New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-09-18

starta this morning In q spoci'h ""'
panied by these representatives Oh 'no nun
cinal authorities of the Queen City; anu ai'ei
delivering his address on Thursday at Indiana
Citv Penn. will proceed with them dlrect 70
Cincinnati
Grants ."Convention of Soldiers" az they
call the affair at Pittsburgh, was not aito-
eether harmonious, yesterday. Some OIL inc
sneakers went too far in their earnest enor's
10 earn the approval of the President anu
reach the objective point of the convoca-
tion. Gov. Geary's plea for help for Hart
ranft did not meet with cheerful re-
ception. and Gen. Hawley deserved the
bisses which he received when he likened MIR.
Greeley to Buchanan, and uttered the
threadbare and silly SANDER that he was an
original Secessionist. Such trash and venom
as this only prove more cOnclusively than ever
that a soldiers reunion run as political
machine is an enormous fraud and betrayal
of one of the dearest interests Of the Republic.
Nobody has thought of connecting the
present management of the Union Pacific Rail
road with the bribery of Congressman and
other frauds alleged to have been committed
with the knowledge of its officers, when the
Credit Mobiller was in power and Gen. Di1
was President. But is the present manage
ment content to ignore the right OF Its stock
holders to demand restitution of the moneys
thus squandered on Congressman and others
Did Mr.. Cakes Ames in any way, directly OF
Indirectly, use their funds or the funds OF the
| Credit Mobilier, as indicated in his letter TO
! Col. McCOmb, now part of the sworn evil
| dence in a trial still pending in the Supreme
| Court of Pennsylvania for the Eastern DIS
trictP Mr.. Horace f. Clark is the. President
of the Union Pacific Railroad What does Mr..
Clark say for his Company on this subject
The public would like to hear.
The Grant managers in this State, who will
leave no stone unturned to carry the national
ticket, even TO the sacrifice of the State
and county tickets, have boosted of their
purpose to carry New-YOrk City. Vi course
every sane man knows they can do it only by
intimidation, which is impossible; deception,
which is possible; or fraud, which is probable.
Here is one of the methods of. deception
already decided upon. Of course the national
tickets will bear the names of neither of the
candidates, Grant or Greeley, but of the
electors. BY the law the same tickets must
contain the State and county tickets; and it
is the purpose of the Grant Republicans to
employ Democrats to run in their interest, III
the hope that few thousand Democrats may
thus be deluded into voting the Grant elect
oral ticket. We want to know the name OF
every Democrat who hires for this service.
One of the most exciting incidents of the
early DAYS of the Franco Prussian war was
the disappearance and supposed capture or
death of Mr.. Edmond About. But after some
DAYS of suspense the brilliant writer came
back to Paris with stories of hairbreadth
Escapes which compensated for all his suffer
ings. He has again come into prOm-
nence, but whether his imprisonment by
the Prussian authorities in Strasbourg
is to be considered one of the closing
acts of the late war or one of the causes of
the next war the sequel will show. At all
events it can scarcely be considered good pol
icy to shut him up in prison. His wit and
elOauence would not be half as effective in
keeping the spirit of French loyalty alive in
Alsace, if he were free to come and go as
they will be when they have the added sane
ton and interest Of martyrdOm for the sake
Of his country and his race.
II is now limited that the late suggestion by
| a few Ward Clubs of the name of Senator
James O'Brien as candidate for Mayor was
seriously intended. And it is claimed by his
friends that the Republicans, to reciprOcate
| for his support of Gen. Dix against the Hon.
Francis Herman, will secretly support him
while nominating and pretending to run some
body else. And further, it is claimed that
| The Ne,c- York Times, which is at once the
organ of Murphy and the ally Of O'Brien, will
indorse the latter openly. We do not credit
| it we do not want to believe that there can
be any truth in 80 ridiculous a story. Make
| O'Brien Mayor 1t would be making truth of
| the fable of R0i CdrOtte-burlesquing the
burlesque Our Reform need not stOOp to dig
rulers from the mire of politics. The metrop-
oils, degraded as the Ring has made it, is not
quite so low as to contemplate the degrade
ton Of 0'Brien as its Mayor.
Gen. Banks has very pithily said that the
late Administration campaign in Maine was
conspiracy against public opinion. How sue
cessful was that conspiracy the world now
knows. A correspondent of THE TRIBUNE,
whose letter is elsewhere published, gives us
some insight into the manner and modes of
the scheme by which Maine was carried for
the Grant ticket. The details are not numer
ous they may be summed up in the word
money. OF course, there was terrorism and
other means to strengthen the plot against
popular opinion; but wholesale bribery was
the most trusted engine. The story is one
of deep disgrace and shame. We supple
ment it with more cheerful resume of the
field as it now appears to a thoughtful Lib
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