New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-04

"a not the feeling permeating the country Go into the
rural districts IN The country anywhere and you VIII nna
the feeling Grant general at least the Republicans
ignorant OF any candidate whom they are disposed 20
support against him. what the Liberal Republicans cans
need then In their candidate II who VIII com
mend their influence to the rural districts Adams Is 2
good 30 are Others wD are eeope S Se' oy
the same strength before the people me same b
as a candidate, and Liberal Republcanism may BIO
counted having footh0d Ia the country as wen "
the other candidates afford to ignore important con-
sideratiOn
The Cincinnati Gazette which has been anti-Woman
Suffrage a. well Administration, thus bewalls Miss
Gordon's case
The exclusion OF Miss Gordon OF California yesterday,
by the Convention. was an example OF the untenabe
ground which IT has been placed by the attempt 70
turn mass meeting into delegate convention Miss
Gordon under the call TO Liberal Republicans, Ia
vorable to specified reforms, TO come en- masse Under
be given demanded yet the Chairman refused to rec.
ognize her because she had no credentials The iact
was, having more authority than she had
usuped the character OF delegates and made their own
her right TO be member because she had credentials
Thus the Convention proscrbes those It invited; mus
the new Reform movement stains its birth with ia-
grant wrong TO woman.
In the second edition Of The Erentng Chronicle Ad
ministraton appears the following the result OF the
Convention:
The Cincinnati Convention has completed it's work
The attempt push the nomination OF Charles Francis
Adams through "hat crowd" has. as predicted from
the first signay failed The deermnstion OF the Free
plank and to organize grand movement to crush out
The nice little scheme which at one time seemed so
promising to foist upon the people Judge DAVIS the
lean candidate. has sgnally failed The leading cham
pion OF Protection and its most able and uncompro,
missing advocate Horace Greeley, is nominated
on on Tuesday attic? careful survey q the doia
view of the strife prevailing over candidates and plat
sr we TSp f not eae it
altogether and just nominate Greeley and Brown
sSt a on Snt question: What they represent
both sides It, II that is not the correct thing for the
the berality is to come In TINS policy has been ut
orally and exactly followed by the convention. Ben
ou the ticket with Horace Greeley The whole subject
Of Protection and Free Trade ignored in the plat
several dsirics We asked nothing advice; we
claim credit for its adoption by the Convention In
fact we are rather surprised to find that body OF peo-
Pile toward whom have manifested 80 little sympathy
should have SO highly appreciated our Judgment OF the
situation. And have only to add, Wait Tor Phil
adelphia.
The Enquirer of Thursday thus speaks of MrGrceley:
II there is eminently selfmade man, in the best
accepta0n OF that term. 1t IL Horace Greeley he In
herted nothing from his parents but good name a
intellect The earlier years of his life struggle
agains poverty and pryation, In which he hnaiy won
every economical virtue For years he toied at the
printers case, compassion upon press
greatest i editorial representative; Mr.. Greeley is
the natural representative OF the working
been practically laborer Of the severest kind IL there
anything which he holds especial adherence 1t IL an
dler. The basis of the Cincinnati movement Is q Clvn
Service Reform the Administration OF the Govern
ment. Where be found who will inaugurate |
with more chances of than Mr.. Greeley he,
az have said, is wOrker-a worker OF prOdigious n
dustry and endurance He knows the public OF the
country we'll any in it, and would select The
right men for tho right places His integrity |
and his Of everything dishonest and corrupt |
are prOverbial He is liberal and humane IN |
ms instincts the first To call for general AIN
nesty the people of the South, and at tune when
blood insisted upon, at the risk or personal defaa
tun party standing he became one Of the DonGsmen
for Jefferson Davis. But for him the scanOld would
probably been erected, and reign or terror lnau
guraed in the South. warm partisan, DIR. Greeley |
has always known how 10 embrace with II an ndepen-
dence and individuality far above that ordinarily |
possessed by the Of men. Combating nm Tor q |
third century, have always feIt that even ne
was i'm error his instincts right and that he was
in the Liberal Republican movement whom
We I'm common the Democracy, could support with
more cordalIty than this veteran Of the Republican
press contrast between him and Grant is certainly
immeasurabe. Upon the Tariff lie occupies the only |
true positiOn-that OF leaving to Congress, when,
Constitution has the control VI the revenue
Question-that ought to be considered ny TINS COnyeu-
In this view of the case those dnerlng witn MN
can support him cheeTfully But even IL were not 50,
We for one and believe speak for the DenOcli nc
party could sacrifice the Government by conserving
reelection OF Grant by making II an ssue taL Is
all others III the canvass. III nominated we
have not particle OF doubt OF his election by an luz
menso majority.