Year: 1872

TO a Iuture occasion.


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IT is amusing TO witness the manner in
which the New York World, the Bos-
ton Post, the Chicago Times, and other
representative Democratic papers oppose
the nomination Of Greeley by the Demo
cratic Convention. The parasitical little
Democratic newspapers which urge the
party to endorse Greeley would do well
to explain away some of the statements
made by these journals. For example
the Chicago Times ofthe 5th says


From 80 to 80 per cent, Of the Domo-
cracy in the northern states, and large
per cent. in the southern, will not sup
port Greeley under any circumstance.
The political place-hunters that are try
ing to sell out the Democracy to the
best living embodiment of radicalism will
deny this but they can not explain away
the vast mass of subordinate facts which
point to the conclusion stated"


Then again it has this important asser-
ton;


The Germans who oppose Grant fully
two-thlrds of the whole number) stand
almost as a unit against Greeley, and
will not support him in any contingency
that can arise. This is the nearly uni
verssl declaration Of the German anti
Grant press. The greater part(not less than
three-fourths probably of these German
liberals have not acted or voted with
the Democracy and will feel no call tc be
directed how to vote by Democratic
National Convention.


TEis, too, from the same paper is
good and should be carefully digested by
our Greeley friends as the expression
of the great Democratic journal of the
west -


"Where is there howIer for Grant
that is not an office holder or the depend
ent of an officeholder? Where is there a
howler for Greeley who is not place
hunter or place hunters tool; pol
itical spokesman of some kind?


Who are the Greeley howlers Mont
gomery Blair, of the Blair familyl Frank
Blair, of the Blair family. The rest of
the Blair family Bill Tweed, of the
Tammany family The rest of the Tam
many family. Ben Wood of the Wood
family. The rest of the Wood family.
jeff Davis, of the Davis family. The
rest of the Davis family. And so on, ad
1auseana. Wherever one finds a pro-
fessional Office hunter; political scala
wag, ready to sell the interests of the peo-
pie for a mess Of political pottage; a
political dead beat, or a political thicf
there one fnds fellow who assumes to
be the owner Of political party, and
who is trying to bully it's members into
the support of one or the other of the
two radical scalawags that are aiming
for the irst Office in the republic. 1t Is
the essence Of radicali.m that its chief
purpose is plumber. Gratz Brown de-
scribed the nature of Greeley and the
Greeleyites with wonderful precision
when he denounced them as the support
ers of the most stupendous system of
plunder on the face Of the earth That
was {. few weeks before the selling out at
Cincinnati Now, Gratz Brown is a
Greeley howler. His initiation as mem
ber Of the tribe of plunderers he so Wig
erously and justly exorated, was feature
in the ritual of that midnight conclave in
which Reuben f. Fenton aud Frank Blair
participated as high priests of "a higher
political morality -


While there is no doubt that in Wis
consin a majority of the Democracy would
prefer to endorse Greeley, yet it must be
admitted that the Times and New York
World speak the sentiments of very
large proportion of the party throughout
the cosntry. Judging from present ap-
peerances, the Baltimore Convention will
daily life Of Barnum's happy family
Exchange.