Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-07-27
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TIE GREELEY BARGAIN.

cannot ,Anord TO be silent on the exposure BY
the Bmshamton Republican of the negotia.
tons relating to Mr.. Greeley and the demo.
cratic nomination, and the Tribune promptly
'leads OF in reply this morning. We give it
the benefit of its defence BY copying its
article, and though we do so purely as q mat
ter of fairness, it is just the thing, we know,
that 1t willnot in the least thank us for do
ing. "Flapdoddle, that paper is fond o!
saying, sis the stuff they feed tools on" The
Tribune's latest dish Of it Is the article in
question, and it is ''fapdoddle" of the
thinnest sort to be sure. lts readers, Il will
be remembered, have never seen either the
charges or the evidence Of the Binghamton
paper, and this article, therefore, it is assum-
ed will satisfy them. But anybody who has
read what we have from time to time publish.
ed in relation to the matter will see that the
Tribune's explanation carefully avoids the
points in controversy. To its own readers
| the Tribune may seem TO have replied on
| these points, but our readers will see that it
very carefully keeps out of their way.
The essential points at issue are these
Whose candidate Is Mr. Greeley, and how
came he to be the candidate Of any party?
The Binghamton exposure shows that he is
primarily the candidate of the democratic
party; that interviews and correspondence en-
sued to that end, beginning nine months ago,
and continuing for several months, in which
| were involved, on the part Of the democratic
| party, Horatio Seymour and Lewis Car
michael, prominent and influential demo-
| crat of Unadilla, and on the part of Mr..
Greeley, Mr.. Greeley himself, Rueben E. Fen
ton and Waldo Hutchins that an essential
part of that plan was that Mr.. Greeley should
be first nominated at Cincinnati, to give him
the eelat Of being reform candidate, and
hat %ho l,,et oh ho vx1a al
into the eyes of republicans; that the pre-
liminaries to this plan were concocted
between Carmichael and Greeley; that SUBJ
seQuent negotiations were carried on between
Seymour and Hutchins, the two most astute,
careful and reticent politicians to be found in
| the two parties, one Of them-Hutchins-
| ing the only trustworthy and respectable
friend that Greeley has about him, and the
man who for some years past has had
| Greeley's political conscience $50 far as he
can be said to have any in his keeping; that
the terms Of this negotiation the contracting
parties kept to themselves, but they were, OF
course, satisfactory, inasmuch as we have the
evidence both of their existence and their
character in the fulfilment of preliminaries in
the nomination Of Greeley both at Cincinnati
and Baltimore that the nature of the sub.
sequent terms of the bargain may be con-
| jectured from the discussion, in the course of
| the negotiations, Of the proposals to give
pensions to rebel soldiers, and the strong prob.
| ability there is that Hutchins, in his skilful
| manipulation of the Cincinnati Convention,
used this argument successfully with the south
ern delegates to whom Greeley owed his nom.
nation and that, finally, here 10 the strong
est possible chain of circumstantial evidence
to prove that Greeley, through his friends,
Hutchins and Fenton-the latter coming in as
a sort Of anxious cSri9-made a corrupt and
disgraceful bargain with certain democrats in
consideration of which he was to receive-as
he has received-the democratic nomination
at Baltimore. and the support, so far as that
could be promised or Influenced, of the DEM
ocratic party.
Now we beg the reader to turn TO the Tri-
Dunes article on the first page and see how it
answers these allegations.
l. 1t declares that Mr.. Greeley never agreed
in case he should be chosen President, to
make Mr.. Seymour Secretary of State. Who
said he did? The precise terms of the bar
gain nobody pretends to know.
II. A most truculent proclamation that Mr..
! Greeley never wrote to anybody about the
Presidency unless first written to; that he
never asked anybody to see Seymour or any
body else to win such persons support; that
he never named himself when asked who
should be the candidate against Grant; that
he never in, tied any one TO visit him to
confer on the subject of the Presidency
all of which may be perfectly true without in
the slightest degree weakening the force of
the Binghamton exposure. The braggart
tone, therefore, in which all the world is
challenged to produce any letters from Gree
ley of any other purport than that here
indicated is the most transparent evasion
of the whole question at issue. Not
one word, it will be observed, is there about
Carmichael not one word about Waldo
Hutchins; not one word of discussion of a
democratic nomination by a reform conven-
ton; not one word of talk about pensions to
rebel soldiers; not one word Of the particu-
lar letters enumerated by dates of cores
dence between Carmichael and Seymour,
on the one hand, and Greeley and Hutchins
and Fenton on the other. We repeat, this
| SOFT of thing may serve with Tribune read
ers, who are not permitted, so far as that
paper is concerned, to know what is in
controversy; but it will not answer for the
outside public, who understand the charge
to be that Mr.. Greeley's nomination is the
result of bargain with the democrats, and
that whoever votes for him votes for the
contamination of that bargain, as well as
for a man weak enough or wicked enough
whichever you please-to propose to re.
store the democratic party to power that he
may crafty his insane craving to be in
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