Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1872-05-14
Horace Greeley interviewed.

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for Temperance" NO. At.
Horace Greeley Interviewed
The following is the report of an intervie
which occurred between Horace Greeley an
the Reporter of the N. Y. Sun, who entere
newspaper life under Mr. Greeley supervision
Rep...Did you expect the nomination, M
Greeley?
Mr. G.-I thought Senator Trumbull woul
get 1T. He would have made an excellent cal
didate. cannot say that expected the nom
nation.
Rep.-Have you read the platform +?
MIR. G.-l have read what has been tele
graphed.
Rep.-I have not seen the dispatches. Hav
they run tariff plank into the platform?
Mr.. g. with an honest smile)-They hay
done just what | thought they should have done
and just what | advised-referred the Who'll
tariff business to the people, to be settled in tn
Congressional districts.
Rep.-If the people elect majority of Con
gressmen in favor of repeal of the tariff bill
| and the Congress repeals that bill, what wonlt
be the duty of the next Presidentof the United
States?
Mr. u: lpromptly)-Tt would be his duty t.
sign the bill passed by Congress-
Rep.-lf you are elected President, will 70,
sign such bill if Congress passes it?
Mr. I'll certainly will. | shall endeavo
to carry out the expressed wishes of the people
despite my own impressions or convictions.
Rep:-If the Convention had adopted :
Free Trade plank would you have accepted thu
nomination?
Mr.. G.-I would not telegraphed that il
the free traders got control of the Convention
would not accept the nomination. [ could
hnu foI L.
| tariff platform, for | believed that the whole
subject should be referred to the people them.
selves. 1t was a matter that concerned the
people more than the Convention The Con-
ventlon did right in referring it to the Congress
| districts. Our friends went into the Conyen-
tion with their colors flying and came out of it
with flying colors. The people are to decide the
question of the tariff. end the people are the
proper parties to decide it.
Rep-I see you were nominated on the sixth
ballot, Mr.. Greeley.
Mr.. G Yes. think it more creditable to
be nominated on the sixth than on the first bal
lot. 1t is an evidence that our friends had bot
| tom, and that their bottom didn't fall out
Here the roar of cannon from the City Hall
Park shook the windows Mr. Greeley ap-
preached the closed window with pleasant re-
mark. and looked at the dissolving smoke. 1t
was the first gun that had ever been fred 10 his
honor. After the third discharge the champion
of peace resumed his old position.
Rep. You will probably carry the the South
and West, Mr.. Greeley and Massachusetts,
MIR. G. (quickIy)-Ao. Massachusetts, will
go for Grant. | feel quite sure of it.
Rep. Grant might decline the Philadelphia
nomination.
Mr.. G. (smilingl-It is too late He ought to
have done it six weeks ago. Now it is too late.
Rep.-.f Grant declines, the Philadelphia
men might nominate say Colfax for President
and Wilson for Vice President
Mr. g. (again smilingl-In that case the
campaign might be very interesting campaign.
But the time has passed for such ticket. It's
too late.
Here the Rev. Mr. Ray, q colored clergyman,
shook the Honest Champion of the peoDle by
the head, saying, I'VE will put you In the
White House, Mr. Greeley. We surely will. y
Mr.. G.-The colored folks know me pretty
well by this time. [ think. My record has new
er been hidden. When they vote they can tcaim
to be blind. They vote with their eyes wide
open.
At this point Major d. P Conyugham, editor
of the Irish Democrat, approached Mr.. G. and
pledged him his support.
Mr. G.-Well, don't think my Irish friends
will find my nomination hard pill to swallow.
Major C.-No, indeed, Mr.. Greeley. You
will fod them solid for Horace Greeley. Be-
tween you and Grant, you will get a hundred to
one OF their votes. shall work and vote for
you.
Rep. (wickedly)-Mr. Greeley, Major Co.
nyDgham is an old Tamnany Democrat. He
may eat his words before election.
Mr.. G. (earnestly)-You have no right to as
sumo this My experience has been different
have never found it So This matter, how
ever, is not question of nationality, but of the
people.
Reptile people against corrupt Admin
Mr.. G.-The Administration has made many
mistakes; Its prosecutions have been fatal to
ITSELF The removal of Sumner from the Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs, the base attacks up
on Schurz, Trumbull and Upton, and above
all, the wholesale butchery oil Fenton's friends
here 10 this city, were terrible political blum
ders, but the corruption that taints it is much
more damaging
TRAGEDIES IN BALTIMoRE.-Onth the 4th inst.
a most horrible tragedy was enacted in East
Baltimore. The victim was Mrs Emma Ella
Wilkinson, and the man who dealt the murder
GUS blows was John Wilkinson, her husband.
A jury of inquest was held, and returned the
| following verdict: THE jury summoned In the
case to investigate the cause which led to the
| death OF Emma Fila Wilkinson, have agreed
upon the following verdict: That Emma Ella
Wilkinson came to her death by blows with q
cleaver inflicted by the hand of her husband
John Wilkinson, superinduced BY jealousy
/ caused by the intimacy between his wise Emms
Ella Wilkinson and Griswold, thereby causine
partial arrangement in the mind of Johr
| Wilkinson when the fatal deed was perpetrat
ed. Wilkinson was committed to iail to awai
the action of the Grand jury.
Sunday morning, the 5th inst, young Ger
man named Weiss, gained admittance to tn,
yard attached to Stag Hall Restaurant, Q,
Hanover street, and ended his existence b,
sending bullet through his brain. Upon hi
person was found letter, which showed tina
he premeditated suicide, and also one from
young lady that he had been visiting for som
time, requesting the return of her photograp o
and some other little keepsades that she ba
given him from time to time. This. il
thought, was the cause of the rash act wbic
terminated his life.
The Revival at the Baptist Church is sti
going on. Rev. Mr.. Davis of Liberty is assis
ing the pastor. There have been some seyel
teen or eighteen additions to the church up
this time, and on Sunday night, twenty ,
thirty mourners went forward seeking the pra
!. ers OF the echurch.-Rockbridg Citizen.