New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-09-26


Cleansed as with purifying food;
Assured, clasp hands with heart and might.
Judge Sfaiio.
Reasons Of Tsue Reformer for Repudtatins
the Democratic Eomtnee.
Isv.e., Dispatch to the New York Timesl
ST.. LOUIS, Sept. l6.-Judge J. b. Stallo, OF
Ohio, to night addressed an audience OF =, $40
in this city, being introduced by Colonel L.
n. CAN'T. one of the most prominent Demo-
Gratis in the State. Judge Stallo, who was
foremost in the reform movement until it Gull
minated in the absurdity Of Greeley, was ire
0ucntly applauded during tie course OF his
remarks, and most heartily when he scaritied
the Philosopher most merciiessly.
Alter abiding to the origin oil the Reform
movement and the Missouri platform, the
speaker proceeded to allude as follows to the
apologies made for Greeley's nomination:
Not one of the Greeley orators is at pains
to refer in detail to the proceedings OF the
Cincinnati Convention; they all content
themselves with saying that the reform
movement, by reason of its strength and
spontaneity, swept beyond the limits OF Its
original conception, or that the nomination
of Mr.. Greeley was one of those extraord.-
nary. IL uOt u1AdCuiOhS, SsNheo >seAA
only be accounted for BY the widening Of the
scope of human endeavor by the interpretation
of Providence, of which history is said to
offer 40 many examples. This reference to
mysterious, natural or supernatural agencies
is not uncommon but it is not always salts
factory. When city is visited with fatal
endemic. the inhabitants are asked to bow
TO the inscrutable DEGREES of Providence; but
it is sometimes useful to inquire how much OF
this providence stands for filthy alleys and
foul air, or for unripe pears and rotten apples
of (which people are sometimes foolish enough
to partake when these denominations are of
fered to them on plate labeled " the only
thing attainable.n And when am asked to
recognize an act of Providence or the result
of an uncomfortable popular instinct in the
nomination of Mr.. Greeley, | All curious t.
know what part Of this lToyidentiai 'ilspen.
eation means Alexander Mcclure and Gratz
Brown. and how much spon -aneous popular
instinct is represented by Waldo Hutchns
John Cochrane and the men who followed
them from New York and Philadelphia, OF
came at their bidding fro,n Chicago. hight
here il may be worth while to state the ex
act facts-facts about which there can be M
dispute, for they are the facts of very rccen
history. and are attested by the knowledge o
a thousand witnesses no less than unques
tionable documentary eyidcnce-on which
depends the real import and value OF thu
phrase that the movement which resulted il
the nomination of Horace Greeley had in it 81
much healthy, popular life and vigor that it re
fused to be ahemmed in by the details OF I
political reform programme formed by its frs
leaders,
CHARACTER OF THE CINCINNATI CoSvEN
TON.
The men who appeared at Cincinnati OF
the LIST of May came in response to cal
addressed in terms to those only who con
Cured in the propositions OF the Missouri
platform. One of these propositions de
mauaesl a reduction of the tariff tn a rerenu
basis. Efforts were made. Indeed. - ind,ic'
the Missouri refur,ners To widen the call 81
as to admit the friends Of Mr.. Greeley AM
Others but these reformers were at that tim
20 impressed with the improperly OF sacri
ficing the strength of principle to the strength
of numbers, they were so fully in accord will
the noble words of Senator Schurz which
read to you suomen: ago. that they refuse;
to admit any one to the halls OF the conven
ton who had not, in writing, by aifixinc nj
signature TO the Missouri declaration of piin
ciples. pledged his honor as man and
citizen that he concnTTed in that declaration
So the convention was organized. 1t sa
three DAYS and on the second day its mem
bers passed a resolution in which they de
clared that there were irreconcIable differ
ences between them as to one of the propo
sitions of the platform, without aconcurrenc
in which they had 10 right whatever to b
there, and that they felt constrained, there
fore, to remit it to the Congressional dis
tricts. And feeling, probably, that such al
asseyeration was very necessary. Ley adde
that in these differences they were not onl
irreconclable, but also honest. That is &
say. these champions of reform declared j!
the very character Of existence as IN organ
lied body. that Il majority -. them had stole.
into the convention by a breach of Faith, an'
that they had begun the work of rcforn b
ignoring the ordinary canons 81 trut'siuiness
and absolving themselves from the common
obligations OF faith among men. That MA
the "dcclaration Of independence" whcl
was the theme of so much eloqucnce in lat
speech Of Senator Schurz. 1t was declara
ton Of independence indeed, but of indie
pendence, not from party fealty, but fron
fealty to plain truth and simple honor
Having issued that declaration, they were il
a ct condition to nominate Horace Creole,
as the candidate of the reform party in it
newer and more brilliant aspect, and to g
before the convention of the Democrati
party, soon to be held, in order to see whe
- Their that convention was ready TO quaiif
itself for effective cooperation with them b.
Initiating their glorious example in professin,
principles which they reserved the right t
ropudiate next day.
ID: lie nomination of Horace Greeley b.
the Cincinnati Convention was due to Al
interposition Of Providence, then Providence
: for once assumed the very improper disguis'
Of s scaly trick; If the diversion OF the re
f,r,n movement from its original direction
wns prompted by an irrepressIbie popuia'
in1fiacf. then the operations Of this instinc
besr 8 strange rssasnblanes r. vary CROOKED