Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-06-25
FOR GOVERNOR.
SIDNEY PERHAM.
GRANT THE REPUBLICAN, CANDI-
DA7E-GREELEY THE DEMO
CRATIC CANDIDATE.

GRANT THE REPUBLICAN, CANDI-
DA7E-GREELEY THE DEMO
CRATIC CANDIDATE.
Enough is known to make it quite GER
tain that Mr.. Greeley will be nominated at
Baltimore by the democratic convention.
This will make the contest squarely be-
tween Grant and Greeley. There will be
other candidates in the field, but they will
amount to nothing. Nobody thinks now
of voting tor Judge Davis, and few will
vote for Groesbeck if he consents to ac-
cept the nomination rendered him at New
York by the free traders. There was a
possibility that nomination might be
made in New York that would dispute the
Baltimore nomination with Greeley and
have some chance of success, but that is
exploded and Greeley will beat all COM
petitors.
While it is thus evidently settled who
are to be the candidates, it is also conclu-
sively established that there are to be but
two parties in the field. These parties
are the same which have fought for supre-
macy these many years,-the republican
party and the democratic party. The re-
publican party is represented by President
Grant, the democratic party will be rep
resented by Mr.. Greeley. The republi-
can party from its caucuses and conven-
tons sent delegates to the national repub-
lican convention to nominate candidates
for President and Vice President Those
delegates, the regularly chosen represen-
tatives OF the republican party, met in
convention at Philadelphia and unanimous
ly placed in nomination as the republican
candidates, Ulysses S. Grant and Henry
Wilson. This action is that the party. 1:
is sanctioned by all the usages of the party,
is endorsed by the party, and will receive
the support of the republican party at the
polls. The republican party acknowledge
es no other candidates. 1t marches to
victory or defeat under the leadership
of Grant. If he is beaten the republican
party will be overthrown; if he is elected
the republican party will be victorious.
On the other hand the democratic party
is engaged in preparations for its national
convention to nominate candidates for
President and Vice President. Caucuses
and conventions are being held through
out the country to elect delegates to Balti-
more. The Maine democratic convention.
held last week. elected delegates to rep.
resent the democracy of this State When
they meet in convention and make their
nominations for President and Vice Pres
ident, it will be the action of the demo-
cratic party. The candidates which they
will choose will be the democratic candi-
dates. The party will support them. If
they are elected it will be triumph of the
democratic party. No matter though the
men nominated may have been republicans
up to the day of the convention, if they ac-
cept the nominations at the hands of the
democracy they are the servants of that
party, bound to do its bidding, dependent
upon it for whatever support they may
have at the polls, and the pledged enemy
of the republican party. When Horace
Greeley becomes the candidate of the
democratic party for President, it means
that he is taken as a means to throw the
government of this country into the hands
of the democratic party. True, he was
once republican, so was jeff Davis once
a loyal man. When the latter became the
head of the rebellion it would have been
insanity to urge that his former good
service in Mexico and elsewhere could
excuse his disloyalty or make him any the
Tess rebel. So Mr.. Greeley has been a
but when he bears the stand
ard and leads the forces of the democracy
against the republican party, he becomes
the worst enemy of the republican party
and as such should be regarded.
1t is important it should be well under
stood that there will be but two parties in
this campaign. Any other candidates for
President besides Grant and Greeley are
not worthy OF mention. One of these will
be the victor. Either the republicans will
win or the democrats. No comnrom;se
candidate stands shadow of a chance
no third party success is possible. re-
publican who would vote for Greeley As
the democratic candidate, gives his vote
and influence for the democratic party
He may believe that Mr.. Greeley is honest,
but his belief does not determine the effect
of his vote any more than his opinion de-
termines the altitude of Mount Washing
ton. A vote cast for Greeley will be a
vote for the democratic party though east
by the oldest republican in the land. There
is no magic that can make it anything else.
The democratic delegates who were in
structed the other day in the Bangor con-
vention to support Greeley at Baltimore,
know that if he is nominated and elected
it will be as great victory for them as
though they were to elect JEFF Davis.