Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1872-01-18

I A4piuOC NaOCAVy hS0uoSSS ~ ~.
the politicians quite regularly. Ills
latest success is letter ~ the Cd"'
eas,an, a ferocious "whie mans pa
per-" which halls frcn Lexington,
Missouri. It is neaIy three months
old, and places the philosopher on
| record as the author OF these senti'
merits:
NIw YORK TRrnrSE.
| New YoRK, October Is, ISL.
p. Doaa.:, Esq., Lexington, Mo:
MY DEAR Sal have yours Of the 1ltn
inst. have no doubt that the policy you
suggest is that which your party ought
adopt. They should have run Salmon q.
Chase in 1863. Then. - the result ofthat
<6ntess, the return OF geNuins peace ana
thrift would have hesn promoted Th:sfe.-
icy rave you more last year in Missouri tnan
could have been achieved by a party tri-
umph.
You only err as to your proper candidate.
| an not the man you need. .our parry
mostly free trade, and an q, ferocions pro-
teetienist. I have NO doubt that might oe
nominated ami elected BY your h'ip, out II
would place us ell IL false positions. ~ !,
who am adversely interested, can see this,
Am sure your good sense will. o. rsnectios,
realize Il Yox must take some man IKE
Gratis Brown. or Trumbull, or General Cox
(late Secretary Interior), and thus heip 10
pacify and reunite our country anew.
Yours,
HoRAcs GaETLkY.
This epistle has already subjected
Mr.. Greeley to much uncharitabie
criticism. He is accused of having
sought the nomination OF Judge
Chase by the Democratic Conven.
ton Of 1869, and the inference is
drawn that he would have abandoned
Gen. Grant, though pledged to abide
tho action Of the Republican party
At Chicago, If Mr.. Chase had been
put in the field. In the Same way it
is assumed that he will support the
Democratic nominee this year,
against General Grant, if either
Brown, Truurbull or. Cox, is put up
| against HIM.
So far as concerns the last Presi
! Dental campaign Mr.. Greeley ex
plains that he desired the nomination
| Of Mr.. Chase by the Democracy "ir
order that the stupid anachron,sm o.
resisting the admission of the blacks
since they are free, to the rights o
citizenship, should be brushed away,
but he asserts that he has given nj
hint that he woulj have supported
him against the Republican ticket
This statement accords with Mr.. g.
position throughout that contest, ant
We can see no reason tor not &C
cept,ng Il as satisfactory. IT bot
parties had accepted negro citizen
ship as . foregone conclusion, THIS
years ago, it is quite clear tf.At tne
country would have been i..mense',
sbe gamer. Let Us treat MRS Gree
| ley fairly, for nothing y to oe ga'net
Nv misinterprctius his position.
A to 1914 AIR. G.'s explanation 9
lh;:iettcr Is not SO clear. To tn
charge that he has violated his rnl
s:ne,er to decline o nomination." h
says:
aHe has only written privately toa Dem
ocrat, who proposed him as I" candidate
an independent platform, that lin his jaae
ment) he Was not the Rcpablicas oe.
adapted 10 the end in vicw-that ans sta'
born rrotectionism would rem lsr him y,
acceptable to Democrats, who are gener"ll
Free-Traders."
This is all the light Mr.. Creole
throws on his prospective course
the coming Presid ential campa'g
The omission is significant, it n
ominons 1t is one of the indie
tious which ought not to be owe
looked. Those Republicans, ther
fore, who assume that The situate
is all lovely-that Gen. Grant is
bc rc.nomirated. aud re-electe
without q shadow Of question
would do we'll to take an account
stock beture the Tribune and its Oh
are "whistlel down the wind" n
Greeley'a letter will exert more
J, tiuence on the action OF the Den
}. cratic National Convention than
. the .PasMvc" publications OF
"Possum" Democrats put togeth
Mark the reason tcr declil lDG TO