How Greeley Was Nominated
The folloWing is Iloracu Whitefe dispatoh fruiu Ciucinnati to tbo Chicago Ti'íiunc: Cincinnati, May 3.- The nonrinnkon of Mr. Qreeloy wua accouiplidfaed bv tho peoule againat the jutlgment and streuuuu efforts of poKticiaus, ushi;.; the i word iu its larger and higl The (xr.it Brown porformance has given the whole affair the appearánoe oí' a put-up job, bui i! waa tnorely aluoky guess The Blairs and Browns do not ïike Bchuri. To defeat a candidato who was likely to !). on oonüduntial teñns with Ekshurz, as either AdaniS or Truinbull would havo inüii, was the thing uearest tj their hearts, and for this parpose Brown made his appearanoe here. J lis speech iu the Oonvention feil like dishwater on the wholo assemblage, a:id, heing followed by tho transfer of the Missouri votes to Trumbull, instead of Greeley, showed tha-1 he had uu ïnfluenoe in his owu deleation. The ehungea froin Brown to Öreoloy wore few and i'ar butwecn, and in a snort time the Conveotion only rjmembered that Brown had been a candidato onco and was so no longer. But tlie personal popularity of Greeley wus inoro ihan a match for the iutollectual stroDgth of Trumbull and the moral graVity of Adams. He wus stealing votes train both of them all the tune. When tho Illinois delegation at last pereeived th.it. }ho heart of the Conveutiou wu-ser-rrying awiiy the head, and rotirud for coirultation, the surprising fact was devolopöd that 16 of tiieir own nuiliber pteferrod üreeley to any candidato not froto their own 8 tato. Tiic sujijiortera of Adams, while entertaining the most cordial feeling for friends of Trumbull, think that if tho latter had come over to Adams' corner the reealt would have been different. I do not think so. If the Illinois voto could have been cast, solid for Ad mis at an earlier stage, the rosult would have been different; but there was ilo tiine when Adams could have got ïaore than the 27 votes which were finully cast. for him. The eontingenuy of &aving to divide between Adams and üreclev had never been considerad, aud tb#rüforo ud time had been alluwed for preparation or to compare views. The voto of the Statu being thus divided, its weight was lost foranypurpo.se oï iwfluenciog other votes. Tiien gush and nurrah swtpt evorything down, aud, alino.it betose a vote of Illinois had beeu r, i-... ,- 1 by tho EJecretary, the dispatehus eame ruahing to tho telograpi) ilistruments that tíreoley was nomI inated. For a inoiiient 7iseL heada in the CüHVi.rition were stnnncd', tiioughev1} tried to look perfectly contunted. Ut all the things that could possibly happen, this was tho one thing which uverybody supposed could not happen. Not tivon the (vreeU-y ncatheinselvesthi it could happen. The only ablo politioisn who seomed really tor Greoloy was Waldo Sutokiós, oï Soyr York, nad ew n liis siueeriiy was (jucstioned by Greeli y's baok-beneitieBÓjA-ttS lo-ig aa tt Davis movemuut was rt-garded as stilt alive. It follows trom all this that tho Gr.itz Btfcwn aud Frank Blair devioe was only a elevar e.nception that aomething might be done tó kill Cari Kohurz, the presidiiLj; genius of this Cottention, nr.d onoB-oL tho catest men of this oountry. Af tor Greeley'ia iiomination, the ] cians, tor the mus! part, eithor l.it the Convention to bathe their hcids or sit still as idle and ïadifftirent spectator, It was froely ehaiged aod boüíe-reá that tlio nominatiun of Öroeley was a put-up job of Brown Si and so dflighted were the iunoeents al tlie íUceeas oí' th:.? .ín; schc: y hastfllU'd to ratiiy it. After the Conte&tion adjoarned the streets were iillud with a Babel oí tho most on. 'y puzzii-d individúala that the world has ever secu. Evyi-y vu: iel v oi' opinión wa ,i who ; it Öreoley would get every electoral vote in the U;.ion to ouo who maintained tbat ku wculd not carry a e eounty ír a State. JSidging froin hia strengtb i this .Mass ConVüUtill, vh..'le }:::d, ;is Í liolicVf, ;nly one abie politician working for him, and this one not speciaiH active, I iui'cr that Greeley wi polar eimdidate. 1 believs that tho üeriuan hostility to him, vrhieh is based iipon his ddvocacy of tl. e anti-liijuor laws, v'iU be iLwlifcu by thn decisive ezpression of the platform on the anbjeot of personal liberty, and by the i.ict that noither Predident nor Congreea bas anything to do with the subject of liquor laws or .Sunday observanee. toveuae refortner; thiuk that, althougb Qtoeley. is the most obiioxious individüal in tfie country to . the net resolta of the Conveutiou must be to push forward their eanse, aiuce the high laiiU' element is bound up iii the . lelphia Coiivpntion, and must eitlierantagoaize Mf. Gieeley ov gotopieces. One of the most promineot oftlMse tlr-iüf uMr. Atkinson, of MassftChnsotts, { is stil! further coVafouted by the thonght that Mr. GreeFey lmw been a hardíuoní-y man, and will co-operate rith the platform ixi bringiug ivbout a speedy resumption of s]eeii: paymönti". ïhe worst tiiiüg tkat c,n be said of Air. Groeley is that lio genewally has a few worthless dead beats haoging Uronnd him, preying on liis cash and his good nature : impairing his ïvputation ainoorg thoso whose gooi opinión he ought to poi These croatures he must shake off fbrtbwith, or tiitii' will be trouble bofore tha ■ oampaign ends. As rógards the intluence Fenton is likely to have over him, it is the opiniou of the best inioriaed that th New Vork Se-.-.. oot eetabtished any claims to Greeley 's gratitude by his pressnoe in Cincinnati, and that the lat ter will ! now it wheu his friends get home. For the rest, it cannot be alleged that Mr Greeley. is not ;v nian oL in-telïccij ; nor w:!l peí te that he is not honest, however loudly the cry of tho Tammauy Republioans may be bawled in their ears. The Opinión of tho best judges this evoniag is, that the ticket -will' sweep the country.
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