Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-05-30
why the Democratic Party Can
not IndOrse MIR. Greeley.

| ter bill has been SlSneu.
Why the Democratic Party Can
not Indorse MIR. Greeley.
From the New York World, May IT,.
The failure of the Democratic
State Convention, which closed its
session at Rochester yesterday, tc
indorse Mr.. Greeley, disappoints
and mortifes his friends, an d
"gives them pause" They regard
ed the early, and to them opportune
assembling of the Democratic Con-
vention of his own great State as a
tide which, taken at the food, would
lead on to fortune. Had the con-
vention Instructed the New York
delegation to vote for Mr.. Greeley,
it would have sent him for a short
time, on his way rejoicing to Balti-
more. They justly regarded the ac-
ton at Rochester as the turning
point of Mr.. Greeley's prospects,
and were expecting an Endorsement
whose moral influence in other
States would make him as secure of
the Baltimore as Gen. Grant is of
the Philadelphia nomination. This
seductive cup filled with flattering
fancies, has been passed to the
ground, and these ambitious dream
ers lrrecoverably spilled. The ex-
pected tide did not rise to high wa
ter mark. Its subsidence will be as
rapid as its sudden flow. and all the
remaining voyage of Mr.. Greeley,
as Presidential candidate
SIS bound in shadows and in miseries."
The most active pains had been Ia
ken to bring together body of del
egates favorable to his nomination.
Nobody needs to be told how indif-
ferent and apathetic are the mass of
voters in the selection of delegates
to State convention. This impor-
tant business is almost always aban-
doned to politicians and wire pullers,
who oftener represent their own
wishes and schemes than the will of
the people. BY the arts and activi-
| ty of such schemers, who strained
every nerve for Mr.. Greeley, there
was brought together at Rochester
quite a number of men infected with
the strange Greeley craze, and ready
to instruct the New York delegates
to vote for him. But wiser coun-
sells prevailed, and Greeley stock will
hereafter be quoted at lower figures.
Mr.. Greeley's friends, having failed
to carry the New York Democracy
by sudden stratagem and storm, as
they expected, are left to take their
chances against "that sober second
thought of the people, which is gen.
orally wise and always sfficient."
From this day forth, Greeley stock
will decline; and by the time the
Baltimore convention meets, his
nomination as the Democratic can
didate will be deemed as preposter-
Gus as every Democrat in the land
would have unhesitatingly declared
it three weeks ago.
The expectation that the Demo
cratic party will nominate Horace
Greeley (for all men y for President
is too ridiculous. All the cooler
and wiser heads of the party feel it
to be so. Even Charles Sumner
would be less Objectionable to self
respecting, thinking Democrats; for
Sumner was Democrat by origin
al instinct and early training and as
sociations. Sumner is not pro-
tcctienist; Sumner is not an ultra
champion of the paternal theory OF
government; he has not abused and
vilified every leading ond represen-
tative Democrat by wholesale per-
sonal defamation he has had, what
Mr.. Greeley has not, long experience
in practical craftsmanship he po-
seses what MIR. Greeley does not, a
wide acquaintance with foreign af-
fairs he is gentleman accustomed
to the forms of society, and fully
adequate to the social duties of any
official position; he is nota teetotal
fanatic and would not give q state
dinner, or diplomatic dinner on
purely cold water principles; he
would observe those courtesies Of
language toward gentlemen who diff
fer from him which Mr.. Greeley
habitually violates. But with all
these clear advantages over Mr.
Greeley, Charles Sumner could no
more get Democrats to vote for him
than for "the eternal devil" 1t is
said that Mr.. Greeley is honest; but
so is Sumner. 1t is claimed that Mr..
Greeley has strong hold on the
colored vote; but Sumner is alto
gether stancher zealot, for negro
rights and negro equality. AS the
Democratic party would unanimous
ly scout a propesit' on to nominate
Sumner, with what consistency could
it nominate Greeley, who, to all
Summers acrld hostility to the par
ty, superadds so many political and
personal disqualifcations.
The chief and controlling reason
why the Democratic party can not
and will not nominate Mr.. Greeley is
that, of all the public men of the
country with any kind of preten-
sions to the presidency, he is the
very furthest from representing its
principles. What Communion can
the chief apostle of protection have
with free traders or what concord
can the foremost advocate of the
bayonet election law have with its
opponents ? or what part has Gen.
tralizationist with Democrats j? or
what agreemdnt champion of
BoutwelIs policy of grinding bur-
dens for the rapid reduction of the
public debt with the advocates of
light taxes9 Why should the Dem
ocratic party be "unequally yoked
together" with one who represents
all the principles and measures it