The Portland daily press., 1872-07-11

representation of the ideas to carry out which
he was placed in the executive chair, he has
proved competent and faithful. We should
have been pleased If Mr.. Grant had omitted
the numerous appointments Of his relations
to office, but this was no crime, it was simply
a blunder. e.
How is it with the opposition candidate
Mr.. Greeley is the very antipodes Of Mr..
Grant, and is set forth purely on personal
party, he is simply Horace Greeley, a man
who has been everything by turns and no
one thing long. Fourierite, Socialist, Ora
hamite, amateur farmer, Tammany leader,
and humorous lecturer, and we may add that
probably no man was ever more frequently
swindled by sharpers or more liable to be
swindled again. As political candidate he
is high tariff advocate, nominated by self
appointed free-trade convention! BY no
means above chicanery, Mr.. Greeley adrotly
kicked away the only distinctive plank in the
Cincinnati conventions platform when he ig-
nored its main purpose, which was free-trade.
So the philosopher of the Tribune is now not
only candidate without party, but with
out platform, unless his Southern support
ers make one for him. One question which
has been propounded by Democratic jour
nal published south of Mason and Dixon's
line, is suggestive at least, viz: 'F Greeley
is elected, and the government proper Or
ganized, why may we not successfully claim
payment from the public treasury for the
slaves of which we were illegally dispossessed
by act of government" 1t is thought that
no project would be too extreme for the adop-
ton of the man who betriended jeff Davis.
1t is not for us who, in common with the
country at large, care not one penny for Mr..
Grant as Mr.. Grant, nor for Mr. Greeley in
his individual capacity,-we say 1t Is not for
us to advocate either candidate on personal
grounds, but the course of the Globe has been
and shall be to advocate the advancement OF
that party whose principles signify the true
interests of the whole country. The Repub-
licans, as now administering the government,
are doing so on safe and tried policy; we
are at peace with all the world; the admins
tration is reducing the national debt quite as
fast as is desirable; taxes are being rapidly
decreased the tariff is being gradually modi-
fed; and liberal doctrines have prevailed at
Washington for the last four years. All this
gives us evidence of what may reasonably be
expected in the reelection of Mr.. Grant
The monetary and domestic interests of the
country will not permit us to try experiments.
A new administration means new policy, new
and untried purposes, individual aggrandiZe-
ment and political fnesse. In the instance
of the election of Mr.. Greeley who is the
IOOl vi Iuc ueSlSHlllS ldiuuldly IlllSy budll
whom no viler or more corrupt organization
ever existe,l,-the motto, if not openly de-
clared, would, nevertheless, be: each man
tor himself and God for us ALL" -l-
ia Let us ask ourselves whoit is that demands
a change. Is it the substantial capitalist, the
solid men of the country, people who have
something at stake in their share of the great
national interests? We think not. 1t is
rather scheming and trading politicians who
are promoting change in the government
men out of office who wish to get in, men
who would be paid by fat contracts for their
services could they succeed in bringing about
Mr.. Greeley's election. The story of the I'M
exampled and outrageOusly fraudulent career
of the Tammany Ring in New York city,
when millions of dollars were stolen annually
from the people, would be repeated only up
on a greater and more lavishly swindling
scale were this simple-minded candidate of
the ring to be elected to the Presidency. This
country is not prepared to be thus robbed and
swinJled. Even New York, where almost
any rascality is possible, will permit this no
longer; but is gradually tearing the ermine
from the venal judges, and deposing the
swindlers one by one, who have so success
fblly depleted her treasury and disgraced her
name. Let us have no such shameful nation
al experience as has disgraeed the history of
New York city and State. .sa "a.