Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-10-23
CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES.

According TO Mr.. Greeley there has
a great change taken place in the
relative honesty of the two parties since
he turned his coat Before that at every
election the Tribune was filled with ac
counts of frauds perpetrated by democrats
at the polls, aud with charges against the
party of corruption of all sorts, while the
republicans were invariably represented
as honest, law-abiding and correct in their
political management
But in these latter days Mr.. Greeley's
tune has entirely changed. Now we hear
nothing from the Tribune about demo-
cratic outrages upon the ballot-box, moth
ing about the use of whiskey to influence
voters on that side, but. on the contrary,
while all seems lovely and fair 10 his eyes
among his new friends. the old party
which he praised so much for its sterling
integrity and intelligence has all at once
experienced complete Transformation
in his opinion and become the target for
the charges OF corruption which he once
bestowed upon the democratic pSrty. AT
every election this season the Tribune has
raised the cry of fraud against the repub.
lican party. Every election which has
gone against Mr.. Greeley-which com
prises all worth mentioning--bas beef
heralded by the Tribune as the result 0
corruption. The republican majority il
Maine was said to have been bought Wit
large sums OF money, although there wa
not so much money expended by the +,
publcans as in the election OF 1868, whe
Mr.. Greeley had no fault to find bat hal
ed our majority as honest. intelligent an
perfectly satisfactory. So the same CT
is raised about Pennsylvania republicans
which although under the tutelag
of the Tribune these many years, havin
recorded in the late election very right
eous and emphatic decision against tn
trade '.fxed up at Cincinnati and Balti
more, suddenly become in the Tribun
estimation pack of thieves and mercena
ries, and their majority represents onl
a commodity purchased in the market.
Now it is not and cannot be true tina
the change in the two parties represente,
by the Tribune has taken place. Their
was money used by republicans i
elections every year the Tribune was cor
nected with the party. In 1868, as w
have said, more money was used tina
this year. 1t was used as honestly this yea
as in 1868 Traffic in votes was not coui
tenanced then and is not now any NOR,
Large bodies of people do not chang
their opinions in day or a year npo
such matter.
If Mr.. Greeley had been the candidat
Of the republicans instead of being thu
democratic candidate, the republican
would at this time be receiving his prais
for their honesty and good works. Will
The democrats would have been Just wha
he has often described them to be. TIL
change is in Mr.. Greeley and the Tribun
and not in the two great parties. MI
Greeley sold himself to the democracy an
has become changed man. The COZ
ruption which he sees is the reflection {
his own image since he bartered his mar
hood for the sake of office. The republ
can party is not without its faults, bu
they are not the growth Of the past 81
months, as anybody would have to con
clude who has been and is reader Q
the Tribune. We find that 'Circumstan
ces alter cases very much with Mr.. Gree
ley, and that his good or bad opinion de
ponds not upon fair estimate of the mer
its OF parties. but whether they supper
him or not
A GREELET HAT
One Of our Greeley friends down river