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I IA I w A t I I ki A I r i ri f of I 6 first fint fruit of the ic great reform THE I S so hopefully begun was a successful suc- suc piece of political huck- huck m wrote Carl Schurz to Horace t Greeley tot not long after the latter's tatters nomination V for tile the presidency by bj the Liberal Republican Republica convention held at Cincinnati AI I 1872 It wast indeed a mixed mired up even messed U up JJ situation that resulted in the nomination o of of Greeley Throughout his career a protectionist I onist as became his Jus residence in New York and andzis his zis editorship of the Tribune he was chosen lead cad the rite to cause cauce of revenue re- re formers Consistently a Whig zig and a Re- Re h he practically the candidate of the nc Democrats hungry for a Ji turn turu at the pork barrel barre and ending willing io to support whoever might be likely to lead them to it zing Anything to beat Grant Grat was the slogan gan of the the- ites and the accomplished a political political gentlemen of the south soul who were backing the ic USage Sage of Chappaqua Little Lillie wonder t tar i Schurz who had visions of a tl great movement that was to 10 separate pelf I from rom politics should be moved to declare dee that Hill its shape it does not langel p- p higher moral sense which KH CV t lei lei-el of a campaign of politicians V AH the way through it was a contest of more titan than ordinary interest and it saw the closest approach to presidency that ia was r attained by any of the tIu influential in V editors so much in I public eye generation ago lIE nomination of ley lcy was waz about as s much THE T of ot a surprise to tho country as os It was WIlS to Carl The founder of or the tho Tribune though of ot his successful editor most su for for a time tho the not quito tho typo type of ot day wa was In La public estimation Ulan man out oC of whom presidents should be 1 made He lIe was pure minded of oZ unblemished conduct sympathetic VV erratic and tin tin- ho was iet et with all his good points and arid he of oC his appearance Ho Wa was careless 1 given to Isms It Is 18 not much wonder therefore therefore therefore there there- was w fore that while all people were forced l to admit him hima there theio were powerful thinker and forceful writer a 0 many who believed that he lacked the balance balanco I to make malio a 0 good executive ear sary tho the Cincinnati contention con con- before Toro More than forty fort years had como to New ew York almost penniless pen pen- engaged accommodations at S 2 60 a a. week at a house shop and boarding and respectable grog crop quiet and started to earn his living by setting up a Now Testament so small and so plentifully besprinkled V with whit footnotes footnote Indicated by Greek letters that no compositors compositors com corn and could be found for tor tho the spare task of getting it In type Gaunt anil un aint-un- un uncouth and tho the couth In the tho extreme was tho the country lad of ot tho the establishment at 86 85 Chatham street proprietor his foreman Oleman Did you hire that d d-d d d d fool ool Inquired of or quickly added Pay him oft off tonight Tho The and then the foreman thoughtfully forgot tho the Instruction as S did more In a 10 day than any of the old comI compositors com corn youth the Job I who had taken a a. flyer nyer at GREELEYS GREELEY'S EARLY STRUGGLES Unable to earn more than thon 6 or JC G a n. vee week at this naturally continued to work tho the boys boy's appearance vort tho the testament remain uncouth and when ho had put on tho tim book another lean assignment he lie got In type Genesis Afterward he drifted from ono one place to 1 of ot another until finally nc managed to go Jo Into business Jeffersonian the thu the tho The editorship 0 for himself and tho the Log Cabin followed the tho tho lat- lat I New Yorker his hla va xo to tho the ownership of the V paving way X ter weekly rt V Henry Tribune Conducted in the Interest st of ot William Harrison 1 and tho Whig party p In tho noisy cam cam- 1 V V n of ot 1840 1240 it ii reached a circulation of tho the thoi tho the printing capacity capacH limit of i With his rise to power and affluence however l' l 4 did not manage to Improve his p personal ap appearance appearance ap- ap V Greeley f f much In a controversy with James Ic very cry the editor thus described his own om v Fenimore Cooper In tho the In un Ima Imaginary argument ho placed y appearance novelist Wen Well then your m of ot tho the by this witness that thu tho thoi f r monor i offer to provo prove and half halt bald at that he Is IsE tow-headed tow Is la i plaintiff of ot visage visage- and most cadaverous visage f E V lon long gaunt I have to prove the said v V ergo erSo homely homel In dress goes bent like Uke a a. hoop and ond V plaintiff that bo be walks on both sides of ot the tho 4 BO so rocking locking In gait 5 I. I street treet at once Imbroglio resulted from a aV alibel till Cooper Greeley-Cooper This Thurlow novelist brought against which the V libel suit verdict for tor Anent tho case caso L Weed Veed receiving a 0 a n. letter In which tho the state state- V the Tribune that the thu value alue of ot Mr Coopers Cooper's char char- 3 Je r we va maUe maie ha has been Judicially judicial ascertained It ItS acter therefore novelist In- In tho the Forthwith b z S ti worth wort exact y this timo against the another other libel suit his own cue case and tho re- re pleaded r saying that ho hc be had bad a a. fool tho ho old would Justify jusUf butt Kult entered against verdict for tor OO was for tor client as a his a be cited might sidelight amusing amu 1 him As an value of ot the trial Returning aL 1 Judgment of the news he wrote his own account of It It post haste ste to his lJ 11 P. P M- M Mand l. l and it filled twelve which he lie Tribunes Tribune's by valuable space He lie was columns of oC the thc and declared it was very cr proud 1 of ot this achievement did i rime fhe best bust day daya work he over O habits were unique S 'S For those tho so da days das s. s his personal smoked though his hla nor 1 He lie neither used intoxicants did both At tho thu early ago of oC 5 V V father and mother a a. half burned c cigar gar at his V he became ill III from pulling afterward held that the V and ever vcr grandfathers grandfather's horny home If te not the tho moat nuat pernicious J U use e of tobacco 18 is detestable abuse of or of his corrupt most moat 7 the tho vilest Is capable V sensual ol habits whereof s man he adopted the theories j At one stage of his that career neither the tho flesh of or animals i of or Sylvester Sl Graham lUnd loud even tea or cotTer coffee have havo a 0 stimulants of or any In accordance nor diet To live proper Place In the human ho he went to a 0 boarding advanced views Graham with these theBO In tn line lino with the wore house where the menus Mary Mar Y a n native nativo V theories There ho me met been teaching In orth No Car r V of Connecticut who had tired ot of hot bread brea rancid In time but ho he Groele olina wilted vo vegetables butter decayed fruit trul t and lot tor Miss Chenoy Cheno with led conceived lasting attachment a her name to J the result that sho ho changed marriage Mrs idre For quite n. n time after aft r time the tho the Graham Idea den nOt eV ever even n after mo 1 her cuisine j. j thi i h fV 7 c r g y the pa wrote to J 1 p U s It ItI I t. t t her ur a U. lr I l u. u I r er ec er j inot I congenial Another I thing thing- that ht hl t ift class clan clanto to regard Orr- Orr cloy On-cloy lc with some ionic disdain was vas his hta con- con conr Vernon r ion H i l Ua-n Ua to the doctrines of or the tho rench French I 1 philosopher of Fourier Albert Brisbane who with Fourier l while on a visit Isit had become come acquainted the tho a magazine called to France and who published Future Futuro In office said in his prospectus that the tho the tho positIve end and definite object of primary bo bu that human happiness may labors will be bc to s show promoted knowledge knoW and virtue increased vice Indefinitely diminished by a. a misery waste and want the tho principle of as aso o- o of or society upon reorganization r or a n combination of effort instead of the th system of or Isolated households present that a announce was careful to While Greeley of or converts Tribune devoted de to the column in the ho still said editorially edi edl- ht and ond paid for bou bought Fourier was wa something and shall yet et written tonally Wo Yo have ha In iii illustration and advocacy of ot tho the great groat write more is destined to commence commence com corn revolution which our age ase social Instructing all nit useful labor at once rendering mence in 11 and banishing want and all consequent and honorable hOl de degradation from the globe In n the organization ot of Also ho he became a Phalanx participant with a 0 capital of American the North community at Red fled RedBank operative co which established d a such it attracted N. N J. J Among other notables Bank Charles A. A Dana time tho Rev and Mrs residents as Mr r. r Drem- Drem Fuller l and Frederica Fre W W- H H. Channing Margaret V mar mer distinct prejudices to have seems Society however Farm experiment expert expert- Like LIk ibe Brook Drook being reorganized against enterprise e in Ia Pike county count Pennsylvania Penn Penn- ment and anil tho the Sylvania interested the time Gr eley was which sylvania proved In both more of or altruistic than profitable When heJl Phalanx G K w cent was dividend of per it its affairs were wound up a to tho stockholders returned editor was scarcely more mor the enterprising In polities politics socialistic endeavors Though Thou h he lie than In his successful natural adherent of Abraham Abraham Abra Abra- been considered a 3 natura ht have o might ml his support to Stephen A A. ham Lincoln he threw throw and ond the time Democrats In time the campaign that preceded preceded preceded pre pre- Douglas ceded the civil war Therefore during the long struggle and afterward ho was comp compelled L perforce n to that ht support tho th e a administration d m i n i s t r ati on with w ith no none nono fl o of 01 IOU tho thi rewards service After come to those who do do yeoman accept to declared his friends were content peace was plums to the Tribune but delivered no his support that of oC the enumeration of at things s make nn un end To of the custom o after he hc discredit was tended to exceedingly Intemperate In his Inclined to be he the tho day opponents his rival editors and his political comments on the Herald Her Her- decided against suit null was certain libel When hen a n follows hId aid hc he V paid ld hi his respects to tho time elder Bennett Dennett as his Ills deserts The low mouthed ruffian ruman has huts got The condemned condemned con con condemned brutal scoundrel h Is witless roll roil Lot Let not his sheet sewer t tho time people by too aristocracies ashe as ashe tho codfish Its nastiness and ilith over called them for fifteen years jears ears he hc ha has Post some New York Evening tho the In n an article in incident of his recalled an nn G. G II II Benjamin years ears ago taking hc lie was Park ParI Benjamin youth With his father engagements consequent on lecture railway Journey a n. where we wc were the car when Mr Greeley came camo Into and evidently In Ina ina Ina hl his under lip Up sticking out seated with himself mind lIe Ho seated frame of dl disagreeable a and very having wrapped his logs legs In an old red which Denjamin Benjamin Den Ben looked hooked ui u and ana said sald earned carried with him always he 5 I have jamin that man Bennett Dennett would disgrace a pigsty convinced con often enough for him to become him told so of or the tIle fact but tUt It Is like water on a i a ducks duck's back Mr remarked that Greeley Creeley w wits was s the bigger fool o othe othe of Benjamin wore were merely advertising adver adver- and ond that thc his the t two o. o using his rival Not slow glow to appreciate tho the logic of this dropped Bennett Dennett from his columns Against secondary matters which however weigh welSh much more heavily In his his own day ay than a would generation afterward was v as tho the fact that wielded Tribunes Tribune's columns that tremendous through h the his weekly power with a circulation of more than had made him In reality tho the sage Bage of a 0 large part of ot tIme the farmers of ot the tho north Atlantic states and that his going bond had b ought brought him popularity In Inthe inthe Davis Davis' on Jefferson son the tho south At the time he hc did It this latter procedure cruised used a 0 tremendous hue nn and 1 cr cry In the north Benedict Arnold could not have hae been more bitterly reviled Yet after the storm bl blew w overt over It proved a wise move When hen it was a question of or finding a 0 mint who would bo be acceptable ac cc- to tho the southern Democrats the tho bondsman of ot Jefferson Davis Dols W was s a 0 natural selection These southern Democrats indeed had hind been experiencing experiencing experiencing lean n years ever since the thc war Throughout Johnsons Johnson's administration and Grants Grant's term the federal federal fed fed- eral officeholders could play pIny ducks and with tho the states south of ason and Dixons Dixon's line Une Restriction of or suffrage that resulted 1 from tho the civil strife had never been removed It was possible for tor administration men mento mento mento to disqualify those who would V have been their opponents opponent rients nent Naturally this condition of or affairs In time became became became be be- came a It grave scandal Ono One of or the men inca who labored most strenuously for the tho th reform of ot tho the southern electorate was Carl Schurz who had been u n major In the Union army and w wits was s editor of or the Post of ot St. St Louis louls He had stirred up a reform wave in his Itis native state and with tho the assistance of ot the Democrats went to the tb United States senate renato on It On his reform ticket was B B. B Gratz Grata Brown Blown who became governor of Missouri loU Strongly Republican as s were his hilt tendencies Schurz found un it to support tho time Grant administration Not long alter after ho arrived cd at tho the capital the tho president invited him bin to the thc White House With little ali ado Grant Gra t asked him to support a treaty t for nil annexation of or Santo Domingo which wits was th n pending It was main main ambition at that time to K u tl had sn nt t V et Oen General ral DL r lo o t lund una finS In In the opinion In on conduct At At onca t Dr t ha tJ m- m en l a oi I PO f i Chorlet Sumner wn was obliged to 10 o fit Grant that he could lId not favor foor the taking Into the Union of a tropical people no so unalterably alien to tho the population of ot the mainland In the Lapse lapso of or years tho the Santo affair would not appear of ot overwhelming Importance but its r secondary effects on the tho politics of oC the time were far far- reaching With Ith his training as ns a soldier so Grant Gront was woI c- c as naturally Inclined to look upon opposition however r he ho was Inclined d lion tion To those who served him to the spoils of war Consequently the supporters of or hh annexation policy were allowed chewed huge hUJe slices of federal federal federal fed fed- eral which in turn greatly strengthened them thorn Jn i their various arlous states natural consequence there arose aroe Grant as a a n had NewYork Now New cw dictators a it little coterie of oC practical York under his thumb Cameron In Pe was absolute Butler Dutler was supreme me in Massachusetts almost Morton lorton in Indiana and Chandler In Michigan Even worse was tho manner In which the president distributed o office dices to some Incompetent nt persons Including quite a afew afew afew dictator of ot New few of ot his |
