Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-01-27
MISSOURI POLITICS.
The st. Louis Press on the Late LIhs al
Republican Convention.
WHAT TEE DEMOCRAT SAYS.

WHAT THE SAYS
ST, LOUIS, January 26.--The Demo
crat editOrially this morning, refer
ring to the Liberal Republicans, says
They have pronounced their own
condemnation, and Numbered into a
confession OF the badness OF their
cause, by holding the national Repub-
Iican convention In advance. What
right have they to assume that the
Republican masses, in whose patriot
ism they have protested to cOnHde,
will not do their duty as citizens?
What grounds are there TO assume,
five months beforehand, that the peO-
pie represented in convention IN 1868,
and who have since repeatedly rati-
fed their national and state c0nven-
tions at the polls, from enc end of the
land to the other, are so tmbecile or SO
dishonest that they will be overridden
or bribedi in their convention this year,
This, and only this, Is the impudent
assumption on which men, hypothet-
ically calling themselves Republicans,
have gathered In mass-meetiDg and
appointed another mass meeting to
name a presidential candidate. They
set out with a foul libel upon the Re
publican voters of the country, and
that based upon no action they have
done, but upon the action 1t Is anticl-
pated they will take half a year hence.
The game is too pain. It Is a bold
but weak stroke for the presiden' Y
through the Democratic party. The
transparency of the trick spots It; its
indecent haste betrays its nastiness to
every honest Republican. Democrats
will tauntingly demand Of these BUM
mers, "Where are your votersP You
said you had at least forty thousand
of them in Missouri, yet you fail even
to show a delegate convention, and
resort to the shystering use of elabor-
ating a mass-meeting."
THE REPUBLICAN SAYS
that he Missouri Liberals opened the
presidential campaign on Wednesday,
with a shout and a charge. They will
not go back nor stand still, they
move straight upon the enemy's
works. The convention was respect.
able In numbers and intelligence.
Had it been only half as large as it
was, il would still have been sufficient
for the movement. It represents one
of those aggrssiveArevolts that ehaI-
lenge popular admiration and gather
strength as they 60. The men who
took part In 1t did not counsel with
their fears. They did not
wait for some overt act as g
pretext to bolt from the regular party;
they did not wait even for the full pro-
mise of that auxiliary support from
the democracy, which the success of
their revolt demands. They have
entered the field and raised the stand
ard without such promise, and in do
ing so they give better proofs Of their
sincerity and determination than any
amount of rigidly drawn compact and
stipulatiOns could furnish. Nc conces-
siOns or change OF policy on the part
Of the President and his administra-
even the nomination at the
Philadelphia convention of some
other candidate-csn heal the breach
II the national party which the Mis-
souri, liberals have precipitated, for, |
between the men who adopted the
new platform at Jefferson City on
Wednesday, and the dominant party
Washington, recOncilement Is as
impossible as It Is between the
dominant party and the Democracy.
The Democracy and the Missouri
Liberals can easily agree, but the
Liberals and the Radicals, never. The
Democracy have asked for some sub
Itsntial sign Of Republican disaffec-
ion as a a for Democratic abb
tentiOn from a presidential nomina-
ion. The Missouri Liberals have
.iven 1t, by a step which throws them
n the patriotism and generosity Of
heir proposed allies. It remains
With the Democracy TO say whether
hese friendly insurgents shalt tri-
Imph or be sacrificed; but In deciding
hat question the Democracy will be
IecIding whether Grant or some Lib.
raj Republican shall be the next
resident Of the United States.
THE TIMES,
eferring to the resolutions adopted.
avs nothing could possibly be more
)emocrattc, and no platform, perhaps.
ossible of suggestions upon watch
be honest citizens all over the eOun-
y could more heartily unite. There
nothing, however, in the 6ntire
rOceedings of the convention that
ldlcates as wise, or desirable, orsven ]
r~acticable, the policy Of passivism. +,
Is not even Infatuated In resolution
speech that the true way to a re-
gm Of government lies In an aban-
Dnment Of the Depaocrstie oreanizar t.