The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-09-12
The Louisville Fizzle.

The Blatant Donkey, sfBrick" POM
eroy Grant side show at Louisville,
ycleped astraight-out Democratic Ma
tional Convention, closed its perform
ances ON Tuesday last, and by univer-
sal consent it is pronounced the most
ridiculous farce ever enacted on any
boards. There were undoubtedly
many very honest and amiable gentle
men who participated in and sympa-
thized with The movement and who
would have been glad to have had 3
ticket In the field which would have
furnished them with shadow of ex-
icuse for not supporting the nominees
of the regular Democratic National
Convention unanimously made. But
it has been manifest for weeks past
that this Louisville affair was Grant
concern, got up and carried ON by the
administration in order to divide the
friends of reform, that thereby the
plunderers might perpetuate their
power. The attempt to pass it off as
Democratic National Convention" is
3 disguise too thin to deceive anybody
possessing particle of sense. TWAS
confessedly characterless affair, one
in which no one having any national
reputation as q statesman took any
stock. There was but one man in the
whole Union who gave the affair any
Encouragement or expressed any SYM
pathys with its objects or purposes,
who was thought to be fit to receive
the nomination of these patriotic an
tideluvians as their candidate for Pre-
sident, and accordingly they nomina-
ted Charles O'Conor, OF New York,
to head their ticket, and persisted in
forcing the empty honor upon him in
the face of his thrice-repeated per-
emptory declination, and there they
left the matter in hopes that their soft
persussions or the corrupting infiu-.
ence of Administration gold may f..
nally induce him to lend himself to
this scheme of the corruptionists.
John Quincy Adams, who is smart
ing under disappointment because his
father failed to receive eitheinomina-
ton at Cincinnati and Baltimore, was
given the second place on the ticket,
and he announced his Willingness to
accept providing O'Conor could be
induced to stick. ia as % i 81 /
The resolutions adopted assert moth
ing whatever distinctly Democratic
bnt are q batch of glittering generate
ties, wholly unworthy to be regarded
as the platform of respectable fac
ton. The great central idea Of this
so-called Hstraight-onf Democratic orr
ganization, was that the Democratic
Conventions for the past two years
had failed to make an issue ON the
I4th and 18th amendments to the Fed.
eral constitution, and had inserted no
plank upon the 'sgreenback" question,
and they. declared that there should
be no back down upon those matters.
Yet not a word is uttered in their res
olutions upon either Of those subjects
but they ignored them altogether; |;
and really the only issue they raise is
that growing out Of the personal hate
and prejudice against Horace Gree
ley. sit' sss1 4
This Grant hnmbug over which
they have undertaken to draw . Dem-
ocratic mask is Q miserable abortion,
and can deceive none but those who
desire to be deceived. The issue is to
be fought between Greeley and Grant,
and those who wish to overthrow the
corrupt and despotic rule of the pres
ent Administration will not withhold
their support nom Horace Greeley.