The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1872-05-16
TuE oSKALOOSA HERALD.
Thursday, May i6, 1872.
AND THE DEMOCRAIiS
PRESS.

selectl0n OF MT. uTceioy
passable barrier between the Lperal
Republicaus and the conservative
masses of the country. He can new
or receive the support Of the Demo-
cratic party or any respectable num-
her of its members. The men or
CLIQUE in our ranks who would fool
ishly endeavor to bring about such
a contamination would be crushed
to atoms" This may be taken as
an index of the feeling in the city
where the Democratic National
Convention is to be held.
The Lancaster PA Iatelligencer
says: eve are at present unable
to perceive any probability that
the Cincinnati ticket of Greedy and
Brown will be adopted by the Dem
ocratic Convention"
The Boston Post says: "Mr.
Greeley fails at all points to answer
to the conditions of this great and
promising movement. The old
Democratic banner must be held as
high as ever, inscribed all over with
the notices of reform"
The New York Post says: "The
convention, so big with promise, and
SO auspiciously ushered in, has gone
the way of many similar assemblages;
it has surrendered, stock and fiuke,
to the wire-pullers ; and it has sunk
into comm onplace chicanery, intri'
que, bargaining and compromise"
The Newark On. j. Journal mott
fies Horace Greeley that he will
find it easier to cut slices of green
cheese from the moon than to get
the vote of JERSEY Democrats.
, Brick Pomeroy's Democrat says:
"There will be a Democratic Con-
yention, a Democratic nominee, and
a chance for Democratic success,
or Grant will be the next President.
1t is for those in authority to decide.
The Democrats in this country,
when they through their delegates,
elected Belmont to the position he
holds, and elected other men as his
assistants, it was not that the men
thus elected might sell out or betray
the Democratic party, but to work for
its advancement. Wherein and
wherever they do this the Democrats
of the country will be content.
When they do not act thus in obe-
dience to the wish of the party they
represent, they become traitors, and
should be decapitated or driven into
the ranks of the enemy at once"
w. Story, of the Chicago Times,
was a member of the Democratic
Central Committee, and telegraphed
home to his paper from the meeting,
as follows: "Of course there was
no formal expression by the commit
tee, to-day, on the question Of Pres
idential candidate, but it was plain
enough that the Greedy business was
not in favor. Indeed, the feel.
ing prevailed the committee that the
Cincinnati convention aods metd'a-
choly failure. Nevertheless 1t was
thought that the Democracy would
await events, and it was this policy
that determined so late day tor the
meeting of the national convention
General regret was expressed by the
committee IN private conversation
at the precipitancy aoith schich nam
erous Democratic papers haze pro-
nostnced for Greeley, and 1t IS hoped
that these papers ,OiU retrace their
steps, and that the Democracy eUery'
qchere aoiU aacait the action Of ht
National Convention. AL til,
members Of the committee aoho ar
members of Congress-, as 'oe'tas othe'
Democrats, acho came here fro"
Washington, soere frank IN their ec
a,ressson that the Democratic co'ayea
ton should make separate nonasna
ton"
Editorially the Times of same Is
sue says: "The action Of the author
lied representatives of the national
Democratic party should have the
effect of suggesting to the Democrats
who have hastily given in their ad
hesion to the action of the body thai
was not Democratic in any essential
respect, the propriety of revising
their decision. We shall be disap'
pointed, too, if this does not prove to
be its effect. There are already no.
ticeable sym ptoms Of such reac'
tion-evideDce that the second So
Der thought of intelligent Democrats
deplores the precipitancy with which
they have declared Internationally
in favor of the Cincinnati nomine es,
The Detroit Free Pres says if the
Democrats make a nomination they
are "certain of success"
The Southern heart has been fired
but at the wrong end of the train, fol
Horace. The Augusta (Ga) Comsti
tutionaliSt says: "There are thou
sand reasons why Horace would be
distasteful and offensive to Demo
Gratis. 1t is impossible that they
can feel any pleasure at his nomina'
ton, or contemplate his possible
election except as an evil" The
Louiville Volks6lan says: "The
drama has ended, the farce begun.
Poor Schurz!" The Louis Vile
Ledger says: "What there can be
found in either the Cincinnati plat
form or the nominee to command
the endorsement of Democrats, and
more especially the Southern Dem
ocrats, we are at a loss to discover.
Poor Horace. He don't find such
"updiy ided South in his favor at