Year: 1872

showing their ympeshy for Greeley whom their 81!
3 mss. ssus 81 the y state shortly L s
tSe Ssnena neminstlon % seymour and wherever vent
found the democrats with their sleeves rolled up
DSrans nomns ss oend SO say
How WIN any democrat in New York city whose
%ent, nsa,s and and WIKI who Is coiIs yeoman work ics


THE PHILOgOPHERS CAUSE,


w4;s s asss S not
whole thing can be summed up g an our orators
And my expianation. judging nom my tax with the
rank and nle Of the democratic whom have con-
SsssS Ssy va m Z Sn % cress Ss
win vote for him; even majority Of those who say
now that they win stay At home think, win vote
their grain, vote for him, because it's the best
the sasson they S viii 1nHss not 'ns
q co OUT INTO THB HIGHWAYS


and hurrah for him as they would for o regular
snsecsdenss 10 Word there E'S Is no ensSSsss% sS
among the democrats for Greeley, and the differ-
Ss q eSy Il cS q ss
is SO married that he who runs through the State
re al the condition Of things without the aid OF the
weakest kind Of magnners. Still, Irepest that the
Try districts win support Greeley There are those
who will no doubt say, "What do we care how the
demScrsts act now 50 long as they vote right at
long period Of time, during is which codness ana


INDIFFERENCE TO A CANDIDATES SUCCESS


may degenerate into something more formidable.
II Is within ne possibilities that this same codness
81 cqd lime Sseaa 0s IN s s M
sweep aside ell smaller matters Of policy; but ]
prefer to deSi with positive - they


THE SILENT MEN.


There is yet another thing which strikes the
e S hs
body o. the democrats ! refer % to the men c9 VINO
he made 70 tax greeley Sa. Gss9
to i've ana travel for while In the country dis;
cannot @ y reooect s = any zone one in which the silent
men who had the right to vote were
mention 10 be sure, in times past party lines were
well defined and man was either . republican or
discovered with vote in village or town who
was nothing-who didn't care snap Of his finger
which candidate came out Of the fight ahead. And
yet how different have found the case to be In the
interior OF this State during the past month These
silent men, the men who refuse to talk politics, or
to draw others out without, to use slangy but ex-


"GIvING THEMSELVES AwAY,n


abound by the score which ever way you turn, 1t
matters not whether 1t be in the city with It's thou
sands OF inhabians or In the little village where the
sum Of hundred. They do not belong to any par
ticular class, nor are they by any means what we
it not, the reputation of being able to influence
SO many men to vote so and SO. On the contrary,
and the circumstance is very peculiar one, the
and nle. They, unlike the socalcd leaders, have
no axes TO grlnd-no favors to expect from the
pate rom the defeat Of their own. They are Of the
masses who vote because they have the right to
vote, and who generally when voting for one man
country, consccntiously and with the sole view Of


DOING WHAT is RIGHT


Among the farmers and field hands and the small
business men in the villages who do not as q rule
meddle actively In politics, the silents are very
ASK % one of Of them which M way he's going
his business that he doesn't think he'll bother his
head abOut politics this year. Another will
cS Capture one U1 who Sf'' viii talk % you avn win leave
him In as great doubt as to where he stands as
humber Of this Class Of men from one one county to
another is quite formidable, and being, as ] said
before, generally conscientious men who belong to
the rank and file, they are not always when an on
cal canvass is made by either party before the cleo
ton comes or, rightly cassed politically. How
the wire pullers and the professional politc
clans Of the various localities no small amount Of


TROUBLE AND ANXIETY or MIND. .i,..s
good reason by which they can ascertain with some
degree Of accuracy how this and that silent one ,
tell you, conndentially that every man IN his dis.
trct who won't ten hoy he & is going to vote he



Grant man, on the other hand, will tell you that
he is wen posted. and oil that sort Of thing
trct Watched an and talked to slyy and he knows for
dead certainty that every one of them to man
win vote for Grant. And thus Il goes. In my turn
admit that have been unable in any one instance
where got into conversation with any OF the
% Slightest I'll Information Taa nom ON him about himself
although found every one OF them quite


WILLING TO SPECULATE -
INT Or
voter would 60. Taken all in oil, these silent men
in the country districts are really mystery. Why
will vote cannot for the life OF me see. They have
nothing in political way to gain by holding their
SS ne 20 Of ten Of
as yet undecided which way to vote, that they are
studying the matter over In their own minds, prob.
ably praying over II when they 60 TO church; but
when they do vote believe they will do so without
anybody knowing whom they really voted for. Now,
w haVs aVs course great weight in the m matter Of
UPPING THE SCALES


to the side OF one candidate or the other Can any
body tell whom they will vote for =? frankly con-
fess that ''give It up" But will say that the cal
culated and diligently worked up tables Of the wire
State will be certain to turn out rather incorrect
when the polls are closed II large margin is not
s e @ Gs e
came near forgetting to state, is this-the silent


Now as to certain specific details as to certain
counties through which have travelled since my
last letter was sent to you. In


SENECA COUNTY,


which Is q democratic county, the Greeley republl-
cans are confident OF being able by hard work to
not only help the democrats to carry the county
by the usual majority, but even to increase that
majority by several hundreds. In Seneca Falls the
GreeIeyites have Q good showing, and they are
sending out every day throughout the county
''emissaries" whose special duty It's made to drum
up and drum In oil who can be convinced by argu-
ment and promises OF recompense In the future to
join them The contractors who have charge
OF the work on the new buildings OF the VIII
lard Insane Asylum or some other persons not
generally known, have succeeded IN making the
wOrkmen-neary all Irtshmen-declarc their
preference for Grant. This detection may
change the result Of things completely In the
county In November, for the "hunkersr arc not so
strong as they once were. I rode down to the
l.oat landing at Wizards when was leaving Ovid
asked him as we logged along 'that one por.
fiou of the county ia renuhlican and the nfher