Arizona republican., 1920-10-14
Presidential Campaigns

so bad as that of a "republic thor oughly rotten.'
 Greeley's Nomination
 The Democrats met in Baltimore on July 9. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, grandson of the founder of the party, was chairman. The Cincinnati Liberal Rebuplican platform was adopted without the change of a word. and Greeley and Brown were endorsed and nominated as the regular Democratic nominees. Thomas F. Bayard of Dela- ware and Daniel w. Voorhees, of In diana voiced a feeble protest. but in vain. The politicians believed that it was the golden opportunity to kill the Republican organization and they seized it.
 Horace Greeley formally accepted the Democratic nomination. Greeley, who had hated Jackson. despised Van Buren, scorned Polk. damned Pierce and Buchanan and Douglas: Greeley, the abolitionist; Greeley, the protec- tionist; Greeley, the prohibitionist: | Greeley, the womans suffragist: Hor- ace Greeley was the candidate of the Democratic party for president. But Democrats all over the union remem- bered the bitter things Greeley had said about them. The Republican ora tors helped them to remember. They did not remember to vote.
 In July. or perhaps as late as August it seemed certain that the Democratic- Liberal coalition would sweep the country. Many men believe the wave
 would not have receded if Adams or Davis had been at the head of tho
 ticket. But GreeleyN>was simple as 2
 child in practical polihcs. however able
 and profound he was hin theory. N
 greater campaign speeches have evei
 been delivered than those made b. 'l Greeley on the stump in 1872 As h.
 had denounced slavery in the Soutl
 in the name of humanity, he now de
 nounced carpet-bagism for the sam
 reason. As he had denounced the DO
 liticaI corruption of the slave oligarch,
 before the war. he now denounced tn
 money corruption that was beginninl
 it's long reign.
 Suddenly a shiver of fear and dis trust swept over the country. Woul
 Greeley, who had been unable to kee
 his own newspaper. be able to conduc , a business administration? Woui Greeley, who was the dupe of ever sharper who got him, be any bette than Grant in selecting advisers } What was his financial policy2 Tn ; business interests or the country part l ly affected by the fear of Greele t administration, and partly angry be s cause Greeley was attacking Wa . street financial methods, rose up fc c Grant. Money went into the campaig
 as it. had never gone before. The Oo : tober elections correctly forecasted tn . result.
 l A few days before the election. Hoi { ace Greeley's wife died. He had bee s at her bedside day and night fc t weeks, and he was exhausted frol S loss of sleep and broken hearted ov' : her death. Then the election cam :. The Greeley ticket carried but seve [. states and was ingloriously defeate f Three days after the election the strai |. became greater than the old man coul V bear and the great Horace Greele !. was taken to a private asylum f Westchester county-an insane ma = Fortunately the end came soon, and c e Nov. 29 Greeley died. Within a mont Q after the election the magnanimot a Grant, president of the United State
 stood beside the bier of the great Gree - ley whom he had beaten-the Greele r whose fiasco had become a tragedy.