The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1872-05-30
BALTIMORE NATIONAL CONVENTION.

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BALTIMORE NATIONAL CONVENTION.
We have never had doubt in our mind
that the Greeley bubble, which has furried
the popular mind for several weeks past,
would collapse, like puncturcd bladder, as
soon as the common sense of the people took
hold OF the matter, and the Democratic Con-
vention acted We are confirmed the more
in this conclusion, as We witness the dissatis-
faction daily developing itself in the North
and West, among Democrats and Liberal Re
publicans and Reformers. Where Mr. Gree
ley would draw Que vote from the regular
organization Of the Republican party, he
would lose ten from the Democratic party, in
the North In the West the German vote
would go almost soIidly against him. So that
there is no probability, nay possibility, of
bis carrying single Northern or Western
State.
In the South, there seems to have been
spasmodic Juror created for him, incxplcable
to US upon any theory of ratiocination. There
is nothing in his history as public man in
consequence with the ideas or interests Of our
people. His whole life has been an agrees
sive warfare Of the EXTREMIST and most fanaii-
cal KIDD, against us. Aud BOW for the people
OF this section TO deliberately hug til their
boscms the very viper that has stung them
a mass of INDUSTRIOUS political aud moral Idle
syncrasies-is the mcst anamolous proposition
that ever emanaied from the diseased brain
Of an enthusiast
The Democratic party fully comprchends
one-halfthe voting population of this country.
when fairly developed Why should they b.
guilty. Of the wild folly of destroying their
organization-uow more compact than ever,
if under homogeneous and trusted leaders
by reversing their lifelong convictions
splitting upon the ideas which have ever gov
erned them-and following after such ar
aynis .tatuus as the Cincinnati Convention.
represented BY Horace Greeley.
A solution Of the strange and mixed con-
ditio9sof the popular mind is within the reach
and power ofthe Democratic Convention, ap-
pointed to assemble in Baltimore on the 9th
Of July Let that body nominate such men
as Charles Francis Adams, of Massachusetts,
and William Groesbeck, of Ohio, as its can
didates for President and Vice President, and
to it the Liberal Reform and Democratic ele-
ments of the country would rush with calm
discrimination, and eniyened ardor that would
give an earnest Of success.
This would be ticket upon which tie
conservative sentiment of the country could
repose with nfdence-Libera Reforme.s
and Democrats. Mr. Greeley would go to
where he properly belongs, the Philadelphia
Convention. Those of the Liberal Republi-
can movement who are really in earnest, would
cheerluly rally around Adams and Groesbeck
Those who are merely seeking an avenue to
the spoiis, could go whittier they might list
We have not the space this morning to
properly elaborate and present the ideas and
arguments to sustain this suggestion. They
are many and irresistible, and will be arranged
hereafter.
Appropriate to the general thought which
We have suggested. we append the following
truthful and pregnant paragraph from the
New York Journal of Commerce, temperate
free trade journal:
"The democratic party is great party; not
dislntegrated as many represent it, not even
divided in its ranks as many fondly believe.
1t represents to-day, at the least estimate.
nearly a full half Of the voting population of
CT tie country. But it has no leaders whom
it trusts. It's assumed guides have so led it
ast;av, have been so selfish and wrong headed,
have become so corrupt, that it will not move
forward or make any concerted action at their
bidding. The members of this organization
are to-day the most Independent body of
voters il the country They do not trust to
any leaders, net because they are greatly d.
vided in opinion as to the right, but because
the men who clamor for their following have
gone toolishiy astray, and often msled or be-
tr..yed them. The real strength Of the party
is very likely to be represented by minor
ity at Baltimore"
BEAUTY AND BooTY.-Let it be rcmem-
bered that Horace Greeley endorsed the IN.