant. This nobody she
came IN contact with the delegates can
doubt Protesting to be Democrats, the
ruling passion was hostility to Demeerar
cy. The defeat Of Hendricks, aad Kerr
and Voorhees, with their associates in
Indiana, and Of the Democratic ticket in
Pennsylvania, was the ruling desire This
accomplished, they said the defeat of
Greeley would follow as a natural se-
quence. There was scarcely an attempt
to disguise the cordial cooperation be-
tween the Grant ! adicals and the Con-
yention. Leading Radicals dispensed
! tickets Of admission, and manipulated on
I the outside and on the inside. Occasion
ally there would be an effort TO throw q
veil over this fact, but it was too thin.
The animus was utt rly transparent
I through the gauze. The proceedings ta-
ken altogether were very much like the
boy learning TO swim, who, before he had
learned well to ride the waves, insisted
on an experiment in diving. Tucking
his head under water, he could neither
get that up again nor the other end down
Consequently showed to bad adyant-
age"
These wretohed tools of Grant nomi.
mated CIlas. O'Connor for the Presiden-
'. cy who, while encouraging their treach-
cry in a strange freak which his friends
have not been able to account for, had
the good sense to decline the nomination;
and they adjourned without making
another, in a state Of complete demorali-
zation. For the Presidency they
nominated John q. Adams, who never
was Of the household of the faithful,
aud who lent himself to their purposes
from spite to Mr.. Greeley and the Lib
eral Republicans because his father,
Charles Francis, was not nominated at
Cincinnati.
Tho Platform is well enough in its
way, but 1t is stupidity antedeIuvian
conception, which contains no fundamen-
tai principle that is not better expressed
ia the Cincinnati Platform, and which
pretermits any expression whatever W on
the real issues Of the day.
The actors in. this dismal farce were a
company Of bankrupt politicians who have
been turned out to grass by the people,
and notoriety seekers who were willing to
play the parts assigned them for the de
| light Of cutting a figure for time be
fore the ublic eye
sons OF a day just buoyant on the flood.
Fhen numbered with the puppies ia the
mud.
As to Mississippi, the supporters of
Greeley and Brown elsewhere may rest
assured that whether the farce shall 90
on to the end of the chapter, or whether
the curtain has fallen forever upon it,
with the termination of the first act at
Lousville-it will be all the same. The
opposers of Grantism have seen that the
affair was device of the Administration
whose overthrow they are striving to ac-
complish above all things; and that even
if it had been gotten up in good faith,
there is nothing in it. They have not
strength enough to organize an electoral
ticket in Mississippi, and if they had, it
could not command fifty votes out of the
eightY-ive thousand which are confident
" relied upon for Horace Greeley, whose
candidacy presents the only hope of de-
liverrnce from the terrors of Radical mis-
rule.