Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-10-30
THE APPLICATION OF THIS TExT.

4 Horace Greeley was nominated for President
at Cincinnati in May last. He knew, and you
knew, and l Enew, and we all knew that the
nomination WAS not worth a six-eence unless
! it WAS followed by the Democratic nomination
at Baltimore, and therefore Mr.. Greeley sci
/ himself atwork industriously from the hour he
! received the nomination to secure the popular
! approval Of the Democratic convention that
was to assemble at Baltimore; ard the letter
that he wrote accepting the Cincinnati nomi-
nation was nothing in the world lut a cun-
| ningly framed bid for the nemocrat tic nomina-
ton at Baltimore, and cunningly framed bid
fos the support OF
THE VERY WORST WING OF THE DEMOCRAT c
PARTY.
because it was understood in Washington last
wlnter-Where political Iumors do congrega te,
! as 1t has slnce been stated in the New
| York Tribune thet the hope of success in this
years campaign-was united south to start
with-123 electoral vptes-and therefore
Greeley put himself in the way of bidding for
| and receiving the support of the southero
wing, the rebel wing, of the Democratic part
! the unrepentant wing; and his letter of ac5
| ceptance of the Cincinnati nomination YVES
made to tickle and please the Democrats who
1t was understood were to be placed in the
vanguard at Ba timore, and | malnt ain tha he
deliberately agreed to surrender the entire
doctrine and protection of the ourteert th
amendment il they would agree to give him
their votes for the presi iency. Don't take my
word for it.
want to
CONVICT HIM OUT OF HIS OWN MOUTH.
Now here is the first paragraph in Greeey's
letter accepting the Cincinnati nomination i:
and [ take that it is a legitimate edition, for
cut it myself from Theodore Tilton- Woodhulrs
Golden Age Now here is what Greeley saws:
THAT subject to our constitutional obliga-
tions to maintain the equal rights OF all citi-
zens our policy is to aim at local seIf-oovern-
ment, aud not at Capitalization" Indeed,
Horace! The verv catch-words of the Ku-
Klux-Klan; the very identical words that had
been nailed at the mastheads of all the rebel
sheets in the southern states but lest that
might not be sufficiently plain and perspicu-
Gus, hear what he says further; he saws ::
g And there SHALL be no federal subvevsion OF
the internal policy of the several states" ETC.
Now observe, he is talking about personal
rights, and there shall be no federal subver-
sion of what any state may deem and prescribe
as the best modes of enforcing those rights
Thus, if you go down to South Carolina and
they take fancy to hack, MAIN, and quarter
you, you must not think of appealing to the
federal courts to protect you, for that would
be tramphng on
THE SACRED DOCTRINE OF LOCAL SELF GOVERN
MENT.
And that it is precisely the same ground and
precisely the same remedy for personal rights
in the southern states that Horace Greeley in
that Cincinnati letter agrees to hand YOU and
me over to- and therefore charge Mr. Greelev.
and charge him upon the words that are out
of his own mouth that he agreed and offered,
for democratic support to abandon and sac l.
fee the great guarantee OF the Fourteenth
amendment to the constitution and to throw
citizenship under it to tbs southern dogs to be
eaten.
THAT CINCINNATI CONVENTION
that have referred to was very remarkable
hody. You remember that Convention as
sembled pursuant to a call issued by several
DISCONTINUED r publicans, who said that tnny
would not endure the revenue policy OF the
Republican party /; they were bent on having
free trade or revenue reform, and they called
convention for that purpose, aud the conven-
ton assembled in Cincinnati on the 1st of May
| last, aud want youto bear in mind that that
| convention was called expressly and directly
/ s A FREE-TRADE CONVENTION;
/ that was the object of the call, plainly and
undoubtedly expressed, and the convention
! assembled in pursuance of that call wc4nd
up, after three days of lucubra ton and aglta-
ton, by nominating the highest protective
/ tariff man i'll the United States.
! Somebody was cheated and somebody did
| the cheating, and the question was to find out
| just who it was that did the cheating and
! just who it was that got cheated. But pretty
! soon the most respectable portion of that con-
! vention
/ BEGAN TO TURN
/ and we got pretty fair narrative OF just ths
wav the ting was done, and come to cut 1t
! down we found there was a telegraph wire
| leading from the New York Tribune office
| right into Cincinnati. Horace Greeley was at
! the Tribune end ard Whitelaw Reid at the
! Cincinnati end Frank Blair was general
whipper-in at the Cincinnati end, Reuben E..
Fenton pulled the two strings outside and this
| unnatural and extraordinary anomaly was
! pr sented of a rec trade convention nomlnat-
! ing a high protective tariff man.
| Now, do you know how they did it, or rather
/ how they thought they did it They agreed 1t
/ was absurd. that tn re must be some sort Of a
! compr ONT e. or adjustment made to save them
/ from being laughed aC and therefore they hit
upon this happy expeiient, that although
| they ass mbled as eetTade convention,
| and although Horace Greeley was high pro-
! tectlYe tariff man, and they could not posslDly
j both be true TO their CONVICTIONS, they would
/ compromise the matter by both being false,
and therefore they SAID, Now we will aban-
! don free trade Il you will give up protecnon,
/ and when they came to adopt their platform
/ they had positive opinions TO express on every
/ conceivable subj ct OF national policy exc pit
the one tuey were called to consider. Iaugh-
! ter You remember wheR Andrew johnson
SWUNG AROUND THE CIRCLE
| and took his chaplain, the Rev. Petro cum V.
! Nasty, with him. The bject with which he
set out was to go to Chicago to attend tue lay
! ing OF the cornerstone to the memory OF the
late Mr. Douglas. While Nasbv accompanied
! this exhibition, L say, as C aplaln. and as his
| Photographer, he wrote forty-seyen letters OF
! Two columns EACH aud when they got back TO
| Washington, at the end of the nlnety-four
/ columns, said "P. S. While IN Chica we
] learned that a cornerstone was lald Tor
J the monument to the memory OF the late
Mr.. Douglas" Now. this was the situa-
ton OF the Cincn natl Convention. They
had tie most positive OplnloaS u der heaven
upon every sort OF reform, clvll-serylce, pos al
1 aud telegraph, and what not, but on the sub
! iect that they Were called TO consluer they Lad
no opinions to express. Not only tnat, they
! decla, ed they mad none, and want you to lis.
| ten while L read what they sail, and L beg you
| to be uulet, because it must be read in a low
f! tone, without accent or emphasis, because thai
would spoil 1t. Now here is what thev said or
the subject that they came primary together tt
consider
{. Recognizing that there are in our mids
honest but irreconcilable differences of opiu
ion i'll regard to the respective systems OF pro
lection and free trade, we remit the discu- sloI
of that subject to the pc )ple IN their Congress
sional districts, and to the decision OF Con
gress thereon, wholly free from executive IN
reference or dictauon."
Is n that drawing it mild for a free-trad
convention? [Laughter.l All they could Sc
was
HONEST BUT IRRECoNCILABLE DIFFERENCES
That was what went over from the Cincinnati
emu of the wire, and Horace sat at the othe
end, and, as the telegraph bo.s say, repeated
the message, for here is what he said abou
it, when hs came to answer it and accept tn
nomination.
Here IS the fifth paragraph of his letter:
s'ThaI the raising of revenue, wheather b.
tariff or otherwise, shall be recognized AM
treated as the peoples Immediate business.
Now that is very kind and condescending il
Greeley. [ sup ose that he meant that b
was competent to settle everything else him
self, but this was to be the peoples business
(Laughter.) And SO he goes On to b
shaped and directed by them, through thei
t Representatives in Congress, whose actlo
thereon the President mus neither Overrul
by his veto attempt to dictate" Now
/ mark you, gentlemen, the Cincinnati resolu
{ ton says that it must be tiled by the peopl
| in their congressional districts, without an
rec, mmendatlon whatever from the execu
tive. ''Yes," says Mr.. Greeley, g I have nc
got any opnl, MS OF my own, won't max
any recommendations [ won't veto anything
} pass anything you please, barter, hire, bl1Dt
iog-roll buy, drag, push your measur
through in any way you please, L will sig