Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-05-09
GREELEY AND BROWN.

Contrary to our augury, to the surprise
of the whole country, and to the disap-
pointment and vexation of its supporters,
the Cincinnati Convention last week nom
inated Horace Greeley and T. Graft
Brown for President and Vice President.
If there was one principle on which
the movement cou'd be justified or ez-
cused, that principle was its demand for
reform or reduction of the tariffs. II
any ground existed on which this oppo'
eiton could hope to build, it was the
protective proclivities Ct the Republican
party. Yet, in the platform this vital
principle is wholly ignored-giyen the
go.by 70: policys sake, Could the hy-
pocricy and dishonesty of the self con-
stituted champions Of reform be more
clearly demonstrated ? The platform
and addresses are burdened with high
sounding words upon nearly all other
political questions before the country,
on which there is no material difference
of opinion among people or parties, but
the question on which there IS marked
and vital disagree OF pro'ec-
ton OF free trade-is not even adverted
to. And yet, especially for definite
enumeration Of the principles o! ireetrade
or revenue tariff, this convention was os-
tensibly called by its orisinators!
That Horace Greeley is as strong n
man as could have been found in the
ranks Of the boilers, so far as drawing
Republican votes is concerned, nobody
will pretend to deny. Undoubtedly he
will receive more supper, from the Re-
publicans in New England, New York,
Fennsylvania and the rebels in the
south, than would Trumbull, Davis or
Adams Because: his known protective
principles just suit the manufacturing
and pig iron monopoists in the states
mentioned, while his cowardly course at
the outbreak of the rebellion, his peace
negotiations during the war; his clamor
for universal amnesty while the Union
blood was yet dripping from the hands
of the rebels, and his eagerness to sign
she bond of tho arch traitor jeff Davis,
give him hold upon the gratitude oi the
treasoned stained south. And yet no
man more unlikely to be elected could
have been nominated for it is utterly
impossible to bring to his support the
Democratic party Of the north or the
ireetrade Republicans Of the west. If
the object Of the convention had been to
strengthen the nominee of the Phtladsl-
phia Convention, that object could not
have been more surely attained than by
nominating Horace Greeley
Il. Graft Brown, the candidate for Vice
President, is recognized throughout the
nation as an unprincipled demagague,
and chronic olhce> seeker Claiming to
be Republican he WAS elected Govern
or of Missouri and by his personal and
official influence ailed in securing the
election of thu notorious cepperhead
Frank Blair to the United States Senate.
lie was one of tho "Charter mcmters
of the Liberal movement, and sought rs
his reward the naminaton for President
But being sold out by Schura, rctAimted
by bargaining with Greeley, and thus
was revenged on his treacherous friend
and ut the same time gratfed his am
biton for ohce
On the whole, a more futile ettempt to
harmoui1e the Democrats, the Revenue
Reiormcrs, the Germans, and other mall
contents, it would be hard to conceive
Of The Democrats are dosed with
nboHtionlsm aud negro equality, the
Revenue ReformcGs with protection, and
the Germans with Temperance and SUM
day laws, and then they are all asked TO
embrace the prescribing physician. OF
course some Of the stomachs viii be
nnuseatcd, and as result Democracy
will enter the feld with banner bears
ing its own device, and make the con,
test triangular.
kzf,Nl the pa srNn saints 1f Na,NNr~ahY