Centre Hall Reporter

GREELEY ON GRANT.

AN IMPORTANT INTERVIEW.

The Grant Family too Large.

[From the New York Sun.]

We found the Hon. Horace Greeley at the Union League club house on Thursday last. He was in exuberant spirits, cheerful, joyous, and yet as serene as an October sunrise. After shaking hands with him, we said, "Mr. Greeley, I come to you from the Sun, the paper that supports you for the presidency. Hearing that you are about to make a trip to the west, I have come to learn when you propose to start, where you intend to go, and what you propose to do. I want the information for publication in the Sun, the paper that supports you for the presidency: so please don't say anything which you would not like to have printed."

"Well," said Mr. Greeley, "I'm much obliged to the Sun, and will tell you all I now know about my route with pleasure. It is not yet fully decided upon. I intend to travel through Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois and Ohio.

"Do you intend to go to Kansas" we asked.

"No," said Mr. Greeley, "I don't think I shall get as far south as Kansas. Minnesota is my pivot point. I am to be there to speak for the Minnesota agricultural society, on the 15th of September. That is positive. I shall leave New York on the morning of the 4th of September. I may speak in Lafayette, Indiana, on the 6th, but that is not certain. I shall be in Chicago on the 6th, and then I shall know what my future route will be. Mr. Bliss, a lecture agent, of Janesville, Wisconsin, will have it laid out for me. One in New York cannot project a lecture tour through so many western states without danger of getting tangled up in his appointments but mine will all be arranged. I shall probably be in Garrettsville, Ohio, on the 25th of September.

"What are you going to lecture about?" we asked.

"Well," said Mr. Greeley, "I shall speak at as many agricultural fairs as possible; and when I can't hit them, I'll lecture on miscellaneous topics, sometimes on the southwestern country-say, Texas and the southwest.

"I suppose you will have to touch on political matters now and then," we said.

"Yes," replied Mr. Greeley, "I suppose I shall."

"Did you read the leader in last Tuesday's Sun?"

"Tuesday," said Mr. Greeley, "that was day before yesterday. Yes, I read that article."

"That embodied some of the results of Mr. Dana's observations, and of his conversations with leading republicans, during his recent tour in the northwest. How does it agree with your own views on the political situation?"

"I think it pretty nearly expresses the general feeling," said Mr. Greeley. "There is no doubt that there is a very wide-spread feeling of dissatisfaction with the administration among radicals. My judgment is, that General Grant has made too many enemies to rule that he is not the candidate that can be elected. Therefore it is necessary to have another candidate, and I am not quite ready to consider who that candidate should be. Time must determine that question. If we do not make a new departure, the democrats are very likely to do it. I shall have an article in the next number of the Galaxy on the One Term principle, and there you can get my full views on that subject."

"The republican party," continued Mr. Greeley, "has been split up so in Texas, Louisiana, Alabama and other sections, by unwise management, that we are very likely to be beaten, notwithstanding our large republican majority, unless we take a new candidate. Too many persons think, there is no danger, but the offices have been parcelled out and divided up among a certain set. The fact is," said Mr. Greeley, with melancholy emphasis, "there is a general feeling that the Grant family is too large.

"With a new candidate we should out-flank this general dissatisfaction, and bring forces to our aid that cannot be rallied under the Grant banner. We have a very large and most respectable party of old whigs at the south, who hate democrats as they hate a rattlesnake, but who can't and won't come in under those carpet-baggers who are running the southern governments. Give us a new and clean ticket, and thousands of them will come in and work for us. They have assured me they will. The state of Virginia can be carried by their votes, if we have a satisfactory candidate. I know them. But they won't vote for anybody whom they believe to be running this old machine that is now running down there. In North Carolina the old whigs compose one-half of the whole conservative element, and are dreadfully bitter against democrats, but they can't go the present state of things. So it is all through the south and southwest. We must have a new and clean ticket to sweep those sections."