Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-29
The Nomination Of Horace Gree
ley--What does it mean?

ley--What does it mean?
1t is not an unreasonable supposition
to hold that the thinking and responsible
men of our nation will seriously ask
themselves, "What does this Greeley
movement mean? Is it wise, safe, a re
form?" A minority of the Republican
party, very. generally composed of disap
pointed persons, who. either BY the Deo-
pie or the Administration are thrown out
of office, ,.and who, having made politics
their profession, were unable to gain a
livelihood in any other way, placed Hor-
ace Greeley first in nomination at Cincin-
natl. The call of that convention pre-
tended to be based upon tariff reform and
civil service reform, and yet the nominee
OF that party is the most persistent pro-
tectionist in our land, and the leading OPP
ponent ofscivil service reform as tie call
ers of that convention understand it.
Since that time Horace Greeley has al
so been nominated by the Democratic
party, and avowedly upon the ground
that his Endorsement was essential to sue
cess and the only remaining means to
crush out the Republican party 1t is
self-evident, conceded by the Democrats
and boiling Republicans alike, that the
only reason why Greeley has been select
ed by either party is the hope Of success
ANYBODY To BEAT GRANT.
Carl Schurz, when opening the Cincin-
natl Convention, proclaimed that the cry,
Anybody to beat Grant was in itself
an Immortality that it was the cry Of
demagogues and office seekers rather than
Of statesmen. He said: Let our motto
be, \ better man to beat Grant" Now,
since the nomination has been consum-
mated, nearly, if not quite all, the movers
in the Cincinnati Convention have de
clared that Horace Greeley, so far from
being a better man than Grant, is even
less acceptable to them personally. By
this nomination and Endorsement by the
Democratic party of the man who for
twenty years has denounced them inGi-
vidually, in the aggregate and in detail,
and who has graphically desc.ibed them
as a band Of scoundrels and thieves, united
BY the common sympathy for public piun-
der, has introduced Il new and demorali-
zing element into political discussions
BY the nomination Of Horace Greeley
Democrats, who even during the la !,
Congress resisted, in a body, all progf f.s
siTe measures. lave proclaimed thai a
their opposition to negro suffeage t,
civil rights, to reconstruction, has fbcel
without truth or principle, and TIC IL civ
promise that having been sudder liz con
verted to new departure and IA bette
ialth, they will hereafter oppc Sc thos
things which, during their entil life the,
have supported and advocaHel. Tha
this is false and hypocritic Il that thes
professions Of conversion are simulated
is 50 evident that every OF s.e who does no
shus bis eyes must perez I've it.
WHAT Is THOUGHT 5r MS FITNESS
Horace Greeley him .elfisacknowIesee
to be pecnlaFly uni for the PRESIDENCY
This testimony cor .es IRON every souic,
jeremiah nlacl says: White he ma
be the most aTa ,a5le man lie is certain
ly the most uni fl lor the Presidency"
Horace " 4 te, ofthe Chicago 7'rjbun
declared nea' ly IA year ago that Greeley
unhtneSs io r executive office was motor
Gus.
Carl : s,,ghurz accepts him as a necessit
lhe Springfield Republican declares hi
weak and vain, approachable only
tho ,e who fatter him, easily gulled
ny pocrites.
| q The Nation declares that his electie
would inaugurate gigantic system
Z iobbery and corruption, and that Greelt
is VIGOROUSLY surrounded by the wor
New York city politicians.
Stevens, of Georgia, says that he is
boiled crow, which may be swallowe
but for which he has no hankering.
. Other prominent men in the count
have compared him to ipecac, 50 th
Il there never was a man nominated by a
party against whose character and fitne
there has been so unanimous ties
y mony.
But why are the claims rolled to
&c support? What is the mighty bond
: union that leads so many men into I
support of notoriously unfit man, a
whom they confess they have no SYM
thy? In the first place there is the
dinary patronage of the Government, c.
ge sisting of some fifty thousand appoi
&c ments, and beyond are looming up and
- preparation about five hundred mill
dollars worth OF cotton claims and clal
for the destruction of property in the |
~ war, North and South, which can only
. secured by change Of Administrat
and Of administrative influences.
-. WHAT SOUTHERN DEMOCRACY ExPEc
a. The rebels say, ''if we shall only S
St. ceed in having our headquarters transi
ace red to the White House anu Execut
Jor Departments we will soon avenge
an former defeats The Yankees hear
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