Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-10
Adams Out for Grant.

THE most important fact in the last
weeks history of the campaign is the
speech of Charles Francis Adams, Jr., at
Quincy, Massachusetts,, on Tuesday, in
which that gentleman denounces and
derides Greedy in lively manner, and
calls upon his friends in all parts of the
country to support Grant for reelection.
He says, among other things, that the
most gratifying sign of the times is the
evidence that we can never have an
other log-cibin and hard-cider campaign,
and that the white hat and woodchopper
machinery produces only laughter and
disgust, because the masses have out
grown their swaddling clothes and be-
come intelligent; that the question of
reconstruction has been practically set
tied, and settled right; that reconciliation
is far advanced, that the victors in the
late war have no hatred for the vanquish-
ed, and that there is no need of any more
tears or Mysteries on either side; that the
Cincinnati movement degenerated into a
burlesGue and farce, by nominating a
sturdy protectIonist as the leader in re-
form for free trade; that all the genuine
Revenue-reformers are under bonds to
their selfrespect to spurn the effort of
demag0ues to bride, mount and spur
them as jockey would use horse; that
the success of Greeley would be the utter
discontinue of all sincere reformers
and tha. the election of Grant, as the
best of an unsatisfactory alternative, is
their only hope. We copy a paragraph
of Mr.. Adams remarks as the best state
ment that has yet been made of the cam.
paign from the eLiberal-Reformers' point
| of view:
"The thing seems altogether too ridicu.
lous to be gravely stated, and yet it is abso-
lutely true. Mr.. Greeley's nomination was
wholly and ayowedly urged and justified on
the white hat,' tidal wave' and prairie fire
hypothesis; the bloody chasm' melodrams
was a somewhat fimsy afterpiece, intro
duced to cover up the awful failure of the
| Greeley is elected, our friends, the managers
will assuredy hereafter claim in triumph that
| they knew the people, and that there:
nothing like hard cider, unless it be white
| hats. Under such a dispensation, 1t will bt
| apparent that even decent outward respect
! for the reforms we advocated is, for the
| present, at least, unnecessary, and that
| political managers can indeed transfer ma
| jorities as droVers do herds of cattle. The
defeat of Mr.. Greeley, on the other hand
will go far to convince the men inside poll
tics that things utterly incongruous cannot
as yet be successfully Jumped together-thai
the rise of tidal wave and prairie fires has
some connection with a real underlying
| sense-that the people, of whom they prat,
| so much and think so little, are not mer,
| children to be pleased with a rattle anG
tickled with a straw, and, finally, that the
cast-of garments of the eminent editor are
after all, but a poor substitute fol
cardinal principles. At one time,
freely confess, l hoped for more thar
| this-far more-as the result of the present
canvas. 1 did hope that great principlei
might be greatly discussed, and that much
progress might be made, no matter wha
party achieved success, in the grand work o
educating nation. In common with many
others, was Disappointed but, if i canno
have the issue | wanted, l must needs accep
tnat which is forced upon Us. 1t is for th
canvass simply to show that we are neithc
children nor fools. For one, therefore,
shall this year again cast my vote fer Presi
dent Grant-not, alas this year, with tn,
glad confidence in which, four years ago,
cast it for General Grant; but as the mos
direct, and, indeed, only way left open TO
rebuking that species of political cant an
chicanery of which the history of the Cincin
natl movement was, in its last stage, an une
qualed example"
This vigorous utterance of Mr.. Adam
cannot but have an immense influence il
every State especially in every Western
State, where the reform movement too
root and came to blossom. His voice
for Grant without qualification, and b
regards the success of the Republical
party over cant and chicanery as absolute
ly necessary to the vindication of the mo
tives of the reformers themselves. w
need not dwell; this utterance of Adam
will go forth and stir the country like
trumpet blast.-ChicdgO Ecening Post, o.
tober 2.