The Liberal Republican Movement (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... either wholly Democratic or partly and principally Liberal Republican." He thought that the party might well unite on Trumbull, Adams, Davis, Cox, and even, in last resort, Sumner; but he feared that he could not maintain his self-respect and vote for Greeley. Taylor suggested as a most acceptable combination, in case a straight Democratic ticket seemed inadvisable, Trumbull with a reform Democrat, like Tilden himself, as running mate. He was not too much of a "Bourbon" to support "with pleasure" a ticket of that sort. "I care nothing for the issues that are passed," he concluded earnestly, if not altogether ingenuously, "but Mr. Greeley is directly against 36 N. Y. Tribune, May 16; Albany Argus, May 16. 37 Cf. Alexander, Political Hist. of N. Y., III, 287-289. 38 Belmont to Woolley, May 21, reprinted in N. Y. World, June 8, from Cincinnati Enquirer. 39 Ibid., May 17. The Nation (May 30, p. 345) thought that, while Greeley could not be a party to such a scheme, the character of his supporters and of the managers of the Democratic state convention, as well as the course of events thus far, lent color to such a story. 40 N. Y. World, May 18, 25. 41 Belmont to Woolley, May 21, N. Y. World, June 8. 42 Tilden to Casserly, July 3, Tilden, Letters, I, 310. In declining to act as a vice-president of the Steinway Hall meeting Tilden had stated that he preferred Greeley to Grant. Tilden to Sands, May 29, ibid., 304. 43 N. Y. Tribune, May 21. Greeley wrote to Glancy Jones, June 24: "Tilden is heartily with us and at work. So is Hancock. So is Seymour." Jones, Jones, II, 154. 44 Wood to Sumner, June 29, Sumner MSS. 16 Alexander, II, 250. In 1858 when Taylor was the Democratic candidate for lieutenant...