The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-08-17
Judge Kelley ON Greeleyism.

The Washington letter of the New York
Tribune of August 18th, holds the following
language in regard to Judge Kelley's ac-
ton in the present political canvass. That
species of arrogant phariseical assumption
and boasting, which forms SO marked a
feature in the speeches and letters of the
seeding Republicans who assume the title
of Reformers, and which inf1ats this Wash
ington correspondence from which we
quote, was not long in receiving the quietus
from Judge Kelleys own lips. Says the
Tribune correspondent:
"The Administration people here are in
state of great anxiety about the position
of Judge Kelley of Philadelphia in the can
vass. 1t is known that for year past Mr..
Kelley has never disguised his opinion
that Grantism would ruin the Republican
party; and in the last days of the session
of Congress he pointedly refused to be
driven into a corrupt or unconstitutional
attempt to force the ''bayonet act'' through
the House. In the face of all these facts,
the Republicans of the WITH District of
Pennsylvania renominated Mr.. Kelley
without dissenting vote; he was then and
is still in Colorado, and has not taken no.
tice of his denomination. He is known to
be in sympathy with Col. Forney in the
fight against the corrupt ring that put
HartranfL in nomination, and his silence is
worrying the Grant men beyond express
sion. They don't care to draw him out
for fear he will attack the State ticket, and
they dare not threaten to throw him over
board, because as he has not accepted their
nomination, they know he would run indie
pendently, and that he would be elected by
an overwhelming majority. This is evil
dent from the fact that on Monday last, at
a meeting of the Democratic Nominating
-Convention in Mr.. Kelley's District, sew
'eral delegates made speeches indorsing
Kelley as in sympathy with the movement
for reform, and recommending him to the
support of Democrats and Liberal Republi-
cans. 1t is safe to add Kelley to the list
with Sumner, Banks, Farnsworth, and
Gov. Blair" r..
Now see how plain tale will put these
boosters down:
One of the staff of the San Francisco
Chronicle has called upon Hon. William D..
Kelley, while the latter was in the city
named, and gives the cause Of the call, and
the result, in the paper on which he is en-
gagged, from which the following is taken.
Mr.. Kelley says:
"The result is that beginning with Gin
cinnati and civil service and other proposed
reforms as their objects, you have the whole
scheme confided to the Blair family, Fen
ton. Sloanaker, Boss Tweed, ct id omne
genus. Mr.. Greeley would of necessity be
q mere creature in their hands. With-the
Democratic party in power, the control of
the legislative branch would return to the
Democratic Congressional caucus, which
exercised it for more than quarter of a
century before the war, and forced the
rebellion upon the Southern people, and
the war and its consequent debt upon the
country. The power of this caucus, and
the. adroitness of those who secured Mr..
Greeley's. nomination, would control him
in spite of his impulses. With Frank
Blair on one side of the Executive chair to
express the wishes of the Democracy and
Senator Fenton on the other, to let him
know what the friends of civil service. rev.
enue reform, and other great moral ques-
tions desire, VINO can doubt that the worst
men in the country would manage Mr..
Greeley" .........
In response to question, the Judge said
further: Snow, do you think the CONVEX
sion of the Democratic party to the extrem-
est Republican views. as expressed and
entertained by Mr.. Greeley, is one whit
more earnest OF deep-seated than that of
our hero? Not bit of it. Or do you
think that the miracles of Balaam's ass has
been reproduced in such numbers that each
member of the Baltimore Convention be-
strobe an inspired animal on his way thith-
er? Not Bit of it. There is net one OF
them that cares about electing Horace
Greeley TO the Presidency. Their purpose
is to secure the patronage, and their hope
was to SO divide the party that they could
control the Government. But they are to
be disappointed, and 1 predict with conf
dence that the organization of the Forty
third Congress will disclose larger Re
publican majority than did that of the
Forty second. l lam sure that the Republi-
can majority from Pennsylvania will be
materially increased"
in response to a question concerning Mr..
Summers letter, Mr.. Kelly said:
"Having honored Mr.. Sumner guide
and teacher for more than iIalf my life,
could not but feel, as turned page after
page of that speech, so full of personal ha-
tired, that senility had crept prematurely
OEcT Hill. LOuS iiluCll dis L have uOH-
ored Charles Sumner, cannot believe his
statement that the late Edwin M. Stanton.
Secretary of War, told him that Grant
could not Govern this country, and that
while taking part in the last Presidential
campaign no had never introduced the
name of Grant in any of his speeches.
enjoyed many interviews with Secretary
Stanton on that subject. So early as Sep.
TENDER, 1867, he invited me from Philadel-
phia to Washington to urge upon me the
Importance OF presenting Gen. Grants
name to the people of Pennsylvania in the
then pending canvass as the future nomi-
nee of the Republican party. On the 21st
of October, 1867, few days after our
State election, addressed Grant meeting
of my neighbors, proposing him as the
next candidate, and citing Stanton in proc!
of Grants appreciation of the issues OF
the day, and his earnest conviction that no
permanent reconstruction of the country
could be had without investing the freed
men of the South with civil and political
rights, and making them part Of the
political people of the country. That was
the only written speech l ever delivered
before political meeting. And it had not
only been written, but printed, in order
that it might be submitted to Secretary
Stanton and corrected by him if necessary
before it shold 60 into print. I need not
allude to interviews had with Mr.. Stanton
after Gen. Grants Inauguration. / need
not refer to the tolerance with which he
viewed the mistakes involved in the selec-
ton of Grants Cabinet, or the earnestness
with which he said, These are small mat
ters. Trust him, trust him; he is right at
bottom. and bigger man than any of you
believe him to be- l cannot suspect him
of deliberate Justification; but these facts,
together with the earnest appeal l heard
Mr.. Stanton make to the people of Penn.
sylvanis at the great meeting in the Acad-
envy of Music, at Philadelphia, to save the
results Of the war by clecting Grant to the