The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-03-14
Governor Gratz Brown on the
Cincinnati Convention.

The friends of Governor Brown
gave him complimentary serenade
at the Missouri State Capital ON the
evening of Washington's birthday,
and called him out in speech, in
which he set forth his views on pend
ing public questions with great free
dom and boldness. We copy the con-
cluding paragraphs. in which he
touches upon the Cincinnati, Conyen-
ton: -
And now before closing these hasty
remarks, let me advert to one other
topic. All this controversy which
excited such attention here from the
pronounced manner in which the is
sues were developed, has gone forth
into the arena of the nation at large.
The same evils of Executive 60 nil
ton have become SO apparent as TO
evoke large protest from Republic
cans in almost every State that it was
deemed necessary to subdue- This
had led to extended organization on
the part of Liberal Republicans, and
a call to meet in national convention
at Cincinnati on May /. There is
alarm in high quarters at that call,
and the storm signal has been set from
the masthead. The result is varied
and persistent attempt to mislead the
public as TO the purpose and meeting
of that convention. The press, the
telegraph, private announcement, and
all the arts of political strategy are
used to give out the impression that it
has been adjourned, that it will take
no action, that. no one will attend
Now / desire to put the minds of our
Radical friends, many of whom see
here tonight, at rest onfhe subject of
their daily scheming and nightly
dreaming, / desire furthermore by
this statement, SO far as my voice can
reach elsewhere, to reassuFe the hber-
alism of other States, tnat they need
not be misled by any snch reports.
The Liberal Republican Convention
will meet in the city of Cincinnati on
the first day of May, and rest assured
that it will then and there take full
account of this attempted prostitution
of the Republican party to the corrupt
service of one man. From an extend
ed correspondence by the committee
in charge, am assured that it will.be
we'll attended and will have to assist
in its deliberations many of the first
statesmen of the nation-tfied heroes
of the long antislavery controversy,
and equally heroes to-day in the con-
flict to sustain the freedom of all
against despotic system of central
authority. You will have every State
outside of New England, and several
from there, largely represented by
well-accredited Republicans, earnest
in their faith of Reform, And when
they gather there, my fRieads- Xen-
ture the prediction they will give good
account of themselves and shape out
work that will give the office-holders
double duty until November next.
(Cheers.) There will be no faltering,
no quailing, no halting between two
opinions, but only manifest the stern
purpose of men who know what duty
demands of them, and who mean to
do it; who realize how much stronger
before the uncorrupted people is pat
riotism than any power of patronage,
and who have developed enough of
manhood in the grave conflicts of the
past score of years not to fear now
when the very liberties for which they
fought are SO much endangered.
loud cheers.)