Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Many small newspapers relied heavily on the reporting and editorials of the Tribune. Election of 1872

After supporting Ulysses Grant in the 1868 election Greeley broke from Grant and the Radicals. [dead link] He promoted all sorts of agrarian reforms including homestead laws.

presidential election. Grant's Republican administration he was the new Liberal Republican Party's candidate in the 1872 U.