The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-06-15


Editors of the Register:
Now that the Radical party has car
ried out the programme laid down by
"His Royal Highness." Ulysses the
Great, and noninated that chief OF cor
ruptionists for President, is it not time
the Democratic party was looking
around for candidate, an honest, .capa'
bic candidate for that Office. In view
OF the fact that some Democrats have
declared themselves in favor of endors.
Horace Greeley for the office Of Presi-
dent, we have taken this privilege to
submit our humble views TO the Demo
Gratis OF West Virginia upon this ques-
ton. This question addresses itself to
every honest Democrat. viz: What is
to be gained by endorsing the nomina-
ton OF Greeley?. And, also, that other
question: Can the Democratic party
consistently do 40.
Who is it that has paved the way OF
the swarm of Radical thieves and
officeholders who now hold the Govern
ment offices to these lucrative positions?
Horace Greeley. Who has been all
his life the bitter, uncompromising
enemy of the Democratic party, and
has ever delighted in assailing that
party in every manner known to willy
politicians? Greeley. Who is it that,
| in defiance OF the then existing laws Of
the States and of the United States,
resorted to every artifice known to
chicanerv to carry out his pet measure,
the abolition of slavery? This same
Horace Greeley And now it is urged
that this man is the only hope OF the
Democratic party for success at the
coming Presidential election. What is
this? 1t is telling us that our bitlerest
enemy is our best friend. But we are
told that Horace Greeley is an honest
man, the friend OF the South and the
advocate of reform. Let us ask ours
selves, is he consistent on these
subjects? Once his cry was
ION to Richmond" his doctrine
no compromise with the South, and then
again he advocated leniency towards
that unfortunate people; again, he
changes and says land this WAS when
the defeat OF the South was complete
and their leaders fleeing in every dlrec-
tion) hunt down the trators-hang all.
This vas the import Of what he advo-
Gated, and this was what he favored
then. But behold-we have another
change, and he comes forward and balls
Jefferson Davis. is this course con-
sistent one? Does il not look like vaci!-
lating? like an effort to make friends in
both sections? like paving OF the way
to political preferment? Greeley is a
Radical Republican. That party in its
| incipiency drew nourishment from his
bosom; he has been its advocate all
through its history, in its purer days
and in these and other days when
it's deeds make devils blush,
and now when he would fain have Dem
ocratic support, he still remains a
member of the Republican party and
expresses himself as such. He is only
the enemy OF Grant; why, we know not,
unless he has been too penurious to
make that dgnitary a sufficient present
to command an appointment to office.
If elected, can the Democrats expect
anything of Greeley? Who, that
knows his political history, feelings and
character, can refrain from answering,
nothing2 The Democratic party Is
based on fixed principles, for which it
has battled nobly in the past, and its
principles has made new acces-
sious to its ranks. Shall we desert
all because sore-headed and dis
appointed Republican politicians
have brought ont one OF
their number for President aud stole q
little Democratic thunder to hold to-
gether their vacillating platform. If
Democratic principles are right let us
cliHg to them still, for it is duty we
owe our country, but on the contrary if
they are wrong and Horace Greeley and
the Republican party are right. let us
then dissolve our party and broke up
our organization by rallying around the
standard of the latter. 1t would be
well for West Virginia Democrats to
think on this question 1t would be
we'll for the delegates to the Baltimore
Convention to consider we'll what they
do, and 10 beware that they do not
bring upon their heads the Just denun-
Citations of betrayed people.
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