The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-05-04

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tiles. He has rewarded with influential and
lucrative offices men who had acquired his favol
| by valuable presents, thus stimulating the de.
merallzatlon OF pc itical life by his conspicuous
| example. He has shown himself deplorably
| unequal to the task imposed upon him by the
| necessities of the country, and culpably care
less of the responsibilities of his high Office.
Partizans of the Administration, assuming to be
the Republican party and controlling its organ
ization, have attempted to justify such wrongs
tanning partizan ascendancy, they have stood
III the way of necessary investigations and in
dispensabe reforms, pretending that no serious
fault could be found with rhe present admins
tratiOn of affairs, thus seeking to blind the ewes
of the people. They have kept alive the pas
sions and resentments of the late civil war to
use them for their own advantage. They have
resorted to arbitrary measures in direct conflict
with the organic law instead of appealing to
the better instincts and latent patriotism of the
Southern people by restoring them those rights
the enjoyment of which are Indispensable for a
successful administration of their local affairs
and would tend to more patriotic and hopeful
national feeling They have degraded them
selves and the name of their party, once justly
entitled to the confidence of the nation, by base
sycophancy to the dispenser of executive pow
er and patronage unworthy of a republican
freeman. TDey have sought to stifie the voice
OF just criticism, to stife the moral sense of the
people and to subjugate public opinion by ty-
maintain themselves in authority for selfish
ends by an INSCRIPTIONS use of power which
rightfully belongs to the people, and should be
employed only in the service of the country.
Believing an organization thus led and con-
.trolled can no longer be of service to the best
interests of the republic, we have resolved to
make an independent appeal to the sober judg-
ment. conscience and patriotism of the Ameri-
can people.
The Convention during the day was charac
terlZnQ nv the dSordar Hba
between the friends of the leading factions was
bitter. During the balloting the confusion
reached the climax AS States changed their
votes the change was greeted by cheers on the
part OF the gamers and Kisses with the losers
The trade between the Greeley and Brown fac
lions, brought about by Frank Blair and others,
was bitterly denounced. An excited Missouri
delegate said upon the withdrawal of Brown
We are sold but not delivered" The men
who planned the meeting did so IN the interest
of free trade, and they have been beaten. The
vote of Maine throughout was cast for Adams
for President and Julian for Vice President.
The advice of the leading Liberal Organ
in the West to the Convention.
The following double loaded editorial in the
Commercial this morning has attracted most
marked attention, as rejecting on the iudg-
ment of the real leaders of the Liberal Repub-
ican movement.
The Commercial leads the article with the
question: "Shall the ticket be Greeley and
Brown or Adams aud Trumbull," and SAYS:
IF we may assume that the Liberal Conven-
ton will survive the pangs to which it is sub
Jected and pass safely through the trials Incl
dent to the adoption of platform touching
the tariff, the question will survive the pangs
to which it is subject and speedily whether the
ticket shall be Greeley for President with
Gratz Brown for Vice President or Charles
Francis Adams for President, with Lyman
Trumbull for Vice President. Let us survey
the field and see whether this is not the case.
The great combination which was made to
carry the Convention for Davis and Curtin has
been smashed The job was overdone and
when opposed and denounced its success be-
came impossible. When Carl Schurz moved
by consideration above those of personal friend
ship or local association, declined to use his
great influence to promote the ambition of
Gratz Brown to take the first place ON the tick
ct, there was no use of talking any more about
Mr.. Brown and that place, and the Illinois
candidates threw each other out of the fight.
We regard it entirely certain, therefore, that
either Adams or Greeley will be the nominee
for the first Office and the result may depend
upon the combinations formed as to the second
place on the ticket. Greeley's friends have
held New York with tenacious grasp, over
bearing the wishes of large majority and
while they have hold on Pennsylvania are
alarmed about the latent strength of Adams in
that State. Greeley is strong in the States
across the Ohio but is not the real favorite-
There has been a desperate struggle to secure
for him complimentary vote or two, the pre-
sumption of the managers being that every
things depends upon the strength shown at
first, and in this he has been specially assisted
by Browns Kentucky friends. Our readers
may have forgotten that some of the earliest
and most significant of Greeley's letters COM
hitting himself to the opposition to Grant ap-
peared in country papers in Missouri. In one
of these published in the Caucasian, Mr.. Greeley
referred in the most hattering terms to Gov
Brown, if we are not mistaken, prophesied the
Presidency for him, or words to that effect.
Last night B. Gratz Brown and member or
two of the Blair family arrived in this city
They came on the pretext that there was trouble
in the Missouri delegation, such that their
presence was required and it was carefully Civ
en- out that there was combination looking to
the nomination of Trumbull and that Brown
and Blair were called here to work it up. The
true explanation is, that the gentlemen whose
late distinguished arrival here we celebrate are
here to turn over Browns strength to Greeley
and with the aid of the South, nominate him,
Brown consenting to take the second place. OF
course it was necessary that the Blair's show
their hands in this Convention and these are
their cards. If we may be permitted to cha, ge
the figure at once this is the Blair bomb-sheIl
We need not tell those who have been intel
igently attentive to the proceedings of the
Cincinnati Convention that the Greeley and
BROWN eealiatieff rs formidable. It is so strong
that we can think of but one combination that
will certainly beat and that is Adams and
lIuiHDuiL IL us IL SeeIlS perfectly clear that
Adams is the man for the first place--that there
is no other man whose candidacy would give
the liberal cause the height of tone and the
breadth of movement that would be impaired
by Adams If we can associate with this man,
Trumbull the ticket would be invincible. The
delicate question has been whether Trumbull
would take the second place. He might con-
slider it sacrifice, but we believe he would
cheerfully make it, and in our judgment there
is no time to be lost in giving practical effect to
an alliance of the names of Adams and Trum-
bull. This morning the Greeley protectionists
propose to allow the resolution about federal
taxation in the platform, it is very mild indeed,
in order to prepare the way to yield gracefully,
provided Greeley is nominated. They wish
to place themselves in position of conceding
something to the platform that they may de-
mand concessions as to the ticket. After a
show of magnaminity, comes the moment to
add the strength of Brown to that of Greeley,
giving the latter the nomination for Presidency
and the place to Brown. This is scheme that
hengs well together geographically, physically
and personally, and it will succeed if not met
promptly with Adams and Trumbull together"