The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-06-15
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Saturday Morning. June 10, 1872.
Tho Political Outlook.


judge with greater accuracy and GER
tainty what form the contest will as
sumo, and how the canvass will be con-
Quoted. The Cincinnati platform and
nominees have been before the people.
and bean discussed, criticised, endorsed,
abused or sustained, as the humor.
judgment or party zeal of different COM
nentators suggested. for six weeks. The
GRANTEES have held their littlo dress
parade, and agreeably to orders from
army headquarters, at Washington,
named Ulysses as their first choice,
"with singular unanimity." Mr.. Colfax
was thrown out. smiling still, and the
Natiok cobbler thrown in, the which
swapping OF horses. it is thought, is
chiefly attributable to the terrible on
slaught Of Sumner upon Grant, which,
it was feared, might lose Massachusetts
to the military party. All the hopes of
the anti Grant Republicans of a more
acceptable nominbe than Grant, by the
regular party convention. are ended;
and we believe the great bulk of them
will turn, and give Uncle Horace their
hearty support.
There is but one more preliminary
movement to be made, which can change
the nature of the campaign. This is
the action OF the General Democratic
Convention, which meets in less than q
month at Baltimore. Will Baltimore
join hands with Cincinnati in the patri-
otto effort to overthrow the one-man
power and rescue Republican institu-
tions from the maelstrom of Capitalization
to which they are rapidly verging under
military rule? We are happy to say that
this is scarcely now question. In
every Democratic Convention Of which
We have had any account, in Iowa,
Kansas, Tennessee, Indiana, New York,
Missouri, California, Maryland. Pennsyl-
vania, Florida, our own State and else
where, with the single exception Of
Delaware, there has been shown an in
clination, more or less clearly marked.
to suppoH the Liberal Republican nomi-
nees and platform. Greeley and Brown
have grown rapidly in strength every
day since their nomination. and We can
discover no possible reason to apprehend
that the current of popular feeling can
be turned against them before the Con-
vention meets at Baltimore. The New
York World is evidently weakening in
its attacks upon Mr.. Greeley, being pro-
badly convinced. by this timo, that it is
running counter to Democratic senti-
ment, undertaking q useless task and
proving at once suicidal and suspi-
oious policy.
Terre Haute. Mr.. Voorhees, own dis
trict, has declared against him in favor
of Greeley and Brown, and he himself
has softened down go much as to say
that he will support the nominations at
Baltimore, whatever they may be. All
these Indications, therefore, render US
quite sanguine that Greeley and Brown
will receive tho overwhelming, if not en-.
tirely unanimous, support Of the dele
gates at Baltimore. If they do, and the
Democratic masses support the ticket at
the polls with anything like unanimity-
and we are convinced that they will do
it-then the tanner and the sorry shoe
maker who rides behind him may as we'll
take time by the forelock. and go hunt
joint job at Galens. or somewhere else,
for they will have no further opportuni-
ty to pursue suoh avooations at Washing
ton.
As New York and Pennsy lvania. so
will go the election. AS to New York.
with joint Democratic and Liberal Re-
publican vote for Greeley, We have
scarcely more doubt OF how it will go
than We have Of Kentucky or Tennessee.
Seymour carried the State in 1868, and
Horace Greeley will get seymour's vote
and thousands Of Republican ballots be-.
sides. The farmer Of Chappaqua, honest.
good and sterling man that he is, is
more popular in his own State, where he
ia heat known than e1oawhava. au,,