The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-05-17
VHE BALTIMORE CONTENTION.
g.- t- - ,r..vs se.s,
POINTS FOE DELEGATES.
Philadelphia as a Com
vention City. e'
DAVID DAVIS TO RUN AGAIN.
POSSIBILITY OF A CANDIDATE.
Tho Greeley Fever. i'm the
Democracy.

WASHINGTON, May II, 1872
The two conventions to meet within QUE month,
and within ono hundred miles OF each other, arc
the theme OF the day in politics. Counting out
New York, no cities In tho country have better ac-
comm0aations for visitors and strangers than Phil
adeiphia and Baltimore.
BALTIMORE HosTELRrES.
Baltimore has just completed and opened one of
the largest hotels on tho Continent, called the
"Carroton y after Chares Carroll, of the manor of
Carroll This establishment Is from six TO eight
stories high, supplied with elevators, and it can
accommodate twice the whole number OF delegates,
to tho Baltimore Convention. Ii stands on the site
OF the old Fountain Hotel, where Lafayette,
and some say Washington, lodged, andy 1t
ranks in capacity with the C0ntinentat 10.
tel In PHILADELPHIA which is well Understood
to he OF the most elaborate. and capacious
houses Ia tho world In Baltimore besides the Car
roll ton, there about twenty-five hotels OF small
capaclty--two OF which, the 5utaw and the Howard
House. are owned Ivy the President OF the Baltimore
ana Ohio Railroad, The M.'tby House, on the water
side was celebrated Ia the war as the stopping
place for army officers between the North and Fort
Monroe Around the Battle Monument are several
large hotels. EarDums has been retitted,
the Sinclair reprinted anil refurnished hand
lar "a. cyar for It's terrapin ana oysters
The restaurants OF Baltimore are celebrated par
ticularly for the salt products OF Chesapeake Ray
The town Is somewhat larger than Cincinnati,
where the lato revolutionary Convention was held;
end the hospitality OF the men aud the beauty Of
the women are well understood. There are two or
three large clubs In the town; and the Maryland
Club VIII, perhaps, be the scene Of some fine dinner
parties during the Convention. +
BALTIMORE AND THE DEMOCRATIC CoNGREssMEN.
The proximity Of baltimore to Washington city
has been alluded to by some Of the Western liberal
democrats rs liable to subject the Convention to
administration Influences, and, besides, to put 1t
too near those democrats in Congress who seem
disposed to try the old game Of making party
political convention merely the expression OF GER
tain elected gentlemen on the floor OF Congress
who are never disposed to disturb the political
status, as it might anect their constituencies. But
the probabilities not large that Congress will be
In session at the time OF the Baltimore Convention,
and, therefore, your democratic members must pay
their own mileage, and there are not enough of
them in Congress to compel that body to
sit over until the hot weather. We have already
had more than D week of scorchingl summer, the
thermometer standing up IN the ninettes, and the
majority OF our streets have been dug up by the
Board Of Public Works in pursuance OF u ''compre-
henaiye plan OF improvements" SO that the most
comprehensive dust In the Union 10 blown over
everybody without respect to persons and be-
tween the vest end and the Capitol third OF the
streets are full OF tho smoke of burning tar and cut
up with trenches for gas and water pipes. These
things win drive Congress,away probably about the
LIST Of June As TO Baltimore city ITSELF 1t is not
uncertain that the liberal democratic party are In
the majority there. Baltimore and Maryland have
a{toAtt I'm
1t is so easy carry the State and the city fer any
ticket put up by the ring that the inevitable minor
ity which grows weary Of mere regency dictation,
has bolted several times, and a number Of frauds
more or less alarming, have disturbed the soul or
the democratic Marylander. The republican party
has been steadily growing in that state, ana the
leading newspaper OF the city, the sun, is never
very vlrulent in party issues and at present in.
c!ines Dwards the Cincinnati nominees In
fact, Baltimore shares the sympathies poll
tIcally and In other respects OF all " the
Southern. States OF which it aspires to be the
metropolis and entrepot 1.-THE Southernef is over
ridden by carpet-baggers and deprived OF civil egis
lation Baltimore expresses its Indignation as well
as Charleston. Every time the railway authorities
there seek to extend thc lines to the West and to
the Ohio Valley there is popular cry Of Southern
connections" paid visit to the ctya few days
ago and fonnd Greeley more likely to be the candi
date there than anybody else If tho baltimore peo-
pie could make him so. " ( ~ s1v<ta3
THE DAVIS COCK SET ron BALTIMORE ty.}t
In fact, nobody Is yet mentioned for the Balti-
more Convention from any part Of the country
except greeley and Judge Davis The some coterie
In Congress which aspired to make Davis Presi-
dent at Cincinnati Is. as the Soutrsrners say,
dead bcntn to propel him towards Baltimore, and,
what is most wonderful Of oil, that heretofore most
respectable Justice seems as imp0rtqnate for the
ofice as his retainers and hcnchmen II Is
seldom that one sees In public life a man OF quiet
habits simple tastes and apparently large selfre-
apect, 80 suddenly lost to the senae OF the fitness
OF things as this Marylander, hong resident In the
West. lie has got the Presidency on the brain as
bad as ever Henry Clay had IT, end, although o.
Supreme Justice, his face expresses the emotions
Of ambition p1d restraint whenever the Presidency
bench il has got to be q standing joke.
Justice Chase and the rest quietly chuckled under
their gowns and nudged eacn other facetiously-
grave and reverend as they are--wheD Daviea was
thrown ont ut Cincinnati as stt s,a.s
~ is Maryland FOR DAvTs'9 '
Convention N Getting in baltimore might ave him a
large show Of success, because no was borL in
Maryland ena va s n sSf sort regarded y the
es IN this fashion 10 forget that the democratic party
Of the State OF Maryland has no great love for the
name OF Davis, which, In the person Of Henry Win.
ter Davis cousin to tho Justice, carried Baltimore
time after time by the help Of Plug Uglies," whom
he incontlnently 'shook" after his. election
and threw himself among the responsibilities.
Davis was an aristocrat subsisting upon the mob
Ike the great Arteveldc or RlepzL He had within
himself splendid energies, fixed purposes the love
OF combat naughty disdain OF his adyersaries
and practical PURPOSES of political action which
never became pulling or ran on into scntimentaity.
As strong politician who could FIRST carry this
district and then carry Congress-, and would prob
ably, had he lived, have carried the country Henry
Winter Davis stands among the first Mary,anders.
He was the DE witt Clinton OF the Biscuit State and
no such man as Justice David Davis hts cousin,
who Is q very large, broad.snouldercd and feshy
man, with an eye to the main chance, and TINT
chance has always heretofore been lucre and gain.
CHARACTER OF JUDGE DAVIS =
David Davis has much more OF the conservative.
business character Of the average Baltimore mer-
chant than his cousin, who was an exceptional
genius. Like yoar Baltimore merchant, the Justice
seldom has original or daring views, is not gverrto
enterprise, and permits the surrounding estates to
improve while hia own lies faow ana gets the
benefit, and he Ii q Queer miXtura of rilnn nenn. |