Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-03-02

nate NC # PROOFS arc furllIcoiu:.:. That
enough New York Republicans will
support nc to carry the state. 70 test
this II mcctin" Of Republicans friendly
to me is soon IN he held at Buffalo. l
want You tn attend that meeting. for
my >,!rcos in November depends upon
the showing made there. You are per-
sonally known to more people than any
Other man in the state. Iol1' active
anticipation in that meeting may and
probably will turn the scales in my
favor Since You first entered politics
n mere youth, | have been your friend
AMI The Tribune has been your stanch
advocate. always ready TO advance
your fortunes You must 90 really
YOU must
'Ifc kept on In that strain. yield
cd my Judgment TO the call OF personal
friendship ana attended the Buffalo
meeting 1t was a monster affair. Most
of the prominent Republicans in the
state were in Attendance. hundreds Of
them upon tho stage. Greeley" was
the cry, and the enthusiasm was I'M
bounded and contagious. That great
demonstration stirred the heart of the
country and secured for Horace the
Democratic Endorsement. accepted
the nomination for lieutenant governor
Things went on swimnngly until the
October state election in North Caro-
lima, which went Republican by large
ma ioTity. That amazed the whole
country and marked the beginning of
the end
"Thc day befor" that election Grant
scarce as h"l,S' teeth: the ,i:iy after the
election Greeley Republicans in New
York were like angels visits. few and
far between Everybody WAS anxious
to get to cover. The reSul, l.. North
Carolina demonstrated to all the world
What ! told Mr.. Greeley in the begin
ming. that the body Of plain Democrats,
men Who expected no office and want
ed none. but who voted the ticket be-
cause of the associations of Il lifetime
or because of love Of the party name
or party principles. woulA have none of
him, but believed then and believe
POW that had North Carolina gone
Democratic at the October election
Greeley would have carried New York
by 100000 majority and would have re-
ceived every electoral vote south and
west of New York.
When Greeiey's Mighty Heart Broke,
"A few days before the presidential
election l visited Mr. Greeley at his
country place at Chappaqua. where he
had spent the happiest hours of his
busy and useful life He was in his
library. which was strewn with papers,
Illustrated a., unillustrated. The bot
tom had dropped out of his canvass,
and he at last re-, .iZed it. He was in
deepest distress. haggard, wan, nerv
Gus, excited. He read me several bit
ter and brutal articles about himself
and showed me many cartoons belit-
tliD% and ridiculing him, and he be-
moaned his fate in most pitiful man
Der. tired my best to Soothe console
and sustain hia, but without avail.
After a good deal Of pathetic talk he
said:
\aud UuCeN, Gl1l Culnctl, utterly
ruined. The Tribune, the idol OF ny
heart, to which | have devoted my
best energies and which hoped would
be my monument to. coming genera
tions. will be destroyed I have done
right because l loved the right. I ad-
vocated prohibition because I deemed
1t right. l fought slavery because
thought it wrong. But these papers
represent me as a drunkard and the
most brutal slave driver in the land,
and the worst of it is that thousands Of
negroes whom helped to free will be-
lieve these monstrols lies With that
he placed his arms upon a desk. his
face upon his arms. and cried a.d sob
bed like little cl;ild He refused to
he conforted. and his mighty heart
broke in my presence in his library at
Chappaqua. In few days he was in
his grave" CHANT CLARK