New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-28
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The csuntrt hsd slnest 7SorEsttsn that
any convention whsteyor h 10 be held q
philadelphia. @ complstely has pnbl Lea, ss.
sentative assembl&go which will convene 4
( Cincinnati. Never before in the history OF
American politics has 90 comprehensive
and magnificent popular movement de-
veloped so spontaneously, or in 90 short q
space Ut time. The whole country feels
that ct Cincinnati will assemble the only
convention possible in which there il, at
the same time, an opportunity OF choice ct
candidates ami prospect OF success in
electing them. The Grant convention
would have had q prospect of success IN
electing it's candidate. If no Republican
nomination were made against it, but ii
presents no opportunity Of choice.
For three years every person opposed to
Grant on any point, however SMALL has
been read out of the "party" by some whip
per-snapper assuming to speak for the
White House, the Senate caucus, or the
Office holders. On the other hand, a Demo
cratic National Convention would have
some latitude in the choice of candidates,
but no possibility of electing them, and,
hence, would excite no interest. A gOdsend
of freedom and vigor, therefore, is the Gin
clnnat convention, com bining every reason
able latitude in the choice of candidates
with an increasing certainty that If the
nominations there to be made are made with
sound judgment and deiberation they will
be elected by overwhelming majOrities. !
Much is said by the administration
papers about the supposed feuds and
rivalry between the various aspirants for
the Cincinnati nomination. Such q rivalry
between men Of as much political sagacity
az Lyman Trumbull, Gratz Brown, Gov
ernor Palmer, Charles Francis Adams,
Horace Greeley, Judge Davis, Charles
Sumner, and the like, indicates strong be-
lief that the candidate Of that convention
will be elected. There is no such rivalry
for the Philadelphia nominations. On the
contrary, the rumOr has already started
that its candidate has under adyisement the
policy Of thwarting the Cincinnati move
ment by declining altogether to run. We
do not believe the President has yet enter
tanned such an idea, for the double
campaign, and that, whatever other
qualities the President may lack, OBJ
stinacy is not one Of them Though
this course has not entered into his
mind, it has acquired sudden prominence
in the minds of not few Of his followers.
At least two independent movements of
soldiers of the war-One including many
prominent Generals, and the other consist
ing Of privates only-are already on foot in
sentation in the Cincinnati convention, or
in any way fur ther its aims, but to draw
its tire" and thwart it by securing the re-
tirement of Grant, and the nomination of
another candidate at Philadelphia, in the
hope OF uniting the Republican party. Such
amiable workers mean we'll enough, but
they do not understand the forces with
which they are dealing on either side.
There is NO danger that any compromise
will be either accepted or rendered in this
war. We will have clean victory or a
square defeat.
As to the candidates, we predict that thu
ancient Democratic game of taking q man
without political record in order to get
something against which and about which
nothing can be said, will not be followed by
the assembled RefOrmers at Cincinnati.
That course would do for party that de-
pended on ancient prestige and organize
ton for its votes, and that wanted dirty
work Of its candidate after his election.
But the Liberals are in just the opposite
stage Of their career. Their campaign must |
be aggressive, and their candidate, when !
elected, must mot prove swindle to those
tina. elected him. He must have known |
longest, purest and most searchable kind. |
In this way only can We go before |
the people with credit aud ask Re- |
publican votes. 1t can not be done with |
q man of putty, nor with an unknown or |
negative quantity. II must be a sound, |!
tried, experienced statesman, of impartial |
Judgment and really liberal mind, who |
knows enough about American politics not |
to be tricked by politicians, and so thorough !
" comprehends our craftsmanship as to |
keep abreast of the times and alive to their |
true exigencies. We should nominate no |
man whose past exemption from the ordeal |
of national politics would cause the people |
10 ask, What proof has this man given of |
more than Grant himself e. |
Let not the Cincinnati convention fear to |
rust that the intelligence of the people in |
Judging Of craftsmanship is as high as their
OWN: Let them not try to get down to the |
evel of the people with their candidate, but |
% get up to the level Of the people. If they
10 this we do not apprehend that it will be |
necessary for anybody who now looks to
he convention with hope, to bolt its NOM
nation.