The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-02-05
Greeley on Grant.
From the New York Tribune.l

But we further object TO the renomi-
nation OF General Grant that he is man
ifestly a weak candidate, there being
very many Republicans who will op,
pose him if renominated. That it should
be so in this State, and in any other
where his heavy hand has been laid
upon one wing OF the party which
elected him, is too plain TO need proof.
There are hundreds Of active, prominent,
influential Republicans who have been
expelled from office 10y him, or his
instruments, and who cannot, in the
nature Of things, work for his re-elec.
ton as they would work for one who
had never treated them as enemies.
Who doubts that it is so in other States?
Who believes that he could carry
Louisi ana after the Gatling gun per-
formances OF last summer, engineered
in part bv the brother.in-law who holds
the best Federal Office in that State ?
We speak to sensible men, and demand
an intelligent judgment on the un.
doubted facts.
Four or five years ago the Repnbli.
cans carried Georgia 10y ma jority OF
5000. That majority has been squan-
dercd by mercenary, corrupt officials,
some of whom have had the deccncy 10
run away, and who have ruined the
party's prospects almost beyond re-
demption. But though there is but the
skeleton Of a party, there is still State
committee; and that committee gets
together, elects to Philadelphia del
egation composed mainly of lis own
members, and pledges them to Grant,
first, last and all the time," well
knowing that they can no more give
him an electoral vote from Georgia
than they can make him Pope. Con
trast this with Connecticut, where the
Republicans meet in convention, nomi-
nate State ticket, and choose dele.
gates TO Philadelphia, taking care not
to pledge them TO Grant. Can you ask
why2 They want 10 carry their State
in April, and know that the way TO do
it s not 10 nominate Grant.
Now look at the case OF Missouri
The st. Louis Democrat, having turned
its coat since 1870, now belittles the
liberal movement, saying that it is OF
no accnunt; and the Times echoes it, OF
course. But the men who led that
movement TO victory were Carl Schurz,
Gratz Brown, Grosvenor, &c, and not
one of these is for Grant. On the
contrary, they are all dead against
him. The Times says they only led
twenty-five thousand Republicans IN
1870. We answer, they led of
enough to carry the State by
over forty Thousand majority. Perhaps
enough OF these have come lack to re-
verse that verdict; but we know that
there are thousands OF them who would
vote for another Republican candidate,
but will not vote for General Grant
And there il scarcely a nearly balanced
State in the Union wherein General
Grant is not weaker candidate than
almost any other Republican who could
be nOmln ated.
We state facts well known to intelli.
gent politicians. We DO not say that
General Grant will not, il nominated, be
elected; we do not say we shall not
support him; we do say that his nomi.
nation renders doubtful Republican
triumph which, with n new candidate,
publicly pledged to the one.tcrm princi-
pie, would be morally certain. And
this is 50 palpabIe, that thoughtful
Republicans, who consider the cause
more than any man, are bound to con-
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