Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-11-07
ACCOUNTS TO SETTLE.


ACCOUNTS TO SETTLE.
We are curious to witness the settlement
Of accounts between the liberal republic
cans and democrats, now that the cam
paign Is ended. With the removal of the
obligation Of silence imposed by the ne
cessities of the conflict, there will doubt
less be some plain speaking upon both
sides. Both have cheated and each has
been the victim of the other. Mr.. Gree
lev learns by the returns that his comb
dence in the democratic party was mis-
placed. while the democrats have become
very decidedly impressed with the idea
that Greeley as a Presidential candidate is
a humbug.
That Mr.. Greeley became aware toward
the day of election that the democrats
were faiihless TO his standard is witnessed
bv an appeal to them which appeared in
the Tribune of the I'd instant. The arti-
Gle was an editorial headed ITO Demo
Gratis, in which they were addressed a
follows:
"You chose, gentlemen, through youe
National Convention, and with all the
.'time-honored sanction of the two-thirds
vote, to select the Liberal Republican
nominees for the Presidency and Vice
Presidency, and to adopt as your own
1.-The platform on which they stood. You
'.hare the power to elect the ticket you
"chose; and your failure to use it will
.'hurt yourselves quite as much as any
body else.
..I-ow arc IN danger Of that failure
There is no lack of votes. The Liberal
Republicans haze given far more than
''the aid they promised, or You expected.
Your own leaders admit, nay proclaim
this. We should have swept the field in
Indiana. instead Of carrying but the head
land one supporter on the State ticket.
land leaving Morton to death by the slow
torture of IL legislative caucus of pro-
..fessed friends. Even in Pennsylvania,
1T was not SO much the coarser forms of
fraud, -repeating, ballot box stuffing,
false countng.-that defeated us, as de-
Election in your ranks. You can still help
win the victory in New York, in New
Jersey, in Observation-Disclosures the
.'Nation-next Tuesday. Your votes will
secure it. Ours are sure to he there.
"Will yours be therc?''
Here the democrats were plainly told
that they had the power to elect Mr.. Gree
ley if they would. They were told that
Ohio, Indiana, and Pennsylvania were
lost to the liberals in October only because
the democrats failed to vote, and they
were clearly and unequivoeally charged
that If Mr.. Greeley were not elected the
fault would be entirely theirs. Claiming
that the liberal republicans had done and
would do all that they promised, the re-
sponsibility in case of failure could not OF
course be with them, but must be upon
the shoulders of their allies.
Now that the decision of the people Is
Known, and the Tribune has ascertained
aud confessed that the verdict is against
Uncle Horace" the conclusion is newt
able according to Tribune logic, calcula-
ton and prophecy, that this woeful defeat
lies solely at the door of his partners in
the Baltimore bargain and coalition. Mr..
Greeleywill now say to them, Gentlemen,
you might, could, would, and should have
elected me, but you proved treacherous
and abandoned me to sink" And in this
the Tribune would tell more truth than it
has of the republican party during the
whole campaign. Look where we may,
into any State or almost any town in any
State, and we find evidence of the accu-
sation that Mr.. Greeley was not supported
by the democratic voters. They forsook
him in his own State and city. There was
treachery sitting at the secret councils of
the Greeleyites. Men in whom we trusted
were bound to compass his defeat if de-
lection in the democracy could do it. And
what a defeat. The worst foes of Mr..
Greeley must be satisfied with the wreck
they have made of his political character
and fortunes. Alas, poor Uncle Horace
the man that fell among thieves was not
in so sad plight as you are.
But the faultflndng cannot be confined
to Mr.. Greeley's side of the alliance. If
he was betrayed the democrats were sold.
lie deluded them into giving him the
nomination, by spreading before them
glittcring statements Of his popularity with
the negroes, the vast influence of the
Tribune, the unbounded confidence of the
republican party in his personal and indi-
vidual honesty and purity, the proves Of
the Summers. Trumbulls and other giants
that would follow his standard, and how
easy thing it would be by his assistance
70 beat Grant and lead hungry and expect
ant democrats to the public crib.
All no, MIR. Greeley is not going to
get away in this settlement OF accounts
without having a heavy bill thrust in his
lace for py MIA mo- ier