Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-09-26
The Progress of the Campaign.

THE process of pulling the politica
chesnuts from the fire is very amusing.
There is great and incessant activity. On
all sides the voice of the orator is heard in
the land. But the remarkable fact is that
the Democrats are generally silent. They
have left the main work to be done by the
gentlemen who call themselves Liberal Re-
publicans, and who have zealously devoted
themselves to defeating the Republican
nominations in North Carolina, Vermont
and Maine. Democrats figure as Presi-
dents and Vice Presidents of the meet
ings. They introduce the orators, they
praise the patriotism and the lofty princi-
pie of Republicans who are striving for a
Democratic victory, then cry, S'tboy and
relapse into a smiling silence. What
! a profound faith in the goodness of Prov
idence Senator Thurman must have had
at Columbus, Ohio, when he introduced
Senator Trumbull as the chief advocate
of Democratic triumph!
Maine, too, was filled with orators of
the same kind. There were what were
called Liberal Republican meetings, at
which the crimes of the Republican
party and candidates, and the virtues of
the Democratic candidates, were amply
set forth. But although the unfortunate
Mr.. Doolittle, the President of the Demo-
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the field, he was generally reinforced by
the allies. There have been some small
| Democratic ward meetings in the city of
New York and elsewhere. But it is evil
dent that the preposterous character of
the campaign has weighed upon the DEM
ocratic heart There is an awful suspi-
cion that the last card desperately played
has already failed, and that whatever
may have been the kindliness of feeling
and good humor with which Mr.. Horace
Greeley was regarded by certain persons
in the country, that feeling is very differ
ent from desire to restore the Demo
cratic party to power by voting for him
as President.
The Democratic passivity in the cam
paign is most suggestive. 1t shows the
consciousness of the party that nobody
believes in its conversion, and its unwil-
lingness to insist upon an absurdity. The
instant it nominated Mr.. Greeley upon a
platform intended to be one of reform, its
guns were spiked. What could Demo
cratic orator say about Mr.. Greeley?
Which had changed? Yesterday he was
rating the Democratic party as rebel at
the core, and as attracting all the ignorant
and vicious classes in the community
day he is its candidate Has the party
ceased to be rebel, ignorant, and vicious,
or has Mr.. Greeley changed his opinion
of it? The alternative was equally hope
less. If the party orators should say that
Mr.. Greeley was supported not as a Re-
publican, but as reformer, the necessary
corollary, that the Democratic party is
the party of reform, would have shaken
the continent with laughter.
Having nominated Mr. Greeley, nothing
could be said upon the stump of what the
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cause it's candidate is the most conspicu-
Gus opponent of every one cfthem. Moth
ing could be said of its history, for it rs
chastity Nothing could be said of its
chief leaders, because the candidate had
denounced them. There could be no
abuse of Republicans, because the candi-
date had declared himself more than ever