New-York tribune., 1872-06-20
IN OUR CITY.

The Union Republican General Committee
of this CITY consists when full of 159 mem
bers. OF this Committee Horace Greeley
was Chairman IN 1871, but this year
he peremptorily declined reelection and
resigned his membership. The Commit
tee saw fit, soon after Mr. Greeley's nOmi-
nation at Cincinnati, to adopt and ratify
the Greeley and Brown ticket each member
being free to dissent and the Chairman
anxious to postpone such ratification to
meeting called expressly and avOwedly for
the purpose But not one member dissented
when the vote to ratify was taken.
Since then, three members-Messrs. Lloyd
Aspilwall, Anthony Allaire, and w. II. Draper
who probably did not attend tho meeting
aforesaid, have declared for Grant 1t was
the natural presumption that more would do
so, rs the Committee was chosen without
reference to the choice of our next President,
and flirly elected, so as to be truly represen-
tative of the Republican party in every dis
trict and ward of the city Still, three
out Of the one hundred and fifty-nine
are all that have yet dissented, and a
party organ is obliged to dig them up and
parade them over and over, as though they had
at some time inclined to the support of Greeley
but had thought better of it and gone over to
Grant, and thereupOn declared that Z" the local
Committee of the Greeley faction is fast fad
"ing into obscurity," and that supporting the
Liberal ticket in NewYOrk Is getting to be
Lonesome business for Republicans" This ls
the way organs are apt to deal with their
readers. Happily there comes q time when
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deceptions return to plague the inventors.
Can't two or three more members of the Union
Republican General Committee he induced to
declare for Grantg There must still be forty
who were not at the meeting which ratified the
Cincinnati ticket, and there are yet places IN
the Custom-hOuse lying around loose. Why
not improve the golden moments
Mr.. A. Allaire signalizes his adhesion to Grant
by the following touching proof OF heroic, nm
shrinking devotion
% honor Gen. Grant FOR appointing his father. in his
old age, to the position Of Postmaster have yet to
learn when be has given any relative position where
they betrayed their trusts The greatest fault we
could lay door Of Gen Grant was his removal OF
some OF his former appointees TO Office and making In
their place nudciOus appointments In the large num-
Der Of Offices TO be filed necessarily coming under his
control, who would not save made some mistakes"
This is brave, but was it necessary Father
Jesse is rich man, having no earthly need of
the emoluments of the Post Office at Coving-
ton, to which he was appointed by
Andrew johnson, and only reappOinted by
his sou Ulysses. Though now superan-
nuated and unable 70 discharge the duties OF
bis Office, he is by no means so discreditable an
appointment as that of brOther-in-law Cramer,
Minister to Denmark, nor has he publicly pros
tituted his Office by the most outrageous par
tisanship as has brothcr-in-law Casey, Col
lector of New-0rleans. OF Gen. Grants APP
pontments of thirteen to fifteen relatives to
Office, we consider that of his father among
the least Objectionable. And yet we cannot
honor even this.