The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-23

zAs Cineisnau Conventie.-rhe Alarn
Among tho sheep Csncer.ins che
Goats-The Door Closed.
There Is to be, according to the original call
from Missouri, 'National Mass Convention"
of liberal republicans Gin the city of Cincin-
natl on the first Monday Of May next (the 9Th
day of the month";, at noon, there to take such
action as our convictions Of duty and public
exigencies may require" The suggestion
thrown out by the HERALD to those liberal re-
publicaus who are in favor Of the reelection
Of General Grant TO 60 to Cincinnati and there
nominate him for another term has evidently
created some alarm among the anti-Grant
liberals, and even among the democrats, who
are looking to and waiting for this Cincinnati
gathering in joyful expectation that it will
make q new political kite with which thA
democratic party may serve as the tail. A
hopeful democratic contemporary, assuming,
In reference to this Cincinnati project, Prince
Bsmarck's position Of benevolent neutral
ity, " gives some benevolent advice on the sub
ject. 1t shows how by few simple precau-
tions at Cincinnati, such as the hiring Of ball,
and the issuing of tickets of admission, and
the employment Of vigilant partisan detec-
tives-such, for instance, as Gratz Brown and
Carl Schurz for Missouri, and Fenton and
Greeley for New York-they may nicely
separate the sheep from the goats, and prevent
q packing of the Convention ''by the crea-
lures and tools of Grant.
These precautions are, indeed, suggested as
imperatively necessary; for otherwise Gov
ernor Brown may be served as Sir Charles
Dixie was recently served at one of his liberal
republican meetings in England, in having the
voice of the assemblage turned against him
by an overwhelming invasion from the other
side. In other words, we are admonished by
our benevolent democratic contemporary, that
elf the partisans of the President should fill
the hall in which the Cincinnati Convention
meets with their own creatures they might
nominate Grant by reclamation and make the
whole movement ridiculous. And so they
might; but here Mr.. Greeley comes dashing
in to the rescue. He warns the federal office
holders that the Philadelphia Convention is
their concern; and he hopes no man will 60
into it who has not made up his mind to give
another four years lease of power to Grant;
that the ofice-holders have no business OF the
Cincinnati Convention, that they did not call
it, are not invited and are not wanted there.
He bows them out by fatty informing them
that ''lhey may do as they will at Philadel-
phia, but they cannot have their way al Gin
clnnati."
In fact, it appears that the original call Of
Governor Brown, which was for "a mass Con-
vention" at Cincinnati, at which no vouchers
or tickets would be required, has been ADAM
doned, in consequence of the broad hints
thrown out that the Grant republicans were
preparing to move upon the enemy's works
and to carry them d la Fort Donelson. The
plan, therefore, of regular political national
Convention has been substituted, and parties
applying for admission to voice in its delibs-.
rations will be required not only to show their
tickets, but they will each have to pass the
| inspection of lynx-eyed detective, who can
sheep or goat Mr.. Greeley's instructions
| to the federal oface-holders touching the Gin
cnnati Convention, then, will probably be
respected by them, because Greeley and
Fenton know all these oface-holders in New
York, city and State, and how they got in,
Tom, Dick and Harry, by getting out or turn
ing off good Fenton and Greeley men. Brown
| and Schurz, in the same way, are as well
| posted upon the Missouri ofice-holders and
outside ofice-seekers, and no doubt there are
some outside liberal republicans or old-lins
democrats in each of all the other States who,
as we'll as Petroleum v. Nasty, can pick out
the obnoxious Grant ofice-holder from the
remotest corner or crossroads post Office OF
the State they represent.
Here, then, we draw the line. The Cincin-
natl Convention will be an Indignation meet
Ing of outside republicans in regard to the
spoils and plumber of the national administra-
ton, and the Philadelphia Convention will be
a family love-feast of inside republicans. The
democracy expect a satisfactory treaty Of
alliance, offensive and defensive, from Gin
cinnati, because they, too, are outsiders.
The great body of the people, caring
nothing for the spoils of the federal offices,
nor for insiders or outsiders, will settle the
question of the next Presidency upon the
substantial merits of General Grants admins
tratiou.