The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-08-18

jeremiah :. Black, OF PennsyIVa-
MIA. and William : Groesbeck, of
Ohio. all Democrats of the straitest
sect. The Democratic nomination
of Greeley was thought by many TO
be a very smart proceeding. 1t
was said that the Democrats, hav-
inc seen the futility of making
another fight for the Offices under
man of their own party, who had
been opposed to the war, were now
determined to break the ranks
of the enemy with a candidate who
was an old Republican, a high-tariti
man. an advocate of the war against
slavery, who had gone on JEFF Da-
vis's bail bond. 1t is not necessary
torecall the melancholy progress and
tragieal ending of that campaign.
When Grant had been reelected
and Mr. Greeley's end had come,
Democrats wondered that they
could have been so foolish. They
had surrendered every principle
of their party IN the vague
hope of being able to push them
selves into power behind the mask
/ of Horace Greeley. 1t was a sneak
4 ing and hypocritical campaign on
/ the part of the Democrats. Impair
tial and uncommitted voters knew
that this sudden admiration for
( Greeley was wholly simulated. They
knew that Greeley, ii he had been
elected. would have been in the
hands of the corruptand crafty men
who led then the Democratic Party
as they do now. They refused to
support Greeley, cndearcd as he
was to thousands of men by the non
est and manly fights which he had
made against secession and slavery.
They honored and respected Gree
ley, but they hated and dstrusted
the Democratic Party. That year
the Democrats carried six States.
They registered a great VOW that
they would never be so foolish
again. But, in 1880, they have done
the same thing that they did in
1872. They have nominated for
President man with whose ante
ccdents, achievements, and career
they have no sympathy. The Cop
perheads and Peace Democrats of
/ 1862 have nominated Il Union Gen
eral who tnrashcd Democratic rebels
while Nallmdigham. Voorhees,.
PendletOn, and the rest Of the viper
Gus gang, were declaring that the
war was Il failure, and that ncgo-
tiation for peace should be set on
foot. Some of the men who hurrah-
cd for Hancock in Cincinnati, were
among those who, in Chicago, in
1864, advised that We should treat
for peace with the rebels. 1t is
thought no change of hear the hated
shoulder strapped soldier of 1864
is put nomination in 1880 by the
Copperhcads and chicken-heartcd
Peace Democrats who revilcd him a
few years ago. They tried Greeley,
the Republican protectionist, in 1872,
and, untaught by defeat. they are
trying it again with a Union soldier
in 1850. As in 1872, the Democrats
. have surrendered every principle
that may be distinctive called their
, own. Tradition, usage, party ties,
and party pride are thrown to the
/ winds. Once more in desperate
, straits, the bankrupt old party am
bles along behind the mask of a
stranger. But, as in 1872, the peo-
pie cannot be deceived. The "su-
. perb soldier" it is notorious, has
nothing in common with the low,
= vulgar, whisky-drinking, and hun
CRY crowd that pushes him TO the
front. He does not belong to them,
any more than Greeley belonged to
the red-handed, staggering rebels
who made hypocritical pilgrimages
to Chappaqua, Just as they are hur-
Irving now to Governors Island.
They lattered poor Greedy as they
are now hattering poor Hancock.
They stifed their rage and their
prcjudiccs for Il season, hoping that
the time would come when they
would have a Democratic President,
weak, and yielding, in the White
House, even though he might wear
| an old Republican name. They
} trained with Greeley: they can
train with Hancock. They threw
over Bayard, Black, and Groesbeck
in 1872, and chose the old Wing and
Republican editor. In 1880 they
discarded Tilden and Bayard and
took the Union General whom they
have so bitterly hated in days gone
! by. They seized with delight on
the flct that Greeley bailed Jefler-
son Davis. They find in Hancock 5
career one ancient and solitary
crumb of comfort to them-his Or
, der No. 80. And so the masquerad-
ing campaign begins In the words
of the eminent Vermont iurist,
They have ripped it with old Eu-
ripides, and socked it with old Soc
rates, roamed with Bomulus, but
, where are them offices ?'-Nar YORK.
Times.