Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-07-18
WHO KILLED COCK RoBlN2

Listen to what the Cleveland Her.
aid says about the Dolly Warden
Convention: 9
The question now is, Whose can
didate is Horace Greeley? He was
nominated at Cincinnati and has
again been nominated at Baltimore.
Is he the Cincinnati candidate or
the Baltimore candidate? The Lib
erals claim him by right of priority;
the. Democrats by right of numbers.
The Liberals say it is their doll,
rugged out in Dolly Warden suit
fashioned by their own hands, and
that the Democrats committed lar
ceny in stealing both doll and cloth
ing. The Democrats insist that
both doll and Dolly Warden would
have been thrown into the dust hole
but for their adoption of the rag
baby. The struggle for the owner
ship has opened lively and pr omises
to become interesting-more so to
the lookers-o than to the unfortu-
nate occasion of the dispute.
The New York World insisted
that if the Democratic party must
take Greeley they should take him as
their exclusive property. The I'M
pudent assumption of ownership
put forth by the little squad of rem J.
egade Republicans at Cincinnati
must be summarily disposed of, and
the presumptuous fellows 'satlupon'
with the whole weight of the Dem
ocratic party. Mr.. Greeley must
abe compelled to acknowledge his
obligations to the party and be
dependent on it for the success of
his Administrati ~" The party
must elect and control him." and
must "put Democratic hook in his
nose." That is plain talk and not
altogether complimentary to the
Liberals.
But now comes the Cincinnati
Commercial on behalf of the Lib
erals, claiming "Greeley as their
meat" and charging the Democrats
with poaching on the Liberals pre-
serves and stealing their game. 1t
says the action of the Democratic
Convention at Baltimore was impu-
dent. 1t sis an atfectation of vital
ity that the party leaders should
not have permitted themselves to be
guilty OF. 1t will in our judgment,
appear in due time, that the candi-
dacy of Greeley disintegrated the
Democratic party. To the party
the result with or without directly
nominating him must have been the
the same, only there would have
been something of dignity in de-
clining to nominate, leaving the field
to the Liberal Republicans and vol
unteers, against the regular Repub-
licans; and the nomination of Gree
ley by the Democratic party is sim
ply vain protest against the inev-
liable process of dissolution. Gree
ley would have been better before
the country as the Liberal Republi-
can candidate. The old notions of
discipline and regularity prevail
ed, however, SO far as there is evi
dence of a desire among the dele
gates to convince themselves that
in some miraculous manner Greeley
has become a Democrat"
The Democrats nominated Gree
ley because his elction would restore
the Democratic party to national
power. The Commercial, speaking
for the Liberals, says "the election
of Mr.. Greeley can not restore the
Democratic party to national pow
er." The dispute as to who nomi
mated Greeley and who shall control
him after elction, reminds us of the
quarrel between the lovers rs to the
name their first baby should have,
and which waxed so hot that the
match was broken off and there con-
sequently wasn't any first baby.