Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-03-19
PHILADELPHIA.

Our Special Correspondent.
PHILADELPHIA, March H.
The Republican State Convention has kept
politicians and, it may almost be said people gen.
orally, In u sort Of ierncnt for several days. but
has finally adjourned, and VIC sink to our ordi-
nary tranquility 1t has adjourned and there Is
an uneasy feeling left that Ii did not do what was
expected Of 1t. The traditions of party were re-
spcctcd, the old formulas reimpressed In rcsolu-
buttons and speeches, but no forward steps were
made. In one instance at least in the successful
effort to instruct delegates how they should vote
at the Chicago Convention, the noncommittal
policy wus departed from, but il may be ques-
TONED If the silence broken In this particular
might not well have remained unbroken. In
fact it Was very plain to merely honest men who
do not look for office and have nothing to ask of
place-givers that there was very little OF principle
in the affair NJ all-not that there was want of
principle exactly, but that IL was simply aet-to
OF politicians. IL was Curtin rs. Cameron. Those
gentlemen did not personally appear in the con-
| test, and no doubt the unsupbisiicated members
from country districts did not in some cases know
whose catslaws they were, but everybody secs IL
now the thing ]. over. | heard to-day a certain
delegate whu is closely allied to The Cameron
party and who knows the secrets Of its manage
| mcnt convcrsng on the result Some one was
| complaining to him of the gag put upon the anti
| Curtin men. "Why," said the gentleman first
named, very good humorcdly, sit is all right. 1t
was u question Of who was the strongest, that Is
ALL owe them no grldse. Ii Mr.. Caincron's
friends had been in position they would have
driven the Curtin men intu as tight n corner us
| we are In now, II will he our turn next"
| IL was cdiyng 10 see the thorough drilling un-
der Which Col. Mcclure had the Curtnites They
| no more dreamed Of jumping the traces than the
Old Guard at Waterloo thought Of turning their
backs. l do mol know whether these facts are
patent to the people ut large Probably not, and
II may be best That they arc not. Good souls,
they read the resolutions aud the speeches, and
are given ticket To vote, and they vote IL or not
us suits them, aud that Is all about it,
The Ratification meeting Inst evening at the
Acaden' OF Music was a very fine success. There
was great crowd and abundant enthusiasm,
Senator Nyr made n telling address. He is ono
| of the best stump speakers ever heard in Phila-
delphia Mr.. Grew did not seem up to his usual
mark Perhaps his failure to get the Vice Presi-
dental nomination weighed ON his spirits There
ID, by the way, singular story IN town that Grow
Withdrew his nane from the contest on condition
of being made Chairman of the State Central
Committee Prices are not paid in money only,
they can he settled in many ways. l hate to hear
such Il thing said of II man like Grow, but there
is foundation for the report. At the meeting Gov.
Curtin made speech, in which he repealed the
charge made agaiiist him In the convention of
not being a radical Republican. lie said his head
and heart were with the advanced tenets of the
party. This assurance gave comfort to many
who had read certain speeches made the day be-
fore with misgipings, and was greeted with ap-
plausc. Curtin is incidentally great fayoritc ii
this State but Chicago, in the State of Illinois, Il
| long way of, and IL il very doubtful IL he can
carry his popularity that far.