New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-05-30

assuming the part of leader, finds himself
at once pushed where he does not want to go.
just among those who went most pompously
and noisily into this Liberal humbug, the
expressions of disgust are the loudest and
most numerous. Mr.. Stanley Mathews, in
Cincinnati, the provisional President of the
Convention, has since pronounced it to have
been "a disgraced and disgraceful conven-
tfon," in which just those very elements pre-
vailed that 1t was pretended were to be put
dcwn--namely, speculation and corruption.
He regrets deeply to have participated in it,
and acknowledges himself unfortunate as
politician and President maker. Among the
Germans who, blindly trusting Mr.. Schurz,
had gone into this campaign with will, a
kind of stampede seems to take place, for
neither Republicans nor Democrats will take
to Mr.. Greeley. Old Bramarleas Hecker, of
Illinois, who was so noisy in his denuncia-
tons of the Republican party, left Cincinnati
sick with anger and disappointment, and
screams now that Schurz was completely
duped, that they all have been UNANIMOUSLY
sold out, and vents his rage against Greeley,
Blair, Davis, and Brown, by bestowing flat
tering epithets on them, such as "fool,"
"drunkard," scamp" and swindler."
The German papers, in the West utter the
same sentiments in more decorous language.
In the East the feeling is the same. The
New Yorker .Staats-Z eitung, the representative
of the German Democracy, which, previous
to the Convention, circulated Carl Schurz's
speeches as campaign documents. is now
vying with the World in its opposition to the
Cincinnati nominees. Mr.. Sigismund Kauf-
man, formerly a prominent Republican in
New York, who left the party and appeared
among the signers of the call for Cincinnati,
has returned, as the uncharitable World as
serts, for the sake of an office, which, being
within the tender of the Republicans, would
not have been bestowed on Liberal, thus
forcibly illustrating the truth Liberal Repub-
licanism, with all its assumptions Of superior
virtue and honesty, is the mere onslaught of
the "outs" against the Gins"
The secret plot alleged to have been dis
covered, contemplating the organization Of
an opposition Liberal movement for the OBJ
ject Of calling another convention, by which
Mr.. Greeley is to be thrown overheard to
make room for the nomination of some can
didate more acceptable to the Democrats, is
another significant symptom. Whether car
ried out, or abandoned in consequence of its
timely discovery, it discloses state of COM
plete Generalization and desperation even
above anything that the most sanguine Re-
publican would have expected, and furnishes
an example of the natural consequences of
combinations and alliances without any COM
mon link but that of personal hatred and
personal interests. Indeed, since the NOM
ination Of Horace Greeley, nothing seems to
work to the satisfaction of the managers.
The very platform on which they stand
threatens to fall under their feet. The pas
sage of the amnesty bill by the unanimous
vote but one of the so-called Administration
Senators, and the disagreeable fact that it
has been signed by the President, in spite Of
the Democrats, who wanted to produce the
impression that it had been passed against
his wish, disposes at once of one of the chief
lodges devised to pmsuade the world that a
new party was needed to carry out that which
any how was certain in the course of events
beyond any peradventure. Even the great
triumph in Connecticut, resulting in the re-
election of Mr.. Ferry to the Senate, over
which there was so much growing, turns out
to be great failure. 1t appears that Mr..
Ferry made the Liberals and Democrats a
stepping stone by indirectly insinuating that
he was in concert with them; and after hay
ing reached his object has knocked over his
ladder by the declaration that he will go with
the regular Republican party. We do not
assume to judge his course before being fully
initiated in all particulars, but we cannot
help indulging in a little merriment when
picturing to ourselves how blank and sober
the faces of those who supported and elected
him, must have turned when they read his
letter defining his views and the position that
he is to maintain, and in which occurs this
unequivocal sentence, " to intrust these great
interests" (our foreign relation and our do
mestic policy in matters Of finance and reve-
nue) "to an administration made up and
controlled by Mr.. Greeley would be mere
midsummer night Madness"
A few weeks have produced a marked
change. Before the convention the Liberals
and particularly their non-party organ, the
Tribune, took great pains to demonstrate that
the whole movement was eminently Repub-
lican, exclusively Republican in every fea-
ture, but since that event they are evidently
far more concerned to win favor with the
Democrats. This indicates clearly that they
do no longer hope for great accessions from
the Republican ranks. The honestly deluded
ones among them have become aware of
their mistake as we have seen, and those
who are actuated by sordid motives begin to
perceive that after all Liberal Republicanism
may turn out losing game. The Democrats,
on the contrary, have nothing to lose and
everything to gain, and it is therefore to Bal
timore that all eyes are turned. IF the Gin